Rowhouse suburbs (York, Willow Grove, Hatboro: neighborhood, school, live)

[MaxFromPhilly]

Originally Posted by rotodome

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[BPP1999]

Originally Posted by MaxFromPhilly

Exactly, you made my point for me. Too diverse. I'm from the city and never lived in the burbs so can you direct me to some less diverse suburbs?

I don't know, maybe Whiteville, or Klantown.

[sweendog024]

Bristol is very much a row home kind of town...and its 80+% white. Conshohocken is very nice and overwhelmingly white. I wouldn't call any of the towns on the main line "Rowhouse Suburbs" but there are small/significant numbers of row homes in Ardmore, Narberth, Wayne & Bryn Mawr. West Chester is a great town to raise a family and while it isn't as convenient to the city...it has a ton going on in the area and is a very nice college town. Otherwise you could check out parts of lower/inner Delaware county such as Ridley Park, Essington, Folcroft, Havertown...these areas have row homes and lots of them in certain neighborhoods. Honestly...you can find row homes in most of the older towns in the PA suburbs. Many of them happen to be within walking distance of a train station as well.

[MaxFromPhilly]

Originally Posted by sweendog024

Bristol is very much a row home kind of town...and its 80+% white. Conshohocken is very nice and overwhelmingly white. I wouldn't call any of the towns on the main line "Rowhouse Suburbs" but there are small/significant numbers of row homes in Ardmore, Narberth, Wayne & Bryn Mawr. West Chester is a great town to raise a family and while it isn't as convenient to the city...it has a ton going on in the area and is a very nice college town. Otherwise you could check out parts of lower/inner Delaware county such as Ridley Park, Essington, Folcroft, Havertown...these areas have row homes and lots of them in certain neighborhoods. Honestly...you can find row homes in most of the older towns in the PA suburbs. Many of them happen to be within walking distance of a train station as well.

I am originally from Kensington and then Whitman and Pennsport South Philly after white flight. For me personally I feel uncomfortable it the demographics dip below 90% because I know that once a neighborhood his 15% black it starts to go down and the schools tend to be even more diverse so an 85% white town will only have 70% white schools. I have been white flighting my entire life and I don't want that for my kids

[sweendog024]

I follow the changing demographics of various neighborhoods in and around Philadelphia pretty closely and since you say you are coming from Kensington I can understand your concern about white flight. However I am curious as to why you are concerned your current neighborhood is going to go downhill...In fact I live a very short distance from there and i've been paying attention to increasing home prices, schools getting better and a stable old-school white population.

Additionally I would not be concerned about any of the main line neighborhoods changing anytime in the near future, or Conshohocken for that matter. Bristol MAY change but I anticipate a change for the better...not a change for the worse...in the next decade or so. The only suburbs that are really changing dramatically for the worse in the next decade or so may be the inner ring delco suburbs like Upper Darby and surrounding towns like Yeadon, Lansdowne, etc. and Cheltenham/Bensalem may see a slight downward trend.

[motownewave]

Originally Posted by sweendog024

Cheltenham/Bensalem

What does Bensalem have to do with Cheltenham? The two are many, many miles apart and while connected by 276, one might as well cut through Philly to get from one to the other.

[sweendog024]

I know where Bensalem is but I kind of lump the two in a similar category since they are "inner ring suburbs"...areas that abut the city, are well serviced by public transportation and generally have seen an increase in ethnic diversity over the course of the last 10-20 years.

[PhillyPhan95]

Phoenixville is a good option, as someone state earlier, however transit to Philly is not one of its advantages. It's about 80% white, 8% black, 8% hispanic, and the rest is asian or other. It's got great rowhouse neighborhoods, has a great school (I can attest to it, I recently graduated from there) and is a town on the upswing.

Also maybe a little diversity would do you good! Diversity is correlated with how "good" a neighborhood is, but its certainly not the cause. I truly hope you don't think that diversity is a bad thing. In most cases, racially diverse neighborhoods are "bad" because of a longstanding history of racism and disinvestment by white people. Diversity is not inherently bad.

[motownewave]

For a horrific story about white flight, read the story of Dixie Square Mall in Harvey, Illinois. I really, really can't name another building so symbolic of white flight (but also the bad element within the otherwise trustworthy minority community).

[pman]

Jersey id probably a good fit