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Old 07-20-2012, 01:03 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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If those two reasons aren't enough to hate Philly with a passion... I bring to the table Elton John's "Philadelphia Freedom".
Awww, but that's not Philly's fault. They are as much a victim in that as the rest of us.
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Old 07-20-2012, 01:25 PM
 
Location: North by Northwest
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We spent our wedding night in Cleveland... set the tone for the whole marriage. And yes -- that's a joke, it's been 29 years this year.

And as for hating Philadelphia... I can remember clearly when I was young, tons of bad parking tickets were issued by Philly in an attempt to extort money. But the morons who thought it up just picked out random plates and a lot of them were issued to Pittsburghers who could prove they weren't in Philly at the time so it blew up in their faces.

Add that to the MOVE bombing incident -- where the mayor basically blew up a city block to stop radical movement -- yep -- had the police BOMB a house and burned down an entire block displacing 60 families and killing 11 or 12 people.

If those two reasons aren't enough to hate Philly with a passion... I bring to the table Elton John's "Philadelphia Freedom".
It's not like Philly has changed since the early 80s.

If I thought along your lines, I, too, would think PGH was a craphole.
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Old 07-20-2012, 01:49 PM
 
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It's not like Philly has changed since the early 80s.

If I thought along your lines, I, too, would think PGH was a craphole.
No -- I don't think Philly is a craphole... I think it's unethical and moneygrubbing. And that stuff gets entrenched and it's hard to get it out....
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Old 07-20-2012, 02:15 PM
 
Location: North by Northwest
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No -- I don't think Philly is a craphole... I think it's unethical and moneygrubbing. And that stuff gets entrenched and it's hard to get it out....
I assume you're referring to Philly's Democratic machine politics? The exact same kind that control Pittsburgh? I also assume you're making note of the provincial attitude of some Philadelphia residents, the very same type of closed-minded, hyper-parochial mindset that is in fact even more prevalent in Pittsburgh.
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Old 07-21-2012, 07:36 AM
 
Location: Marshall-Shadeland, Pittsburgh, PA
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DC sprawl is actually beginning to reach Hagerstown, which is insane. I can't imagine that it could reach Cumberland, which has always been seen more as the outer reaches of the Pittsburgh region, as opposed to DC.
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I can imagine that happening if a good high-speed rail line every comes to the area. I was in Winchester, VA a couple of months ago. That is basically a DC suburb now, with daily shuttles running to the Dulles area. Tons of new homes and condos being built.
Frederick, Hagerstown, and Winchester have indeed all been sucked into DC's exurban sprawl due to poor long-range urban planning. Eastern WV, including places like Charles Town and Martinsburg, have also succumbed. There's nothing to stop the sprawl from eventually going even further into areas that were traditionally considered to be within the outer edges of Pittsburgh's sphere of influence.
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Old 07-21-2012, 08:11 AM
 
Location: Washington County, PA
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Mine are in this order and all have to do with sports in some way haha.

-West Virginia (Pitt is my alma matter)
-Boston (I hate every professional sports team there, most notably the cheating patriots)
-Baltimore (Ravens)
-Cleveland (Browns)
-Philadelphia (Flyers and Phillies)
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Old 07-22-2012, 09:51 AM
 
Location: Pennsylvania
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And as for hating Philadelphia... I can remember clearly when I was young, tons of bad parking tickets were issued by Philly in an attempt to extort money. But the morons who thought it up just picked out random plates and a lot of them were issued to Pittsburghers who could prove they weren't in Philly at the time so it blew up in their faces.
Ha, ha, well - it seems to still happen (if not so randomly): Rental car customer is driven mad by a ticket - Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
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Old 07-22-2012, 12:43 PM
 
Location: Virginia
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Frederick, Hagerstown, and Winchester have indeed all been sucked into DC's exurban sprawl due to poor long-range urban planning. Eastern WV, including places like Charles Town and Martinsburg, have also succumbed. There's nothing to stop the sprawl from eventually going even further into areas that were traditionally considered to be within the outer edges of Pittsburgh's sphere of influence.
LOL you make it sound like it's solid housing development all the way out to Winchester or Hagerstown. It's more like those towns don't have much employment these days, so the people who live there are willing to drive in to the Dullest Tech Corridor or even DC for those higher paying jobs. Frederick could conceivably be considered part of the sprawl although there's a good amount of rural land between it and the DC metro. Hagerstown and Winchester both have too much rural land between them and the DC metro area to be considered part of the sprawl, which extends west about as far as Leesburg. After that you have 35 miles of farms, vineyards, 2-3 small towns and rural areas before you get to Winchester. The shuttle to DC makes it easy for people who live there to work in the DC area, however.

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