What is your favorite type of urban housing? (park, buildings, walkable)
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South Philly is the prime example of a rowhome District IMO. I haven’t seen anywhere else that does it better. You can walk around forever from one end to the other and the urbanness never ends and I love it. There are so many tiny hidden streets and alleyways to explore and so much good food there too. I visit Philly often since I have a lot of friends and family there and I always try to go to South Philly as much as I can. It’s my favorite part of Philly.
Philly is so cozy, I love walking around those blocks with the tiny streets. Aside from Center City, I've only walked around North Philly but the vibe is sooo much different from anything I'm used to! Super run down but oddly cozy and most people are very friendly.
I'm not even kidding, I want to buy a foreclosed house in a really bad part of Philly like Fairhill. Imagine having one of those 3 story rowhomes all to yourself!
I don't expect it to become Bushwick overnight, but we have seen that buying a place in big, dense city while it's still cheap is a good idea. At least if you're someone like me who doesn't have a family and is comfortable living in a rough neighborhood.
The second link (Chancellor St.) is about as beautiful as an urban streetscape gets. Unfortunately, being in Philly, it is not that far from some unpleasant areas.
Chancellor Street is pretty far from bad neighborhoods at least in terms of urban distance. You have at least one full neighborhood between it and any unpleasant areas.
My favorite urban living is a SFH in a mixed-use commercial and residential neighborhood. Nice local market, cafes, bars, dry cleaner, shops, but nobody tromping around over your head or thumping the walls--I had problems with both of those.
I don't think of that as urban, but streetcar suburban.
You have a lot less issue with noise coming from your party walls if they're a foot thick and brick. I heard my neighbors less when I lived in a rowhouse than I do now living in a detached house.
I think these look horrific and are incredibly claustrophobic feeling. The extremely narrow streets seem very oppressive. The one on Quince street looks especially depressing and crammed in.
I think these look horrific and are incredibly claustrophobic feeling. The extremely narrow streets seem very oppressive. The one on Quince street looks especially depressing and crammed in.
I find THAT picture to be depressing, and I find the earlier images that another poster called depressing to be quite nice. Different strokes for different folks.
Ehh, looks low income with poor lawns and older cars.
Cherry Hill? Doubt it. It's August which is why the lawns are poor; also NJ doesn't have a huge lawn culture the way some suburban areas do. The older cars are mostly second cars.
Naturally Montclair's mansions are a BIT more upscale.
The second link (Chancellor St.) is about as beautiful as an urban streetscape gets. Unfortunately, being in Philly, it is not that far from some unpleasant areas.
Yeah, it is not a stretch why this built environment is so appealing as the just right scale of urban housing. Folks that cringe at this just cringe at all urbanity in general- you will never bring them into the fold. Doesn’t mean you accept or would ever tolerate an unsafe environment, but there are great swaths of row home communities that are safe and fun to live all over the East Coast and to a lesser extent out West.
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