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View Poll Results: South Philly or South Brooklyn?
South Philly 6 37.50%
South Brooklyn 10 62.50%
Voters: 16. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 10-11-2010, 11:24 AM
 
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I'm actually interested in both of these areas.

I use to live in NYC, and loved it. Actually never went to South Brooklyn...wish I had now though. Been researching it and tons of interesting ethnic neighborhoods. Some rowhomes in there that look interesting. Bay Ridge seems interesting...as does Bensonhurst. I like the idea of Italians, Irish, Chinese, Arabic, Hasidic Jews, etc.

I recently visited City Center and South Philly. Loved that too! Loved the rowhomes everywhere. Lots of restaurants and businesses within easy reach. Demographically a lot of southeast asians in the mix along with everyone else. Philly cheese steak sandwhiches, and easy access to City Center. Real interesting place.

So...if you were to choose one to live...which would you prefer? Take in mind, both are neighborhood-ish. ONe is in NYC, but a bit far from Manhattan....whereas the other is not NYC...but real good location for Philadelphia.

Which would you prefer?
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Old 10-11-2010, 12:03 PM
 
Location: North shore, Long Island
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I'm actually interested in both of these areas.

I use to live in NYC, and loved it. Actually never went to South Brooklyn...wish I had now though. Been researching it and tons of interesting ethnic neighborhoods. Some rowhomes in there that look interesting. Bay Ridge seems interesting...as does Bensonhurst. I like the idea of Italians, Irish, Chinese, Arabic, Hasidic Jews, etc.

I recently visited City Center and South Philly. Loved that too! Loved the rowhomes everywhere. Lots of restaurants and businesses within easy reach. Demographically a lot of southeast asians in the mix along with everyone else. Philly cheese steak sandwhiches, and easy access to City Center. Real interesting place.

So...if you were to choose one to live...which would you prefer? Take in mind, both are neighborhood-ish. ONe is in NYC, but a bit far from Manhattan....whereas the other is not NYC...but real good location for Philadelphia.

Which would you prefer?
The wonders of NYC beats the taste of the original philly Chessesteak anyday. Just keep that in mind.
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Old 10-11-2010, 05:45 PM
 
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South Philly doesn't have street cleaning. It smells like rotting garbage in the summer.
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Old 10-11-2010, 06:26 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Pelham Parkway,The Bronx
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There are reasons why rents and housing prices in Philadelphia are so low and why Philadelphia is losing population but if you can't see them maybe it's a viable place for you.
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Old 10-11-2010, 06:39 PM
 
Location: Nassau, Long Island, NY
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Check out the City of Philadelphia INCOME TAX RATE.
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Old 10-11-2010, 07:52 PM
 
Location: New York City
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You are sure to get more for your money in South Philadelphia. The architecture is much nicer.
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Old 10-11-2010, 08:46 PM
 
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OP here.

Just for the record, I was thinking far south Brooklyn...like way down there. So, would be factoring in long commute times. Basically I was thinking anything from Bay Ridge and all the way over to Brighton Beach.

(So, if anyone was thinking of Brooklyn Heights or Park Slope - take those places out of the equation).
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Old 10-11-2010, 11:37 PM
 
Location: 20 years from now
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I was born and raised in Philly and moved to NYC more than 10 years ago.

That being said, I'd take South Philly OVER South brooklyn anyday. South Philly is a very very old school working class neighborhood of philadelphia sports team fans. The Eagles, Phillies, Flyers and Sixers are apart of almost everyone's family there--Minus the Point Breeze area that is riddled with crime, gangs etc. I'd imagine that it's similar to those areas around the Bronx close to Yankee Stadium.

Food wise...South Philly all day. It's not just the Cheese steaks. ALL of the italian food is better there. Philly's nightlife kind of sucks, but it's better than Brooklyn's. Downtown Fort Green area shuts down basically after 7pm and the most active places seem to be around borough hall and court street which is basically a snooze. The areas around Prospect Park are OK, but nothing worth going ouf of your way for. If parties in the projects are your thing, then BK may have Philly beat there.

Brooklyn is no where better than Philly on any level though...but Manhattan easily eclipses it in every sense which makes it worth living in Brooklyn in the first place.
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Old 10-12-2010, 10:01 AM
 
Location: Crown Heights, Brooklyn
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did you really come to a NYC sub forum to ask that? you gonna get a biased answer...
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Old 10-12-2010, 10:21 AM
 
Location: Macao
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did you really come to a NYC sub forum to ask that? you gonna get a biased answer...
Who else would know except for NYers and Philadelphians. The General Forum will have 99% uninformed comments.

To be fair though, I did ask it to the Philadelphians on their forum as well
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