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Old 10-28-2011, 11:14 AM
 
Location: Mount Airy, Philadelphia
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Originally Posted by alphamale View Post
Just take a look at Philadelphia crime statistics.
Would you use crime statisitcs for Camden City to base a possible move to Cherry Hill (both in Camden County)? Same applies to Philadelphia. It varies greatly throughout the city.
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Old 10-28-2011, 03:00 PM
 
Location: Planet Earth
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Actually .. YOU live in the city
It's probably the same mindset we have in the outer boroughs of NYC: We consider Manhattan to be “the city”, and he probably considers the really city to be closer to Center City.
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Old 10-28-2011, 06:30 PM
 
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Im going to give you the straight truth. NO, Mt Airy is not safe. The east side of germantown Ave. is all black and filled with thugs and drug dealers.....(dont try to tell me otherwise, I lived there and seen it all) Hell I remember the night a few years ago when one of the Huligans in the area "Black craig" we called him was on the AVE robbing people in plain sight, over a dozen people before the damn cops finally got him. Stenton Ave by the Sonoco and BP is a drug hot spot.

The west side of the AVE is Upperclass ...Liberals who are rich but claim to be "Accepting" at the same time. It also has a high gay population. They drive 10 miles an hour through the streets in cars smothered in Obama stickers. They are tools and choose to ignore the crime and instead try to pass their town off as a great integrated neighborhood(which is serious bull****)....

Oh by the way, thugs from Germantown and east Mt Airy come across to the west side of the Ave to rob people and homes all the time....

The Mt Airy .... are going to flame me for this post, but Im just providing you with the truth.

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Old 10-28-2011, 07:18 PM
 
Location: back in Philadelphia!
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^^ah, the fair and balanced "truth".
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Old 10-28-2011, 09:28 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia,PA
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Im going to give you the straight truth. NO, Mt Airy is not safe. The east side of germantown Ave. is all black and filled with thugs and drug dealers.....(dont try to tell me otherwise, I lived there and seen it all) Hell I remember the night a few years ago when one of the Huligans in the area "Black craig" we called him was on the AVE robbing people in plain sight, over a dozen people before the damn cops finally got him. Stenton Ave by the Sonoco and BP is a drug hot spot.

The west side of the AVE is Upperclass ...Liberals who are rich but claim to be "Accepting" at the same time. It also has a high gay population. They drive 10 miles an hour through the streets in cars smothered in Obama stickers. They are tools and choose to ignore the crime and instead try to pass their town off as a great integrated neighborhood(which is serious bull****)....

Oh by the way, thugs from Germantown and east Mt Airy come across to the west side of the Ave to rob people and homes all the time....

The Mt Airy... are going to flame me for this post, but Im just providing you with the truth.
LMAO! I grew up in Mt. Airy. I have family on the East and West side of Germantown.Mt. Airy is not perfect but it`s far from what you are trying to make it out to be. The East side is not all black as a matter of fact ,look at who is buying most of the houses that are up for sale.
I work in North Philly and have so for almost 20yrs.Stop trying to make it seem like Mt.Airy is like the bad lands.LOL, I was just at that Sunoco last Saturday.You should have seen the bullets zipping by head No place is crime free,but Mt. Airy is far from what you are making it out to be. Thanks for the laugh.

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Old 10-28-2011, 09:47 PM
 
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LMAO! I grew up in Mt. Airy. I have family on the East and West side of Germantown.Mt. Airy is not perfect but it`s far from what you are trying to make it out to be. The East side is not all black as a matter of fact ,look at who is buying most of the houses that are up for sale.
I work in North Philly and have so for almost 20yrs.Stop trying to make it seem like Mt.Airy is like the bad lands.LOL, I was just at that Sunoco last Saturday.You should have seen the bullets zipping by head No place is crime free,but Mt. Airy is far from what you are making it out to be. Thanks for the laugh.
Those little hoodlums you see running around are all selling drugs.TRUST ME. ****, I can't even go to the pizza parlor with out some jerk off walking up to me saying "Weed out" or "I got some wet".
Im not trying to Make Mt Airy seem like the badlands, But I am sick of people trying to make Mt Airy seem little this nice little happy place. Just go to the WAWA....There are bums and Crack Addicts outside there all the time, and most of the younger kids all act like thugs. Walk around the east side at night and you can run into trouble, when I was younger I got robbed several times.....germantown is right down the street ...and i don't want anyone to try and say that place is nice because it is a hell hole. also go around Chew Ave by Sharpneck...that is a BAD Mt Airy neighborhood.
But hey at least you can admit it's not perfect, these hippies on the the west side try to make it like it's the greatest place you will ever see.
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Old 10-28-2011, 10:39 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia,PA
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Those little hoodlums you see running around are all selling drugs.TRUST ME. ****, I can't even go to the pizza parlor with out some jerk off walking up to me saying "Weed out" or "I got some wet".
Im not trying to Make Mt Airy seem like the badlands, But I am sick of people trying to make Mt Airy seem little this nice little happy place. Just go to the WAWA....There are bums and Crack Addicts outside there all the time, and most of the younger kids all act like thugs. Walk around the east side at night and you can run into trouble, when I was younger I got robbed several times.....germantown is right down the street ...and i don't want anyone to try and say that place is nice because it is a hell hole. also go around Chew Ave by Sharpneck...that is a BAD Mt Airy neighborhood.
But hey at least you can admit it's not perfect, these hippies on the the west side try to make it like it's the greatest place you will ever see.
My mother is 75 and walks to chew ave every day. I know people on Sharpneck and Montana and Upsal that have the means to move,but love where they are. I went to school at Emlen ,I use to swim at pleasant swimming pool and played baseball at sedgwick playground.The people you see outside of WAWA from time to time are mental patients not crack heads.You have some pockets that are not great,but Mt. Airy is a sold neighborhood.I`M sorry for things that have happen to you and I hope you are happy where you are at now.Like I said,the only thing that has ever happen to me is that my car got broken into in the late 80`s.
I would be a fool to say nothing ever happens in Mt. Airy,but taking into fact that Philly is a big city with big city problems.Mt. Airy is one of the better neighborhoods.
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Old 10-28-2011, 10:42 PM
 
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My mother is 75 and walks to chew ave every day. I know people on Sharpneck and Montana and Upsal that have the means to move,but love where they are. I went to school at Emlen ,I use to swim at pleasant swimming pool and played baseball at sedgwick playground.The people you see outside of WAWA from time to time are mental patients not crack heads.You have some pockets that are not great,but Mt. Airy is a sold neighborhood.I`M sorry for things that have happen to you and I hope you are happy where you are at now.Like I said,the only thing that has ever happen to me is that my car got broken into in the late 80`s.
I would be a fool to say nothing ever happens in Mt. Airy,but taking into fact that Philly is a big city with big city problems.Mt. Airy is one of the better neighborhoods.
Your a cool poster.

But I could have sworn a few of them are bums and crack heads, I know about the mental patients but I can tell a crack head when I see one. But overall I agree, it's a big city and there will be problems no matter what.
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Old 10-28-2011, 10:47 PM
 
Location: back in Philadelphia!
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I wouldn't call Germantown "a hell hole" either..

It's a big neighborhood with nice parts and bad parts, and plenty of decent people living there.
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Old 10-28-2011, 10:54 PM
 
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I wouldn't call Germantown "a hell hole" either..

It's a big neighborhood with nice parts and bad parts, and plenty of decent people living there.
Nice parts, yea i guess you can say that, but not a lot, Good people yes...even the worst neighborhoods you find good people. But the bad parts are BAD and the thugs are in full force.
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