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Old 08-05-2013, 03:10 PM
 
Location: back in Philadelphia!
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Old 08-05-2013, 03:35 PM
 
Location: Crooklyn, New York
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funny, when I visit NYC I find the people far more rude, particularly waitstaff that often lack the basics of hospitality. the only difference is its nyc and people put up with that crap.
I don't find people in NYC to be rude at all. In order to be rude to someone, you have to acknowledge they exist in the first place.
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Old 09-28-2013, 12:21 PM
 
Location: Fort Hood
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Default Philadelphia vs NYC

I was born in Philadelphia (although raised in the midwest). I have been to NYC plenty of times, and I am not a fan of that city. However, NYC shouldn't be compared to any city in the country. NYC should be compared with other great world cities like London, Tokyo etc. I don't understand why anybody from Philly would have an inferiority complex to NYC. Philadelphia has a lot to be proud of on its own merits.
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Old 09-28-2013, 01:46 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia
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I was born in Philadelphia (although raised in the midwest). I have been to NYC plenty of times, and I am not a fan of that city. However, NYC shouldn't be compared to any city in the country. NYC should be compared with other great world cities like London, Tokyo etc. I don't understand why anybody from Philly would have an inferiority complex to NYC. Philadelphia has a lot to be proud of on its own merits.
Exactly right, man!
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Old 09-28-2013, 04:21 PM
 
Location: University City, Philadelphia
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I was born in NYC but have been living here in Philly for many years now.

I prefer Philly.

Every time I go back to NYC - my favorite uncle lives in Manhattan near Ground Zero (the soaring new World Trade Center 1 is nearing completion!) - I feel alienated. Why? I'm not sure ... even though I'm a big city boy, I feel NYC is just too big, too expensive, too crowded, traffic too intimidating, did I say too expensive?
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Old 09-29-2013, 11:23 AM
 
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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We pretty much had the same experience. It's cool that it seems to go on forever but it makes no sense why NYC just kept building out when other cities didn't. Building out doesn't make the quality better.

You could say we didn't even feel like we left philly, it was like an endless version of philly.
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Old 09-29-2013, 10:03 PM
 
Location: The Left Toast
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We pretty much had the same experience. It's cool that it seems to go on forever but it makes no sense why NYC just kept building out when other cities didn't. Building out doesn't make the quality better.

You could say we didn't even feel like we left philly, it was like an endless version of philly.
LOL! What do you mean by that?
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Old 10-02-2013, 11:42 AM
 
Location: Eastchester, Bronx, NY
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Philly owns South Jersey and NYC owns North Jersey.

Did I do it right?
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Old 10-04-2013, 03:20 PM
 
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Philadelphia is a lot like Brooklyn in the 1990's before all the hype. Like Philadelphia, Brooklyn has a lot of history and used to have a strong blue collar identity along with somewhat of a Manhattan inferiority complex. In Brooklyn, it was pizza and bagels. In Philadelphia, it's cheesesteaks and water ice. Both have similar housing stock. But Brooklyn became what it is today because it's next to Manhattan. Contrary to what the NY Times says, Philadelphia will never truly become the next Brooklyn. But I think there are some similar trends happening.

A lot of the same types of people (artists, writers, hipsters, yuppies) who came to BK in the 1990's are coming to Philadelphia right now for the same reason: cheap rents. I think a lot of people figure it's better to live in a nice place in NoLibs/Fishtown or South Philly than it is to pay $1400/month to live in a rat-infested box in a bad area in Bushwick and risk getting stabbed every day walking to the L Train. Just because the overall crime stats are lower in NYC than PHL does not necessarily make it a safer place to be. We can't all live in Manhattan/Williamsburg/Park Slope

I swear every day some hipster is opening up yet another third wave coffee shop in Philadelphia. It's one of the few cities where there are actually traffic jams... involving just bicyclists. Not that all of this is a bad thing (that depends on your personal preference). All in all, Philadelphia's biggest draw is that it is emphatically not NYC.
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Old 10-04-2013, 04:04 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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I don't think rittenhouse between the park and city hall is comparable to brooklyn. And because of that I don't think all of philly should be compared to a portion of nyc. It's city to city but philly lacks some dynamics because of not being super huge. At the same time it makes up for some things by having narrower streets etc.
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