Good and bad

[russotto]

OK, since no one's posted here, I'll give a suburban-eye perspective on the city's high and low points.

High points:
Most people I know in the area live there.

Plenty of places to skate.

Lots of restaurants

Relatively few pipe bombs

Oddly dressed people on South Street MUCH more interesting than oddly dressed people at King of Prussia Mall.

I'm told there's cultural stuff, but being a suburbanite, I figure T-Rex at the I-Max is pretty much the height of culture.


Low points:

Parking. To a suburbanite (those of you in Media don't count), meters and parallel parking invite feelings of disgust. Philly makes it worse with apparently random time restrictions which vary block to block, and by occasionally ticketing legally parked cars (Grrr...) We won't even discuss Manayunk parking...

Homeless people, panhandlers, etc.

Snow removal, or the general lack thereof outside Center City itself.

That wonderful subway odor

Wage Tax