Philadelphia is a highly slept on city...

[KingMalik]

• Large urban east coast city with a huge downtown; third largest in America
• Great dining (for both snooty high brow types and local yokels)
• Great sports town (Eagles, Sixers, Phillies, Flyers; Temple, St. Josephs, Villanova for college)
• Affordable housing (Read: Apartments in safe neighborhoods for $1,000). You can actually get a place here close to bars, restaurants, shopping, museums that isn't a broom closet like New York.
• Beautiful architecture. The city didn't knock down it's historic landmarks like New York did. You can be in downtown on one street, walk ten blocks up and see houses built in the 1700s.
• The economy is okay, could be better (Healthcare seems to be the major industry here)
• Beautiful suburbs. Drive 20 minutes outside of Philly and you'll see gorgeous scenery, rolling hills and farm land that looks like it belongs in a children's book
• Plenty of Museums. Great schools (U Penn, Temple, Drexel)
• The Jersey Shore is 1 hour away. Delaware Beaches are 2 hours away. Ocean City 2 hours and 30 minutes. Virginia Beach 5 hours.
• Philly is in the middle of the East Coast. You can go to NYC, Washington DC, Baltimore, Wilmington, Atlantic City in less than 2 hours. Boston (5 hours) and Connecticut (3 hours) are further but, still good for day trips. One of the GOAT things about growing up here being so close to everything
• Crime is bad but, it's getting better each year. Philly used to average 400 murders. In 2013, it hit 247. I lost several people here so I won't sugarcoat it but it's getting safer.
• If you REALLY want to, you can commute to other cities from Philly. People take Amtrak every morning to their high paying jobs in New York (about 1 hour ten minute ride) but, live in Philly for the lower housing costs. Alot of former New Yorkers here.

If you want an East Coast city that's affordable, Philly is a good option brehs You can shyt on it all you want but, these white hipsters and millennials are moving here in droves. Because they see a huge city that's a steal in terms of price. In another ten years, this city is going to be gentrified to hell like Washington DC and New York. Hopefully I'll own a couple properties by then

 

[Fart Knocker]

majority black city
3rd largest black population in the country

 

[Dat Bruh Bill]

Nah

 

[Primetime21]

Nah

 

[Fart Knocker]

and here come the nikkas who live in majority cac cities talking shyt about philly, right on schedule

 

[KingMalik]

majority black city
3rd largest black population in the country

I've never lived in a majority white town

Lived in Wilmington, Philly, Chester then did college in Memphis & Washington DC

I don't know what it feels like to be outnumbered by whites

 

[Juggalo Fred]

I've never lived in a majority white town

Lived in Wilmington, Philly, Chester then did college in Memphis & Washington DC

I don't know what it feels like to be outnumbered by whites

it's awful, they're the devil.

 

[KingMalik]

 

[Gully Bull]

Once summer is in full swing, there will be a lot of bodies permanently sleeping on the street

 

[Primetime21]

and here come the nikkas who live in majority cac cities talking shyt about philly, right on schedule

so disagreeing that Philly is a highly slept on city is talking shyt about it? so sensitive. Cleveland is a majority black city, dont mean we want to go there

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

I stayed in Mt. Laurel for a 2 weeks last month on business and went over to Philly a couple of times. Boring, kinda crummy looking, good food spots.

 

[Fart Knocker]

so disagreeing that Philly is a highly slept on city is talking shyt about it? so sensitive. Cleveland is a majority black city, dont mean we want to go there

cleveland is barely even a city, more like a big town.

 

[KingMalik]

 

[Commander in Chiefin]

Philly is on the come up but it still has a long way to go. Looking to buy a house in the near future. It's definitely going the way Brooklyn has been changing

 

[KingMalik]

so disagreeing that Philly is a highly slept on city is talking shyt about it? so sensitive. Cleveland is a majority black city, dont mean we want to go there

You gotta give an alternative though...

If you looking for a dense major urban America city, there aren't many.

You got New York, Chicago, Washington DC, Boston, San Fran and....that's it. Philadelphia is cheaper than all of those places, sans Chicago which is affordable for some odd reason.

NYC is already gentrified. In my five years in Washington DC, I saw the already ongoing gentrification ramp up like crazy. I can easily see Philly becoming the next popping place. People that's priced out of the other big cities will come here once they see it's not a war zone and it offers alot.