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Pennsylvania is on the lips of many because it (seems?) to be a purple state which reminded me about how many times I hear about Philadelphia from the current/former residents that live there. There seems to be a sort of love for this city but also im not sure if its like “ahh yeah this is my home” or “this is actually a really good city” So, current or past residents of Philadelphia: what’s it like? My only frame of reference is Los Angeles, CA and Berlin, DE so please be mindful to draw relevant comparisons.
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Pennsylvania's abbreviation is PA
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oh
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Aug 6, 2024 05:36
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It is by far the most important city in america.
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Aug 6, 2024 05:41
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Aug 6, 2024 05:45
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they have benjamin franklin’s bones and like to set their town on fire when they win at football
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Aug 6, 2024 06:07
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TrashMammal posted:they have benjamin franklin’s bones and like to set their town on fire when they fixed
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Aug 6, 2024 06:09
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Good spot for going to see Indian movies and just being in a theater full of people going absolutely apeshit
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Aug 6, 2024 06:09
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The movies will literally have spots designed for it to pause for a few seconds so the audience can have a moment to lose their minds lol, it happens all the time when a character suddenly pops in and it's a huge Indian moviestar.
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Aug 6, 2024 06:10
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some call them the “mitch hedberg” of sports related arson
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Aug 6, 2024 06:12
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TrashMammal posted:some call them the “mitch hedberg” of sports related arson they like throwing batteries, too edit: and hate Santa Claus
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Aug 6, 2024 06:12
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benjamin franklin isn’t the only skeleton. they also have many others that they keep in a spooky museum for medical professionals and deviant weirdos who love looking at dead people
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Aug 6, 2024 06:17
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pn lol
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Aug 6, 2024 06:24
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the queer district has some good bars and restaurants. the city hall citadel seems like it was designed for the seat of a fascist empire, and there's a huge weird old pipe organ in the department store next door. don't go on touristing the Kensington Avenue zombie safari, it's not right. looking at old pictures, seems like it was once a great city.
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Aug 6, 2024 06:38
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Penisylvannia
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Aug 6, 2024 06:48
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Probably a cool place to live if you enjoy delicious but unhealthy sandwiches, other than that I have no idea OP
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Aug 6, 2024 06:52
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filthiest city I've ever stayed in, loud until past 3 am, alleyways that undulate and breathe because they are wall to wall covered in cock roaches, and rats scurry about your feet. What do you want to know about it. Love the mutter museum especially.
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Aug 6, 2024 06:56
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I hear it's always sunny.
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Aug 6, 2024 06:57
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There were a lot of nation of Islam/black muslim folks, that was cool
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Aug 6, 2024 07:06
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Stinky Wizzleteats posted:filthiest city I've ever stayed in, loud until past 3 am, alleyways that undulate and breathe because they are wall to wall covered in cock roaches, and rats scurry about your feet. What do you want to know about it. Love the mutter museum especially. lmao
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Aug 6, 2024 07:08
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thats just the philly terroir
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Aug 6, 2024 07:09
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I went to grad school in Philly. It is quite smelly, op.
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Aug 6, 2024 07:20
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If your in the town or even just driving past, do yourself a favor and drop in on the mutter museum, or hell, pack up the fam, it's great
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Aug 6, 2024 07:22
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Stinky Wizzleteats posted:filthiest city I've ever stayed in, loud until past 3 am, alleyways that undulate and breathe because they are wall to wall covered in cock roaches, and rats scurry about your feet. What do you want to know about it. Love the mutter museum especially. When's the last time you went to the Mutter? I haven't been in like 10 years (it was awesome) but their new executive director is poo poo (I have worked for her, not at Mutter) and was making all sorts of terrible changes and she was blaming the staff.
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Aug 6, 2024 07:25
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I went in 2017, it didn't seem drastically different at that point than it had been in 2010 when I frequented it
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Aug 6, 2024 07:26
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Stinky Wizzleteats posted:I went in 2017, it didn't seem drastically different at that point than it had been in 2010 when I frequented it Ah yeah, she started in 2022. They're also having issues with new NAGPRA laws about the display of human remains and management hasn't handled it well.
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Aug 6, 2024 07:32
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Yeah, it's an ethically fraught area of inquiry for sure. Overall I'd say philly would be a good place for a Frankenstein to live, or maybe if you have an Adams family or Munsters type household, others beware
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Aug 6, 2024 07:45
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The Ben Franklin impersonator and Betsy Ross impersonator got married several years ago and that's just adorable :3 ETA: Ben Franklin died back in 2017 
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My uncle was literally the assistant da of philly and I hate him if that gives you any idea
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Aug 6, 2024 08:18
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Aesop Poprock posted:My uncle was literally the assistant da of philly and I hate him if that gives you any idea Most of my posts are jokes but this one is real
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Aug 6, 2024 08:19
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Roleplaying Dad posted:The Ben Franklin impersonator and Betsy Ross impersonator got married several years ago and that's just adorable :3 Hundreds of years old!!
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Aug 6, 2024 08:22
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Hundreds of years old!! More like the forever 84 club
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if you are not American-City you might be in for a trip to the EMS if you visit Philadephia
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I'm a mostly philly native but when I went to Trenton to see Beck in my late teens I accidentally followed mapquest printouts twice looping around the Ben Franklin
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Aug 6, 2024 08:27
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mst4k posted:if you are not American-City you might be in for a trip to the EMS if you visit Philadephia na, you're fine but do get a tetanus shot before you use the subway.
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Reading Terminal Market is just the best. I miss that bitch so hard. With all the Amish people and their amazing pastries and the chinese food stalls next to fish markets and the scrapple diner. I miss Philly so much sometimes, but drat does it smell bad there. First thing I noticed when I moved away: Philly 👏 smells 👏gross 👏
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Roleplaying Dad posted:Reading Terminal Market is just the best. I miss that bitch so hard. With all the Amish people and their amazing pastries and the chinese food stalls next to fish markets and the scrapple diner. Most cities seem to smell like anus to me
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Aug 6, 2024 08:39
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Lil Swamp Booger Baby posted:Most cities seem to smell like anus to me Yeah this is not an exaggeration
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I grew up in Philadelphia and currently live in Chicago. They both smell awful
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I’ve never been there but some day I’m gonna do an east coast US road trip and I wanna go to sheetz and wawa. And the freaky museum I guess. I’m mostly in this for how attached Americans get to their convenience stores.
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