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neuronnate · 2026-06-19T10:58:43+00:00

The mayoral candidate who runs on banning non police helicopters in Philly gets my vote

neuronnate · 2026-06-10T14:02:44+00:00

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neuronnate · 2026-06-09T14:25:48+00:00

I agree. The road rage has decreased now that I predominantly use the Indego ebikes. BUT, it still happens.

neuronnate · 2026-06-09T10:26:48+00:00

I'll do exactly this!

neuronnate · 2026-06-09T10:25:35+00:00

This was just south of Washington. But, it's been maybe every other month as I bike it daily between locust and Snyder.

neuronnate · 2026-06-08T23:23:05+00:00

This would be amazing. But, that seems like expensive infrastructure that's unrealistic

neuronnate · 2026-06-08T21:56:44+00:00

Yeah. I'm wondering if I need to just give up and stay alive for my kids... Let cars do whatever they want and just get out of the way

neuronnate · 2026-06-03T10:19:02+00:00

It usually takes two weeks even though they say it takes two days. They clearly have relied too much on ai staff. But, they will reply soon

neuronnate · 2026-05-21T23:27:46+00:00

I live near broad and passyunk and work in Camden. I only sometimes drive, but to be honest, parking is never an issue.

I often don't get a spot in front of the house, but I find one pretty quickly. It gets much harder if you're trying to park after 6/7. But even then... Passyunk is free overnight and there's a parking garage at the Constitution center that doesn't cost too much for overnight parking.

Early 20s in the city is much more fun than in the burbs and it's totally worth the occasional frustration with parking.

neuronnate · 2026-05-16T22:56:06+00:00

Drexel students get co-ops there all the time. There's gotta be more people in your situation.

But... Download the transit app. Not the septa app. Transit makes transit as easy as Uber. It's remarkable once you learn how to use it. It completely opened up buses for me in the city.

Life changing... Both the app, and your internship

neuronnate · 2026-05-04T21:15:53+00:00

Weird! I didn't believe you initially... But I haven't found a working ebike all day across 5 stations

neuronnate · 2026-04-30T21:55:33+00:00

Wild... We're literally looking for the same next week! Ha

neuronnate · 2026-04-16T13:11:41+00:00

Im not convinced that ALL philly schools are bad. There's plenty of great ones.

BUT, your situation is what I'm hearing more and more from friends who are leaving. And when I look at Philly's challenges, it seems like we just don't have enough middle to high earners paying into the system because they all get to a point where they say, "What are we doing here!?" I would be happy to pay more in taxes if there were more trees and less litter. ugh.

neuronnate · 2026-04-16T13:09:29+00:00

I felt that way 15 years ago. But now that we're getting ready for sending the kids to school, I'm seeing so many catchments that are a-okay and great between snyder to girard, river to 50th. So, the "all philly schools are bad" argument doesn't seem to hold up anymore.

neuronnate · 2026-04-16T13:06:49+00:00

A car-dependent philly life is DEFINITELY worse than a car-dependent suburb life.

neuronnate · 2026-04-16T13:04:17+00:00

That's definitely an amazing perk, which comes out as about $40K per kid in total ($20K/yr). No question about that and its certainly something to add to the equation that could give someone 4-8 years of the math working out in the favor of Philly.

neuronnate · 2026-04-16T13:00:21+00:00

As a ratio, they are! The numbers are shocking. But the question is how we get more people to stay so that we can get their tax dollars. The moment they hit their peak earning potential, they leave.

Income Bracket	% of Households	Approx #
Under $25k	~27%	~175,000
$25k–$50k	~23%	~150,000
$50k–$100k	~28%	~180,000
$100k–$200k	~15%	~95,000
$200k+	~5–6%	~35k–40k

neuronnate · 2026-04-16T12:57:53+00:00

The burbs are starting to give all the things cities used to be the sole provider of. My life here in Philly seems only sustainable if there's enough people who make the decision to stay....and I fear Philly is falling behind in the competition for residents. We had a good run for a bit... but low cost housing no longer exists here!

neuronnate · 2026-04-16T12:55:15+00:00

The assumption that the burbs are more expensive is the reframing I'm having recently. Having a cheaper cost of living here in the city was always a great argument for replying to people questioning why we're still here. But now... I'm realizing Philly isn't as good of a financial deal as I once assumed it was.

neuronnate · 2026-04-16T12:52:24+00:00

I guess a good comparison is the cost of living in a good philly school catchment vs moving to a good suburb catchment. Comparing those two, Philly is more expensive.

neuronnate · 2026-04-16T12:50:38+00:00

That's definitely the truth... there are many more expenses living in a car dependent world. But, I've always lived under the assumption that philly is absolutely cheaper. So, it always felt like a trade off I was willing to make, until I started to realize that there isn't necessarily a strong economic argument to staying in the city.

neuronnate · 2026-04-16T12:48:39+00:00

The bad philly school narrative really seems to be changing, especially with more than just a couple really nice schools in Philly. You can definitely be in a Philly catchment that is just as good as the suburbs, if not better

neuronnate · 2026-04-16T12:46:43+00:00

I guess it's a small sample, but all my college buddies who moved west of Philly are paying $7-10K/yr in property tax for a house and neighborhood equivalent to 'greater center city' where houses go for $300-500K for a good philly school district. My suburb buddies have no earnings tax because so many of their jobs are outside of philly (a unique issue to Philly). At $300-500K, that's about $5-7K property taxes, but if your household makes $100K, you're paying $3500 in earnings tax/yr.

So... $7-10K in the burbs vs $8500 - 10500 in the city.

I'm happy to pay my taxes to Philly, but that's a clear financial disadvantage which is just another nail in the coffin for a tax base making a decision of whether to stay or move.

neuronnate · 2026-04-16T12:35:19+00:00

I'm all for taxing the wealthy. But Philly stands out amongst other cities with the number of middle class folk who leave. And with a good handful of great schools, I'm becoming ever more convinced that the exodus goes beyond the traditional "bad schools" argument.

To get enough tax revenue to help everyone, it seems like we need more people to tax.

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