I grew up in Philly. Lived there - in Philly, Philly, not some Bucks or Chester county dipshit or other - for the first 28 years of my life. Best thing I can say about Philly is that it's way over there somewhere... Far away.
And yet, I do love the baseball team, almost to the point of obsession.
Having just ended a decade+ run in Philadelphia, I can tell you it’s not always the easiest place to live, but it definitely has its charms. I disagree that Philadelphians don’t care whether you like Philly, though. They care DEEPLY, if anyone they view as an outsider (i.e. at least one neighbor on your block doesn’t remember seeing you walk past their house on the way to elementary school) has a negative thing to say about it. Like, for instance, complaining about how you can’t step into a crosswalk without nearly being run over by a driver who blows through a stop sign and then yells at YOU for not paying more attention. Great fucking sandwiches basically anywhere you go, though.
Thank you for liking my much loved, much missed - and often much maligned - hometown. Only problem is the gawd-awful weather, which makes me sneeze, and break out in weird rashes, and have one long headache the whole time I’m there. (So I live in California which has its own problems. Can’t win ‘em all.) But how could you neglect Bobby Rydell??? Or American Bandstand???? I mean, really????
As an immigrant to the US who has only visited Philadelphia once, I have to say it was a lovely place, and if the Bay Area is under water before the east coast, who knows. Anyway. The Mutter Museum is fantabulous. South Street is still pretty cool. People dress well (you know, compared to CA). Gritty rules.
Mr. Star and I lived there for the last 4 years and I looooooved it. We were in NW, a few blocks south of the Wissahickon Creek Park. Walkable, delicious, affordable and GRITTY. I've been gone about 1 month, and already plan on some future long weekends.
Wawa? Now I must take that three hour bus ride to go to Wawa across from Independence Hall !!
Also, I remember Philadelphia was a relatively walkable city, where you can still cross some of the important streets downtown in just nine steps (I like to count this sort of thing).
I had a friend a long time ago who really wanted to open a Wawa in Mahwah for obvious reasons. Fast-forward to a couple days ago when I spoke with someone who had just come from the Wawa in Mahwah! It made me so happy to know there's a Mahwah Wawa. Yeah, I'm easy.
Yuengling was never in Philly. It's always been in Pottsville, which is a couple miles from New Philadelphia, about 1/3 the way across the state from Pottstown, which is itself about 35 miles from Philly city limits.
No love for the Mutter museum? Really?
No love for the Mutter museum? Really?
Another glitch in the awful new platform. I only posted that once.
I grew up in Philly. Lived there - in Philly, Philly, not some Bucks or Chester county dipshit or other - for the first 28 years of my life. Best thing I can say about Philly is that it's way over there somewhere... Far away.
And yet, I do love the baseball team, almost to the point of obsession.
Having just ended a decade+ run in Philadelphia, I can tell you it’s not always the easiest place to live, but it definitely has its charms. I disagree that Philadelphians don’t care whether you like Philly, though. They care DEEPLY, if anyone they view as an outsider (i.e. at least one neighbor on your block doesn’t remember seeing you walk past their house on the way to elementary school) has a negative thing to say about it. Like, for instance, complaining about how you can’t step into a crosswalk without nearly being run over by a driver who blows through a stop sign and then yells at YOU for not paying more attention. Great fucking sandwiches basically anywhere you go, though.
Thank you for liking my much loved, much missed - and often much maligned - hometown. Only problem is the gawd-awful weather, which makes me sneeze, and break out in weird rashes, and have one long headache the whole time I’m there. (So I live in California which has its own problems. Can’t win ‘em all.) But how could you neglect Bobby Rydell??? Or American Bandstand???? I mean, really????
As an immigrant to the US who has only visited Philadelphia once, I have to say it was a lovely place, and if the Bay Area is under water before the east coast, who knows. Anyway. The Mutter Museum is fantabulous. South Street is still pretty cool. People dress well (you know, compared to CA). Gritty rules.
The Mutter Museum is my favorite place in all of Philadelphia!
Likewise.
Mr. Star and I lived there for the last 4 years and I looooooved it. We were in NW, a few blocks south of the Wissahickon Creek Park. Walkable, delicious, affordable and GRITTY. I've been gone about 1 month, and already plan on some future long weekends.
Music: the World Cafe.
The pandemic hit before I made it to Vedge, so I bought their cookbook, even though I rarely use recipes.
Can confirm it's delicious!
Wawa? Now I must take that three hour bus ride to go to Wawa across from Independence Hall !!
Also, I remember Philadelphia was a relatively walkable city, where you can still cross some of the important streets downtown in just nine steps (I like to count this sort of thing).
I lived in West Philly and I would walk downtown all the time.
'young rascals' shout-out in the music section
I’m pretty sure I can guess which restaurant you were fingerblasted in.
I had a friend a long time ago who really wanted to open a Wawa in Mahwah for obvious reasons. Fast-forward to a couple days ago when I spoke with someone who had just come from the Wawa in Mahwah! It made me so happy to know there's a Mahwah Wawa. Yeah, I'm easy.
Now if only they would come to Oglala, Hialeah, and Walla-Walla.
Wawa keeps promising to open up a store in the Harrisburg area in the hopes of liberating us from the Sheetz monopoly.
That was …. ODDLY SPECIFIC!
Philly is also home to the oldest operating brewery in the country, Yuengling. Tasty beers but the owner is a MAGAt.
Yuengling was never in Philly. It's always been in Pottsville, which is a couple miles from New Philadelphia, about 1/3 the way across the state from Pottstown, which is itself about 35 miles from Philly city limits.
I know Yuengling is a German name, but I continue to believe it is really Chinese.
The Yuengling brewery is in Pottsville.
"The humans of Philadelphia are wild, man. They are really their own species of weird."
Can confirm.
The Mummer's Strut by street people and celebrants with "coffee" is a joy and a wonder to partake of!