Sunday, May 28, 2006
Philly touring part 3: Wash West; Washington Square; University City, including Powelton Village and some other random neighborhood along 40th. Washington West is cool, but looks like a downgrade from Rittenhouse and Fitler. Nice restaurants, all of which would be very accessable from my two preferred neighborhoods. Washington Square is lovely--it's a bit more low-key than Rittenhouse Square. University City seems tragic to me. Way too ghetto, way too much crime. However, cheap, great looking ethnic restaurants galore. It's totally on par with San Francisco. I'll bike over there to eat and hope that my bike doesn't get dismantled while I'm inside. The areas more removed from UC seemed nice, but too suburby, and even though Powelton Village looked great, everything was locked down and had bars on it. Seriously, that shit has to get cleaned up over there.
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I have been around the UC area a bit and it seems rather nice -- specifically around the mid-40 streets. But I wouldn't want to live in the UC area simply because there is too much hubris in the air. One thing that concerns me about the area anywhere between 10th and 3rd around spruce is tourism. Although maybe Spruce is far enough south to avoid that. It would be nice not to live where tourists are going to frequent, but definitely center city is the way to go I think. When are you going to Canada?
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