All the people from that city, please get to this message ASAP, and post something that you’d like to pit about that city.
My starting pit: Your city has a bad taste in Mayors. (Rizzo? Green? Goode? Tate? Why them?)
You’ve got quite the hard-on for Philly today, don’t you?
If you don’t live there then why do you even care?
This thread reminds me of discussions I’ll have with non-Philadelphians about the Eagles.
Out-of-Stater: “The Eagles suck! Worst team in football history!”
Res: “Shut the f*** up, man! That’s my team!”
OOS: “But you were just trashin’ them too!”
Res: “Yeah, but they’re MY TEAM!”
It’s my damn home town. I’m in Michigan for law school, but I’m moving back this summer, and God willing, it’ll be permanently. Don’t nobody talk trash about my greasy-cheesesteak, can’t-win-a-championship, terrible-mayor, built-a-highway-along-the-Schukyll, but-dammit,-we’ve-got-character home!
Soft pretzels and cheesesteaks make me fat.
Mummers make me stand out in the cold on New Years Day.
South Street makes me spend money on cool junk and drinks.
E! A! G! L! E! S! EAGLES!
I’m from philly and the only really really bad Mayor that comes to mind is Wilson " drop a bomb on a city block" Goode.
I really didn’t like John Street too much until he stood up to the police commisioner and showed that he had some balls. Ed Rendell may be a jackass but he’s put’s on a hell of a show. That guy was good for Philly.
I kinda hated this city all my life but as an adult I think it’s a fine city. Of course it looks a WHOLE lot better from the suburbs!
Oh, and GO EAGLES!!! …but not until the season starts
I like Philly but I’ve never lived there so I don’t think my opinion counts. I like the Eagles by the way they have spirit like the Pats. I’m from Boston originally so you could understand my pick in sports teams.
Most obnoxious sports fans, ever.
Nothin’ wrong with Philadelphia, and I could tell you this story, starts with my wife throwing my golf clubs out the door…
Best city ever. Bar none.
Cheesesteaks and soft pretzels alone are enough. But I’ve got my 16-game plan for the Phils again this year, and Thome and Burrell are both hitting 50 apiece, and Wolfie’s gonna pitch like a world-beater ALL SEASON for a change, and Millwood is gonna win 20 (maybe 30). So life is looking good, and I wouldn’t want to be anywhere else. A couple o’ hot dogs, a few beers–the home opener is only a few weeks away. I have my tickets for the last (regular season) game, too.
I’m gonna hit the Art Museum at least 2 or 3 times this summer, and walk down the River Drives, and take my son again to walk through the human heart at the Franklin Institute (ooh!). And we’ll go see how the polar bears are doing at the Zoo.
See ya down on Penn’s Landing.
But she took you back, CK. And you got to hang around with Jimmy Stewart, how cool is that?
You’ve been waiting a looooooong time to make that post, CK.
Philly is great as long as it doesn’t try to be New York. Philly has its own niche, and it needs to find it and exploit it.
I hate the fact that Philadelphia elected John Street. What a jackass. I’m a Dem all the way, but hell I’d have voted for Katz a) if i’d been of age at the time and b) i lived in the city, rather than 4 blocks from it. I won’t speculate as to why he was elected, but I think everyone knows why.
I hate the fact that the airport is always under construction. For chrissake, just spend $3 billion and do it right! Don’t spend $500 million ten times over–that’s just dumb.
I hate the fact that the Inquirer doesn’t carry Uncle Cecil’s column.
Oh, and I hate the fact that Pittsburgh hates us. WTF? We don’t hate you (I had no idea there was a rivalry between the two cities until I came to Penn State).
But hey, enough ragging on the city of brotherly love. We’ve got a spirit that can’t be beat; we’ve got a world-class art collection; we’ve got more universities per square mile than any other city in the US (and any other city on earth, quite possibly) (HA! Take THAT Boston!); we’re conveniently located in between NYC and DC; we’re home to Independence Mall/Hall, the Liberty Bell, and 20 minutes from Valley Forge; we’ve got hoagies, chessesteaks, and soft pretzels; and we had Ed Rendell. I don’t care what anyone says, the man is a GOD in Philly and deserves a monument in his honor.
Born and raised for 32 years (recently relocated to San Diego). I love my hometown. I saw that city change from the cesspool that Rizzo turned it into and (sadly) Goode never managed to get ahold of to a thriving, cleaner, world-class city. I love my town - ain’t nothing wrong with it.
(I’m glad to be in San Diego, too, though - also an extremely great place to live.)
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I love Philly. Best city in the world, and while I don’t picture myself ever settling there (too close to NJ!) I can picture myself visiting often and missing it when I’m away.
But - The God. Damned. Airport! Build the fucking thing already! I fly somewhere at least once a year, and I don’t remember it not being under construction!
Make the Eagles fans tone it down a li’l bit? I mean…if you need a prison in the basement of your stadium (is there gonna be one in the new stadium?), it’s gone to far.
Keep South Street the way it is. Forever and ever and ever and ever, because South Street is quite possibly one of my favorite places in the world.
And yeah, cheesesteaks are too damn tempting. I miss being able to eat them. 
Oh! Oh!
The whole “punk” scene.
A bunch of motherfuckers, if you ask me.
rae,
hailing from good ol’ Jersey.
WAIT… You’re telling me there’s more than one person here that hails from ATCO of all places?
Small world, man.
Airman, I’m not interested with the city, but with politics, and, after the Louisiana, Mississippi, and Kentucky races (all of which I’ve discussed earlier), the Philadelphia Mayor’s race is the only other race of interest.
In fact, the original point of this debate was to try to find all the Philly-area Dopers and try to route them to my “Katz vs. Street” post on the Great Debates board. Unfortunately, I don’t have quite enough moxie to have done that.
And, to Rockford, is it my fault that I live in (literally) the most boring city with a population over 250,000 in the US?
(Oh great, now they’ll flame me like there’s no tomorrow)