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zoicyte t1_j8o8nuc wrote

Reply to comment by Mr_Fraunces in Why Are Philly Brands Flocking to the Suburbs? by Proper-Code7794

That’s a-bingo!

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frankdiddit t1_j8o9xqr wrote

That’s why my boomer parents moved out there. Things don’t change

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zoicyte t1_j8okl23 wrote

I mean I was saying this in 2012. Philly looked up and coming and very trendy then, especially neighborhoods like fish town and NL, but none of those young professionals were gonna plant real roots bc as soon as they start to want having kids they’d take one look at the school situation and fuck the hell off back to the suburbs.

That’s what me and my wife did at the time, and she lived there for like 10 years. I worked at the navy yard then, and would have loved to live in the city, but not with a kid going to school in 5 years

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Astrostuffman t1_j8pesf8 wrote

NL had already jumped the shark by 2012. Anyway, I digress. We moved out of NL, where we had tons of friends, in 2013 because it was unsafe. We looked at houses on the Main Line, but I grew up in Philly, so we moved to the “suburbs” without moving to the suburbs. Care to guess where?

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SeeMyThumb t1_j8ucqu8 wrote

I’m gonna guess that if you’re looking at buying in the main line, and Mt Airy is close, you wound up in Chestnut Hill.

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Mr_Fraunces t1_j8rpdbl wrote

Far Northeast. I grew up in a free standing house on 1/2 an acre with off street parking in the Far Northeast. I could walk to Bucks county or Montgomery County from my neighborhood.

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SammieCat50 t1_j8tu67o wrote

Got to say … my kids went to school in phila.. my youngest just graduated from univ of Penn - both have great jobs - nothing bad ever happened to them & they’re not on drugs..my relatives who moved out of city to utilize other school districts, their kids weren’t so lucky

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zoicyte t1_j8u4p05 wrote

That’s great. And I’m sure excellent students come from every district. But the overall quality and safety of the school system isn’t up for debate.

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