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PhillyAccount OP t1_jee7qye wrote

Summary:

>A recent report found that the Northeastern duo — better known as places where people repeatedly punch police horses and sling racial slurs at athletes — have the highest “informal helping rate” among 12 large metros.

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>The report relies upon the Current Population Survey, conducted by the Census Bureau. Every other year, our friends at Census add a set of questions about volunteering and civic life to their superstar survey, which underlies such critical statistics as the nation’s unemployment rate.

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>The question that drew us in, informal helping, asks how often in the past year you and your neighbors did “favors for each other such as house sitting, watching each other’s children, lending tools, and other things to help each other.”

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mundotaku t1_jeehq46 wrote

I moved here in August last year, and when I say people here are the nicest I have met, they look at me like I am crazy.

Most people here are incredibly sweet and will help a complete stranger. They also are a lot friendlier than what I have found in many other states where I have lived.

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mynameisntjeffrey t1_jeewt3c wrote

As someone who moved from florida I can second this. I was so nervous moving here with the reputation of the people here, but my god the people here are just so much more friendly. In Florida there’s so many mean and nasty people, and tons of fake people too. Here, even when just talking to people while I was working retail, it mostly seemed genuine and nice. Sure there’s a lot more straightforwardness, but that’s so much better than vague disapproval.

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GreenAnder t1_jegmn6u wrote

Yeah the people here are just going to yell at someone being a prick. I feel like our rep is mostly from entitled jerks who aren’t used to being told to fuck off.

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aj1337h t1_jefxwpr wrote

wow you summed up something thats been bothering me for years. thanks. neighbor.

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allisondojean t1_jefbz5q wrote

Same for me, from SoCal. People in my hometown more POLITE but in terms of friendly, it's hard to beat Philly.

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BulbasaurCPA t1_jegp6d8 wrote

People here are incredibly neighborly. And sometimes we all come together, as neighbors, to punch a police horse or take part in a riot

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goldngophr t1_jegaadq wrote

Interesting. I also moved here the same month and I’ve had the opposite experience. That’s awesome yours is better though!

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AgentDaxis t1_jeebc68 wrote

>sling racial slurs at athletes

When was the last time that actually happened in Philly?

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PhillyAccount OP t1_jeebedb wrote

It's a Boston Thing

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Pretty_Imagination62 t1_jeefd1y wrote

Boston, while ironically deemed a very liberal city, is also a very racist one

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MachoManRandyAvg t1_jefsidd wrote

The city itself... not so much anymore.

Don't get me wrong, it will still be found there. It's just more in the upper-middle class "they absolutely are entitled to respect, equality, and equity - but I'd prefer that they receive those things somewhere else" kind of way

The "fully aware that they're racist assholes and don't give a fuck about making it known" types have been priced out to the south shore

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Rahawk02 t1_jeefs5h wrote

The last time I remember was when we were at the old vet a whole row of crazies behind us were screaming to take Doug Peterson ( they called him Peterman for some reason ) out for Mcnabb to play for the 1st time in Philly.

Finally they put him and the place erupts then he fumbles and they screamed get that Nono word out of here. The vet was a wild place .

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courageous_liquid t1_jefgrha wrote

When my father finally let me go to the vet for an eagles game, we sat in the 700 level. I saw a grown man piss in a cup and then huck it down on our own fans.

I've heard some wild shit up there.

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Rahawk02 t1_jefhps7 wrote

So many people would just piss right off the side of the building up there and it would rain down on the people just walking below. I’ve had season tix since Mcnabbs first year and those first few at the Vet were definitely the wildest . People would just smoke crack out in the open and get into fights ,plus tickets were only about 30 bucks a game .

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courageous_liquid t1_jefhyqn wrote

Yeah I'm pretty conceptually opposed to seat licenses but it absolutely did help cut down on some of the insanity.

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pascalines t1_jef3zez wrote

I moved here from NYC last year and my neighbors take my trash bins in on Mondays if they’re out doing theirs…..I was gobsmacked LOL. Now we take turns doing each other’s trash.

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