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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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jden816 t1_jeecgiw wrote

I’m in Boston right now. Everyone’s been nice, and the city is nice to be in, but my god, getting around is absolutely brutal. I’ve never been more frustrated by poor urban design in my life. It makes it not worth coming to. Philly isn’t perfect, but bless our city.

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RoyOfCon t1_jeee2pq wrote

Lived in both. Neither feel very neighborly.

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MonsterNog t1_jeefdp3 wrote

We are neighborly just don’t leave your block

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Rahawk02 t1_jeefs5h wrote

Replying to AgentDaxis (#2,524,994)

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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CookedDenimRawPizza t1_jeeg0x0 wrote

My informal guess is that despite the fact that both cities have a lot of transplants, there are still a lot of people actually from the cities. Gotta imagine that helps cohesion and friendliness.

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EatUrHeart0ut t1_jeegxky wrote

Boston is the WORST I could go on about it forever. Terrible for commuters outside of the main city. You can only move ONE DAY A YEAR. So the entire city moves on the same day. Lack of diverse spaces for BIPOC and LGBTQ+. Winter is BRUTAL b/c it's on the water. One of the big pulls in tourism is the graveyard where Mother Goose is buried?! So many things.

EDIT: I am shocked that as a Philadelphian... in a Philly thread, I am being downvoted for sharing my dislike of Boston... lol

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mundotaku t1_jeehq46 wrote

Replying to PhillyAccount (#2,523,842)

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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DayJob93 t1_jeehsaq wrote

Replying to Dryheavemorning (#2,526,702)

Ok gotta be careful here. This article includes Wilmington and Camden in our metro area. Two very segregated cities that probably make us look worse on average. Also a metro area that dwarves the Boston metro area by population (especially minority population) so I’m not sure if any of their data is corrected for population. Your posting a 6ABC article to make a demographic data argument. I would find a better source

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DayJob93 t1_jeejc1t wrote

Replying to Dryheavemorning (#2,527,456)

They are I appreciate the additional source. After some quick googling I’ve seen Philly as “low” as 13 and as high as 2 per Inky so there’s some variability in the methods that I don’t understand. Either way, it seems like many northeast more industrial cities, Philly is highly segregated. Could be our size during the Industrial Revolution attracted many black southerners and entrenched them in certain areas due to red lining. Maybe Boston had a smaller migration of black southerners during this period seeking work in northeast cities

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horsebatterystaple99 t1_jeek1a7 wrote

No experience of Boston, but I think that Philly is very neighborly, and people are solid. Lived in other places (not Boston) that are seen as being 'nice,' you barely talk to other people.

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trainofgravy t1_jeekae3 wrote

I moved from boston 8 months ago. Yes everyone is really friendly to their neighbors in both cities! Well as long as the neighbors don’t suck lol

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vpu7 t1_jeekrxw wrote

Philly is so neighborly it reminds me of Vermont which I honestly thought would be impossible for a city to do.

Vermont is extremely neighborly but a lot of that comes from environmental necessity (rural and brutal weather). There’s something about this place.

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EatUrHeart0ut t1_jeeldbl wrote

Replying to plasteroid (#2,527,656)

September 1st is Boston's Move-In Day. I believe about 2/3 of the city's leases all end on the same day so it makes moving a nightmare. So in addition to college kids moving in, you have people scrambling to move into or out of their apartments. Streets are clogged, people are fighting over moving trucks, and it s a mess.

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ColdJay64 t1_jeenvig wrote

Despite what Philly redditors want you to think, most people I encounter here are incredibly nice. I moved to a new neighborhood in December and one neighbor brought me a plate of food, another neighbor invited me over for a drink, and we all help keep track of each other’s trashcans.

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Capkirk0923 t1_jeeoqrv wrote

Kind acts are usually quiet. Sometimes they get drowned out by ATVs. But I believe at heart Philly is a good city.

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GumshoeAndy t1_jeewi3c wrote

My neighbors have grabbed my packages, shoveled snow, babysat my son, and helped my family in more ways than I could list in a single reddit post.

A neighbor of mine was re-pointing some of the masonry work on his rowhome last summer. When he finished his house he touched up some trouble spots on his neighbor's house. That kind of stuff happens all the time and makes me love my neighborhood.

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mynameisntjeffrey t1_jeewt3c wrote

Replying to mundotaku (#2,527,183)

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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Durandell t1_jef4jzx wrote

I moved to North Philly about 8 months ago and my neighbors have been amazing. My next door neighbor helped the recycling guy lug a pallete into the truck. He would have refused to take it without her help and it had been there for weeks I make sure her trash can is out of the street and right in front of her house after the trucks come

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IndigoWallaby t1_jefcgjl wrote

My brother has lived in his rental in Santa Cruz, CA for at least 20 years. He doesn’t know his neighbors. “I’m a garbage man and they work for Google; we don’t talk” —- you can have the palm trees, I’ll be in South Philly with my neighbors bringing me surprise pretzels because the Eagles won

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Rahawk02 t1_jefhps7 wrote

Replying to courageous_liquid (#2,538,833)

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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MachoManRandyAvg t1_jefsidd wrote

Replying to Pretty_Imagination62 (#2,526,374)

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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Section_80 t1_jeg97bw wrote

my brother lives in Boston, I live in Philly.

I think so, even if not, we're the top two cities that don't deal with bullshit from outsiders.

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Dashists22 t1_jegke3u wrote

I know all of my Philly neighbors. For the 7 years I lived in the Doylestown area, I didn’t know any of our neighbors. And I would go as far as saying that our neighbors were actively hostile towards each other.

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