Aims, my parents lived in Philly for the last (yipes!) almost 20 years -- I never really lived there for more than a summer, since they moved there when I was already off in college, but I've always loved the city.
Sometimes I miss having powers... Oh. Oh! I know what this is! This is peer pressure! Any second now you're gonna make me smoke tobacco and--and have drugs!
Anya ,'Showtime'
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
amych - Jan 30, 2006 12:09:03 pm PST #3771 of 10002
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Lee - Jan 30, 2006 12:10:59 pm PST #3772 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
He did. Being Colin, he didn't take a cruise, but got fishermen to ferry him around. Loved it loved it.
That sounds great. My mother is going too, though, so I think the fishermen thing is right out.
Aims - Jan 30, 2006 12:12:20 pm PST #3773 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
I found a great place in Roxborough/Manayunk (I love that name) and it just seems to be falling into a place I had no idea was open. It's strange. I love the look of the neighborhood, close to downtown, where I'd be working if it did happen, and hey! LOVE the sandwiches, although I've been told I haven't had a true one since I've never been there.
Kathy A - Jan 30, 2006 12:13:03 pm PST #3774 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Aimee, I've never lived in Philly, but both my brother and mom are in the southern NJ suburbs within a 45-minute drive, so I can ask them any questions about living in the 'burbs, if you need!
§ ita § - Jan 30, 2006 12:13:33 pm PST #3775 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I had a good time in the city, Aimée, but that might have been Deb's daughter and NSYNC more than the city itself. I do have a cousin finishing up medical school there, and she really likes it.
flea - Jan 30, 2006 12:15:02 pm PST #3776 of 10002
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I went to college outside of Philly but didn't really get to know the place, which was my bad. I gather there's lots of decent in-city neighborhoods, and public transportation in general is decent.
Connie Neil - Jan 30, 2006 12:16:11 pm PST #3777 of 10002
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I lived for two months in the Central City part of Philly about 5 years back. The cheesesteaks are better in the neighborhood places than on the tourist strip on South Street.
beth b - Jan 30, 2006 12:21:02 pm PST #3778 of 10002
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!
I went to school in Allentown - not in the city much. The 'burbs can be pretty conventional. But from what I remember the city had more room for the unconventional. ( and the concept of haveing a look is not like it is in LA - neat and presentable counts more than size or glamour )
Toddson - Jan 30, 2006 12:21:13 pm PST #3779 of 10002
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Philly has its points - but when I was in college it wasn't a good place to be a woman alone. Not danger-wise, but just in creepy guy-wise. Guys yelling inappropriate comments out of car windows and people on the street glaring at you. Guy trailing along behind me trying to get me to talk to him.
But that was many years ago and things may have changed.
flea - Jan 30, 2006 12:24:11 pm PST #3780 of 10002
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Now I want a cheesesteak. My friends aways got them FOKET (written like that on the foil wrapper - fried onions, ketchup) but I like just ketchup. There was a local place that delivered to my college.
No non-philly place I have ever had a cheesesteak has gotten the bread right. Most of them get the cheese wrong, too, which, how?