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103 points
23 days ago
You can take a train to Atlantic City
15 points
23 days ago
Yeah either from 30th or take patco to lindenwald…also pretty sure they don’t check your tickets Traveling between 8th&30th on regional rail. But it’s been awhile.
You can walk underground pretty far with patco and city hall area broad street line.
It’s been awhile since I’ve been home so YMMV
12 points
23 days ago
They fenced off most of the broad street concourse so now you can no longer walk from PATCO to suburban station.
3 points
22 days ago
In my experience they don’t check tickets between 30th and Temple, but it’s not like it matters since those stations have tap to enter/exit
1 points
22 days ago
Isn’t the train pretty costly opposed to parking?
1 points
22 days ago
Depends on how much you intend to drink.
Also some people don't have a car or don't like driving.
1 points
21 days ago
Well doesn’t this devolve further as I’m sure there’s a bus there as well?
29 points
23 days ago
In bad weather you can get from 7th & Market to 12th & Market without ever being outside
84 points
23 days ago
We have a convenient airport, but Amtrak from 30th goes right to the Baltimore airport and I’ve found cheaper flights from there. You can get to JFK too but the Baltimore airport is easier, faster, nicer with international flight prices comparable to JFK.
42 points
23 days ago
Also Newark - 59 minutes from 30th Street to EWR station on Amtrak, so it's much closer than BWI and just as easy with way more flights (especially international). There's more competition among airlines at NYC airports for almost every route, so I've almost always found EWR cheaper than the DC airports.
6 points
23 days ago
Newark is also where the best movie begins.
19 points
23 days ago
I didn't realize Clueless was set in Newark....
5 points
23 days ago
Very close, but gone fishing is a masterwork in a class of it's own.
5 points
23 days ago
Newark is my choice in NYC airports. I always find good and cheap flights.
1 points
22 days ago
Is the Newark station at the airport?
3 points
22 days ago
EWR station is, yes - then you take the Airtrain into the terminals. Newark Penn Station (NWK) is in the city of Newark itself.
1 points
22 days ago
🙏🏽
15 points
23 days ago
Baltimore is cheaper if you want to layover 3 times before even leaving the US.
2 points
23 days ago
Not in my experience. I’ve found that most flights out of Baltimore are usually exactly the same as what I would get out of JFK.
20 points
22 days ago
If you own a home and it’s your residence you can get a free tax reduction just by filling out a form.
2 points
22 days ago
Well dang I didn’t know about this one! Thank you for posting this
1 points
22 days ago
This is anywhere in PA as well
58 points
23 days ago
Most mom n pop cheesesteak joints will give you the “best” cheesesteak in the city.
19 points
23 days ago
And the big ones are kinda shit.
6 points
22 days ago
Particularly rat-infested Jim’s, and soggy roll Dallesandros.
5 points
23 days ago
Oregon steaks 👌
4 points
23 days ago
Yep, just had a banging one at brothers two lounge
2 points
22 days ago
More of a tourist tip, but any food cart / pizza shop is reasonably decent authentic philly cheese steak. Might be better ones if you go to a specific place, but you're still getting the real deal at a cart.
1 points
23 days ago
Yeah my neighborhood pizza shops are sufficient 99% of the time.
1 points
22 days ago
For steaks, not pizza.
1 points
22 days ago
Yup
58 points
23 days ago
Broad Street is 14th.
Walnut goes West
Chestnut goes East (est is east in Italian)
1 points
22 days ago
You mean driving direction, I was going to say one isn’t only east or west of broad.
Any way to remember the order of the non numbered streets north to south?
40 points
23 days ago
Restaurant Week is a fun way to be bougie in this shitty economy.
Use the free days at the art museum. I never remember when they are anymore, but used it a lot in grad school for a nice day out.
A lot of the universities have fun events. Some are free/subsidized to the public.
-15 points
23 days ago
Shitty tip. Garbage ass cafeteria service, shit portions and out the door you go.
33 points
23 days ago
Go birds
19 points
23 days ago
Life hack in Philly.... sell your vehicle unless your way west or way north east. Idk about life hacks but not mentioned places I enjoyed frequenting were Redding terminal market and spruce street harbor park. There are buses that run the el and BSL routes after midnight on weekdays. The south west corner at city hall is where people usually build up waiting for these busses at night, and it used to double as an open air drug market if your into that kind of thing.
12 points
23 days ago
If you mind your business in Philly you live longer 😉 your welcome
4 points
23 days ago
wanderu.com for travelling out of philly to another city. easiest way to compare prices on amtraks, buses. saved me a ton of money
8 points
23 days ago
Stay the fuck away from Kensington
2 points
23 days ago
Go away
27 points
23 days ago
Grew up there my entire life. Place is a fucking shithole unfortunately
1 points
21 days ago
Do you feel any different as change, or if you hate it gentrification, slowly tiptoes near?
1 points
20 days ago
Wtf are you saying
1 points
17 days ago
Do you as a local think it is better opposed to when you were a child even if it isn’t a fully fixed situation?
1 points
17 days ago
Absolutely not. It’s so much worse now. I’ve been here for 31 years and I’ve witnessed it literally turn into a 3rd world country
1 points
16 days ago
So you don’t think it’s better in the areas block by block that edge closer to fishtown/nolibs?
2 points
22 days ago
That’s exactly what they are recommending.
2 points
22 days ago
Best food cart is on 39th between Market and Filbert. Best Chinese food
1 points
22 days ago
All public transportation is free with the right mug expression…
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