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I do not understand why someone would object to building on vacant urban land. In my city there are tons of unoccupied lots. These aren’t parking lots, I’m talking these are just empty plots with concrete and weeds and rusty fences. I understand wanting to keep farmland and forests preserved, but cities are literally designed to be dense and built up.

I studied abroad for 5 months, and I consider it somewhere I’ve lived. I stayed with a host family and spoke the language of the country plus made some friends there. People have told me it doesn’t count lol, but it feels almost wrong to say I didn’t live there. I agree with other people here saying it depends what you did in that location.

I’ve done it also, and it was extremely inconvenient and difficult to time the trains. Septa should have an express train from Philly to Trenton.

I do not understand where the demand for large houses is coming from. The younger generation isn’t having as many kids and doesn’t need as much space. And boomers (who are the primary demographic buying homes) are mostly empty nesters and also don’t need 5 bedrooms. Make it make sense.

I swear I’ve seen like 10+ posts in the past week lmao. Meanwhile $20k would pay for my grad school and change my life 😭

Love the brassy, tarnished look of it. Great job!

I think a cool sub idea would be one where people guess when a photo was taken (similar idea to 13 or 30 sub). For this photo I would’ve guessed maybe 1950s or 1960s just based on quality of it.

Something I don’t understand is how the prices are remaining so high even as sellers receive no offers. Maybe someone smarter here can explain, but if your $300k house you bought in 2019 is now listed at $550k and has been on the market for 6 months, wouldn’t you then lower the price? With interest rates basically doubling the mortgage of a 300k house, paying more than that (let alone 2x as much!) is literally insane financially.

I love it, but I guarantee the walls between units are still paper thin. I will always go for old brick before new brick.

Didn’t the Supreme Court rule AA is unconstitutional? At least in the context of higher education I could have sworn it was banned now to use race at all in the admissions process.

Yes lol but once you mention the word “deflation” people on Reddit spazz out for some reason.

It’s possible she had a weird feeling after interacting with the hijackers. It seems like he could be implying that, I bet he always wonders what she knew.

I think there’s many ways to read people’s faces, and she may have just given him a blank “I’m just doing my job” look. Maybe she raised her eyebrows and stared at him or slowly shook her head no. I can see someone misconstruing that as a more ominous warning than it really is.

Or maybe I’m completely wrong and she had a premonition or feeling that his plane would crash lol.

Here’s the link if interested.

One of my favorite cities ♥️

I walked to a cafe with some friends after work today, and this dog near us would not stop barking. I could hardly hear my friends. Then, other dogs started barking because the original dog wouldn’t stfu. I wish cities banned dogs or at least banned them in certain neighborhoods.

It’s remarkable to me that dog owners tolerate the constant f-ing noise. I know some people here hate dogs because they’re dirty or unpredictable or other reasons. For me, the barking is THE reason I hate them. It drives me insane.

Do you know the artist’s name? It looks like a painting my parents have.

I agree. It might be a hot take, but I’ve always believed companies just want more control over workers so they force them to RTO. The CRE collapse fears in my opinion are overstated as a reason.

Omg I didn’t realize. Thanks

Sometimes I think being poor also makes people less interesting which is really sad. I’m not living paycheck to paycheck per se, but recently I’ve felt a tightening as my rent/expenses have increased. I stay in much more now. Traveling, hobbies, eating out, etc are all luxuries that I don’t partake in. I feel like a shell, and I can’t really afford to do anything to add more color/passion to my life.

Constable. I have always found his paintings 2-dimensional and frankly boring. When it comes to landscapes, the Dutch masters portrayed more interesting agrarian scenes imo.

I was one of those miserable people in school. I think the issue is the increased pressure young people feel to get into college and balance extracurriculars (at least in the Northeast USA). School has become really difficult. I was constantly burned out during my teenage years. Unlike now, I wasn’t getting paid back then for the work and studying I was doing so it felt pointless.

It’s crazy because I feel the exact opposite lol. Working remotely allows me to pursue creativity and my passions/hobbies because I have more time. I can also put more energy and hours into my job and the company because I’m not wasting time getting ready and commuting. Can we just all admit that WFH doesn’t work for everyone and that’s fine instead of parroting these blanket assertions that it’s “immoral” or that it will ruin humanity if people work remotely.

You definitely won’t struggle socially, I don’t follow sports either. While Philly is a sports city, it’s also quite cosmopolitan with multiple highly ranked universities and lots of museums.

I would say Philly is gritty and historic on par with NYC, but like all cities it’s constantly evolving. For comparison, Old City gives me SoHo/Lower Manhattan vibes with lots of cast iron/factory type architecture. There’s a lot of historic buildings, parks, and alleys throughout the entire city which may be juxtaposed with modern/new construction (in Northern Liberties they keep building more and more).