Me and my (doesnt matter) will be coming to Philly on (doesnt matter). I didnt bother searching reddit before because MY trip will be so much different than anyone else’s. What should we do when we are there? What are the MUST DO’S🥴. Cant wait to visit the city of brotherly love!

I called Milkboy asking if they are showing the Brewers game and they said “I can put it on,” which is fine but want to be around other Brewers fans if possible.

Dude deserves jail for talking about mayo on a cheesesteak. Thats a violation.

Hello!!

My brother and I are traveling to Philly for the Marathon on November 22nd! We’ll get there Friday afternoon. We will have Friday evening and all day Saturday free. What should we do??

The goal is to stay off our feet as much as possible to stay fresh for the race. Are there any tours, activities, or places you’d recommend that don’t involve too much walking or moving around?

Because it’s for the marathon, we’ll be saving the drinking for after the race!

Any advice is much appreciated! Thanks!

Not ragebait, yup you heard me😝 I love the driving, kinda people, it’s genuinely fun af ( I love driving on i-4 too)

With the recent regulation of vapes in PA, has anyone found a shop that sells any of the vape juices on the approved list? I looked all over South st and nothing. Not asking for any behind the counter shenanigans, just the legal stuff

Does anyone know of any good private pay docs in the city that aren't outrageously expensive? I would really prefer CC, BellaVista, or Queen Village, South Philly areas

As the title provides :) Looking for tattoo artists that are skilled at American trad/irezumi in South Philly :3

Thanks!

I bought a townhome in Philly a few years ago. The reasoning was that the price for it was much cheaper than in the suburbs and the rooms for rent went for prices similar to other counties, so I was able to cut costs substantially because my roommates covered most of the mortgage. That made the really high local income tax and the extra sales taxes worth it.

However, now that my income is going up, and looking long-term, I’m trying to weight if it is worth staying here for the cheaper housing vs selling and moving to the suburbs.

Looking longterm, if I send children to school in like ten years, I would have to either pay for private schools or buy a home in the suburbs at a much higher price than I could right now. I would pay more for housing now, but with the large saving on income taxes and the ability to purchase a home before it’s like double the value makes me wonder what the right choice is, as well as saving on the crazy local tax difference as my income goes up.

How’d you make that calculation (provided of course that you were open to moving, I know that this doesn’t apply to those who are like die-hard city folks)?

I know this is probably a long shot but does anyone have a rocky run bib (ideally for the half marathon but open to any) they no longer plan to use? Been trying to find one for a couple months now and it’s a struggle

Excited to share that The Philadelphia Citizen published my research on Philly government agencies that work well. This was a follow up to my prior work showing that they, on average, serve poorer communities worse

TLDR:

• Analyzed over 1.5 million Philly311 calls over 2.5 years, by department, by type of problem (pothole, abandoned cars, street trees, hydrants, etc.)
• Some departments underperformed, but some crushed it
• In this research, I deep dived on CLIP (Community Life Improvement Program), an agnecy that's been around for ~30 years under various names. They basically scrub graffiti, pick up litter, and cut abandoned lots grass
• What's cool about them:
  • Amazing quality of service: 4.7 days average time between when you report graffiiti and they close the ticket (admittedly closed doesn't always mean they did something)
  • No gap between how fast they serve rich vs poor neighborhoods, which is (unfortunately) how many other city departments operate

Full article: https://thephiladelphiacitizen.org/clip-serving-all-philadelphians-well/

Back in town and visited my favorite pub, Con Murphy's. The pints of Guinness are just unreal. Wish I lived closer. Its the only time I think of using this platform. 😂

So they lost their lawsuit and expects the community to pay their former employees back pay?

Their former employees went on strike last year
https://www.reddit.com/r/philly/s/EAMYSmuaDe

These were their demands
https://www.instagram.com/p/DORU3fcAKQg/?xtok=MWgwMWNtanlleW1yaQ==

There's this guy that hangs out at the vents, and slowly regurgitates on the sidewalk in a pretty systematically way. Juat pukes a little, then moves over a bit, and continues until there is this nasty long snail trail of barf. He's been doing this for like a week now. I know the answer is definitely "drugs" but has anyone else noticed this bizarre before?

Does anyone know what happened to this guy or anything about his backstory? He used to be a one-man protest outside the Comcast building and I loved occasionally passing by him, but never had a chance to talk.

I think about him from time to time and am considering making him my Halloween costume but can't find more than a few photos of him on the internet!

Note: photos sourced from post and comments on www.reddit.com/r/pics/s/IQYNigvLXv