What comes to your mind when you think about Philadelphia?

University City, trolley, the greenline cafe I miss Philadelphia.

Sports centric. They booed Santa. They booed Donovan McNabb. They seem very grumpy. And they have a statue of Syllvester Stallone as Rocky. I think that is wierd. Detroit should get one for Robocop.

Philadelphia is statistically The Third Worst Major City in America (behind Detroit and Cleveland. And above Baltimore and St. Louis). This might be the most honest answer you get on here. Also, no one in this city gives a damn about cheesesteaks. That's like assuming everyone in Baltimore eats crabs all the time, or everyone in Buffalo only eats buffalo wings. Anyway, this is what comes to mind. The objectively Bad: 1.5 million assholes: The rudest city in America, without a doubt. Hence, the irony of its nickname. Everyone looking homeless. (As in, the everyday residents.) Every single native resident is ugly. Quite literally. There are no attractive people in this city. NONE. The aggressive homeless people scattered everywhere in town. The fake homeless, with better clothes and smartphones than you. The piss-poor service of the public transportation, known here as SEPTA (South Eastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority) which controls the city and its residents pretty much exactly like The Mafia would. Every single street is filthy. If its not trash, it's fresh human urine. Or worse. Everyone is poor. Outside of Roxborough/Manayunk and a few parts of the Northeast (which doesn't really count, anyway), there are no "Middle Class" neighborhoods. A horrendous job market. Pretty much anything not revolving around crime (police, doctors, lawyers, news anchors) is almost non-existent. All the jobs are out in Jersey. Not much to do for recreation. Only eight things to do in this city: bar/cafe, restaurant, movie, museum, theater, sports game, park, or a gay club. Many of the women are trashy, arrogant, entitled, horrendous, ghetto and/or stuck up, making it a piss-poor place for straight single men. Northeastern standards with women regarding men are higher and more picky than anywhere else for some reason, despite none of them being very worthy, themselves. Crime so violent, nobody fears anything, making most residents both extremely brave and extremely stupid. The crime isn't as bad as Baltimore or New Orleans, but its still pretty damn bad. The weather is bad twelve months of the year. Constantly random and varying in extremes of sub-freezing temperatures and 90% + humidity heat. There's basically just six months of frigid winter and six months of humid summer. Not one single good sports team (not that it matters). / The Philadelphia Eagles. A history of corrupt mayors and governors. The local government's plans to try to appease out-of-towners (what they call 'tourists' and commuters here) more than the actual residents. The city's only nationally powerful business being the corrupt cable conglomerate known as Comcast. Philly's little sister, Camden, NJ. M. Night Shymalyan. The subjectively Quasi-Good. Sort of...? No one cares what you look like. You don't even have to try. Deodorant? Nope! Not needed here! People will straight tell you what they think. No one has time to bullshit. No one is ever apologetic, which in some lights, can be appreciated. Residents are very passionate about their town, despite its extremely obvious flaws and very few positives. No one owns or uses a car. Owning one makes you richer than most, here. Dirt-cheap housing and rent compared to the rest of the country. $1100 a month gets you a two bedroom apartment in Center City (downtown) and 40K gets you a rowhouse in most parts of the city. Not that too many people here can even afford that... Cultural diversity (besides Hispanics, that is). Mostly African Americans, some Whites, and a few Asians. Super gay-friendly, if you're homosexual. Two good universities (U.Penn & Drexel) among several really bad ones. And no, Penn State and Villanova are way out of town. "Passionate" sports fans. Supposedly good beer. Supposedly good local places to eat. Will Smith, Bradley Cooper, Tina Fey, Kevin Bacon, David Boreanaz, Seth Green, and The Roots, assuming you like any of these people. The Liberty Bell, if that counts. Ben Franklin. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Rocky. Museums no native resident ever goes to. Plenty of libraries no native resident ever uses. A faux-arts & theater scene on Broad Street that no native resident would ever go to. Most residents are liberals. Plenty of hipsters, assuming you're one. Skateboarders. Live street musicians, often around 15th and Market. A large and devoted underground music scene. Not everyone is going agree with my list. Pretty much, any native Philadelphian might take offense to how horrendous this city is, as if everyone's supposed to have the same blind patriotism as they do. But I do not care. This is the way things are and it needed to be said. I tried to keep it as objective as possible, by also including a "Good" list, as well. The bottom line though, is that Philly is a super-shitty place to live and an "interesting" at best place to visit. Like many major cities in America. - From Overbrook. 59th street.

"And we're sailing to Philadelphia..." A song by . That was my first thought. I then think of the Liberty Bell, how Philadelphia was once the de facto capitol of America, and of how history was made there. But I don't have a particular opinion on Philadelphia now. I was only there once to see the tourists sites, and I make a point not to generalise. And I haven't been back to America in almost 8 years now. Sorry.

Then after about ten minutes, the movie with Tom Hanks.

The  place where the U.S. Constitution was signed. The liberty bell. Cheese steaks. Another place I've never been.

Tom Hanks

dirty (not filth like New Orleans but lots of wind borne litter and debris everywhere) crime Mutter Museum food and garbage on the subway Liberty Bell Pitt's Landing awesome Museum of Fine Art Rittenhouse Square the ceiling of the train station

Rocky Balboa