Which part of Philadelphia is safer, the north or the south?

Is This Part Of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?

• I'm a bit confused. I was recently looking at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on google maps and noticed that there are many smaller names surrounding it like "Cherry Hill" and "Hartford" and I was wondering if those places were part of Philadelphia or if they are their own towns? If it is part of Philadelphia, how do you go about saying that? Would you say " I'm from Philadelphia, Cherry Hill?" Thanks!

• Answer:

  Look at the map again. Cherry Hill is in ANOTHER STATE! So, no, it is not part of Philadelphia. And Haverford (Hartford is in Connecticut) is a town on the Philadelphia Main Line (Haverford Township and places with the Haverford mailing address, which in in two separate municipalities Lower Merion Township and Haverford Township). Philadelphia is no different from any other big city. It is surrounded by lots of suburban towns and townships with their own names and governments (Like Los Angeles has suburbs like Torrance and Compton and New York has Yonkers and New Rochelle and Mineola etc.). Also, like other big cities, Philadelphia has a "metropolitan area" that includes all of the suburbs (even those on the New Jersey side of the river). People from the suburbs might say, I live in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, that's near Philadelphia" or something like that. By the way, the "Main Line" is a string of upper income suburbs that run west of the City line along the Pennsylvania Railroad "Main Line" Look at your map and follow Route 30 out of the city to see which towns I mean. Paoli used usually considered the "end of the line".