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I had a construction crew run my tree over years ago, so I replaced it with an eastern red bud.

Here is the list of recommended trees to bring when you go shopping: https://www.phila.gov/media/20171115163232/PPR_Approved_Street_Tree_List.pdf

I started out going to the center city office at 833 chestnut, 1st floor/lower level. That was totally fine too. Navy yard is just nicer, newer, quieter.

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When someone rents a unit in a brand new building, they don’t rent an older unit. Less demand pressure on the old unit keeps rents lower.

We absolutely should be developing more apartment buildings (and for that matter at a greater unit density per acre). Philly has under-built apartments for decades.

There was a prediction in the decline of urban populations before the pandemic.

A very common lifecycle in the US is to grow up in the burbs, move to the city as a young adult, then go back to the burbs to raise kids.

Millennials are the biggest generation though, so when they hit the “move to the city” phase, urban populations rose. And due to great financial crisis, student debt, etc. they were also poorer and delayed family formation (and delayed leaving for the burbs), which mean their large urban pop blip hung around longer than previous generations.

This millennial blip fueled US urban renewal.

But even before the pandemic, demographers were noting that Millennials were finally getting around to family formation and starting the typical “return to the burbs” part of the American lifestyle.

Anecdotally, as an Xennial, most of my friends were city-dwelling & child-free right up until they started hitting the “now or never” child-bearing deadlines, and right around 40 nearly all my child-free friends suddenly had kids. Some immediately left for the burbs. Some stuck around for a couple years, but the vast vast majority bailed for the burbs.

WFH has definitely facilitated this, but the crime / unhoused / opioid issues ain’t helping.

When you’re twenty-something, a little city grit is fine. Some dirty needles, smoking on trains, gun violence…it just kinda rolls off the shoulders. By the time you’re 40, it gets old, and when you’re a parent it hits different. Plus, you just kinda age out of stuff like live music, bars, the new hip restaurant, parties, clubs, etc.

That being said, due to Millennials staying in urban settings longer, being more climate conscious, I think they’re more reluctant to give up on walkability, transit, etc. so I think when they are leaving, they’re opting for the denser suburbs with walkable main streets, with transit access into the city, your Ardmore, Collingswood, etc. (Maplewood is popular with my NYC friends).

That, or they’re moving to more affordable 2nd tier cities where you can buy a bit more space, or places like the little artsy towns of the Catskills.

Anyway, here’s some pre-pandemic “millennials are leaving the big cities for the suburbs” articles.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/09/29/millennials-are-fleeing-big-cities-for-the-suburbs.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellenparis/2019/10/31/millennials-with-families-are-leaving-major-cities-for-the-suburbs-transforming-them-into-hipsturbia/amp/

https://www.planetizen.com/news/2019/10/106470-millennials-leaving-big-city

Read those, and then toss in how city issues related to crime, addiction, the unhoused, etc. have gotten worse while WFH / remote work has become more common.

Those trends will only increase, especially as more millennials age hit the “now or never” child-bearing deadlines.

Gen Z will inherit shrinking cities with growing problems. And once the pandemic era federal aid to transit systems runs dry, transit is gonna have some real issues too. 2020s are the new 1970s.

“Now Kith” -Mike Tyson

Hey. Thank you so much. Means a lot. Sincerely.

We currently live in the city proper so rent is already relatively high, and we are aware that we will have to shell out a bit more for the burbs. Neither of us works in Philly.

I try not to proselytize, I think it's rude. I went through a similar thing with my own dad, FTD. I found solace in my religion during that time not because I thought of seeing my dad as he was in the next life, but because it was such a struggle to understand how something so horrible can happen to a person, to a family. For me religion was a way to tell myself that things happen in life that we don't understand but there is still a meaning to it.

I hope you can find that inner peace for yourself in your own way. Anytime you feel like you are going through this and you just want to vent, you can send me a private message, anytime. No talk about religion, just someone to talk to who knows what it's like.

You will likely pay more to live in a suburb with easy access to Philly. Also, if you work in Philly you may end up paying higher income taxes

I work at the ALS Hope Foundation in the research division at Temple Health Sciences Campus and I can state that our clinic has an expert team led by Dr. Terry Patterson. She has expertise in neuromuscuar disorders. Whats different is that this is a multidisciplinary clinic which means that physicians, PTs, OTs, Mental Health RN, Nurtironist are all available to the patient on the same visit and through the diagnosis process.

Heres our website: https://www.alshf.org/

Please let me know if you have any questions. Wishing you and your family get through this time smoothly!

the kids just don't understand investing in slots yet... they will be thankin' em when their parents come back with pockets full of dough! Definitely this time or maybe next!

Tap hard enough you’ll earn an extra inch of space.

Also gen z is a smaller cohort than millennials. Gen z is moving into cities per a recent article that showed up on this sub. I turned 30 in 2020, and many of my millennial friends who were living in the city moved out to the suburbs - which is pretty typical for americans of that age thinking about schools, a yard for kids to play in etc.

In 2006 when gen x was reaching that stage of their lives more millennials were moving in to replace them because there were more 20yo millennials than 30yo gen xers. That math is now flipped.

There are no larger generations coming in the foreseeable future, and fewer commuters seems to be a permanent new norm. Cities in general are going to need to figure out how to be great places to raise kids (and be previewed as such). Seems obvious to me that it means safer streets and better public schools. Unfortunately that's kind of a new paradigm, and harder than just getting back to the way things were 10 years ago.

First world problems

l saw Polyester at the TLA (filmed in Odorama!). lt's still one of my favorite movies

The city can certainly put more emphasis on those problems while still enforcing parking violations. Take responsibility for your foolishness

Without getting into a checklist, yes I do think that. The government has the obligation to take care of its citizens and often that includes making a moral choice. Sometimes it doesn’t work, but fortunately we have cultural shifts and realize things like “slavery bad” and “women should vote”. This isn’t some weird libertarian free-for-all, which is just anarchy without the cool stuff and usually a lot more racism.

I live in the NE, have my whole life. Where is all this “booming construction” you speak of? You’re talking about population growth and I never mentioned anything about that. I’m talking about revitalization, one school being opened doesn’t mean that all of a sudden Mayfair is revitalized. Or any of the other neighborhoods you mentioned. I’m not speaking on Germantown because I’m not familiar with the neighborhood.

110%. Always cars parked in the left turn lane at 16th and Oregon well into the morning, way past any “parking limited” time.

Well if they would just let them go in to drink and gamble they wouldn’t have been in the car now would they?

AND the added benefit of looking exactly like every other apartment!