My point is you're lamenting the potential destruction of existing homes for new dense development when you live in a neighborhood that would be massively improved by demolishing what is currently there for new dense construction.

You're also conflating the anti-urban actions of the government in the 20th Century with private developers that are responding to market demand, they're very dissimilar.

This is pretty ironic coming from someone with "West Poplar" in their flair. Most of that neighborhood is a monument to the failures of government urban planning and housing policy in the late 20th Century. Turns out sticking suburban style homes in what should be a dense urban neighborhood doesn't solve all the ills of poverty. The apartment buildings and rowhomes developers are putting up now look awesome compared to the garbage projects in West Poplar.

So shouldn't it be reposted without the misleading old one? I've had posts removed when the site changed after posted.

...in a Domestic dispute.

I thought there was a rule against editorialized titles?

It's actually going up in the neighborhood, I'm in South Kensington and there's at least 500 units under construction within 2 blocks of me, way more in the entire neighborhood. It's like a whole new City.

The area he's talking about has plenty of empty lots and abandoned industrial buildings so no need to destroy anything. It's also full of apartment construction on those empty lots and industrial buildings.

You're acting like this is New York or SF, we don't have 400k extra people handing this way soon and Philadelphia has historically been a City of homeowners. It's true that desirable locations are limited but even those are still incredibly underdeveloped now.

I'm Fishtown adjacent and my neighbors that bought their houses for $5-15k in the 80s and 90s are very happy about the changes to the neighborhood. Many bought empty lots near their houses for next to nothing and sold them for incredible profits. "Gentrification" is such a vastly diverse experience based on hyper local circumstances that the term is near worthless and just used as a boogeyman for change.

> It’s Philadelphia… there’s only so much room for new construction before you have to start replacing residents.

Huh? There used to be 2 million people living in the City, now it's 1.6. Have you ever been to North Philadelphia? There's plenty of room.

That term is way more ambiguous and loaded than the accurate title.

Maybe with China easing out of its lockdown we can boost those international numbers back too. Prior to Covid there were always throngs of Chinese tourists in the Independence Mall area.

I agree they should be worried about poaching, just not from DC. It's the suburban municipalities with typically less stressful jobs and good pay and benefits that poach experienced Philadelphia cops. Also less of a life change to move to the burbs. We definitely need to make it more attractive to be a police officer here but not because of this DCPD scheme.

My wife and her immediate family are all from the DC area, I'm very familiar. Life is great there, like it is here, if you make good money. It just takes more there for a similar lifestyle and these jobs don't pay the difference. Not sure why that triggers you so much.

>Extend that to 45 min and the possibilities are endless.

Lol, the possibilities are all smaller and shittier for the price and good school districts are more expensive than here. Cool stats. 45 min from DC is also like 5-10 miles, the traffic is horrendous.

It's not like repaving obviates the need to maintain and improve underground infrastructure... Looks like they are hooking up that new building to gas and/or water.

>Cost of living only matters if they are buying a home in DC/etc.

Are they going to commute from the Philadelphia area? The median cost of a family home in the DC metro area is over double the Phila metro area.

https://www.nerdwallet.com/cost-of-living-calculator/compare/philadelphia-pa-vs-washington-arlington-alexandria-dc-va

You were arguing to a judge that cannabis flower isn't available at dispensaries? Or that it shouldn't be? Pretty lame practice if you're taking clients claiming to be injured by the availability of cannabis in its natural form.

A good summary by someone who just looked up the law and has no experience with it in practice or how the regs have been updated. It's very easy to get a card, "serious" is not an objective standard and the doctors that specialize in medical cannabis trust your representation that cannabis will help your qualifying condition. It's difficult to not get a recommendation if you want one. The regs have also been updated to allow dry leaf or plant form, look at the menu of your local dispensary. PA medical marijuana is rec with a pay wall.

Congrats on making it. New neighborhood?

> Suburban police even pursue reckless ATV drivers because they have the time and resources to do so.

No they don't. Did you even read the article you shared? They issued a warrant days later because of the video of a possible attempted car jacking. Cops don't chase the ATVs anywhere that's densely populated because it would be more dangerous for everyone, not a lack of resources. FWIW I noticed a lot less in the City this year, maybe it was high gas prices and destroying all the confiscated ones.

I don't really build my life around the highly unlikely possibility of random violent crime but my only experience with 911 in the last couple years was calling for a neighbor's stolen package and they picked up and sent someone right away.

> Bonus of the suburbs is that I get trash picked up twice a week on time,

This is specific to your town, most suburbs also do only once a week. I haven't had any issues with the trash for like a year now when other municipalities were dealing with labor shortages too.

You know people have raised kids successfully in the City for generations, right? I very rarely have to use my car for kid related things, definitely don't rely on it. And there's something to be said about the sense of community and daily interactions in good neighborhoods in the City you don't get in the burbs. We've also been very happy with a small backyard and bigger park a block away. People have different values.

Lol, I work in Conshohocken, it's boring and bland as fuck. Collingwood, media and Ardmore are nice but none are "lively" like good neighborhoods in the City.

> (or some lively burb).

Yeah, those are really tough to name...

New Jersey has better weed than Amsterdam now.