Why would you want to come here?
Just kidding.
Philly is low key a nice city.
The best neighborhoods for black people is Mt. Airy & Germantown. There are some nice parts of West Philadelphia as well. The hotspot RIGHT NOW is Lansdowne / Collingswood / Upper Darby / Drexel Hill. Suburb of Philly, still with a lot of Philly flavor southwest of the city.
King of Prussia mall is the best mall in America, IMO. It is everything a mall SHOULD be.
There's great African, Caribbean, African American restaurants.
A plethora of churches, mosques or Jehovah witness townhalls if that's your thing.
Riverdeck is the best club on Sunday nights during the summer.
Best food city in the country, IMO. They have a solid option for any and every cuisine.
Wherever you stay, you're good if you have good credit, a solid job that pays $55k or more and a decent car.
If you stay out of the way and don't act like an a$$hole... you should have a good time.
Summertime in Philly makes you forget about the other cold months when it's miserable AF outside.
The Sixers are good, I always have good time going to the game. If you got the bread, get a box. It's always lit.
The Eagles are sometimes good, the city bleeds green. There's a ton of sports activities.
The Phillies are okay... but it's a great place to grab crab fries and a cheesesteak.
Speaking of cheese steaks... Max's / Tony Luke's / Angelo's / Delassandro's. Those are your top tier, if interested.
Stay OUT of Kensington at all costs. The whole center city / east side of the city -- Port Richmond / Fishtown / Kensington is drug infested, white gentrified / white racist AF wasteland with some new buildings with breweries and bland food spots.
Philly is a dirty city. Trash everywhere. It sucks.
Philly is rapidly gentrifying. Especially around downtown. That's cleaner but far more commercial and white. It's sterile.
But there's a ton of homeless people that still hang around.
Philly has casinos if that's your thing. They just build a new one and it's NICE as hell.
The soul of Philadelphia has kind of left. That Musiq Soulchild Jill Scott Roots neosoul Philly blackness is gone. It just feels different around here.
If you're single, you can have a good life here. There's some good looking women, but they have attitudes. They are super sarcastic and very dismissive and defensive. They're not friendly like that. You have to basically stand your ground and let them feel you out for a few minutes. If you can survive their bullshyt attitudes, they'll soften up and be more friendly. I have no idea why they do this. They are pretty, but they ain't THAT pretty.
If you drive Lyft or Uber you'll feast. Lyft especially. They pay BIG bucks to drive people around.
The cost of real estate is going UP. White people, especially ones from NYC are moving down due to covid and they are screwing up the Philly flavor with their NYC bs.
That's all I got for now.
Breh I was stumbling through Youtube recommends and seen this shyt:
When I left in 2008, it did not look THAT BAD compared to this video. Sure there were fiends and bums, but this is some Fallout 76 shyt
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. I remember talking to a jawn up in Lansdowne and it was such a peaceful experience. A mixture of Italians, Black folks, Asians, and Ricans. It was like this weird unity compared to how fukking segregated majority of Philly is. Upper Darby used to be my spot
. I remember going to the Sounds of Upper Darby and copping CDs and just chilling at the movie theater. 
