Posted on 05/05/2007 6:17:19 PM PDT by wagglebee
Philly's best hope is attracting affluent singles and empty nesters and upwardly mobile (legal) immigrants.
“These qualities have worked for several centuries. What is the need to change so prevalent these days?”
To destroy our strength of course.
It’s a beautiful day in this gayborhood,
A beautiful day for a gaybor.
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?...
It’s a gayborly day in this beauty wood,
A gayborly day for a beauty.
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?...
I’ve always wanted to have a gaybor just like you.
I’ve always wanted to live in a gayborhood with you.
So, let’s make the most of this beautiful day.
Since we’re together we might as well say:
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
Won’t you be my gaybor?
Won’t you please,
Won’t you please?
Please won’t you be my gaybor?
Pittsburgh, closer to me, has had it's share of revitalizations, it's nice to hear Philly is joining in.
I guess the pounding that Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed gave each other would be totally different if the movie were made today.
Urban areas in general don’t attract families.
Have you seen the Upper East Side lately? You can’t walk two steps without running into a stroller. NYC is awash in babies...
There are exceptions, as even 10-15 years ago, I couldn't walk in to EJ's without tripping over 30 strollers.
New Orleans formally embraced homosexuality for tourism dollars and look where that went.
What people are talking about is a city populated by the “hardworking middleclass.” That’s pretty much over. I’m beginning to subscribe to the bitter truth, which is: except for elections and buying stuff with cash from home equity loans, the American middleclass has become more or less irrelevent. So, the pols and the car manufacturers kiss their butts — but they don’t get much else.
Since I currently live midway between NYC and Philly, I can honestly tell you that two things happenned in the latter that did not happen in the former a. an exodus of the wealthy (dare I say, more important that the "middle class") and b. exodus of employers. Philly was once a manufacturing and financial center, but the former could not be sustained in light of cheaper and more efficient labor elsewhere, while the latter was eliminated through consolidation of said industry.
To think, back in the 1970s, we kept hearing about the dangers of the exodus of the "middle class" (Read: Archie Bunker) from the cities. NYC survived, however, while Philly (largely dominated by blue collar machine politicians) did not.
Nevertheless, there remain some nice neighborhoods in Philly (Society Hill, Chestnut Hill) which are bargains compared to NYC. However, would you really want to commute via Amtrak everyday? ;-)
NYC is about nothing but commerce. There’s no underlying philosophy or ideology, except business. So, it adapts quickly. What most people see as a “liberal agenda” is nothing more than either window dressing or grease to keep the machine humming along.
“New Orleans formally embraced homosexuality for tourism dollars and look where that went.”
Where did it go? You’re suggesting that the hurricane damage bore some relation to gay activity in the city? As far as I can tell, the most decadent (and gayest) parts of the city were very well-preserved during the floods and are back up and booming. The hardest-hit neighborhoods were ones that certainly never seen a Gay Pride float.
>...the American middleclass has become more or less irrelevant.<
The direct result of multinationalist corporations and outsourcing caused by NAFTA, GATT and the WTO. Even globalist FDT says we’re becoming a service nation. We’re sinking faster than I thought we would.
Philthy as a vacation spot? Har de har har. Where are these family's from that Philthy is a vacation spot, the 9th level of Hell?
It may have been cooincidence, but an earthquake and tidal wave devasted the area in the middle east which pandered to homosexuality and child prostitution just before a big homosexual conclave was to meet there. And again this happened in New Orleans, again just when big homosexual doings were to pop. I happen to think that God removes his protection from countries, or areas where people are going against His law. Will we never learn?
Gay. Very gay.
Why are people “chumming” up with homosexuals and Islamics?
To destroy the dominance of Christianity in America. The left’s strategy is to divide and conquer - to turn America into another secular Europe. The far-left (ie academics, the RATS & judiciary) will relentlessly push politics and the law further to the left while the MSM brainwashes the nation until there is a socialist government and economy. End of USA as a superpower.
Thank you. I’ve known most of these things for a long time, but sometimes I think I might be mistaken. Because it seems that most people don’t bother with thinking about such things, it gets rather lonely. Though it’s nice to learn I am not alone, it is also chilling to realize that it is all true after all. God bless.
A few visible projects in the Center City area doesn’t hide the fact that the city has lost more population (69,000) since the 2000 Census than it did in the entire previous decade (68,000). Philly continues to hemorrhage people. I suspect the recent explosion in crime is only going to accelerate that process as even many of the poorest finally give up and head out. It’s rapidly becoming a city with only the trapped poor and the rich, who can afford to pay for the extra security in Center City.
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