Do you know how they determine the exempt improvement because I did almost 200, 000 in approvements and got a really low exempt improvement almost making the abatement not worth it.

Best explanation

wanna live in a disgusting valley right next to the beautiful schuykill river and spend 20 minutes looking for a parking spot everytime you get home? look no further, manayunk is the place for you!

Whole Foods is a strange place to shop… normal stuff is more expensive and weird stuff is cheaper haha Still love it though

Oh yeah😊😊😊

i live in philadelphia and i have a very quick answer to the thumbnail question. yes the public transit here is very good.

Fishtown is now Filthtown….trash all over the neighborhood. People pick up their dog crap unless no one is looking. City services are terrible. Trees need to be trimmed and weeds need to be removed. Lots of green out of control. Girard Ave. and Delaware are used for drag races. No police presence. Stand at the corner of Palmer and Girard and count the vehicles speeding through the red light. My property taxes have gone from $1200 per year to $4200. People want to be safe and have a clean neighborhood. The City fails to provide either.

Dont forget about the German lineage in fish town... great presentation

I was there in the 90s and almost everyone I knew lived in the suburbs. Its a night and day difference between Philly and a town in Montgomery County or Cherry Hill New Jersey.

Nobody sane would live in Philadelphia. Most people there live in the surrounding suburbs.

Great video, wish I had scene it before visiting. I visited this past week and enjoyed it, except for the parking. I know next time to book parking ahead of time if I am going to spend a week there like I did this time.

Most definitely dog poop outside your front door steps

How is it when you have a car? How is the traffic? Parkings?

This is ridiculous! He seems fixated on whether the trains go underground or not, but completely ignores SEPTA Metro's extensive Regional Rail lines (that also serve stops within the city as they head to the 'burbs and to DE and NJ). And it's underground. You can go from Trenton, NJ to Newark and Wilmington DE and everywhere in between all on SEPTA. You can hop on a rail line in Center City and get dropped off 10 minutes later at your terminal at the airport--a stop at each terminal. There are 8 trolley lines, not 3. And they aren't green! There's only one line that uses the historic (and modernized) green trolleys that he showed--the Girard Avenue one the goes to the Zoo. All the rest are white and newer! You can take the PATCO line (underground, if that's so important) from Center City to deep in south Jersey. Hop the NJ Transit line in Center City and go to Atlantic City. Add in the 140+ bus routes and it really is easy to live here without a car. I've done it for over 10 years. I went weeks without using my car. Lots of people have given up their cars and just usd Zip Car a few times a year. I walk to work each day (or hop a bus if the weather's bad). That 30-minute walk is a great way to start the day. Center City is very compact; it's only a 45-minute walk from river to river along Market St. This video does not do justice to the transportation options in the city, particularly the way they integrate all the different modes. He seems to not know any real details about this topic.

Please stop gentrifying Philly

The "green" Trolleys are only on Girard Ave. The trolleys that run on the 5 subway lines are white, built in the early 1980s

What about the crime rate

Besides the subway and el, there are subway-surface trolleys and a huge regional rail system that's underground through Center City. Saying there are only two train lines badly shortchanges the system. SEPTA actually has 450 miles of rail with hundreds of stations. Showing an actual transit map would have been a lot more helpful than crayoning a highway map.

Thanks ! My visits with my daughter were the Vine st area specifically for Franklin Institute lol but moving there into new construction end of summer .. only state that had the best FTHB programs and grants

Hipsters ruined Fishtown!

Going to college in camden(right across the River) and plan on spending a lot of time in Philly, thanks for this

Uh, don't move to Philadelphia. Get your own piece of land. You can get a house kit for $100K. Raise your own food on it. Buy a good used truck. Learn to use a firearm. Hunt. Fish. Enjoy nature. Cities...nah.

I live in Center City and WALK to nearly everything. Gave my car away 12 years ago and haven't driven since, saving me a great deal of $$$$$. Public transit here is great should I need it. If you want to live a car- free life-style, you can't beat Philadelphia----and that's a fact!

Worst decision of my life was moving to killadelphia. Greatest decision was leaving. The ghetto school system, homicides, car jackings and epicenter for access getting heroin.

I lived in Philly. We called it the El train.

Im not generally into guys like him but hes very handsome

I am not trying to move to Philadelphia I'm trying to find out why this number keeps calling me when I don't even know anybody in Philadelphia

VERY helpful! Thanks so much

Awesome video and helpful information!

What is the dialect you speak? I like it

I didn’t think there was ever any possibility of the old PNB building being a condo because that’s a Frank Furness building and on the national register. I lived in Fishtown from 1962-86. I went to that bank often with my mom and it influenced my love of Furness architecture. Fishtown’s limits were on the east side of Frankford Avenue and there were only warehouses, etc. on that street. The Girard Station was NEVER considered Fishtown - let alone the Broad Street subway. Btw - even in the 60s-90s, folks from Fishtown NEVER said they were from Kensington, because the area of the official neighborhood of Kensington that lay beyond Fishtown was always considered undesirable. So, it’s funny to hear anyone call Fishtown (the name given it by Charles Dickens) “Kensingtown.”

Can you say gentrification

MFL is elevated from 69th st station in upper darby to between 46th st and 40th st stations in west phila goes underground from there eastbound thru CC then elevates again after 2nd and Market then runs to Frankford Station. BSL runs north and south from Fern Rock in N Philadelphia to Pattison (transplants call it NRG) in South Philadelphia. There is also a spur from Fairmount to 8th Street at Chinatown. Each ride takes about an hour from end to end. Each have express runs, but BSL has fewer stops on express trains. MFL "connects" 30th st Amtrak Station to CC. However the trolleys (which are also underground) are often better connectors to mid city west / business district areas. MFL connects Penn and Drexel campuses, BSL Temple and LaSalle, to CC. Both "sorta" connect to Regional Rail Lines that connect to the more remote PHL communities (Fox Chase, North PHL, Germantown, Mt Airy, Chestnut Hill, East Falls, Manayunk, Ivy Ridge, Wynnefield, and Overbrook. All of those communities are being settled by NE corridor transplants MFL Terminates at 69th which connects trolleys and buses to suburbs in Montgomery and Delaware Counties, and to the Norristown Line, which passes thru Bryn Mawr and Villanova. Unfortunately, most trendy neighborhoods in CC, NoLibs, Fishtown, South Phila, Graduate Hospital / Point Breeze, are not that close to these stops. Busses are better, but will never improve IMO, simply due to rideshare and increasing bike accommodations, and that SEPTA has been promising better service for 30 + years. For those of us who prefer to cross the bridge into NJ, there is the PATCO line that connects NJ suburbs Camden, Collingswood, Haddonfield, and Lindenwald. There is also a riverine connection from PATCO to Trenton NJ, which can also be accessed by SEPTA Rail and Amtrak. For the most part SEPTA does a decent job moving people around the region. Its main challenge is that driving / rideshare are equally efficient, with many that live in the city owning multiple cars to move about the area. You will stick out as a transplant having no vehicle.

weird this video came up while i was scrolling through pages of documentaries on the opioid epidemic in kensington

Thanks for breaking that down

From philly, grew up in Kensington, on Somerset street right off frankford ave and fishtown is yuppie-ville. Though the tavern behind you is ok the ones on Girard are overpriced like the rest of the hood including Fairmount which is right there.

Can you recommend some great general contactor PA?

Don't move here. The liberals have destroyed the city. Crime up. Degeneracy up. Drugs up. Homelessness up. Woke progress bullshyt up. Schools care more about teaching your kids about trans than math. Roads are horrible. People are disrespectful. City divided across race and economic lines... Lastly, the parking authorities are basically criminals.

Just to let you know, I was raised in Philadelphia. Spent most of my younger life in Philadelphia or Northeast Philly and when my children were born, I moved because I didn’t want them to live in this crappy city. We moved to the far suburbs. Philly is a shit town in 2023 and I wouldn’t want to live there for no reason whatsoever….! Oh yeah, if you’re a black hood, this is the place to be because you could be a criminal and never be brought to justice because of the AG…!

He got a lot of murals ethnic viewer murals that make the city look. Extremely junky Philadelphia is not Mexico, but it’s got more badly done murals in Mexico ever had so if you like a junkie looking city you will love Philly

Climate well, in the summertime it’s hotter in Philadelphia. The most other places surrounding Philadelphia because there are so many tall buildings. There is no airflow. It is horrible in the summertime unbearable. There is no airflow in Philadelphia in the summertime.

Accessibility if the roads weren’t always closed off for repair or in such need of repair that you are going to get a flat from the potholes then accessibility would be good but it’s not

Well, affordability in Philadelphia is because the crime nobody wants to live with the crime so there is affordability in less people wanting to be there

joes is right at the start. my favorite spot to get steaks.i worked on liberty apts and a bunch of stuff at the pizza slice when all the tower cranes were up.

Far northeast?

There is a pro?

LOVE PHILADELPHIA!!

very informative, thank you for this video!

I definitely need to make a video with you in Philadelphia im the IMDb actor in this City hit me up

I would like to see a video of Penn Landing doing Christmas time cause I’m trying to go this weekend with my family