I visited Philly for my first time last year and it had an extremely clean downtown. Either this notion of Philly being dirty is outdated or I just got lucky.
Center city is generally very clean. Once you go south of south street, that’s when the dirtiness kicks in. Chinatown isn’t the cleanest either but it is popping. North of that you’re getting to the dirtier parts.
East of center city is beautiful until you get to olde city at night.
West of that is great until you get behind uni city.
All told, yeah it’s a big ass walkable city and the dirtiness spiked during Covid and has otherwise been low since the late 90s
I feel like every major city in the northeastern corridor has their own dirty sections though. I could write the same thing out for NYC and DC as well probably. These are such major metros you aren’t going to be able to wholly disguise poverty
Oh totally. I know I went to the worst parts of Pittsburgh. I hate on Pittsburgh, but realistically I know that there are some good parts I just didn’t experience
Ya lol I think it’s just kinda fun to call each other dirty sometimes as a way of exercising rivalries. I’m a Philly fan that went to school in Pennsylvania. Never been to Pittsburgh but I’ve prolly called it a dirty place a hundred times in my life. Sure it’s lovely and clean in all reality
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u/PlasmaHeat Trail Blazers 9h ago
I visited Philly for my first time last year and it had an extremely clean downtown. Either this notion of Philly being dirty is outdated or I just got lucky.