It is :) but thank you! We’ve been renting it out for years

I was looking to be in NYC before 3 pm on a Saturday and leave around 11am to 2 pm on the following Monday and there was nothing reasonable. Maybe a Saturday-Monday is harder to find than Friday to Sunday?

It’s definitely worth looking to see if you can get a deal, especially if you’re very flexible, but I find them kind of frustrating if you’re on any sort of schedule. The pricing structure is totally ridiculous to me. Most other countries would have either set or a much smaller window of movement in price for a 90 minute to 2 hour train ride but here it can be between $19 and like $150. Bonkers.

>just copy everything Montreal is doing.

Including Habitat 67?

How? Everyone pays taxes into the school district regardless of where their kids go to school.

It’s just the blatant privilege that bothers people. No worries!

At this point there's a large mountain of evidence that, basically, parental income is the primary factor in determining your child's educational outcomes.

Just send your kid to the neighborhood school. It's a great school, and you'll get to know your neighbors.

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If only that actually worked that way. It removes funding from the rest of the kids instead.

Champs near 16th and Cecil is solid

That seems off. Looking between the next 1-3 weeks I see several options <$80 round right now. If you leave later or earlier in the day there’s even a few options for $20-30 round. If you expand the timeline it should be even cheaper.

The Acela and NE regional will always be the more expensive trains, the Keystone Service is usually the cheapest in my experience. I usually travel in Friday evening and leave Sunday and haven’t ever paid more than $40 one-way.

But yeah it should definitely be cheaper. It would be nice if I could wake up in the morning and just spontaneously go to 30th street and not have to spend $100+. There is always the SEPTA-NJTransit route for that, though it’s about an hour slower.

As someone who goes up to NYC somewhat frequently on Amtrak I cannot stress enough how much of a difference maker booking a few weeks out makes. You can do it for $40 or less round trip with the right planning. Something I do is if I think I’ll be going up during a certain month, I’ll just book it for an estimated weekend and bank the tickets. If I end up having to adjust or push the trip later, it may cost a little bit depending on how close I make the change, but I can move them and still pay less than if I made the reservation last minute.

When you say you went to a certain local Preparatory school, do you mean it was not The Preparatory school?

most complicated part of IKEA is finding the fucking exit

Think of it this way: every in-catchment parent who sends kids elsewhere frees up a slot for parents who can't afford the real estate to send their kids there. Bache-Martin is half out-of-catchment, while Meredith only has space for 50-70 out-of-catchment in the whole school.

Call a court reporting service that does translation.

Finally, now do all of 676

I planned a trip to NYC recently and kept checking Amtrak regularly from about 5 weeks before the trip. Never saw anything below $70 one way. Finally just said fuck it and bought Megabus about a week out for $30 roundtrip.

I think I got a $20 one way Philly to NYC fare once. I’m not sure if I’m doing something wrong but it doesn’t seem that easy to me at all.

Amtrak fares are a complete joke, in general, too.

Few days.

I love your sentiment and hate that "dynamic and nightlife" kinda freak me out these days.

C'mon New Mayor. Let's get this ship righted ffs.

US cities should just copy everything Montreal is doing. Especially what they do with summer festivals! Close off the entire parkway to car traffic for free festivals all summer.

Thanks so much! Really appreciate you checking us out and glad you enjoyed:)

I think most parents are forthcoming about the schools' flaws, even if they lean towards justifying the decisions they've made.

>kids with supportive and motivated parents are likely going to do fine anywhere

This is the most realest and direct and important thing that any parent would do well to internalize regarding school choice in Philadelphia.

What a clown

wait a minute my coworkers have looked into the TCP for this... that is all pretty cool! i am only an intern so i don;t know much though