I have lived in or near seven of the cities on this list (including Philadelphia). Based on my previous experiences living in the other cities I suspect this list is more about the availability of high-paying jobs and a good ecosystem for start-ups than cost and quality of living. Philadelphia’s presence on the list makes sense in that context.

You’re right, we should never attempt to build any new things ever.

So true. We should just never build any new infrastructure again

I'd try Success Driving School.

They might not be a notary, but I'd bet they can point you in the right direction.

It blows up SimCity 2000-style.

My parent passed away overseas and I'm trying to declare a power of attorney to represent me in Taiwan for legal matters. The Taiwan embassy in New York requires all related paperwork to be notarized (so they can prove it's me who's signing the documents) before they will authenticate it for use in Taiwan. The actual contents of the documents don't matter—they just need to know it's actually me who's signing the documents. Hope that clarifies the context!

Why go to NYC or DC when you could come to Reading for $4 more? Ò_o

What if you try someplace less rules-y than a bank? Autotag or UPS store or something?

Based on other i-95 projects this will take 4 generations at the least.

If memory serves, weren't there trolleys along Deleware Ave back in the 70s?

> Physical risk

Okay, Philly is a damn good city for that. We get almost no disastrous weather, and we're too far removed from the Atlantic to get a proper punch from a hurricane. We're also pretty high above sea level.

> Policy risk

Eh, I guess.

> Median household income

That must be a low weight.

> GDP

There's the NA bias, we basically print money due to the post ww2 power structure.

> Transport

Yeah we got PHL, 30th St station, Septa RR, Septa BSL/MFL, and PATCO. We're a minor port, though.

Philly ranks significantly higher in the schroeder index

TD Bank offers free notary but call ahead to the location you wish to visit. The notary may only be available during certain days or times and you don’t have to be a customer of the bank. As for reading documents, I’ve had several items notarized by them and they never read anything.

Edit: added non-customers welcome

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Probably means the kickbacks the contractors give so they can get favorable contracts covering cost overruns.
Philly isn't really known for running a tight ship fiscally.

That's fine, but I don't really see the point of getting something notarized in a foreign language, without a translator also signing off that it's been translated correctly, if you want it to be enforceable. There is no "Chinese court" - granted you could probably have a translator on the back end, but two parties that only speak Chinese doing business in Philadelphia don't need a notary to do business. (You don't need a notary for most things to be enforceable anyway, Docusign will do).

I'm just trying to think of context. I suppose if they are applying for Chinese citizenship or these documents are going to China, or something, it would make sense.

Can anyone give us non-subscribers the jist?

The base one-way fare between NYC and Philly is $19. If you're booking early enough you'll see those on the northeast regional.

From a security aspect this is a horrible idea

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From what I've read online, they don't need to read the documents and can notarize documents in a foreign language, but they reserve the right to not notarize docs if they have concerns about the documents being misrepresented? None of my banks are willing to notarize the documents and a few local notaries I called also said the same. My sister also had to find a Chinese notary service in California.

Here's a further explanation of how they rank cities: https://www.schroders.com/en/schrodersglobalcities/blog/global-cities-index/

I don't think it's bias so much as the methodologies used, but I could be wrong. For example, Shenzen has a 28 out of 30 "environmental" rating.

The interactive globe tool is pretty cool. The data gets pretty granular but it takes some clickthroughs. It's probably what I should've shared in the first place.

I don't think you are familiar with Schroders. Here is some more granular information on how they compiled the index, it's pretty interesting: https://www.schroders.com/en/schrodersglobalcities/blog/global-cities-index/

Pho 75 is still like $8 maybe $12 with add ins and extra meat

It would need a lot more capacity to be able to get rid of dynamic pricing without every train being sold out well in advance. I don't know if there are any tunnel limitations but hopefully they can get double deckers on the NER at some point.