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They are working to send public school the way of our health insurance system. Jeffrey Yass the richest man in PA and a massive conservative donor just happens to donate a good deal to a few prominent Philly Dems like State Senator Anthony Hardy Williams who support charter schools and “school Choice”

too late. you already didn’t ignore it

Illegally parked cars encroaching on the crosswalks would fall under PPA for ticketing. Try reporting via 311.

As for planters or other infrastructure, try reaching out to the Fairmont Park Conservancy. Not sure if that part of the city also has any business improvement districts, but that may be a good place to start too. If you don't hear anything back from the above entities, try reaching out to Feet First Philly as they may have some resources to point you to. Once you make these initial contacts and have some correspondence going, then you may want to loop in your councilperson.

Hope this helps!

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No accidents since 2016 and my rates went up too it’s city living the more accidents/break ins in there area rates go up.

Manayunk rox is a very reasonable commute to bala, I did it for a while, <15-20m from green lane bridge to pretty much anywhere in bala cynwyd. Rox is definitely still doable for <400k, probably some smaller stuff in upper manayunk at that price too. Parking in roxborough is easy compared to most of the rest of the city, you might be able to find something sub 400 with parking in roxborough, that'd be a stretch in manayunk. It's also relatively quiet if that's something you're looking for. Pretty walkable if you're close to either ridge or main street, though no grocery options on main street.

other than those two,

Reasonably good rail access, idk about bus access, I just take the train to center city when I need to, drive for other errands.

> especially comparing traffic because ATL traffic sucks hard but I also know ATL is wayyyyyy more car dependent of a city than Philly is.

Not from atlanta, only driven there a few times, but I can't imagine a place with more unpredictable drivers than philly. We were recently rated as the city with the worst driving experience in the US, and in my experience, that's accurate. Infrastructure isn't pretty, but definitely way more developed than atlanta, we have a functional subway, and as much as we love to shit on SEPTA, having lived a number of places with literally no public transit, it's miles better than other large cities outside the northeast. I lived in DFW for a while, and the DART is a total joke compared to even the least developed parts of SEPTA.

In terms of crime, seems from the stats that violent and property crime is a bit lower in Philly. I've been here since 2015 and the last year or so have for sure been the worst, hopefully, it's a dip rather than a trend. It definitely exists, but if you live in the northwest, or the suburbs around bala, all those area's are relatively low crime for philly.

Yeah I’m closer to Aramingo (because I thought I would be commuting to work via the el - clearly didn’t have COVID on my bingo card), and man I should’ve bought closer to Richmond St. Oh well! Just wish they weren’t ruining the 25 and 89 buses with the new draft network.

This isn’t why the schools here don’t have libraries anymore. Someone was able to convince everyone that switching to chromebooks would be better than needing books and paper, and they got away with it. 🙃 I think it was 2016ish? It wasn’t the norm before.

city living

As small minded as my hometown (and as poor as I) was, we had a fully functioning media lab and library.

& i was the kid who went to the municipal library, after school, to use the internet (and stay the hell out of trouble). That was invaluable for a latchkey kid (of which Philly has no shortage of)

Libraries are an investment. I wish we invested in human potential & the resource of knowledge and education, as much as we invest in large capital expenditure projects and business. Can we have quality physical and social infrastructure, please?

My insurance went up 30% from September through this month when it came up for renewal and that was a 50% increase from March 2022. No tickets, no accidents, no claims. I asked the agent and was told the reason it went up was inflation. So I shopped around and found new insurance.

>In the first city to build a library in the so-called United States

FTFY

I feel for you. We paid “city rates” on two cars with zero accident history for years. When we moved out of the city I couldn’t believe we had better coverage for less than our prior 6 month rate for an entire year. The savings isn’t just from the wage tax ya know.

there was a recent state supreme court case that is going to recalculate how funding is allocated.

I’ll put my ignorance on display and ask why it’s important that schools have libraries so long as the public libraries are available. I went to private Catholic schools where we had libraries, but in grade school is was basically a free period of goofing off in the aisles, and in high school it was just a place to use a computer.

To put it another way, if funding suddenly became available, would it be best used in opening school libraries?

Legit curious. I’m not acting like I’m into something here.

Please don't

Well I can tell you that part of the problem is that these roles, teachers and librarians, have historically been filled by women, who as we all know do not deserve to be paid as much as men. /s

But in all seriousness, I wonder the same thing. How wonderful would it be if we invested money into schools and libraries and information literacy programs and not, say, PPD? :)

I call the ppa for illegally parked cars on our street weekly. You are right that they don’t always come but sometimes they do.

Funny to think the guy wakes up and thinks, “Time to hit the streets and see how Jeremy Renner is doing with his recovery.”

as if housing isnt something everyone needs lmao everyone acts as if its a privilege to have a roof over your head and something you "Earn" and then cry and moan when they have to pay for private security to bully the homeless out of their neighborhoods. you cant have a functioning society where minimum wage doesn't allow you to have a home. these people are just coping because they spent a bunch of money on a degree that got them a job where they sit in an office all day and waste their life away except for the small joys they find in paying someone two grand for a studio apartment. fucking morons.

I also have a Model Y. Liberty Mutual tried to jack up my rate 40% this year. The whole increase was in the collision and comp portion of the premium. I contacted my agent, and he advised that if I didn't renew and started a new plan instead, I could save a bunch. My premium ended up basically staying the same. He kind of explained that they were using a new formula for new policies in PA. Regardless, it stopped my costs from going up.

I really wonder what schools would look like if teachers and librarians were making say close to 6 figures starting salary.

Like how do we pay these people so comically little?

Back in the day when I changed my registration from center city to Fishtown my rates doubled and that was just an intra city move. The explanation I was given is that Fishtown has high theft rates and also high rates at damage to cars. Lots of uninsured accidents too.

Call a broker. Have them shop for you. I wound up switching and only having about a 30% increase instead of a 100% increase.

Note: you are also likely going to get walloped with your homeowners insurance next renew since there are going to be major increases across the board. Shop around.