bravesfanMatt
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bravesfanMatt
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BeanieAntics
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In 2015 WalletHub did an aggregate ranking of the 62 largest cities in America. They did it by taking Census Bureau, FBI, CDC, and other organization's stats and ranking each city in a variety of categories. Overall, Philly ranked 60th. In each individual category, this was Philly's rank:
Recreation: 31st
Diversity: 54th (this accounts for different types of diversity like class, racial, language, and educational diversity. So not just racial.)
Crime: 47th
Traffic: 60th
School System Quality: 48th
Most/Least Educated Cities: 39th
% of Healthy Adults: 44th
Household Income Adjusted By Cost Of Living: 59th
Job Market: 47th
Its cool that you like your city, but Philly is a pretty terrible place to live in relation to other cities. The two cities that were ranked below were Memphis and Detroit. And as far as literacy goes, the National Center for Education Statistics suggests that 22% of adults in Philadelphia lack basic literacy skills, as compared to around ~15% in Mississippi (albeit that number is WAYYY up in a place like the Delta), so I'd cool your jets on that talking point.
I like plenty of cities in the North. NYC, Pittsburgh, Boston, Virginia Beach, Chicago, all were quite enjoyable. My favorite big city I've traveled to is probably either Salt Lake City or Denver. Philly was one of least enjoyable big cities I've been to. Right up there with Louisville, St. Louis, Cincinnati, and Detroit. Boise, ID was pretty uneventful as well, though I was only there for about a day and a half.
Hudson2
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BeanieAntics
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Is this seriously your argument? That if a place is more densely populated that means that its a better place to live because more people chose to live there?
We better tell that to some of the beautiful small towns in places like Sitka, Alaska or Stowe, Vermont or Camden, Maine. They don't even know how awesome it is living on the south side of Chicago!
BeanieAntics
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The one point that I personally agree with is that I hate weather in the south. I'm just not a fan of hot, humid weather. That's a pretty subjective thing, though, that varies from person to person. As far as your whole "More people = Better" argument, its pretty ridiculous. I guarantee you that a ton of people would move out of Philadelphia in a heartbeat if they had an opportunity to move to somewhere like Breckenridge, Colorado or Carmel-by-the Sea or any number of idyllic small towns like that (not all of them being as exclusive as those two).
It's like he's from Philly or something.
with the way this offseason has gone? absolutely.
Mississippi is one of the worst educated states in the country...also one of the fattest...also one of the ****tiest as far as quality of life. the south as a whole is, objectively, worse in those categories than the north as a whole. why would you compare a whole state to a city, anyway?
there are tons of great small towns/suburbs by philly and yet people who could easily afford to move (myself included) choose not to.
i'd also heavily question at least that traffic metric. LA and NY, having been to both a fair amount, are both easily worse traffic-wise.
can you link to this study, tho? i'd like to see what cities and methods are used. comparing a city like philadelphia to much smaller cities is pretty dumb.
Horsehide Harry
<B>Mr. Free Trade</B>
It happened
Now you've met one person it happened to. There were others. I observed it.
I've no reason to lie. Every big City has its warts.
right, sure. this definitely happened.
BeanieAntics
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Wait, I thought that if more people lived somewhere then that obviously meant that place must be better, right?
Horsehide Harry
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People generally gravitate to the comfort of the area of their birth. It's what they know. It's where the people that they know (and sometimes love) are located. Any viewpoint of a City has to pass through the filter of your bias as well as the filter of what you've heard.
Things like:
If you break down in East St. Louis you'll end up dead
or
Detroit is worse than Beirut
or
East LA is nothing but MS 13
or
Never park your car at the end of a MARTA line
all likely have some truth to them.
Bottom line for me is that an athlete views his potential location through that lense but also views it through an economic lense where real estate costs, City and State taxes, etc. play a huge part. They really make so much money that they could live a nomadic existence if they wanted. But they also make so much money that a huge amount of it could go away due to taxes if they aren't careful.
Without getting political, the new tax law eliminates the ability to write off the majority of State and local taxes when doing Federal taxes. Areas that have high State and local taxes are going to be affected by this throughout the percent of population that actually pays taxes, from top to bottom. You're already seeing people say that they are getting less back on their tax returns. I think that is because those people are learning that the deductions rule has changed. As that happens, more and more will move to areas with lower/no State tax which will, over time, change the entire economic dynamics of the Country. If Harper signs a $35M per year deal in Philadelphia (and the State and local tax, plus other taxes are 10+% ...IDK what the actual rate is, I'm making a point) then he could pay $3.5M each year and not be able to write it off his Federal taxes. But the same can be said for lots of places with high tax rates. My guess is that the Texas clubs will see the biggest benefit from this if any do.
Things like:
If you break down in East St. Louis you'll end up dead
or
Detroit is worse than Beirut
or
East LA is nothing but MS 13
or
Never park your car at the end of a MARTA line
all likely have some truth to them.
Bottom line for me is that an athlete views his potential location through that lense but also views it through an economic lense where real estate costs, City and State taxes, etc. play a huge part. They really make so much money that they could live a nomadic existence if they wanted. But they also make so much money that a huge amount of it could go away due to taxes if they aren't careful.
Without getting political, the new tax law eliminates the ability to write off the majority of State and local taxes when doing Federal taxes. Areas that have high State and local taxes are going to be affected by this throughout the percent of population that actually pays taxes, from top to bottom. You're already seeing people say that they are getting less back on their tax returns. I think that is because those people are learning that the deductions rule has changed. As that happens, more and more will move to areas with lower/no State tax which will, over time, change the entire economic dynamics of the Country. If Harper signs a $35M per year deal in Philadelphia (and the State and local tax, plus other taxes are 10+% ...IDK what the actual rate is, I'm making a point) then he could pay $3.5M each year and not be able to write it off his Federal taxes. But the same can be said for lots of places with high tax rates. My guess is that the Texas clubs will see the biggest benefit from this if any do.
nsacpi
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which rankings are you looking at
I'm looking at these
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-large-cities-to-live-in/14358/
they have cleveland at 60, memphis 61, detroit 62....philly is 49
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