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Originally Posted by wanderer34
If Philly is a mini-NYC, then NYC is basically a mega-Philly!!! Nice job!!! And good to see some pics of my former home (although I wouldn't even think of going around those parts!!!)
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Philly has a lot more in common with DC, Baltimore, and even Boston than it does with NYC.
I'm sometimes tempted to compare Brooklyn to Philly because geographically they're about the same size. But then Brooklyn has a million more people and while both places have a variety of architecture and uses they don't really look anything alike.
Philly is mile after mile of rowhouse neighborhoods with large sections of the city also hosting neighborhoods of Victorian twins (and from later eras as well). Homeownership in Philly is twice what it is in NYC. You just don't have the diversity of housing styles on the same block here and with the exception of Center City and parts of West Philly and Mt. Airy you don't see apartment bldgs. like you do in most parts of NYC (and even then we don't have that many)