Just out of curosity, what do you do? My husband makes exactly 70K a year and does not have a college degree, yet you do and make the same! He is a computer engineer who got his training in the Navy and on the job.

Oh that 1 bus. Bless you. It only runs like once an hour too doesn't it? No wonder you're thrilled with your car.

We have my grandmom's house for sale right now in Bristol. It's right behind the police station on Bath Road. My grands were the original owners. Last year my grands were over on Mill Street which is supposedly a nice section for shopping, and what not. They went to that theater there, and then ate in a nice place. Out in the parking lot two kids hit my grandmom in the head with a heavy brick, and knocked my grandpop on his arse all 105 pounds of him. They robbed him of his wallett, and ripped my grandmom's jewelry from her neck and fingers while she lay bleeding. Luckily people were coming into the parking lot, and had a cell. My grandmom wound up in Lower Bucks Hospital getting thirty some stitches in her head, and kept three days for observation.

I see you said you're not going there. I guess anywhere can be dangerous as the nurses told my grandmom she was like the third victim that came in with the same brick to the head injury and all were elderly.

speed- be aware that stupid kids live everywhere not just in Oxford circle. I grew up In Bucks county (Holland) and had my car cover stolen OFF th ecar 27 years ago out there yet in Philly I havwe had my car cover on a car for 7 years without anthing ever happening to it.. You KNEED a garage for nice cars.. Period.

I understand that violence/vandalism can happen in any neighborhood, however the statistics that show it happening more often in not-so-good city neighborhoods adds insult to the injury of paying huge car insurance prices in the city. My insurance is going down $230/month by moving out of the city. That, and I can move to a better place than my ghetto nightmare of an apartment building that's currently being slumlorded. (most likely there's better apartments around Oxford Circle than mine )

To ACE: Yes, I hate the 1-bus. You know what else I hate? Back before I got a car, I would work at a restaurant in center city, usually until 1-2am. I got off work AFTER the El stopped running, so I had to spend twice as long on the Night Owl bus, full of "wonderful" people such as the wort-faced homeless guy who stuck his ugly hand in my face and demanded a nickel as if he were my father scolding me or something. Then I would have to wait at a closed-up Frankford Terminal outside at 3am for sometimes up to 30mins, waiting for the next bus, in a not-so-great neighborhood, AGAIN with such "wonderful" people trying to approach me. Keep in mind that I was a young girl, with a bag full o' cash tips from waitressing. It was HORRIBLE and on most days I wouldn't get home until about 3:45am. Just waiting around deliriously at the terminal amongst all the deadbeats, made me feel so degraded...day after day.