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sugarcoma · #21 (**permalink**) 07-17-2008, 02:29 PM

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Originally Posted by The REAL Alesis

Maybe if one of these crimes hits a little closer to [your] home you will change your bleeding-on-the-rug/ white-guilt liberal perspective and your inane defense of what at best can be described as human garbage that festers and breeds just a few blocks away from you. Parasitic "have nots" which feed off the "haves" in our neighborhood.
This trash is the embodiment of resentement: perhaps you should read more Nitzsche. Or, given your liberal tongue, can you even pronounce his name correctly?

Ironic, you can't even spell it.

I've lived in neighborhoods where I heard gunshots down the block, and where I've looked into the parking lot, where my car had been broken into, twice, and saw a bleeding guy walking through, carrying a gun, so I don't think you can presume to know where I'm "coming from," or my beliefs about people, or anyone else's.
"Haves" and "have-nots" come in all colors, and ignorance doesn't have economic boundaries.
Apparently.

sugarcoma · #22 (**permalink**) 07-17-2008, 02:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Caganer

Thanks.
I think he's trying to say black people commit crimes because their blaming white people for their problems has resulted in a distorted morality. Ressentiment - also misspelled - is the French word assigned to this theory. Sorry, I'm a bit of a dork and I was forced to study this crap in the past and it seems it stuck.
(Please god don't let this perpetuate the racial/crime nonsense I feel starting on yet another thread here. The nice lady just wanted to know what people think of the 'hood, nothing more.)
Move here, you can walk to Sarcones and Los Taquitos del Pueblo.

I just read your posts after I posted back to..."Mr. White Guilt."
Welcome to PB!
I would like to see more posts about the 'hood that DON'T include detailed criminal reports. I do live in Philly, after all, only a mile or 2 away. I just haven't spent much time south of South street, though, as far as at the restaurants, etc.

Is Los Taquitos better than Taqueria Veracruzana?

And, does anyone know about the "chocolate bar" on 6th?

Elvis4780 · #23 (**permalink**) 07-17-2008, 02:42 PM

Once you cross south you are on the dark side!!!!
Just kidding I think it is one of the nicest spots in the city to live. Not to upscale....not all tourists and pretty diverse

Bainbridge · #24 (**permalink**) 07-17-2008, 02:49 PM

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Originally Posted by sugarcoma

And, does anyone know about the "chocolate bar" on 6th?

Do you mean Golosa, the dessert cafe? I've been there a few times, it's great! Similar idea to Naked Chocolate as far as having different percentages of drinking/tasting chocolate. There are also lots of different cakes and desserts, coffee, tea, espresso, cappuccino, etc. It's quaint and the owner is an adorable italian man from Florence. Try it!

Hospitalitygirl · #25 (**permalink**) 07-17-2008, 02:58 PM

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Originally Posted by sugarcoma

Is Los Taquitos better than Taqueria Veracruzana?

And, does anyone know about the "chocolate bar" on 6th?

Veracruzana is good, Los Taquitos is good. We just walked, OMG! to 8th & Christian, a few nights ago to Paxia, a new BYOT, and had a fabulous dinner (great mole sauce).

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Originally Posted by Elvis4780

Once you cross south you are on the dark side!!!!
Just kidding I think it is one of the nicest spots in the city to live. Not to upscale....not all tourists and pretty diverse

We have almost everything within walking or granny cart distance

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Originally Posted by Bainbridge

Do you mean Golosa, the dessert cafe? I've been there a few times, it's great! Similar idea to Naked Chocolate as far as having different percentages of drinking/tasting chocolate. There are also lots of different cakes and desserts, coffee, tea, espresso, cappuccino, etc. It's quaint and the owner is an adorable italian man from Florence. Try it!

The drinking chocolate is what you'll find in Italy. The gelato is from Capogiro, and the cakes look amazing. Opened from 4PM, and now you're making me want to go.

It'sJessMe · #26 (**permalink**) 07-17-2008, 03:06 PM

Yesterday a mom in my son's playgroup asked where I lived, and when I replied Queen Village, she said "Oh, I hear that's a real up and coming area."

I didn't know what to say; I just kind of stared at her. Is there anyone who considers QV "up and coming" right now? Prices seem to indicate that it's "here".

(This is a similar reaction a friend of mine had when I mentioned a house for sale nearby for over $1m. She said "why would anyone pay that to live THERE? I mean, for $1m you could live in a nice part of town like Society Hill").

Hospitalitygirl · #27 (**permalink**) 07-17-2008, 03:09 PM

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Originally Posted by It'sJessMe

Yesterday a mom in my son's playgroup asked where I lived, and when I replied Queen Village, she said "Oh, I hear that's a real up and coming area."

I didn't know what to say; I just kind of stared at her. Is there anyone who considers QV "up and coming" right now? Prices seem to indicate that it's "here".

(This is a similar reaction a friend of mine had when I mentioned a house for sale nearby for over $1m. She said "why would anyone pay that to live THERE? I mean, for $1m you could live in a nice part of town like Society Hill").

QV was "up and coming" 25 years ago. It's arrived. Do these people have their heads up their asses? It IS nice.

Caganer · #28 (**permalink**) 07-17-2008, 03:10 PM

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Originally Posted by sugarcoma

Is Los Taquitos better than Taqueria Veracruzana?

And, does anyone know about the "chocolate bar" on 6th?

I think Los Taquitos is at least a little better though I haven't been to Veracruzana in a while. You can also get Los Taquitos at the Headhouse Sq. market on Sundays - their tacos al pastor are amazing.

Eddy333 · #29 (**permalink**) 07-17-2008, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by The REAL Alesis

From Eddy333 on another post:

5th and carpenter is getting a surveillance pole cam. Folks in the area of 4th and Xtian should bug Cpt. McDowell @ 3rd District to request one for that corner as well. It's not going to stop a kid from taking a pot shot at a rival, but it may help with the aftermath when every single person in the vicinity suddenly sees, hears, and knows absolutely nothing about it. [such a strikingly conservative response to the "blameless" criminals]

What is conservative about recognizing that drug activity leads to violent crime and that the residents of these drug-plagued areas have a stop snitching rule. I didn't say anyone was blameless. I just said that you are an ass for making stupid generalizations about something you don't seem to know much about.

Doesn't strike me as being conservative or liberal if you must put it into political terms...

Elvis4780 · #30 (**permalink**) 07-17-2008, 03:49 PM

Isn't Section 8 what the character Klinger on Mash kept trying to get so he would be sent home to Ohio