Not being smart or anything.

But what makes Queen Village/Bella Vista/Hawthorne; South West Center City; Old City/Society Hill so fancy that they had to have their own blog thread??? Are they not So'filly??!!

What next Girard Estates and Pennsport???? Now we have neighborhoods called Lower Moyemensing (LOMO) WHAT IS GOING ON HERE!!

See it all starts here...we have to preserve the union from these Real Estate Nuts!!

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You think that Old City/Society Hill are in South Philly?

It's just A LOT of area to cover in one topic, so they split them up. They are all South Philly (except, as It'sJessMe stated, Old City\Society hill) but to help prevent a huge clutter, they split em up. Notice these two threads are two of the most posted on, so it's just easier this way. I check them both all the time anyway, especially since I moved from Bella Vista to the other side of Broad last year, so I actually have reasons to read em both!

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Of course it is, and it seems we don't have front steps any longer, now we have a stoop...LOL

At one time, South Philly began at South St. But longer than I've been around, Washington Ave was the dividing line.

I think a better question to ask would be: why is it that everyone who lives south of Washington has to share one forum, while small areas like Bella Vista get their own?

they donated more money$$$$$$ The truth is, the new people would have a heart attack if they knew they paid all that loot to live in South Philly....LOL!!! South St. down is still SP, Is Packer park still in SP????

Well if you guys where here when the site was created....

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old city & society hill are not even remotely in south philly. look at a freaking map. large parts of swcc are also not in south philly -- fitler square, et al.

why do people in south philly think their neighborhood encompasses the entire city?? and more importantly, why do they care so much?

i get that you south philly natives feel QV & BV are part of SP, and at one time is was, but QV has a very different feel than the rest of SP.

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And as a counterpoint...look at the NE. Clearly 1/3 of the land mass of the City, and yet, one forum. And that area is vastly different from one end to the other.

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As a point of PB history, there used to be a seperate forum for just QV and one for BV (but not Hawthorne) and then the rest of South Philly including Grad Hospital or whatever we want to call it. It has to do with how active a neighborhood is in posting, not population or geopgraphy. There also used to be a Northern Liberties forum that did not include Fishtown or Kensington. There also did not used to be a North Philly section at all and the West Philly section was only University City and included no other parts of Philadlephia west of the Schuykill.

The reorganization started because as Grad Hospital started to take off with endless threads about people considering moving there, drama on the SOSNA board, what do we call the neighborhood, etc., etc. it became apparent that South to Washington west of Broad deserved its own forum. At the same time, I believe it was actually I who was one of the first proponents amongst the mods of linking all the neighborhoods south of South, north of Washington, east of Broad into a single forum which actually involved merging two distinct forums and adding in Hawthorne which had no presence at all. Basically as neighborhoods see more discussion and more traffic, its the number of posts that guide the layout of the forums.

It does seem that as a general PB trend that gentrification (or whatever you want to call it) drives the need for new forums to handle the quantity posts much faster than "bridging the digital divide" does which has surprised me a little. Discussion here on PB increases much faster when it is about new people moving into an area than it does from oldtimers in an area getting online and finding PB, though there are noticable exceptions. Make of that what you will.

Part of it is that newcomers tend to more anxious not just to discuss real estate, but also to talk about new businesses they bring with them and to start new community groups or to talk about neighborhood activities (neighborhood cleanups, fairs, etc.) online than Philly native residents do. This trend is amplified in areas where the concept of "gentrification" is controversial (again see Grad Hospital or how in terms of number of posts Brewerytown at one point seemed to completely eclipse its more established southern neighbor Fairmount for a while). Again make of that what you will.

Edit: To be clear I used to be a mod but am no longer as I stepped down a few years ago to take some time off from PB. I used to mod Politics but its probably just as well that I no longer do as I've since become more actively involved in a few local campaigns so much so that it might seem a tad lopsided for me to play traffic cop to some people.

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