The city of brotherly love realy starting to suck .Growing up I stayed with grand mother @ 15th and morris it was nice were able to stay out on step late with no problems little or no deralicts seen know I live on the 10 hundered block of emily their are drug dealers dirt bags and junkies cuming around trash everywhere call a cop yeah rite their gone by the time cops get out of donut shop people do not seem to care about their neigborhoods no more I tried cleaning up myself how much could one person do sorry for venting

That must be one crowded donut shop if all of the cops are in there!

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"Simply put it is possibe to have convenience if you want to tolerate insecurity, but if you want security, you must be prepared for inconvenience"
General Benjamin W. Chidlaw December 12, 1954

You must've been gone from the city for quite some time. Though there's always the ubiquitous buzz about the entire city's "revival," much of which is very relevant, I personally cannot help but noticing one important trend---the areas that used to be "meh" are getting better quite rapidly, while other neighborhoods that were hitherto nice (ie, the one you described) are in decline.

So your initial assessment of the city not being what it used to be is quite true...though not necessarily in the direction you were implying.

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I hear ya! But things are changing for the better again. A lot of new people are moving in your N'hood again who like yourself do care. I'm sure you heard of the EPX civic assn. & town watch. This never exsited in SP before. I been to a few meetings and it's not the same old "I don't give a sh!t south philly type". These folks invested big momey in their homes and want to keep the N'hood nice & safe. if your not a member yet you should join!

I live right around the corner from you on Mercy and I know what you mean but we are trying - by we I mean the long time residents and quite a few of the new ones try to keep the trash (both material and people) to a minimum. What we do is when we see an obvious junkie waiting for their dealer (they either come by bike or by car) we start yelling at them to go get their shyte somewhere else. It usually works. There are so many new people around - lots of foreigners - Mexican and Indian - you guys have the Indians and we have the Mexicans and one black family but everyone seems decent so far - its the white junkies from the other side of Snyder that are pissing us off. I've been here close to 40 years and it has changed but so far not enough to make me want to move. We are usually sitting out at night under the tree on 11th and Mercy - stop by and say hi.

So based on two small areas, you've decided the entire city sucks?

Um, okay....