Anyone from Philadelphia here?

[Olgar Shiverstone]

The only things I know about Philly are that the sports fans there are notoriously nasty (they pelted Santa Claus with snowballs and booed him, for example) and that a few years back it was listed as the city with the ugliest women.

LOL. Our Chilean officer here is a huge Steelers fan, and happened to wear a Steeler sweatshirt on a trip to Philly. He was stopped on the street by a Philly police officer. The conversation went something like:

PD: Sir, do you know what you're wearing?

CO: Huh? It's a sweatshirt.

PD: You're either the craziest or the bravest man I've ever met. No one dares wear a Steelers shirt here in Philly. I'm a Steelers fan and I wouldn't wear one on the street.

CO: Sorry, I didn't know.

PD: No, it's cool -- can I take my picture with you?

The police officer actually had his photo taken with my friend, who he'd decided was the bravest man in Philly that day.


Personally, I prefer Baltimore.

 

[bone_naga]

Personally, I prefer Baltimore.

I hate Philly and Baltimore. Rated individually, I'd have to say that Philly might be worse, but Philly is at least in a free state, while Baltimore is in MD.

 

[Homicidal_Squirrel]

I've heard wonderful stories about Baltimores blue light areas. My only experience with Baltimore was being stuck at a bus station on my way back from NYC to Miami. The bus had too many people, so I couldn't get on. I spent eight hours there talking with a few people. One was a Kuwait war vet, who told us wonderful stories of stealing Kuwaiti gold, throwing furniture off the 16th floor of a hotel in Tokyo, and having to climb down the side of the building with his marine buddies. The other was a girl, about 24, with a toddler, who told us stories of trying meth and staying up for three days straight cleaning her house, and then there was the guy who was caught in the men's restroom flogging the dolphin by the hand dryer.

I have a friend that lives in Baltimore now. He is working at the Kennedy Krieger Institute. He has told me such wonderful stories about the blue lights on certain streets.

I also worked on an FDA clinical dryg study with a girl who was from Baltimore. She has also told me wonderfully frightening stories about those blue lights.

I don't know if Philadelphia or Baltimore is better, but I'm pretty sure they both blow.