Back from CT! Mikayla and I had a pretty successful weekend checking things out around the area. We got to see a lot of neighborhoods... New Canaan, Darien, Rowayton, Noroton, East Norwalk, Sout...
WHAT is with all the PA hate. It's not all pennsyltucky, people! I live in a town where I can walk to four coffee shops, a whole bunch of little custom clothing shops, and liek almost 10 bars/restaurants of all different types of food from asian to south american to european, as well as a vintage movie theater, pet stores, a museum, two bed&breakfasts, and somewhere around 8-10 hair salons/spa's. Pretty much anything I want I can walk to. JUSTIN GUARINI lives across the street from me (like how i capitalized it as if he was an actual famous person lol). It's a huge artist community that does artsy fartsy things all the time and bike races and running/racing events.
PLUS - Most of the people in my congregation drive nice cars and live in really beautiful homes and vacation in Mexico all the time - but they are not "materialistic" or stuck up in any way... no one has the air of trying to get rich they just live comfortably? A lot of business owners and highly educated brothers and sisters. Our hall is awesome. Philadelphia is less than an hour away. NYC is about an hour and a half. There are three major malls within about a half hour each way. There is a TON of stuff to do.
Our car insurance was cut in half, or more, i can't even remember, I just know it's like next to nothing, a lot of other expenses are way less than NJ, and I can walk down the street to a produce shop (or the weekly farmers market) and get all local fresh organic food, cheap.
We have a LOT of people in our territory that live here but commute to NYC or Philly so a lot of "city" folk and not back-country hicks.
Moving here has seriously been the best decision we have ever made.
So yeah PFFFTTTT to all the PA hate!!!
http://www.gophila.com/P/Doylestown/36.html DOYLESTOWN FTW
oh and we live in an apartment, it's the upstairs of an 1800's house, it's really unique and we love it, we got rid of our house in NJ and will probably never get a house again, we are definitey apartment people and need the freedom of being able to move if we want to, and the financial freedom of knowing the landlord will pay to get stuff fixed! we are still living a pretty simple life, we don't have a lot, but we value what we do have, and we love this town and everything about it. It has been a year and a half and I am nowhere near sick of living here, which says a lot.
alright, that's the end of my PA love rant.
(and btw i did not want to move to this area and I hated Philadelphia but that's just because I was a stupid closed-minded newjersian. it is awesome here.)
Philadelphia sucks... I hate that city.
I don't hate it. Just like it less than NYC. And depends what PA we're talking about. I agree, Downtown Doylestown (that's like a PA exception to the rule) has it's appeal...and I was even looking at moving there at one time in my life...or West Mount Airy maybe (Greater Philly) or Rittenhouse if we're talking posh. However, in the end.. sorry, but Philly do not compare to the City I call my home today. And admit it.. you love NYC as well. :)
there's two things in life that i hate. 1)people who judge others because of where they're from, and 2) the state of pennsylvania.
LOL