University City is so named because it contains UPenn and Drexel. Donald Trump went to Wharton, a part of UPenn. Like Chicago and just about every other American city, Philadelphia is becoming even more violent and deadly, however. Abutting really nasty ghettos, Temple students are much more threatened than the kids at UPenn.
Cecil B. Moore cuts right through Temple. You know what they say about any Martin Luther King Boulevard. If you can help it, don't have your kids living anywhere near a street named after a civil right leader!
i went to temple, as you know. i remember--this is in the early 90s--a sort of terror descending on campus after about 3-4 pm, with roving thugs out and about. but i think it's a lot worse now, from what i can glean. when i first came to philly i lived at 43rd and spruce, just west of the penn campus. the thing about that area is the great disparity between the rich penn students and the surrounding ghetto. at temple, which is almost totally a commuter school and much of it low income, you didn't have that. but north philly's scarier in general than west philly, though i avoided was it 50th or 52nd? and many other areas. but i never once set foot in kensington, anything east of the temple campus just LOOKED terrifying. cheers,
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Hey Mom and Dad,
Sending your kids to school in an east coast ghetto isn't really a good move.
University City is so named because it contains UPenn and Drexel. Donald Trump went to Wharton, a part of UPenn. Like Chicago and just about every other American city, Philadelphia is becoming even more violent and deadly, however. Abutting really nasty ghettos, Temple students are much more threatened than the kids at UPenn.
Cecil B. Moore cuts right through Temple. You know what they say about any Martin Luther King Boulevard. If you can help it, don't have your kids living anywhere near a street named after a civil right leader!
hey linh,
i went to temple, as you know. i remember--this is in the early 90s--a sort of terror descending on campus after about 3-4 pm, with roving thugs out and about. but i think it's a lot worse now, from what i can glean.
when i first came to philly i lived at 43rd and spruce, just west of the penn campus. the thing about that area is the great disparity between the rich penn students and the surrounding ghetto. at temple, which is almost totally a commuter school and much of it low income, you didn't have that. but north philly's scarier in general than west philly, though i avoided was it 50th or 52nd? and many other areas. but i never once set foot in kensington, anything east of the temple campus just LOOKED terrifying.
cheers,
dan
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