We've been here before. Sometime mid-year in 2020 we talked about how I was hoping to move to Philly, that didn't end up happening because I didn't find anybody to live in my room.
Now that I'm in Philly, I really really want to move here.
So many things going on right now. Friends are here. And friends' family, for at least another year. And the city is so goddamn affordable, a nice luxury apartment in the center of the city with nice amenities, three minute to the train station and right in front of a bus stop. All the stores and restaurants are downstairs, you wouldn't have to leave a 20-block radius for anything. The Amtrak stop is 20-min walk away, there's parks and museums and every other modern culture institution you can think of within three miles.
The prices though, the prices. An amazing top-of-the-class single-bedroom apartment in a modern rebuilt apartment building on the fifteenth floor going on for...fourteen hundred. It's not just a deal, it's a freakin' steal. I'd move here tomorrow if work was not a concern, if terminating the current lease was an option.
Philly prices are cheaper, food is as good for cheaper. Groceries are not any worse. Crime is decent, haven't heard anything bad. The city itself has a few taxes but in the big scheme of things, to be able to live a modern life, such that parents can go do groceries every day if they so wish, go on walks to the park, to the river, and between NYC and DC, that ticks all my boxes.
Perhaps my opinion will change when N and ST move, when other people I know right now are gone. It will be tall buildings and a lotta' soul but no people that I know. That's change though right, growth, to move to new places, meet new people, create new circles explore new options. If I have to learn to drive I'd consider that as well.
Why I'm staying in Boston if not for the job is unclear to me. Friends are leaving, the prices are ridiculous the weather goddamn miserable, it's a pitiful city. Not because it's a bad city, but because they intentionally make it so I can't afford to live there.
Go where love is, they say. Boston is not where the heart lies anymore.
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