[presidio9]

Crappy food, 120 degree summer days. Monsoon season. Tarantulas, scorpions, rattle snakes, black widows. No beaches. Yep, Arizon rules.

[foreverfree]

Bump from a Philly area native who's visited Phoenix and Yuma.

foreverfree

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[Clemenza]

Walking in Arizona in the summer is the closest you will get to taking a stroll in your own oven.

I'd say that the major difference between Phoenix and Philly is that while Phoenix feels like hell, Philly SMELLS like hell.

[NativeNewYorker]

We have Scottsdale and they have Camden.

OUCH!

[BillyBoy]

Take out all the illegal aliens turning Arizona into a third world country, and I wonder how high Phoneix's population is.

[ex-Texan]

Arizona is too HOT too DRY and has too many six legged creatures living in, on or under cactus plants.

[Tallguy]

Food Fight Bump! (from a Philly native)

[Yohan]

We have far more people dieing from the mosquitos (which are pretty rare in Phoenix) in this country than Tarantulas, scorpions, rattle snakes, black widows combined.

[Eagles2003]

Actually, the pretzels can be bought fresh and hot if you know where to go in the burbs.

If you go to the anus of the world they stack them naked IN the street and sell them like squeegee kids and panhandlers.
Notice the exhaust systems that exit right "flavor" the stack of pretzels as well as the soot that rains down from all the diesels.

I saw this up in the NE somewhere, I only hope they don't allow this anymore.

[riri]

I can' t wait to get out. I have grown to detest the sun.

[Our man in washington]

If you're ever in Philadelphia, ask a native (almost any native) "where do you find the best cheesesteaks?" He or she will take you to some hole-in-the-wall dive that is dirty with paint falling off the walls.

Order a large cheesesteak. Be transported to a food paradise that the fine folks in Phoenix can only dream about.

[dogbrain]

Has anyone seen the 'Jack In the Box' commercial about
the kid going to Philly to learn about cheese steaks?

A priceles piece of advertising.

[dljordan]

Don't forget lots and lots of MEXICANS.

[vrwinger]

"Philly people are fat." A real original thought, there.

To show how devoid his arguemnt is, he picks on scrapple and "soft" pretzels as "Philly cusine" to trash. Easy targets.

Plus, Curt Schilling has made it clear he'd love to return to Philly. Pheonix can have Barkley.

[Jimmy Valentine]

On the other hand Philadelphia has major crime and street thugs. And that's only who is running the City government. On the street it's "feets don't fail me now"!

Still....there is nothing like a real Philly Cheese Steak. A little tough on the heart valves though.

Regards,

[discostu]

You got that wrong, we've got LOTS of beaches... just no ocean to go with it.

[Range Rover]

As messed as Philly is, Strombolis, Hoagies, and Pat's Steaks with an order of cheese fries trump anything Phoenix can put up against it. A stone's throw from 9th and Passyunk, you'll find some outstanding Italian eats.

FYI, they still stack the pretzels on the street and pepper them with diesel exhaust near the Zoo. Only the locals know where to get the fresh ones. Let the tourista eat the thawed ones (and give them Gouldens Spicy brown so they can BROADCAST that they're outa-towners).

Philadelphia has a red-headed stepchild complex but it's issues are with New York and not Phoenix....Camden is in Jersey, anyway - not Philly's fault (on the other hand, WEST Philadelphia is no paradise). At least if you keep driving , you end up down the shore.....sheesh!

[Tribune7]

Philadelphians visit New York and marvel how clean it is.

That's true. And I always found New Yorkers to be friendly too. :-)

[Tribune7]

Oh yeah. One more note. Sorry about the near-thing with Sandra Day O'Connor.

[Antoninus]

This article is dumb regionalism and nothing more. Try comparing metro area populations and see what you come up with. I think the Philly-metro area (Philadelphia, Montgomery, Bucks, Delaware, Camden, Burlington Counties) is the third or fourth largest in the entire country, comprising 5 or 6 million people. Most of the people who leave Philly, live in the burbs. The Phoenix metro area can't touch those numbers.

As for the city of Philadelphia proper, it is losing people for a few very obvious reasons: taxes, crime, taxes, horrible schools, taxes, bad business climate, taxes, horrible legal environment, taxes, taxes and more taxes. Fifty plus years of solid democrat rule will do that to a city. Ironic that the center of the foundation of the American Republic is now one of the most heavily taxed cities in the nation.