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Yeah I crossed the border between West Philly and Lower Merion and damn was I shocked...
see, I've actually been to the suburbs before but the suburbs I've been too were Camden and Cheltenham. Everybody knows about Camden but Cheltenham isn't that known except for having a mall that is considered the best for sneaker shopping in the north-east (according to some basketball magazines). Basically to sum Cheltenham up, there was once an attempted armed robbery of a foot locker there but the robber was shot to death by a customer (!) who was packing... so Cheltenham with its run-down rowhomes, etc. aint really the suburbs.
Lower Merion on the other hand is extremely wealthy. The houses there was massive with huge lawns and backyards... for real, how does it feel to have a lawn? I mean like do kids usually play on it and do they have fights about whose lawn they'll play on? it's weird as ****... do they ever play out on the street? and aint it a ***** to have to cut that lawn all the time? here, the biggest lawns people got usually are small 5 foot by 5 foot plots. and some of the houses were wooden!
Also the side-walks was amazingly clean with none of the usual scraps of trash, paper, bottles, plastic beer cups, cigarettes, and roach clips... but the weird **** was that there was no public trash cans out on the street! even in philly, we got them all over and though they never really get emptied by the city, they are at least there... and still, our streets are dirty as hell... but over there, there are no trash cans yet the streets are clean?! and whats with there being no sneakers hanging from telephone wires?
As I expected, I didn't see a single ethnic minority... but I barely even saw people period. There was two people walking their dogs and no one else really. I'm used to seeing a dozen people hanging around on every corner but people up in the suburbs must be spending all their time indoors or something, right?
Also, oddly there was no churches... here, you can't go down any two-lane street too far before running into a church or a jahovah's witness meeting hall but over there there was no churches... instead there was a synagogue, a jewish temple, and something called a jewish academy... hmm...
When I hit their main street with some stores on them, i was surprised by the lack of a corner food store... i was kind of wondering what it'd be like not being run by Indians, Asians, or puerto ricans, but there was none! how do you people buy your food?! it must be miles to the nearest supermarket! also of note was some store called the "Jewish Holiday Store"... hmm...
amazingly, the cars there weren't that great... I honestly see more benzes, bmws, range rovers, escalades, etc. in the city.
but anyway, that sums up my little trip to the suburbs... odd place and i did get the distinct feeling that one woman walking her dog crossed the street when she saw me...
but yeah so i visited the suburbs... only makes me hate it more. and what was with all the jewish things? i always thought there was more jewish people in the cities than outside of them
thanks
see, I've actually been to the suburbs before but the suburbs I've been too were Camden and Cheltenham. Everybody knows about Camden but Cheltenham isn't that known except for having a mall that is considered the best for sneaker shopping in the north-east (according to some basketball magazines). Basically to sum Cheltenham up, there was once an attempted armed robbery of a foot locker there but the robber was shot to death by a customer (!) who was packing... so Cheltenham with its run-down rowhomes, etc. aint really the suburbs.
Lower Merion on the other hand is extremely wealthy. The houses there was massive with huge lawns and backyards... for real, how does it feel to have a lawn? I mean like do kids usually play on it and do they have fights about whose lawn they'll play on? it's weird as ****... do they ever play out on the street? and aint it a ***** to have to cut that lawn all the time? here, the biggest lawns people got usually are small 5 foot by 5 foot plots. and some of the houses were wooden!
Also the side-walks was amazingly clean with none of the usual scraps of trash, paper, bottles, plastic beer cups, cigarettes, and roach clips... but the weird **** was that there was no public trash cans out on the street! even in philly, we got them all over and though they never really get emptied by the city, they are at least there... and still, our streets are dirty as hell... but over there, there are no trash cans yet the streets are clean?! and whats with there being no sneakers hanging from telephone wires?
As I expected, I didn't see a single ethnic minority... but I barely even saw people period. There was two people walking their dogs and no one else really. I'm used to seeing a dozen people hanging around on every corner but people up in the suburbs must be spending all their time indoors or something, right?
Also, oddly there was no churches... here, you can't go down any two-lane street too far before running into a church or a jahovah's witness meeting hall but over there there was no churches... instead there was a synagogue, a jewish temple, and something called a jewish academy... hmm...
When I hit their main street with some stores on them, i was surprised by the lack of a corner food store... i was kind of wondering what it'd be like not being run by Indians, Asians, or puerto ricans, but there was none! how do you people buy your food?! it must be miles to the nearest supermarket! also of note was some store called the "Jewish Holiday Store"... hmm...
amazingly, the cars there weren't that great... I honestly see more benzes, bmws, range rovers, escalades, etc. in the city.
but anyway, that sums up my little trip to the suburbs... odd place and i did get the distinct feeling that one woman walking her dog crossed the street when she saw me...
but yeah so i visited the suburbs... only makes me hate it more. and what was with all the jewish things? i always thought there was more jewish people in the cities than outside of them
thanks
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