Philadelphia, USA: ULTIMATE City Guide 

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If you make decent money, Philadelphia is better than NYC and DC. Center City has world-class dining and is super nice to walk around. If you can't afford the nicest part of the city, there are great pockets. If you make the same salary in New York, you live like a pauper in some corner of Queens.

Actually, the population has grown the past few years, and, Center City has the second largest downtown population after New York City

I have been visiting Philadelphia for the past 40 years. Fell in love with the city during my initial visit. Then continued to visit there at least once a year. Amazed at how many changes have taken place since then. There is no longer the huge hustle and bustle of large crowds of people like before. Lots of the stores and restaurants I used to frequent are no longer there and the Gallery has been revamped. I still love Philly but so miss a lot of the places from before. I now visit with my hubby who loves it there as well!

I know this beautiful city like the back of my hand now, I moved here from Kenya 🇰🇪 Africa in 2014. Live in South Philadelphia very close to almost everything, park, the sports stadiums, gyms ,public transport Septas , 10 to 15 minutes from the city center or center city, I recommend South Philly if planning to move here, places I like most Th Rittenhouse square park, Penns Landings, FDR park . Philly is beautiful city . Just choose your friends wisely and mind your business if wanna live here .

Homeless people in US? Can’t believe it. A country which spent 14 trillion dollars in fighting various wars to topple regimes of various countries in Africa and Asia, its people living in poverty. Unbelievable.

As a native Philadelphian and I really liked majority of this video however I would say your view on the prison industrial complex in America is not complete and very biased. Because there’s so much that goes into what happens to people who are imprisoned.

As someone living here, I really wish Philly didn’t have so many problems because it is genuinely one of the coolest and most culturally unique places in the US, with an incredible amount of diversity, stunning architecture, and great food.

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I really regret leaving philly. There are so many wonderful things about philly. You missed the best part. You missed out on so many great areas. I grew up in southwest a nice area near U Penn and a block from Clarks Park. We have movies at night on wed. Farmers markets and peewee football. There are soul food restaurants and jazz clubs. Block parties and cool clubs. But you did not show the coolest neighborhoods.

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I recently moved to Philadelphia and found this to be a great video! By far one of my favorite things about Philadelphia is being able to live in a walkable neighborhood where groceries, nightlife and transportation hubs are all within a 15 minute walk, which is absent in the large majority of America. The architecture also surprised me and I'm always finding new buildings to admire on these walks. Septa is decent by American standards but as someone whos lived in Europe the trains are pretty gross and fairly limited in where you can go. I would agree what you said at the end of the video in that Philly has alot of potential. Crime, drug addiction and poverty are all hot issues that seem to be getting worse, as it is across the US. If the local government, which is apparently a bit corrupt, could actually solve these issues and improve the material conditions of the impoverished population it would be one of the best cities in the US. Either way I like living in Philadelphia so so much more than I did in Florida.

Re worst neighborhoods, interesting you didn't show many other cities' "Kensington" style hoods

You did a nice job with the visuals. A few things you missed: 1) The incredible food scene here beyond cheesesteaks and russian food. The fine dining and varied amounts of great restaurants make it a great option for foodies. 2) You didnt visit Rittenhouse square or any of the surrounding areas which are the best and nicest parts of the city imo. They are also the most expensive to live in but as you noted its significantly less still than nyc/boston/DC 3) Fishtown. Borders Kensington which is admittedly not nice. But Fishtown is very different with a thriving creative cultuire, great dive bars and restaurants

Was born and raised in Philly! Seen this city go through many up's and downs in my short lifetime. My parents where architects and my mother loved Philadelphia's architecture making it the primary reason she moved here after college. From food, history, it's walkable layout, cheaper cost of living, and the pride most of us from philly share about local sports franchises has always helped the city thrive and keep its sense of identity! As for the crime, it's always been a thing. One of the biggest issues with local government in philly is not only some of the corruption from a few of it's leaders but that they are often reluctant to let newer outside business build on their more historic or architectural foundations. And they struggle to decide on how put money back into the city itself. From repairing roads and bridges, to renovating neighborhoods unless it's some "gentrification style plan" that promises to bring in more money they usually shutter at incurring extra costs themselves. The city government once tried to make the Philadelphia Zoo pay for it's water (it was always provided by the city at no extra cost for the Zoo) and the Philadelphia Zoo threatened to close the Zoo permanently if the ordinance passed. The city council backed out on that. In the end philadelphia could be more willing to let outside business set up shop in the city and be more willing put money back into its aging infrastructure and neighborhoods. Hopefully in ways that don't burden some of the already impoverished residents who live there. I do agree the city does have a lot of unrealised potential where the incremental changes aren't usually enough to offset some of the crime and poverty setbacks that persist. It's all a very multifaceted and complex problem that won't get fixed overnight but people from philly say 'they will live and die by their city!' and don't tend to give up that easy.

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Every major city has it's problems Philadelphia is a great city and no different from other big city sharing the same issues, like Los Angeles, San Fransisco, Boston and New York.

Finally a video not bashing my city

Fun fact: When the US got independence from Britain this was the capital of the US

Originally from Argentina and lived in Los Angeles, I have been living in Philly since 2011 and I love it. I live in the Fishtown zone and generally speaking, I love how walkable it is. In my first 7 years living here, I didn’t have a car, and I used public transportation or riding my Vespa.

Never call it city center. It is center city

I am from Sweden and I was in Philadelphia last summer during an almost 3 month long visit in USA!👍👍

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Very beautiful city despite the big problems of drugs, homeless and unemployement. Greetings from Turin Italy

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People talk about Philly crime like crime isn't in every city you go too. Every city has good and bad.

Greetings from Lisbon, Portugal. Wonderful city!

Very much love Philly and have visited annually as a tourist during the past 50 years. Unfortunately there were 559 homicides in 2021. Much too dangerous to return.

Great video. I'm from the UK and I visited Philadelphia in 2018. The city left it's mark on me and I'm wanting to go back. I done some of the stuff and also visited some of the places highlighted on this video.

Northeast Philadelphia is awesome due to the fact that there are practically no crimes and homeless people there. It is suburban, but not too rural. It feels like Florida.

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I’ve visited Phili once for a couple hours on my way to Atlanta. And I love the city first thing i noticed is how walkable the city is and historic I’m currently planning a trip

Tell me about ONE major US city that does not have a homeless problem? Not saying that Philly doesn't need to clean up its act, but I just went back to Denver for the 1st time since moving away over 25 years ago. A lot has changed. More new buildings and restaurants and things to do. But guess what? There are fences all around the museums downtown to keep the homeless from sleeping there. It's out of control. Even had a homeless person toss a full plastic bottle of water at my friend's head for no apparent reason. Luckily he missed her or it could have done some serious damage. When I lived in Denver in the mid to late '90s the city was small and pretty dead TBH. But I really enjoyed living there. But for whatever reason anytime anywhere in the US when gentrification happens and people start to "prosper" the homeless situation and poverty explodes. The country needs to find a way to keep people in their homes so all people rise when things get better not only a few. Philly is no exception.

As someone who works in Philly and knows all sections of the city throughly, I’m surprised you included Kensington as a place to visit in Philly. There is so much crime that happens in Kensington. It is NOT a sight seeing location by any means. A quick drive down Kensington Ave will look like the movie “Night of the Living Zombies” from all the druggies walking around like zombies. Prostitution is huge in that area along with crime. Be careful if you choose to go there for anything.

Sorry sweetheart, you’re wrong about Ben Franklin. He was NOT an “English Man” as you put it. He was born in Massachusetts. You said that right at the start of your video. Shame on you. Signed…Philly Lady..born in Philadelphia.

The city where Kobe Bryant was born. He went to middle school and high school in Philadelphia, after growing up in Italy.

Things to do in Kensington: not go anywhere near Kensington

I live in Philly and this video is basically someone just reading the Wikipedia on Philadelphia. If I was a tourist coming here and wanted an accurate opinion on what to do, I would go to center city, walk around, and talk to locals for their opinion. Most people would be thrilled to give you suggestions

Such a comprehensive video encompassing all the features and tourist destinations of Philadelphia . This is definitely going to give a good idea to anyone who ants to visit Philie

I have lived in Philly for 8 years and I have never seen that roller rink 😂 I've seen it as an ice skating rink in the winter but never a roller rink. Also when you have over 70% of criminals going right back to jail, how is that not the worst in the world? Jail is for rehabilitation not to just pump out cheap labor. Our prison system is literally legal slave labor. Also, its unfortunate Sazon ( the Venezuelan restaurant mentioned) closed a couple months ago. I'm glad you mentioned Wawa, its such a huge staple in every Philidelphian's life. The murals here are one of my favorite thing about the city.

I live in Philly, best city, architecture, food and people! I am an East coast girl at heart. Love your content

My old neighborhood was on the edge of University city but before you go deeper into West philly. A neighborhood where people still say good morning. And where planting trees is important. You did not talk about Penn relays or the role Black Americans played in Philly during the civil war. You missed so much. Yes I agree homelessness is a problem but so is gentrification. Which you assume is great. My grand mother bought our family house in 1920. Now entire good clean safe neighborhoods being replaced. Other than that philly is cool.

I think this was a very good video. My only complaint would be that you missed mannayunk, fishtown , and northern liberties. All neighborhoods that have a young population and are super fun sections of the city. Also missed Rittenhouse too which is probably the fanciest section of the city. Overall though, loved the video

Wow! Must have woke up having a bad day when you decided to review this city huh? Or maybe you have a bias against it and wanted to just highlight all the negatives. Didn't go to or talk about not even one of the many nice areas. 😂😂😂Why didn't you highlight all the negatives when you reviewed Chicago which is one of the worst and most dangerous cities in the US but chose to focus only on the negatives when reviewing Philadelphia? You made Chicago look like the perfect City when it's arguably worse than Philadelphia.😂😂😂 Very strange biased and negative one side review what is an amazing City overall. Unfortunate because if there was someone who really wanted to truly learn about Philadelphia they would think is the worst city ever based on this review. So many amazing historical facts you left out as well. Didn't cover it's amazing history enough, didn't even talk about Betsy ross, South Street or cover its culture. You really did it in Injustice

Philly is my favorite city. Went alone for the first time for my birthday last august. Had a good time alone. South street, Fat Tuesday, pats and genos, wawa. Dope people dope vibes. Good to be in South philly

As a philly uber driver I would to say so many crazy peoples in this city.

You did NOT cover the gentrification issue in University City well... Penn is not giving the neighborhood "new life". It's taking peoples lives, businesses, and homes so that it can profit. Penn needs to do a LOT more for the community to outweigh all its taken from the people who use to live there

It's called Center City, not City Center. You also missed some of the most beautiful parts of Philly and you focused on the bad areas like Kensington. There are some beautiful areas like Fairmount, Rittenhouse Square, Manayunk, Mount Airy, Germantown, Chestnut Hill, Queen Village, Powelton Village, Society Hill, and many more. You also missed the great parks like Rittenhouse Square, Wissahickon, Pennypack Park, and Washington Square. Come back to Philly and explore it more and you'll understand it better.

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At 23:00, that's why I like Americans. Very friendly.

I lived in west Philadelphia for 2 years and it was very scary. I got robbed couple of times. I recommend everyone to not to move west Philadelphia

The incarceration issue in America is REAL and huge. Maybe you should've tried to be impartial while walking through that exhibit so you could've learned. American prison system isn't like other countries- if you don't know much about it, don't speak on it

Excellent video. I like Philadelphia and have visited many times.

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Murder capital, it's depressing.

Philly is only getting better since the past decade. Lots of growth and affordable housing being built, I went down S. Broad St. to see if the housing complex they were building was finished, and they were already building another one adjacent! Bike lanes and other walkable options are being planned and established. Homelessness is still an issue, unfortunately, and crime is no better. Still I feel like that shouldn't take away the potential this city has. Come and visit, have a cheesesteak by the Schuylkill! Just... don't visit Kensington if you value living.

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born and raised in philly!! love this video really shows the good and the bad of the city but regardless it’s always a good time here. always something to do especially during the summer !!!

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I live in Philly. My 3 favorite neighborhoods in the city are 1) Passyunk 2) Fishtown 3) Rittenhouse (specifically more south Rittenhouse). None of those neighborhoods were mentioned so thought I’d add them there. As far as crime/safety goes, it basically just comes down to where you’re living. If you live in Fishtown, Rittenhouse, Old city, Washington square, or any of the neighborhoods in South Philly on the east side of broad street (like Bella Vista, Passyunk, Queens village, etc) then you’ll never really feel unsafe walking around day or night. I’ve never once felt unsafe (I’m a tall male though to be far). Beer and cocktail scene isn’t nearly as good as like Chicago. Food is pretty good but google really doesn’t help you when trying to find the good spots to eat, you have to kind of figure it out on your own through trial and error. Lots of cheap places though which is nice. Best part of Philly is how walkable it is and just the general feel of the city, it feels very unique and is very charming. Just walking around is a great time. Lots of great small local corner bars and restaurants all over which is great. Philly is what you make it, there’s something for everyone here.

the video is a cliché and at best underinformed and at worst plain wrong. Germantown has more 17th and 18th century buildings than any urban place in America. Left out of the video are the most scenic and green parts the city in Mt Airy, Chestnut Hill, and parts of East Falls, Rox, Germantown, and Manayunk.

Beautiful city! Great video!

2:55 that’s me and my friend Ruben on the bikes. Just look at us! Psh

Beautiful city.

Forner Correctional officer here, our prison system is the worst in world by far, the majority of people in our prisons are locked up for non-violent crimes & every single one of them is living off of our tax money in order for the prison system to continue making profit. If our prisons we're for criminals, a majority of politicians would be locked up,but it's not about who does crime, it's about who has the money to do crime. Remember everytime people talk about crime, think for a second, what exactly has locking up a huge portion of our population done against crime? Nothing. We've been punishing people for decades & still have the same problems. It doesn't work.

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Philadelphia is an awesome city. From London.

That Uzbekistanian restaurant looks awesome. That guy fishing isn't lazy, since fishing is really about chilling anyways and going with the flow. But....the poor fishy. It's sad when cities potentials can't be realized due to crime. My city in central Canada has also become that way a bit although significantly smaller, and colder lol.

I mean, the US prison system is terrible. Also, what's with the weird fake Texan accent lol?

Would love for you to do Atlanta or a southeast US city with rich history and modern prominence

You went on and on about Philly's crime rate but you didn't do that on the Chicago video. Chicago is known for crime and gangs.

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It seems okay to do sightseeing. I would never live in such a city where the walking dead are literally a few blocks away.

I'm surprised at the very few skyscrapers. I'm from Boston, it's smaller but seems to have more skyscrapers. It was interesting and beautiful though.

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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia!

Great video! But I am very concerned about the dude fishing and cooking fish from the Schuylkill and Delaware

Sorry to tell you, mate, but the US does have one of the worst prison systems in the world. Everybody knows that.

I love Philly

U forgot to mention tht 2nd name of Philadelphia is Killadelphia!

As a college student at Drexel, just wanna say the city is cool but it's also very easy to ruin your life if you're careless.

Philadelphia Museum Of art so awesome 👏🏼

🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿 you are the beet and never stop making these videos. Philly would take on any European city.. if only it would deal with its self esteem issues😩😩

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There's so much more to the Philly food scene than the cheesesteaks which I'm glad you did mention such as Chinatown and the Italian Market.

A native Pittsburgher but Have been living in Tampa for a year. Thinking about moving here. Its nice in Tampa but everything is so spread out and working remotely makes it so hard to make friends or meet women.

Informative video! I am a native of West Philadelphia. This brought back many good & bad memories. Thanks for sharing.

Philadelphia is beautiful. I am used to movies on RU-vid that talk about drugs and broken women. They just have to get out of the dark tunnel and immerse themselves in the beautiful life.

I'm upset that Bookbinder's Seafood restaurants no longer exists in Philly. We went there for decades and was one of the best seafood restaurants in the country. Now it's gone.

🔴🇺🇸2022, police phila now protect gangters

Thanks for this guide to Philly and for keeping it real! 💡👏🏻

This video gets a like hit just off of the fact you mentioned cheesesteak and DID NOT mention Jenos/Pats! Thank you!!! They are annoyingly overrated.

Philadelphia is a city steeped in history. It's where America's founding fathers gathered, and where the American ideals of freedom were brought to life. It's a place with dozens of historic sites, centuries-old neighborhoods and some 90 museums to explore.

Kensington is north Philadelphia nto northeast the northeast is nice example somerton

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Philly has top rated hospitals and colleges and this city should attract more tech giants like Texas is doing..

As a Philadelphian, I absolutely loved this video. You explained the different parts of the city so very well. Thank you!

Thank you cool vision i suggest you for philadelphia video thanks again