- It’s official: Pittsburgh is best place to live in U.S. (it even beats Honolulu) [Daily Mail] — Philly isn’t even in the Top 10 of U.S. cities, being beaten by D.C., Chicago, Atlanta and, yes, Detroit.
- Changing Skyline: What does GlaxoSmithKline’s move to Navy Yard mean for downtown? [Inquirer]
- Chamber declines to support legislation calling for jobs commission [Chamber blog] — Just lower the damn business privilege taxes, they say.
- Pa. to invest in Aker Philadelphia Shipyard [Philadelphia Business Journal]
- How Philly is Taking the Lead on the City Planning-Public Health Connection [Keystone Edge]
- All About Patents [Hive 76]
- Nutter Open To Casino On Market Street East [Philly Clout: Daily News] And Plan Philly says “Attorney says city’s large numbers of Asians, Slavs are big reason it could handle two casinos.”
- Penn raising tuition 3.9% [Philadelphia Business Journal] — “The University of Pennsylvania will increase tuition 3.9 percent and expand its financial-aid budget by $10.7 million, or 7.7 percent, to $161 million in the 2011-2012 school year.”
Philly is a huge city, so big that it is easy to forget that huge sections of it are blighted by poverty and violence. If you have the socioeconomic mojo to live in any of the “nice” neighborhoods, it’s a fabulous town, with many of the benefits of NYC living without the price tag. But for the many who are not so lucky, it’s a rough town.
I currently live in Pittsburgh, and it is a very easy place to live. My guess is that the public school system is better than Philly’s which should count for something on the livability scale. It is also very physically attractive here—hills, rivers, huge parks.
If I had to choose, hands down I’d live in Philly. I just like the big city feel and proximity to other nodes in the Northeast Corridor. But Pittsburgh is a great mid sized city that is on the way up.