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Originally Posted by YSL
NYC, being a port of entry to the United States has had “drain” for like 100 years now. Why are they looking at that specific period? If NYC’s drain in the 00s, 90s, 80s, 70s, 60s, 50s, 40s, 30s didn’t help Philadelphia, why would it now?
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Philadelphia was a different city then...nobody wanted to move here.
Philadelphia suffered for years because the old Republican machine that ran the city up until 1951 didn't take much New Deal money like Robert Moses did and by the time the WW2 was over...the city was still stuck in 1920. The factories were all 19th Century and closing. New Yorkers were not moving to Philly. Even when New York was hitting rock bottom in the 70's...it was still able to steal the spot light from Philly for the Bicentennial. Philly was always years behind New York in trending since WW2...but we have been catching up.