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Originally Posted by mcgrath618
You're the one complaining; the rest of us are here to talk about projects being built in Philadelphia. The SLS is a fine project for the area and will serve the area nicely. The longer you keep holding onto the ACC, the more people like you will hold this city back.
By the way, closing consulates isn't just a Philly thing. Countries are closing them everywhere in the US except NYC and LA because it's beginning to not make fiscal sense.
Moderators, sorry for getting off topic. I don't normally like to do this, but someone had to defend our city.
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Look take it the way you see it. If you think the city is still fine , great, nobody’s stopping you. I love the city and what it had to offer, even though I had to move for work related reasons. But the real point I was trying to make is that is that the city is awful for businesses. I was only using the ACC as a proxy for why Philadelphia is just a bad place to do business.
The SLS is nice and all, but I don’t know how long we should be waiting for other projects. Plus the city, slowly but surely is losing ground to other cities like Phoenix, San Antonio, Dallas, Fort Worth, Austin, San Jose, and smaller cities like Atlanta and Miami metro wise not only in population, but in economic terms as well.
I’ve been on this site many times and have supported Philadelphia through but I’m not blind about what can happen if the city doesn’t change its way of doing business and it’s tax structure. Blind loyalty isn’t going to save this no matter how many times the Eagles win the Super Bowl and the Sixers start going on a championship streak like Golden State is currently doing. Just ask Pittsburgh.
And if consulates don’t mean a damn thing, you idiot, then how in the hell does Miami has 30 consulates and Atlanta have about 26 while Philadelphia has only 3?In the 1990s, Miami was a beach city full of Cubans and Jews and Atlanta was a state capital with an major airline hub and a major education center. Philadelphia at the time had the better economy than both of those cities and now it looks like those two cities won’t just surpass Philadelphia in population when you consider their metros, but the local economies are getting stronger every year.
I’d rather be peesimistic about something I don’t like than be a fake and phony about something which deep down I don’t feel it’s going to help Philly in the long run. Heck, the soda tax is bad enough and I don’t even drink soda like that but like I said, when 2020 comes, Philadelphia is going to have to bite the bullet over places like Phoenix, San Antonio, and possibly Dallas and San Diego surpasses because our growth rate is too low to sustain our ranking, and eventually, those economies will improve down the line while Philadelphia continues to be clueless about how to attract and retain businesses and still be relevant in the global economy. Hey, if you think consulates are still unnecessary for Philadelphia, just ask Atlanta and Miami and tell them to lose consulates because we live in a digital age, you idiot!!! Just another reason why Philly keeps on slipping and I’m done!!!