Where you want to buy a new home in Philly depends greatly on how much you're willing to spend and the trade-offs you're willing to make when it comes to safety, commuting, home value, nightlife/entertainment, and the quality of nearby schools. Major web sites like Zillow.com and Trulia.com allow you to research these traits in great detail, but don't rank them. Keller Williams Realtor Mickey Pascarella has filled that gap, posting recommendations on his web site. These are his picks.
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Wow, The Philly.com staff must be exhausted from interviewing all those realtors for this exhaustive ranking of Philly's best neighborhoods.
Oh, wait. It seems that only "Keller Williams Realtor Mickey Pascarella" did any work.
In what way is this not just an ad for his agency, disguised as news??
We don't need Philly.com reposting links to other websites! How about doing some real leg work? Turn off the computer and get out of the office once in a while.— Tatt2- Buying a home ANYWHERE in the city of Philadelphia is crazy. DO NOT DO IT!! Philadelphia is a toilet (for starters) and the city is getting worse, MUCH WORSE. This city is going to go bankrupt (impossible to avoid) and will soon be 90% welfare ghetto. Think it can't happen? Ask DETROIT. You have been warned. I live in a "nice suburb" bordering W.Philly and I wish I never purchased there because it's too close to the toilet. Seriously, don't buy a home IN the toilet.— warrentheape
- @Warren, if you prefer to living in the burbs and keep your family in a bubble, go ahead. But Philly is just like most major metropolitan cities in the world. It has a mixture of culture, entertainment, crime and housing options. I want to raise my kids in the city rather than being totally oblivious to the world growing up in the burbs. However, I do agree with the city being broke. With the constant tax increases, income taxes and the recent property assessment, Philly is making it hard for people live in the city.— penncrow19
- The suburbs are a toilet.— suporma
- Its really a tough choice whether or not to live in the city. We are a couple and one of us works in the city and the other in the suburbs. We would like to live in Philly and enjoy the amenities it has to offer. However on the other hand the upcoming property tax burden because of AVI 4% income tax sales tax burden makes it a very highly taxed city compared to other cities. You do NOT get a return on your money as the streets are quite dirty, it is not the safest, and there are very few good public schools. The bigger problem I have is by living in Philly, you are subsidizing stupidity. The city is so poorly run that change can only come with somebody from the outside with fresh views. We need a Republican mayor to clean up this place.— meowmix99
- @suporma - Definitely, as evidence by turds floating around out there. See, e.g., Warrentheape.— p
- Please, go visit San Diego (I lived there) and then come back to Philly. OMG. There is NO comparison, none, not in any way, shape, or form. BTW, I GREW UP in Philly, so I know exactly what I'm talking about. I know every freaking street and neighborhood. Right now it is completely legit to say 75% of the city is a dump.— warrentheape
- I was trying to decide exactly when things began going to pot in this city and I decided it was right around the time they started making the Society Hill carriage horses wear diapers.— frontandwildey
- Bridesburg is the hot spot!— Dunsmore
- There are prospective home buyers who prefer an area with a high crime rate and easy access to drugs. Judging by his top picks, Mick is not interested in catering to their needs.— fightins4ever
- American cities have really just begun to rebound from a 100 year decline, and Philly is extremely well positioned. It's one of America's great cultural cities, with great art, great food, great civic institutions and great sports, yet home prices here are dirt cheap compared with places like Boston, Brooklyn, D.C., Chicago. Even though a bad economy Philly's property values held up and people kept moving in. Now that the economy has stabilized, the trend will just accelerate. The late boomers and Gen-X and Gen-Y all grew up in the burbs and want to live in cities where there is so much more interesting stuff to do.
— tomB - You can find lots of places to live if you don't have to worry about raising kids. Once you have to start looking at schools though you are left with little to no options.— superturtle
- In Bensalem our cops can smell Philly Ghetto scum as they enter the Twp.Busted up cars..no insurance..bogus stickers..Phila is a magnet for the uncivilized, stupid, lazy and broke losers that make up a most of the electorate there. Go in to Filthadelphia...these people pay... NO income tax, No state Tax, ..eat free cheese, ripoff the system 4 free medical..live in almost free section8 / project housing..swindle free govt cellphones, eat free with an access card, and supplement all this goooo by stealin hubcaps or something...then they scream tax the rich producing..had working class..it only makes sense to liberal panderers and that guy Looyin Lenny from Good Times. I see North Philly and West Philly...and Southwest Philly..as a great place to Live after the next iceage..— lumpy
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