<p>Senior1991, I did upthread at post 16</p>
<p>Stanford, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Pepperdine, UCSB, UCSD, UC Irvine and Caltech – all in California</p>
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<p>? Both UPenn and Drexel are in sketchy parts of Philly. Drexel is a hideous campus…UPenn is kinda nice, but it’s surrounded by Drexel and a neighborhood that is a mix of nice properties and blighted properties…</p>
<p>And why does it make you glad that I’m not an expert on your city? I would be glad to know that people WERE familiar with my city, but that’s just me.</p>
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<p>Um, no, they’re not. University City is a very nice part of Philly. You’re thinking of North Philly, where Temple is and where I go to school.</p>
<p>We must have different standards of nice parts of town. It looked like UPenn was in the tenement district or something. Tons of chain link fences, blighted rail yard right between the campus and center city, ugly apartments towering over the area, bland tenements, sketchy rowhouses that would be really nice if cleaned up, and so on. Just because a lot of the city has nice architecture doesn’t mean it’s the most run-down place in the world.</p>
<p>As for North Philly…never been, but I have heard it makes West Philly look like Georgetown.</p>
<p>I love how a thread with the word “rich” in it can tear us apart like nothing else! jk</p>
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<p>This sentence is confusing.</p>
<p>You’re right, I’m sorry. I meant “doesn’t mean it’s not the most run-down place in the world.”</p>
<p>Well again, it’s pretty clear you dont know what you’re talking about, because that doesnt define University City at all…</p>
<p>Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA for sure.</p>
<p>uPenn is adjacent to some sketchy neighborhoods, but not IN one.</p>
<p>Sarah Lawrence and Wesleyan</p>
<p>also CW Post and Hunter College</p>
<p>Well dionte let’s just agree to disagree… I’ll stick to liking DC/NoVA, Boston, Pittsburgh, etc.</p>
<p>I’ll agree that the first two or three blocks close to UPenn are mostly immaculate, well-kept townhomes with beautiful architecture. Once you get beyond a two-block radius of the UPenn campus it gets sketchy quite fast. Some blocks are downright repulsive.</p>
<p>Pittsburgh??</p>
<p>Yup. Nice town…what I saw at least, which seemed like all of the good parts. Which I agreed were good parts. It’s very old and dense, but it’s definitely not in a deplorable state of disrepair like Cleveland or Philly, or other cities that have a great critical mass of old buildings. (believe it or not I get tired of sunbelt suburbia)</p>
<p>Southside/Shadyside/Oakland/Penn Station (I think that’s what it was called?)/Downtown. I liked the hilly terrain. I’d love to go to grad school in Pittsburgh. I liked the environment a ton and it just so happens Pitt and CMU are pretty good schools for the stuff I’m interested in.</p>
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<p>I won’t agree to disagree, because you’re incorrect. See B Man’s post.
If you want to talk about repulsive, the endless sprawl, the big box stores and innumerable chain restaurants, and the cookie cutter houses in North Texas. That’s repulsive.</p>
<p>Tulane is definitely in a very wealthy area as well - Uptown New Orleans was one of the only areas of NOLA really unharmed by Hurricane Katrina. St. Charles Ave. has some of the most opulent mansions I’ve ever seen.</p>
<p>I think there is a distinction between a city-feel affluent area, which may still have some less desirable neighbors, and a suburban-feel affluent area. And even then, a newer affluent suburb has more uniformity than an older affluent suburb.</p>
<p>Emory is in Decatur, not Buckhead.</p>
<p>Not sure about Middletown (Wesleyan.) The income is quite high for a small town; but, much of it is tucked away in condominia far, from the center of things. Wesleyan is actually the first line of defense for many of the professionals and insurance executives who live west of town.</p>
<p>dartmouth is in a wealthy town-conservative and not flashy-but wealthy.</p>