It's Our City And We Hate It

One dynamic here in the urban hellhole is that one of divides between long term residents and people who are relatively new arrivals is that some long term residents just hate the place and get a bit mad that other people might like it. I am of course not talking about all long term residents, or most, just some. There was a time when "getting out" of Philadelphia was the thing. Your successful peers did it, and you did not. They moved to the glorious western suburbs or South Jersey and left you behind. It was a thing from a particular time, when people came of age during the worst days of the city's decline. It feeds the entrenched belief in various corners of our city government that all "new arrivals" (realize some of these arrivals aren't so new anymore) will inevitably leave. Because that's what one does.