While I don't think the average age in Philadelphia is any older or younger than anywhere else in the US, Philadelphia is not a destination city for the young upwardly mobile crowd (people with good salaries and propensity to spend money). Ironically, the people we need here probably do not watch the "real world" now, but they probably did 10 years ago. If you think about it, when was the last time you heard anyone say "I would really like to go to Philadelphia for a few days - and maybe move there?" I never have. I do, however, here of a lot of middle class folks who leave for greener pastures. They leave because they are tired of the struggle this place has become. This town is tired. Dead tired. Worse than that, though, is the fact that the powers that be here - political parties, unions, who or whatever, don't seem to get it. It is business as usual. The empty, unexpanded Convention Center should serve as glaring proof of that. If that type foolish behavior continues, in 20 years this place will be like Detroit.
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