Wack? what does that mean. The culture is awesome. Activists, anarchists, firehouse, bike church, squats, the tiberino, minorities, etc. Maybe you mean u. city. Now that is wack. also, south Philly starts at washington. Forget people who say it starts at south.

I don't think anyone has said this, but Philly is a block by block/neighborhood by neighborhood thing. For instance, Mantua, one of the most poverty/crime stricken areas(also known as "the bottom"), borders powelton village in University city, a nice place. and certain blocks can be alright and then the next block has all vacant houses. so beware of people saying that north philly east of Front st is completely alright. I would NOT want to live around kensington ave and Somerset. Also, Frankford is getting pretty rough.

And I don't appreciate the racist attitudes of certain posters in this thread. not directed at you, sp00ki