Gen Zers like being carjacked, huh?

What in fuck is this article?

Also - does "Z" in "gen Z" stand for "generation zero"?

Oh everyone gets carjacked huh

Car jacking is what your mother did to me last night, Trebek!

I’ve been watching too many Ukraine war videos because my first thought was why is this building supporting Russia

I'll be honest, I don't think most of us have enough money for a car lol

nah, it's just that after gen x, there were millennials, aka gen y, and then gen z

No but redditors like you sure love to promote the fear & perception of it.

Thank you! I am aware (that was a Joey B. Toonz reference).

Can you keep your fear-mongering on the numerous daily crime posts please? Get a life and stop shoehorning crime into every single discussion. There's plenty of good about living here, and not everyone experiences crime.

Thanks!

I haven't, but yeah, not the time you want to slap a massive "Z" on anything, given the current state of affairs.

Well, she wanted to know what an album cover is!

And a “Z” in blue and yellow no less

gonna start carjacking boomers and just driving their SUVs into the schuykill so they can stop clogging up the streets

Actually kind of bummed we're only 13th. I'm not Gen Z but with affordability being one of the major factors, I would have thought we'd be higher.

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Did you see the z guys blowing each other when a drone drops a bomb on them?

I did, definitely wasn’t expecting that. Still think the wildest video was from Mariupol when the Russian tank got ammo racked and you could see the commanders body fly at least 30 feet in the air. The videos coming out of this conflict are something else. Honestly makes me even more anti-war than I already was.

Also interesting to watch the progression of how the UA fight, the videos from the beginning of the conflict are very different from the ones now. After receiving months of western training and NATO equipment. For an even more drastic difference you can check out videos from when the conflict started in 2014. In some videos the only reason you immediately know they aren’t American is because they aren’t in a desert.

>Get a life and stop shoehorning crime into every single discussion.

This will happen very abruptly on Nov. 9, just like it does after election day every year.

I have some HW to do.

No, but it’s a serious problem long before it happens to everyone.

I think crime has to be a factor. I love this town but the crime is infuriating and frustrating.

Hahahha

Who

> Who?

FTFY.

Whom’st’ve?

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Crime + not as many high paying jobs as nyc/boston/chicago/bay area/austin

Hello fellow r/combatfootage aficionado

Don’t feel bad, that was my first thought as well.

El Paso, Omaha, and Tuscon, eh?

I guess I'm just a geriatric millennial but this, like all press release rankings, doesn't pass the sniff test.

That’s a crazy one. Sadly I’ve also been reading about how rape is an integral part of Russias military machine, so part of me is sad that it was maybe a conscript being raped by his superior officer

Their camo pattern is quite different as well, but that will be less obvious to the casual observer

Fair point.

Is ebike jacking a thing?

Many remote jobs base pay on region or nearest office. It’s very possible to make NYC money living here.

While I understand and agree with your point, college students graduate and go where their friends go. And sadly the bay area, chicago, and nyc have been made into hubs for students to move to for various reasons and philly just doesn’t have the same appeal. A lot of this is based on perception and I always say philly has a lot of potential but needs a lot of good marketing/propaganda to hype it up (tbh I would live here though I’m not sure I would raise a child here - “gritty” is not appealing)

They're super cheap places to live in, makes total sense to me.

That's the thing, Philly is "cheap" for a major costal city, but it's overall not that cheap compared to the Midwest and South.

The high tax burden, lack of skilled jobs, and increasing cost of rent due to blocking housing construction do add up. I think our rank is totally justified in this list.

You mean, the tittie on an album cover?

Plenty of Temple alums stick around. I’d also point out SF isn’t exactly a paradise right now, they just recalled their DA over crime. SF and NYC are also vastly more expensive than Philly, if you can afford either—you could live anywhere in Philly and send your kids to Friends Select, Haverford, etc.

I think it comes down for what parents want/expect for their children. If having that suburban experience of total safety and impunity is important, raising children in a city or rural area probably won’t cut it.

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I'm a big Philly advocate, but small(er) cities rule! I end up in a lot for work and the blend of open space and "stuff to do" mixed with cost is tough to ignore. A lot of these cities have way more accessible outdoor space and a lower cost of living than Philly.

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Yeah I don’t really see 13th as a flex

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Read it as “best city for Jay Z”.

Exactly who is consistently basing pay off of region? I’ve never seen NYC lumped in the same end of the pay band as Philly for remote positions, and I fully understand why. Philly at best is considered MCOL, and unless the company simply has no pay band (which likely makes them less competitive in pay), then there’s definitely usually an earning difference between cost of living/business and not an entire region. Add to that the difference in “potential income”, losses you’ll face by staying in Philly, and then it makes sense as to why we leave for other cities out of school.

Idk if “nyc money” is a general statement meant to mean high paying for standard Philly income, but although I have a high paying remote job, it’s still less than what I’d make in sf or nyc, and that’s the case at most of the places I know hiring early careers. Over time if I choose to stay in Philly, it’d become a drastically bigger gap, so I have more reason to leave at a higher position.

Tech and tech adjacent companies in my experience. HashiCorp, for instance, would pay a Philly based worker on NYC salary bands because NYC is the nearest office and that’s how they calculate locality pay.

Tech is my experience too and I feel like I’ve not seen many places offer that structure outside of a few random startups or the few (but growing) number of places that have committed to no pay bands

I very recently used to live in Columbus, OH (#6 on that list). Its a pleasant place to live, but its not all that cheap (especially in the neighborhoods where young people want to live), its definitely shitty for walking/biking/transit, and we got used to saying that restaurants were "Columbus good" because with some exceptions they never would have survived in Philly.

On one hand, I had a detached single family house with a nice front porch, bigger backyard than you can get in Philly, and a garage (the height of luxury), and could walk to some stuff. On the other hand, I was in one of the densest neighborhoods in the city less than 2mi away from the Ohio statehouse and it was a neighborhood of detached single family houses: what a colossal waste of space. And between buying the house (2015) and moving back to Philly in 2021 I could no longer have afforded to the buy on that block.

And at least as far as outdoor space that I care about is concerned, Philly has much better mountain biking than Columbus, El Paso, and Omaha. Tuscon I am assuming is pretty good. Fairmont, the Wiss, and FDR are damn good parks that are accessible by transit/biking for all sorts of activities, plus the birding is good around here (especially during migration season).

Are small cities good places for young people? Sure. Are those particular cities better than Philly? I heartily disagree and stand by my original statement that the list stinks.

Huh during my most recent job search (last winter) Amazon, CoinBase, HashiCorp, Puppet, and a handful of much less recognizable financial service firms were all up front about pay/benefits/etc. for remote work and while some of the pay bands, Amazon for instance, were roughly doubled by RSUs for devops roles everyone was offering ~$170k base which seems rather high for basing pay on Philly CoL.

Maybe it’s less common than I thought but I’m making the same amount as my NYC based colleagues.

None of these listicles do. They're thrown together by a freelancer, marketing team, or PR firm. There's no merit to them at all. If there were, you would see some consistency across the lists.