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RortyIsDank t1_ixfymug wrote

As a NYer: It’s post like these that make me appreciate how culturally alike the northeast of the USA is in many respects.

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smurph9876 t1_ixg3mbm wrote

Oh, everyone denies it but NY, Philly and Boston are the same place. NY Italians are the same as Boston Italians, Philly Irish are the same as NY or Boston Irish.

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tbootsbrewing t1_ixhf5gr wrote

Bostonians never offer nice eggs to people going through trying times like they do in Philly.

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DanieXJ t1_ixg736d wrote

Only difference is who we root for really.

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OnPointDom t1_ixj4ehh wrote

We are only rooting for the laundry. One year we’re rooting for a player the next year he’s playing for the other city. It’s just the laundry that they are wearing that matters

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SmashRadish t1_ixgdg7f wrote

Philly is an open garbage dump that can’t pronounce the letter L after an O. They are not like us.

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big_whistler t1_ixgwxq1 wrote

Bostonians can hardly pronounce anything with an R so dunno if we have a leg to stand on

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keyluke t1_ixh3w0t wrote

But Bostonians lost that leg climbing up the topsails. We are not the same.

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spitfish t1_ixhft8f wrote

We move them to other words. Ask one to pronounce "idea".

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homesnatch t1_ixhoneb wrote

Not fair... the 'R's were stolen by pirates...

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SmashRadish t1_ixh0eme wrote

You overlooked the part where their city is overrun with empty beer cars, dog shit and dirty syringes. Just say no to philly.

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big_whistler t1_ixh0xcr wrote

I’ve seen all this shit in Boston too. I know Philly is worse than here but its the sane stuff just more.

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KingFucboi t1_ixhh9rk wrote

lol Philly is way fucking worse. There isn’t a single street in boston that looks like any street in Kensington. Phillys great I’m not hating. But it’s the truth.

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[deleted] t1_ixhdi0s wrote

EVEN better when you see empty beer cans, syringes, and dog shit all in the same place 😂

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SmashRadish t1_ixjauhb wrote

Dude, every city with more than one sports team is discernibly cleaner than Philly. People from Philly travel to Detroit and remark on how clean Detroit looks. Philly is head, shoulder, nips, belly buttons and zippers above every other major city when it come to litter.

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DeBurgo t1_ixhhbp9 wrote

Someday Philly is going to come back and it will be terrifying. I don't know how or when or under what circumstances, maybe the apocalypse, but it will happen.

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Bsabia30 t1_ixhg6i7 wrote

I see that shit daily in Boston ^ Philly is 2x the size, so they’re going to have 2x the amount of needles, etc. it’s really not astronomically diff than Boston other than the layout of the city here being trash to navigate.

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SmashRadish t1_ixjaoxb wrote

LOL you’re joking right? You think the litter is the same as boston as in Philly?

Also, philly MSA is 13% bigger than Boston MSA. It is not twice the size.

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SBLOU t1_ixhirvb wrote

Yeah, as a former NY native. I agree. I hate Philly. Used to have to go to area meetings for work to Philly from NY.

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bagelwithclocks t1_ixhfe9w wrote

The idea that they would be different is so laughable. They are three cities in a very small region. It is so funny the divisions that we make for ourselves as humans. You see the same thing everywhere. Wales and England, Neighboring villages with different dialects in rural Guatemala etc. We are all the same.

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powsandwich t1_ixifqjv wrote

I agree with your main point but I mean Wales does have a completely different language and celtic v norman shit going on

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bagelwithclocks t1_ixkep0w wrote

Yeah it does. It is just so funny they are so distinct. England and Wales are each the size of like small US states.

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Hahafuckreddit t1_ixuhbp8 wrote

They literally are though. I did some genealogy recently when I found a family in New York with my grandmother's maiden name, an uncommon Italian name. Found photos of them and they look exactly like my dad and his brothers. Then I started researching and found a trail of Italians, my family, who went to New York from Italy. Some stayed in New York, others went to Massachusetts. It's bizarre and awesome.

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squarerootofapplepie t1_ixg3xku wrote

I think Boston Irish and New York Italians are pretty unique.

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smurph9876 t1_ixg4abo wrote

IMO not really. I’d even throw Chicago into the ‘they’re pretty much the same’ bucket

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Birdman781666 t1_ixheugk wrote

No way fucking Chicago is the same. You’re nuts. Have you been there?? It could not be more different. That weird midwestern politeness. Everything is flat so you can see down a long street literally for miles. Chicago style pizza is an abomination. It’s not pizza. Subs aren’t really a thing out there. Go order a steak and cheese sub at a place in Chicago and they’ll look at you like you’re the weirdo.

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eneidhart t1_ixhh8zf wrote

Not to defend Chicago style pizza but Boston doesn't really have much of a leg to stand on there

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ballsinmyyogurt1 t1_ixhz7qy wrote

The Italian pizza in Boston is AMAZING. You gotta hit up the north end. Boston has incredible food

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Birdman781666 t1_ixi2jq0 wrote

Boston pizza absolutely drops it’s cheesy balls on Chicago’s face. North End baby.

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DoinIt989 t1_ixn7xlr wrote

Home Run Inn or Aurelio's >>>> Anything in Boston.

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eneidhart t1_ixjript wrote

You're not wrong about the north end! But Boston has a particularly bad rap when it comes to pizza. Probably mostly from New Yorkers who don't realize you pretty much have to go to the north end to get the good stuff, unless you already know where to go. And bad pizza isn't in short supply if you don't know where to go.

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neonwattagelimit t1_ixi1ax1 wrote

> Subs aren’t really a thing out there.

Huh? You can definitely get subs in Chicago. The Italian beef sandwich is, basically, a kind of sub. You can get regular cold cut subs, too.

> Chicago style pizza is an abomination. It’s not pizza.

Chicago-style pizza is definitely very very different from the pizza that you get in the Northeast, and I think you could argue that it's different enough to be a separate type of food. But I think it's fucking awesome. And it's pretty unique, too - you can get good thin-crust pizza pretty much anywhere, but I've never really had good Chicago-style deep dish outside of the Chicago area.

And thin crust and Sicilian pizza exists in Chicago, and is often quite good. Actually, people eat it more than deep dish - deep dish is kind of seen as something for tourists and special occasions.

Source: Have lived in Boston, Chicago, and NYC.

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Birdman781666 t1_ixi2xpo wrote

Yeah no hot subs though, which defeats the purpose. And all Chicago pizza is bad. Thin crust, deep dish. Even the way they cut the pizza is wrong.

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neonwattagelimit t1_ixihfmi wrote

Italian beef subs are usually served warm-to-hot. Pizza, well...let's just agree to disagree. :)

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DoinIt989 t1_ixn7q9y wrote

Chicago is very different from Boston/NYC.

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squarerootofapplepie t1_ixg4vj1 wrote

Most people would agree with me. Think of how Hollywood views Boston and New York.

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SmashRadish t1_ixgdpru wrote

If you want to see how Hollywood views boston, watch boondocks saints 2. To hollywood, we’re a city of Mexican gangs and there’s no HR department at any employer anywhere.

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MagicCuboid t1_ixg91qj wrote

Yeah I think it's just a matter of volume. NYC is so big, you can find a character on every block easy, and someone is probably willing to chat. I was amazed after a week in Brooklyn at how many strangers I chatted with.

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RortyIsDank t1_ixgce1m wrote

It’s that for sure but it’s also how the density of people in the big urban conglomerates shapes the cultures. I’ve traveled pretty widely across the USA, Asia and Europe and there’s something distinct about big urban conglomerates culturally but then also something else distinct about the big urban conglomerates of the us northeast. Hard to really describe but you can see and feel it if you’re a local after having traveled widely.

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MagicCuboid t1_ixi5uvl wrote

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I find the European cities are much more segregated by wealth, so the urban cores are typically just full of the wealthy and the tourists. In the Northeast, it's still segregated but it's more like block by block, so the "melting pot" feel is still kind of present

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SBLOU t1_ixhj1dy wrote

But that’s the charm of NY. I loved living there

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ser_pez t1_ixi3gyd wrote

I had to double check that this wasn’t showing up on my feed from r/NewJersey

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