Philadelphia Guides

Philadelphia + Related Local Legal Archives

Some of these are for Philadelphia, some for other cities and states. These are legacy archives that are rich in data and manually updated:

San Diego Lawyers And Attorneys Guide

Philadelphia Apartment Reviews List

I was kind of surprised to find out how inexpensive (compared to San Diego where I used to live) the rents are in the Philadelphia area for nice apartments. For a large city, there seemed to be some really good deals when I began to investigate online. Broad ranges in pricing however as with any area, what you pay at the low end you lose in cleanliness, safety (good neighborhoods), noise level, and access to central facilities such as highways.

Outside the Philly area such as Norristown the rents are fairly decent. You can get a nice 2 bedroom for under a thousand dollars a month. That's really not bad and affordable for even students and those on strict budgets, as long as you share the rent.

Here are some of the resource sI looked at:

www.apartmentguide.com/apartments/Pennsylvania/Philadelphia/
philadelphia.apartments.com/
phillyapartmentco.com
passport-offices.info/index.php?q=Philadelphia

Philadelphia Museums Online

There is a site known as "Museum Stuff" that has been around for over a decade. - The guy who runs it is Roy Hemmat and he's worked tirelessly on it for many of the years. Every so often he does a major update and site redesign. He just did one this year and the section for Philadelphia museums looks very complete.

Philadelphia Health Solutions

There are more than 1 and a half million people living and working in the greater Philadelphia area. It's an ethnically diverse region with approximately half white and half mixed (black, Asian, Native American, Hispanic, etc). About one third of Philadelphians have children under 18. (Philly demographics)

These are fairly average statistics for North Eastern cities with an economic historical base of manufacturing and trade. Although the economy has hit most cities with manufacturing and technology sectors, the lower income groups of Phily have taken a particularly severe hit since 2010. This has affected the healthcare delivery for lower and middle class families and individuals especially those with children under the ages of 10.

Some of the public health centers, neighborhood health clinics for example, have been losing government funding since 2000, naturally this has led to a decline in preventive care for adults and particularly pregnant women. The College of Physicians in Philadelphia has attempted to ease some of this lose in preventive health care by providing online resources such as Philly Health Info. Also the Philadelphia City Public Health Department provides resources online through http://www.phila.gov/health/.

There are some cities that have fared more favorably during the recession than Philadelphia, and their public and preventive health delivery networks have been augmented with private health delivery, in some cases alternative health such as chiropractic in San Diego and acupuncture in Portland Oregon. Some other cities that have strived to offer favorable business environments for private health systems are Houston, Milwaukee, San Francisco and Cleveland.

Philadelphia Museums

Philadelphia is known for it's place as an important historical and cultural center of American tradition. I've spent enough time in the area to have been fortunate to visit several of the art museums and MOST of the history and science ones. One of my favorite museums is the Academy of Natural Sciences on Benjamin Franklin Parkway.