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Open Thread: It's Not Always Sunny in Philadelphia

November 13, 2006 at 4:26 PM | 0 Comments

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The internet is funny. We were just starting to warm up to Philadelphia again after a quite a long time recovering from the four years we lived in the "sixth borough" in the late 1990s.

Our brother site, Jaunted took a nice little trip there the other weekend, the Inn at Penn got a pretty sweet top-to-bottom renovation and even though the city's own journalists are disgusted by the growing murder rate, we felt that Philadelphia was still on its way up.

We even felt ourselves missing a cheesesteak from Geno's and Tastykakes from Wawa. (We tried Pat's once, but it felt like adultery.)

Then Philly Phanatic and his friends read a story we wrote about a W Hotel opening up in Philadelphia where we made a joke about Will Smith and called the city by its widely-used nickname, Filthydelphia and lo, and behold, hate mail has flooded our inboxes.

A sample piece of mail:

I am sure you think that "Filthydelphia" is so original, unfortunately someone phrased that long ago. How if found your pathetic website was through a friend who "Google'd" W hotels and Philadelphia.

Yeah, you think this is bad, you should see the mail we get from the people that find us by Googling Hotel Sex.

Anyways, here at HotelChatter we want to further the discussion about all cities and their hotel scene--from all sides. So let's open up a discussion shall we? Leave a comment below and let us know why Philly is an upandcomer where top hotels will flourish, or conversely, tell us why W Philly is just a little worse than W Hoboken. Discuss.

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