Let me start with a confession, I've never actually lived in Philadelphia. Unless you count the first few months after I was born (a home birth on Green Street, because Wendy Forman is a superhero). My parents moved to Bucks County, PA when I was a toddler and I grew up in the small village of Carversville, which looks like this: not Philadelphia. (photo by phillyburbs.com ) I did spend a day each week at my grandparents apartment in The Parkway House in Philadelphia though,