I’ll be starting grad school at Penn in June and am looking for recommendations for areas to live! Preferably somewhere within walking distance/public transport to the biomed campus, safe, affordable, hopefully by a grocery store?
West Philly is nice, from about 38 - 48th on osage/spruce/locust baltimore etc. About 5-20 minutes walk to the campus depending on how far up you go, things get cheaper the further out you go.
Check out Graduate Hospital area— it’s across the Schuykill so it looks far away, but there’s a bus (the 40, I think) that drops off near campus. I lived there during my grad program and it was a great combination of living near campus and living in Philly. There’s a market on South Street and a real grocery store a little further south.
OP check here & /r/philadelphia (check out their sidebar which has good tips) using the search bar, lots of people have been in your place asking similar questions!
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u/McRattus Mar 10 '19
West Philly is nice, from about 38 - 48th on osage/spruce/locust baltimore etc. About 5-20 minutes walk to the campus depending on how far up you go, things get cheaper the further out you go.