<p>well, let another philadelphian in here. Temple is in North Philly. If you’ve not been raised in a city, the neighborhood Temple is in might put you off. Having said that, my mother-in-law graduated from Temple at 70 years of age. Took her 6 years, but she never had any problems. So you either know how to move thru a city and its rougher neighborhoods or you don’t. If you walk outside Temple’s campus by yourself, with your head down, reading your latest texts, your buds in, you’ll get in trouble sooner rather than later.</p>
<p>Penn and Drexel are close to each other. I would not call neighborhoods on all sides of both campuses “very safe.” Some of the Penn dorms have been the targets of off-campus rapists in the past. Personally, I love the area. I wrote a dissertation at Penn. I don’t think they’re any more dangerous than most areas of large cities. Again, you have to be sober, aware of your surroundings, and moving in groups outside of either campus.</p>
<p>Here’s a map of West Philly, where Penn and Drexel adjoin, and of incarcerations per thousand. Penn and Drexel are in zip code 19104. You can see that the zip code the schools are in is less safe than downtown (the gray areas to the right of 19104) and the zip codes on all sides of 19104 are less safe than 19104, as suggested by the number of incarcerations per thousand. I hope this helps. Temple is in 19122.</p>
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