As a few folks have mentioned previously, our economy is pretty diverse and likely much better suited to weather the ups-and-downs of the oil market these days.Two things will always be true: I.

that being said Philadelphia is where New York, Boston and D.C. money is flowing... so is the culture, restaurants, industries, etc. 

In this PC culture, it was recommended for everyone to drop that word and use "Housing Provider" going forward.Seems to make sense, which I'm going to do.

I don't think it will be this way forever so I want to take advantage of the opportunity I have to change the culture here. 

Again, I wouldn't think of W-2 income as a diversion.

The market is very diverse.

In NYC they already pay in Crypto for private schools etc...culturally speaking it is being adopted faster there as expected perhaps. 

It's about neighborhood culture.

After our talk, I slunk away and immediately deleted the offending diversions in a crazy experiment to see if I would miss them.

FWIW in an apartment not house market with wide diversity in size and amenities even if it's all 2br 1b, it's often pretty hard to figure out exactly where market is other than trial and error.