so since i’ve been sick and stuck in my apartment for the past couple days, i’ve been frequenting Stumble Upon and i made my way to wikipedia and reading up on a couple interesting locations. whilst i was reading about those locations, i said to myself, “self, why don’t you read about where you’ve lived?” so i promptly looked up cherry hill, nj and brighton township (beaver), pa. i’ve found out some really interesting things about the both of them and i’ll list some here so you can get the gist of where i moved to vs. where i came from.

size: BT- 19 sq mi; CH- 24.4 sq mi

population: BT- 8,024; CH- 71,586

avg income: BT- $58,895; CH- $95,559

demographics: BT- 97.96% white; CH- 84.67% white

things are just… different. cherry hill’s site makes mention to their spectacular school district and blue ribbon honor schools while neither beaver nor bright township make mention of any schools or even a school district. the population density is ridiculous too. cherry hill has a density of 2,934 ppl/sq mi vs. brighton township’s 422 ppl/sq mi. heck, the whole of beaver county only has 2 1/2 times as many people and 18 times more land!!!

it’s safe to say i live in po-dunk, pa right outside of REALLY po-dunk, pa. just thought that all was interesting.

update: in 2006, cherry hill was named one of the ‘best places to live’ in america by money magazine and was also rated the eighth (8th) safest place to live in the same survey. how ‘bout them apples?