Born, raised, married, work and have spent my entire 51 years in Philly with the occasional vacation in other locales. Spent 4 years at Temple U gettin' my degree. Weather-wise we have it better than most other places in that we have 4 seasons, not too much with temperature extremes and while we have our share of bad weather, we usually miss out on direct hits from hurricanes, tornados, hail, etc. The ocean and NYC are both 1.5 hours away. If you drive 1 hour south or west of Philly, you are entering the Twilight Zone and the marked difference between these areas and Philly is nite and day. In that it turns into the Southern Bible Belt (attitudes, drawl, NASCAR, ETC). Sometimes I swear we are only 10 miles north of the Carolinas. ahhahhaha