No PG is a big drawback, but you're wrong about Philly. Philly's got lots of great restaurants most of which are BYOB, plenty of cool live music spots, great

No PG is a big drawback, but you're wrong about Philly. Philly's got lots of great restaurants most of which are BYOB, plenty of cool live music spots, great bars, cheap taxis, way more affordable downtown housing, etc. A friend of mine pays what I'm paying in rent: he lives in a spacious apartment overlooking the waterfront in Philly; I live in a tiny third-floor walk-up a mile away from the closest T stop outside Davis Square. Crime is starting to become a problem there again, but other than that it's a great place to live.