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Philadelphia, PA vs Deerfield, IL

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#7 Sperlings Skincare Wrinkle Ranking

#7 Sleep in the City Study

#7 Second Annual “America’s Manliest Cities” Rankings

#7 Best Block Party Places

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#9 Gloomiest Places in America

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#13 Sleepless Cities 2011

#14 Best Baseball Cities

#14 Cities on the Edge of Greatness

#16 Stressful Cities 2012

#16 America's Most Playful Cities

#16 Most and Least Risky Places for Identity Theft

#17 Most Irritation Prone Cities

#19 The Most Single Cities

#19 America's Best Cities for a Healthy Retirement

#20 America's Top Hygge Cities

#21 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Smallest Metro Areas)

#22 Most Romantic Cities for Boomers

#24 Americas Manliest Cites 2011

#25 Best US Cities for Seniors 2011

#26 America's Most (and Least) Stressful Cities (100 Largest Metro Areas)

#27 Most Comfortable Summer Cities

#27 Most Competitive Private Colleges

#27 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating

#29 Healthiest Cities

#29 Worst Cities for Respiratory Infections

#31 Best Cities for Board Gamers

#34 America's Best and Worst Cities for Crime (Large Metro Areas)

#35 America's Riskiest Online Cities

#35 Failure To Lunch

#36 The Most (and Least) Gender Imbalanced Cities

#36 Hypertension Hot Spots

#45 2005 High Gas Prices

#46 America’s Manliest Cities

#46 America’s Manliest Sports Cities

#49 Fiscally Fit Cities Report

#55 America’s Best (and Worst) Cities for Dating

#57 High Gas Prices - Which Cities are Hit the Hardest?

#77 Drought-Riskiest Cities

#82 Most Popular Cities for the Holidays

#90 America's Migraine Hot Spots

#155 2005 Best Places to Live

#192 Best Green Cities

Philadelphia is a very walkable and fun city to explore (albeit be aware of where not to explore at least at night). The city has beautiful old architecture , great  More

I’m originally from New York City, then lived in a small city in upstate New York for eight years, then moved down to Philadelphia and have lived here for many years.  More

Now the only reason some people disagree is because MONEY. If you live in “manayunk” (which I lived for 2 years) you can’t compare … you can’t compare your out skirt  More

We moved to Deerfield in 1994, and loved it so much we moved across town 16 years later. Top-ranked schools, excellent home values, and friendly neighbors are all big  More

The school system is the reason we moved here 15 years ago. Great  More