Resided in, and worked in about 10 states in the US, not including when I traveled abroad in my younger years.
My family is from Pennsylvania, went to high school there and graduated from college there.
Every city has it's own beauty if you live there, and yes, I've worked in Philly. That said, for the most part, Philly really is trash, and if someone put a gun to my head and gave me the choice of Dallas or Philly, Dallas hands down
Now in the defense of ANY major metropolitan US city, I'd much rather be able to pee and shoot off my back porch (which I do now) vs taking the subway to work (which I use to do a very long time ago).
I'm what you could call an educated Appalachian American, even though my grandparents came off the boat in the early 1900's LOL