Advantages to living in Philadelphia... (pt 1)

So I often find myself kind of frustrated with Philadelphia; being that it's far from family and friends, many of the people are jerks, near constant Eagles coverage on the radio, generally dirty, etc... So I've been trying to focus on some of the things that I do like about the city so that I realize that it really isn't that bad. So I'm going to start a series in which I list things that I actually like about Philly (and hopefully help me when I've been a lazy blogger).

Advantage No. 1 to living in Philly: It's close to nearly everything on the East Coast. We're centrally located between NYC, Baltimore/DC, not too far from Boston, an hour a later from Atlantic City/beach, and so on and so forth... Since UL joined the Big East 3 years ago we've been able to go to a lot of their away games (we just went to Rutgers today, we're going to Seton Hall next weekend). So it may seem a little tongue-in-cheek to say that my favorite thing about Philly is that it so much closer to better places; but it's true, you can't really beat the location.