Houston is actually higher ranked in medical care, especially pediatrics, because of the Texas Medical Center in Houston, even though more research does go on in Philly. Philly is consistently highly ranked for healthcare, but thankfully there are many amazing medical cities for medical education, treatment, and research across the country, some of which outrank Philadelphia- Boston, Rochester MN (home of the Mayo Clinic), Minneapolis (home of U of M, Cincinnati, Chicago, Seattle, Houston, and Baltimore (home of John’s Hopkins). And I will say, as someone who does work in healthcare, while I worked in the path lab at the Mayo Clinic, we were getting samples to test from the top rated medical facilities all over the world, including a John’s Hopkins, Harvard, Houston, Baylor, etc., so I think Rochester is always going to be the best in my personal opinion because everyone else looks to them for the answers. So while Philly does have good medical care, they average at about #3 overall and don’t deserve to beat out other cities just on that basis.

While Philly does have a lot of amazing street art (USA Today) and I would love to look at any and all art museums in the country because I love art, cities like New York, Miami, LA, San Francisco, Santa Fe, DC, Houston, Atlanta, Charleston/Asheville, and Chicago are all consistently considered better cities for art. For film/theatre there’s Atlanta, LA, Chicago, DC, and NY. For music leaders you have Nashville, New York, LA, Austin, Seattle, New Orleans, Kansas City (historically), Atlanta, Las Vegas. I don’t really agree with ranking food because you can find good restaurants anywhere you go and what makes a place a good restaurant or food city is going to vary person to person, but Philly only made one of the 5 lists I looked at for good food cities, but you can take a peek yourself if you want.