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Originally Posted by skyscraper
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Obviously glad for the press. But what's interesting about this particular analysis is that it doesn't define how the data points are calculated. I mean, it says Portland scores the highest in Transportation (above NYC even) and NYC has the highest score for quality of life.
Seriously?
Point being, these things always reflect the biases of the authors more than anything else.
In short. The author thinks it should go to Austin, because that's what everyone is supposed to believe and that's where pop culture would suggest it goes. But the statistics, if they were done honestly, would show Philly as a clear favorite. But instead, they probably got that result and said, NO. How can we tweak this. So they go back and massage arbitrary metrics like "quality of life" to make Philly come out worse.
Also, Atlanta has the second highest score for Human Capital? No.
Anyways. I like our chances a lot.
I think Austin is eliminated based on lack of transportation and the lack of will to solve the problem. Texas might be super business friendly, but Austin is already a sprawling gridlocked city without meaningful public transportation. This will only make it worse. And it's almost as expensive as Seattle as is.
I really think the two top contenders are us and Atlanta. They're two very different choices and culturally two very different places, but they meet most of the requirements. We meet them in a more genuine way, but Atlanta has made some meaning progress toward fixing their shortfalls where they exist (in terms of transportation, etc). It's still congested AF there though.
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Other than that, there's absolutely NO reason for Philly to be on that list. 
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