For us history majors or anyone good with us history?

Question

Which of the New England or middle colonies would you have preferred to live in? Explain your answer by discussing your selection’s social, economic, political, religious, and ethnic characteristics.

Answer 1

Pennsylvania
The English settled heavily in the southeastern counties, which soon lost frontier characteristics and became the center of a thriving agricultural and commercial society. Philadelphia became the metropolis of the British colonies and a center of intellectual and commercial life.
from http://www.legis.state.pa.us/WU01/VC/visitor_info/pa_history/pa_history.htm
1698 February 12 The first public school in the America Colonies was established at Philadelphia
1719 First fire engine bought by any municipality for public purposes.
December 22 The American Weekly Mercury, the first newspaper established in the Middle Colonies, was issued at Philadelphia by William Bradford.
1732 The Philadelphia Hospital, the oldest in America, was established in connection with the Philadelphia Almshouse.
from http://www.ushistory.org/Philadelphia/philadelphiafirsts.html
By connecting this patchwork of agricultural communities to the global economy of the 18th century, Philadelphia quickly became the busiest port in all the colonies. And Penn’s “city of brotherly love” would become the model for their new nation. With such a thriving economy, radically diverse populations and central location, it should come as no surprise that the contrasting colonies united in Philadelphia to plot a revolution.
from http://www.gophila.com/C/X/385_/Things_to_Do/211/History/209.html

Answer 2

Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. They were rabble rousers from the outset, wouldn't take pressure from bigger states at the Constitutional Convention and walked out, and their land was some of the richest and most fertile in the American Colonies. They didn't "take it" and stood up to tyranny and repression (especially among the Puritans) from an early age. It made them the real thinkers, doers and achievers of Colonial America.