New City Rankings Best and Worst to Raise Children (difference, school, NYC)

[tmac9wr]

Originally Posted by DailyJournalist

Childrens Health Magazine has an agenda?

Soon the Sunbelt will be destroyed. Excellent, alllll the pieces are falling into place..

[johnatl]

^LOL tmac9wr! That about sums it up pretty accurately.

I predict your post will become the new screen saver for a huge chunk of the forum.

[tpk-nyc]

I went to a (private) high school in Honolulu (No. 7) and live in New York City (No. 15, and arguably Nos. 10 and 13 as well). They are wonderful places to raise kids if you have a lot of money. I don't have kids, but I would be hesitant to send a child to public school in either of those places.

If they considered education and housing, I don't think they considered the cost of education and housing compared with other cities. Some of the top cities (Honolulu, NYC, San Francisco, Boston) are for very affluent families.

Perhaps that's the magazine's demographic?

[Boston14]

Boston 21 out of 100 thats good

[uptown_urbanist]

I think NYC would be one of the best places around to raise children if we could afford to do so.

Fargo, ND (#2 on the list)? Um, no, at least not for me, although it's definitely a lot cheaper than NYC.

So much of this is purely subjective. But that's not the point, of course; the point is to sell magazines.

[BelieveInCleve]

Cleveland 6th worst.

No surprise there, we're usually close to the worst (top 10), or the worst on every list.

[WeSoHood]

This is definitely inner city, not the metro area!

Kinda funny though, Honolulu public schools are some of the worst/most corrupt yet it's near the top! BTW I was raised there Seems like another "list" with little facts to back it up.

[WeSoHood]

Originally Posted by tpk-nyc

I went to a (private) high school in Honolulu (No. 7) and live in New York City (No. 15, and arguably Nos. 10 and 13 as well). They are wonderful places to raise kids if you have a lot of money. I don't have kids, but I would be hesitant to send a child to public school in either of those places.

If they considered education and housing, I don't think they considered the cost of education and housing compared with other cities. Some of the top cities (Honolulu, NYC, San Francisco, Boston) are for very affluent families.

Perhaps that's the magazine's demographic?

I think you are dead on. Most polls are skewed to the target market. Honolulu public schools are horrendous. If you are wealthy, you can certainly go to a nice school like Punahou, etc... So Honolulu is NOT ideal to raise a kid if you aren't wealthy... at all. I just can't agree with that list one bit.

[cdw1084]

Originally Posted by tmac9wr

Soon the Sunbelt will be destroyed. Excellent, alllll the pieces are falling into place..

LOL..the sunbelt isn't the target by terrorist though

[JHG722]

I guess it could've been worse for Philly. Not bad.