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11-26-2007, 09:09 PM
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Best Places to Raise your Kids???
I saw this today on Yahoo:
Surprise? Well no CA, NV, AZ cities on this list. 
Great Places to Raise Kids - For Less - Yahoo! Real Estate |
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11-27-2007, 02:57 PM
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Try Michigan. There's kids everywhere, making lots of noise too. |
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11-30-2007, 03:53 PM
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I always have to laugh at those surveys. They are always so generalized. What might be important to one family may not matter to another. Most of the places listed are rural. This may appeal to some but to me I would much rather be close to services that I regularily use. You could select 10 random people from 10 different cities/states and they would all give you different opinions on what is important to them when raising their children.
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11-30-2007, 04:11 PM
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The majority are small, isolated towns. Sure, they may look good on paper, but small towns are also known for having the highest rates of teen drinking, smoking, etc.
I do have to second Buffalo Grove, IL though - I used to live in a neighboring town, and the area is superb.
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11-30-2007, 04:24 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by 5kingsinvegas
I always have to laugh at those surveys. They are always so generalized. What might be important to one family may not matter to another.
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I agree, I find them ridiculous. Different people care about different things, and even factors like test scores at schools don't tell you very much. But when you've got a media outlet, you've got to fill your space with something. ;-) |
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11-30-2007, 04:40 PM
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I had just gotten back from Michigan when i posted. lol I was caught in the middle of a pillow fight with a 7 and 11 yr old.
As for raising kids, people have done it since time began wherever they happened to live. It's not any different here.
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11-30-2007, 04:40 PM
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Seeing how Matawan, NJ and Echelon, NJ made the top 20, I put absolutely zero faith in that survey- neither of them is what I'd call an ideal place to raise a kid- not that they're in the middle of the ghetto or anything, but there's nothing in either of those towns that you couldn't find in thousands of other small towns across the country. This survey is even more useless than Money Magazine's "Best Places to Live" survey.
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11-30-2007, 04:46 PM
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I agree, Bob...the ones in New York look like pretty obscure places, too.
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