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This thread is pointless without discussing income level. LA and the Bay Area have some great places to live but you need at least 5%er income to afford the housing. If you're a white collar professional with white collar professional income and want high performing schools attended by the children of other white collar professionals, you're far more likely to find that in the Bay Area. The education level of metro Phoenix is very low so you have to search carefully to find adequate schools.
For the Bay Area it almost comes with the territory. If you live there your income is likely to be high, at least if you're in the right industry. With COL being so high as well it's a wash, making 150k there you might as well make 80k in a lower COL area. However, the QOL in the Bay Area is one of the best in the USA in my mind, so even if you're equally as wealthy making 150K vs 75K elsewhere, you probably live a better lifestyle than say in Salt Lake City or something.
Obviously there are some good schools there too, but I don't quite understand the rationale of the OP, claiming this is about kids having an 'amazing' childhood, and then defining that by how long commute times are? Then we are told to consider a 'sense of community'-but how does one have that in a neighborhood that was built, like last week? Then we are told he/she assumes Phoenix has 'amazing' suburbs and we are simultaneously told that he/she assumes the Bay Area, the wealthiest, most highly educated metro region, in the country, is 'not family friendly'. That is just strange if you ask me.
But what can we do when people prefer to go by 'assumptions'.
Note the study is limited to public schools and in Arizona charter schools are a big part of the system. The details matter
Note the study is limited to public schools and in Arizona charter schools are a big part of the system. The details matter
Charter schools are factored into US News' high school rankings.
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