MA ranks as best state to raise a family (Boston: daycare, houses)

[matrix5k]

https://www.businessinsider.com/best...to-live-2024-1

Thought I'd post something positive for once. Let's see how many replies it takes to make it negative.

[G1..]

I can see that . All States have their problems but Massachusetts is a great place.

[tovarisch]

Happy to be raising my family here.

[newenglandgal123]

It's the best place to raise a family but only if you've got a lot of $$$.

[msRB311]

Not the first time I've seen something like this posted on this here.

MA is a nice place if you have a lot of money, don't need to commute, don't need daycare, enjoy sitting in traffic when you do visit Boston, are healthy and don't need to go to the dr often.

[BruinsGirl]

Not sure where it’s very good for poor and unhealthy. Should this happen I’d rather be sick in Mass…
Traffics mean people have somewhere to drive for work. Of course better public transportation would solve many issues, but it seems people don’t want it for many reasons. Many issues you described are rather by design.

Childcare? This is a though one. Do you want universal childcare? If not, then standards must be lowered. You cannot have 2 infants per caregiver or 6 kids per adult and expect lover childcare bill…

Everything can be way cheaper… but people wouldn’t be living in 2000+ sq ft houses per small family.

[newenglandgal123]

Originally Posted by BruinsGirl

Not sure where it’s very good for poor and unhealthy. Should this happen I’d rather be sick in Mass…
Traffics mean people have somewhere to drive for work. Of course better public transportation would solve many issues, but it seems people don’t want it for many reasons. Many issues you described are rather by design.

Childcare? This is a though one. Do you want universal childcare? If not, then standards must be lowered. You cannot have 2 infants per caregiver or 6 kids per adult and expect lover childcare bill…

Everything can be way cheaper… but people wouldn’t be living in 2000+ sq ft houses per small family.

That's the thing though...people are living in these big expensive houses and barely use all of the rooms....builders keep building mcmansions. Whatever happened to the quaint 1400-1800 sq foot homes of the 1950's? Plenty of families made them work back then and with people having less kids now...they should be able to make them work now too! It would be great if builders could start to build those instead of tearing them down and replacing with mcmansions at every corner.

[jcp123]

Winter?

It’s kind of breaking me over in WNY. I don’t really get how snow people function.

[htfdcolt]

Originally Posted by matrix5k

https://www.businessinsider.com/best...to-live-2024-1

Thought I'd post something positive for once. Let's see how many replies it takes to make it negative.

6 of the 10 states are in the Northeast! And 3 more in super cold climates (Dakotas, MN). Interesting.

[robr2]

Originally Posted by newenglandgal123

That's the thing though...people are living in these big expensive houses and barely use all of the rooms....builders keep building mcmansions. Whatever happened to the quaint 1400-1800 sq foot homes of the 1950's? Plenty of families made them work back then and with people having less kids now...they should be able to make them work now too! It would be great if builders could start to build those instead of tearing them down and replacing with mcmansions at every corner.

It’s the cost of land that makes 1950’s build unprofitable. Now if there wasn’t opposition to building house where you could reach out and touch your neighbors, then it might make sense.