100 Best Places To Raise Kids

[Wilfredo Ledezma]

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Top 100

1 Honolulu, Hawaii (Schools spend almost $9,000 per pupil, unemployment ranks less than half the national average, and you can play on the island of O'ahu's 125 beaches.)
2 Virginia Beach, Virginia
3 Billings, Montana
4 Columbus, Georgia
5 San Diego, California
6 Des Moines, Iowa
7 Minneapolis, Minnesota
8 Madison, Wisconsin (Madison has a high number of pediatricians per capita.)
9 Colorado Springs, Colorado
10 Santa Rosa, California
11 Wichita, Kansas
12 Los Angeles, California
13 Corona, California
14 Austin, Texas
15 Stamford, Connecticut
16 Omaha, Nebraska
17 Naperville, Illinois
18 Fort Wayne, Indiana
19 Springfield, Illinois
20 Boise, Idaho
21 Manchester, New Hampshire
22 South Bay Area, California
23 New York, New York
24 Fontana, California
25 Louisville, Kentucky
26 Plano, Texas
27 Oceanside, California
28 Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
29 Sacramento, California
30 Ann Arbor, Michigan
31 Reno, Nevada
32 Las Vegas, Nevada
33 Lincoln, Nebraska
34 San Bernardino, California
35 Grand Rapids, Michigan
36 Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina (Median value of a home: $202,733)
37 Kansas City, Kansas
38 Fremont, California
39 Buffalo, New York
40 Berkeley, California
41 Cambridge, Massachusetts
42 Kansas City, Missouri
43 Waterbury, Connecticut
44 Syracuse, New York
45 Phoenix, Arizona
46 Albuquerque, New Mexico
47 Akron, Ohio
48 Boston, Massachusetts
49 Escondido, California
50 Fairfield, California
51 Antioch, California
52 Elgin, Illinois
53 Rochester, New York
54 Seattle, Washington (Residents spend $266 per person annually to maintain the city's parks.)
55 Tucson, Arizona
56 Santa Clarita, California
57 Denver, Colorado
58 Indianapolis, Indiana
59 Glendale, Arizona
60 Chicago, Illinois
61 Atlanta, Georgia
62 San Antonio, Texas
63 Mobile, Alabama
64 Concord, California
65 Denton, Texas
66 Coral Springs, Florida
67 San Francisco, California
68 Cedar Rapids, Iowa
69 El Paso, Texas (Classrooms average fewer than 16 students for every teacher.)
70 San Buenaventura, California
71 Worcester, Massachusetts
72 Baltimore, Maryland
73 Richmond, California
74 Lowell, Massachusetts
75 Portland, Oregon
76 Jacksonville, Florida
77 Fort Collins, Colorado
78 Orlando, Florida
79 Modesto, California
80 Montgomery, Alabama
81 Tampa, Florida
82 Salinas, California
83 Newport News, Virginia
84 Oakland, California
85 Augusta, Georgia
86 Fort Worth, Texas
87 Washington, D.C.
88 Tulsa, Oklahoma (Residents spend just 17 minutes commuting to work.)
89 Bellevue, Washington
90 Cincinnati, Ohio
91 McKinney, Texas
92 St. Louis, Missouri
93 Hayward, California
94 Midland, Texas
95 Sterling Heights, Michigan
96 Greensboro, North Carolina
97 Arlington, Texas
98 Alexandria, Virginia
99 Winston-Salem, North Carolina
100 Lexington, Kentucky

I grew up, and still reside in Sterling Heights, and I have to say that once you get past all the Albanians, Cheldeans, Macedonians, Ukranians and Romanians, it's not that bad. Now is it top 100??? Well...

[Wilfredo Ledezma]

Also, I think it's laugable that Buffalo is ranked 39th, I've been to that city countless times and each time it's been more depressing than the last.

[DrRay11]

I think a lot of the list is pretty laughable...

[Glenn]

Where's Flint?

[Tahoe]

Los Angeles is friggin 12th? R u kidding me?

New York city is a good place to raise kids?

This list was composed by some artsie fartsie type, imo. I don't discount culture and shit as not important in a kids life, but a yard is kind of nice for kids too.

[Timone]

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I grew up, and still reside in Sterling Heights, and I have to say that once you get past all the Albanians, Cheldeans, Macedonians, Ukranians and Romanians, it's not that bad. Now is it top 100??? Well...

Let's fight. Pick a time and a place.

[Uncle Mxy]

Los Angeles is friggin 12th? R u kidding me?

New York city is a good place to raise kids?

This list was composed by some artsie fartsie type, imo. I don't discount culture and shit as not important in a kids life, but a yard is kind of nice for kids too.

Judging from the list's contents and comments, it was done by someone using dumb-ass statistics. It's clear that little things like the cost-of-living weren't properly factored into the equation. Ahh... there it is in the article:

Best Life editors used these categories and data from the U.S. Census Bureau, National Center for Education Statistics, FBI, American Association of Museums, National Center for Health Statistics, and American Bar Association to evaluate 257 cities.

The comment for the #1 city amused me...

Honolulu, Hawaii (Schools spend almost $9,000 per pupil

...since the NATIONAL average is almost $9k per student.

Oh, here's Flint:

The 10 Worst Places to Raise a Family (from best to worst)

Springfield, Missouri
Dayton, Ohio
Corpus Christi, Texas
Flint, Michigan (Country's highest violent-crime rate)
Columbia, South Carolina
Waco, Texas
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Fayetteville, North Carolina
Beaumont, Texas (Long-standing air-quality challenges)
Clarksville, Tennessee (Low educational spending: $6,729 per student)

Sterling Heights? Uh, yeah, whatever.

[Big Swami]

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I grew up, and still reside in Sterling Heights, and I have to say that once you get past all the Albanians, Cheldeans, Macedonians, Ukranians and Romanians, it's not that bad. Now is it top 100??? Well...

Don't forget the Greeks!

No seriously, Sterling Heights is the rudest, angriest city in America. It easily shuts out Philadelphia.

[Zip Goshboots]

What the fuck is it with people and their goddamm precious fucking kids? The best place to raise them is wehrever the fuck you have them.
But since 99% of the world is incapable of supporting the kids they have and raising them in a beneficial way, or will get divorced, or abuse their spouse or the kid, who the flying fuck gives a fuck where you spit out the little fucking gametes?
Fuck people who think their fucking kids are any more special than anbody else's kids. 99% of them are mistakes. The REAL reason we get married. The reason we get divorced. The tool we use to fuck the ex over with. And the reason we get divorced again. They're the reason we're fucking miserable.
Serously, go walking through the mall any day and watch the spiritually dead fucks who crawl through yelling at their kid "Hey, come back here" "Don't touch that" Or this one "Go in there and take that XXX and stuff it down your pants and meet me at the All Tel kiosk"

Fuck that shit. By the way, the BEST place to raise your kid IS fucking Honolulu. You say "Oh my pussy hurts! Honolulu is expensive!" But guess what fucktard? You're broke in Happyville, USA, and there ain't no goddamm beach nearby, and it ain't 85 and sunny every day, and your a miserable fuck who has to visit your in laws twice a month or you won't get a blow job every six months from your fat ass mily white suburban housewife who is fucking her boss anyway, now will you? BUT OH NO, CAN'T live in Honolulu, and surf, and tan, and eat all that good food, and it just wouldn;t work out, so I'll kive in Skokie Illinois, which is a good place to raise children and POW SOMEBODY SHOOT ME IN THE FUCKING BRAIN NOW.
Thank you, and enjoy driving your Hick Mobiles and paying $6.00 per gallon of gas!

[geerussell]

I grew up, and still reside in Sterling Heights, and I have to say that once you get past all the Albanians, Cheldeans, Macedonians, Ukranians and Romanians, it's not that bad. Now is it top 100??? Well...

Let's fight. Pick a time and a place.

Who knew you felt that strongly about Flip Saunders.