The 100 Best Places to Raise a Family

[ute4ever]

Some of the rationale for ranking Honolulu #1 was:

-Schools spend almost $9,000 per pupil
-Unemployment ranks less than half the national average
-The island has 125 beaches

And this one's for SU:
In #54 Seattle, the residents spend $266 per person annually to maintain the city's parks.

[Surfah]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

This may be true. But people in the Marmonte League own the businesses where the Foothill league residents work.

PS if you cant tell, i still hate canyon.

Well then those owners pay a nice salary because Santa Clarita ain't cheap.

No worries, I hate Canyon too.

[Surfah]

Originally Posted by ute4ever

Some of the rationale for ranking Honolulu #1 was:

-Schools spend almost $9,000 per pupil
-Unemployment ranks less than half the national average
-The island has 125 beaches

And this one's for SU:
In #54 Seattle, the residents spend $266 per person annually to maintain the city's parks.

Honolulu is also the ice capitol of the world. I wonder if Best Life has ever watched Dog the Bounty Hunter.

[ERCougar]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

The secret is don't do too much at one time. I forgot to mention I took my 7 year old and four year old boys to the recently completed ancient Roman/Renaissance art exhibit from the Louvre here in Seattle. The ancient Roman stuff (where were breathtaking, I felt better than the Met's permanent Classical exhibit) resonated because we've been reading books on Classical antiquity.

Elementary school tours are a staple and a daily activity at art museums everywhere.

At $15-25 entry to these places, I'm not keen to taking my kids in for a half-hour visit. Part of the limiting factor is our 18-month old. But my 4 and 7 yr olds are both very bright and interested in things, but they're also normal--in the sense that they like to explore, like to touch, etc. Traditional museums aren't real keen on this.

[Mars]

Honolulu #1? Great place to vacation, but Hawaii is a pretty racist state to try to live in. Besides expensive. And cut off from the rest of the world.

Obviously cost of living, crime, pollution, and gang violence weren't included as a part of this list...

Now Flint, Michigan at the bottom of the worst I can understand. I dare you to raise kids there without them joining a gang or at least seeing a shooting take place.

I also get Utah missing from that list. Sure, Provo's Museum of Natural History displays Shasta the famous Liger, but what after that? Hogle Zoo is a sad joke. The aquarium in SLC is even worse. There's no professional football, baseball, or hockey team. Perhaps the biggest tourist attraction is the Tulips at Thanksgiving Point, which are dead under snow 8 months of the year. The Dinosaur Museum there (with IMAX screen) ain't too bad though.

Utahns actually think of Lagoon as a theme park!!

[Brian]

Albuquerque at 46?
You couldn't pay me enough to live in Albucracky.

[Tex]

Originally Posted by TripletDaddy

How would you know, liar?

The spirit.

[creekster]

Originally Posted by FarrahWaters

Denton is just north of Dallas, and about a three hour drive from Waco.

. Oh.

nevermind.

[Cali Coug]

Originally Posted by SeattleUte

This whole thing is stupid. What is Best Life magazine anyway? THough I do hold it against Utah that it's so barren of cultural amenities including museums. That is bad for children.

I actually agree there. Utah really needs to get its act together with museums. I am still furious with downtown SLC (read Anderson) for not jumping at the opportunity to take all of the dinosaur bones from BYU for FREE. SLC could have a world class natural history museum right downtown, but they didn't have the vision to put it together (or an Olympic park, or (so far) an arts district). It is a travesty. Instead, they wound up at Thanksgiving Point. I get angry every time I drive past it.

Anderson did a lot of good things for the city, but the biggest things of all he totally dropped the ball on (including RSL's stadium, which should also be downtown and not in Sandy).

[marsupial]

Originally Posted by surfah33

Santa Clarita doesn't have any museums that I can remember. They have the Oak of the Golden Dream monument where gold was discovered when a man napped beneath a tree, dreamed of gold and awoke hungry pulling up some wild onions under the tree only to find some gold nuggets.

But Santa Clarita has Six Flags!