Best Places to Raise a Family 7/30/2008
Best Life magazine offers another guide to where the best places are to raise a family.
Their top picks?
- Honolulu, Hawaii
- Virginia Beach, Virginia
- Billings, Montana
- Columbus, Georgia
- San Diego, California
They make these claims based on the availability of good schools with favorable student-teacher ratios and above-average test scores, and the availability of museums, parks, and pediatricians. Supposedly, these places do not have expensive houses, high rates of divorces, or expensive homes.
That is surprising, when you consider that both Honolulu and San Diego are on many lists of the least affordable places to live. In fact, the median price of a new single family home in Honolulu is $620,000, as compared to the median price of $231,000 in the United States.
On the plus side, Honolulu is one of the cleanest U.S. cities and is considered one of the safest places to live, since except for the occasional hurricane, tsunamis, or volcano eruption, it is not considered prone to natural disasters, such as earthquakes, tornadoes, brush fires, wind, or hail storms.
You will likely find Virginia Beach and San Diego a little pricey too, so the list may be making some assumptions on how much money this family who is looking for a best place has.