<p>Came across this article and it made me wonder if any CCers live in any of these areas? I think I have only been to two of these towns.</p>
<p>What article??</p>
<p>Please link</p>
<p>You mean the Business Week article on best towns to raise kids?
I saw it in yahoo news.</p>
<p>Nothing from my current home state is on there, but I was disappointed to see how far off some of their maps were. (Two towns in Tennessee and one in Kentucky were wildly misplaced that I noticed–probably others, too).</p>
<p>Also, I was amused to read about “barrels of hay.” I never knew hay came in barrels. . .</p>
<p>I wouldn’t take it seriously. (If so many small towns in central Nebraska are so great, why don’t more people live there?)</p>
<p>If it is the Business week one, here’s the link (but it’s annoying to navigate): [Best</a> Places to Raise Your Kids, 2007 - BusinessWeek](<a href=“http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/11/1116_bestplaces_kids/index_01.htm]Best”>http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/11/1116_bestplaces_kids/index_01.htm)</p>
<p>My home state is completely missing as well. Most towns listed are in the same few states.</p>
<p>For practical reasons, wouldn’t it be much better if the did an article on </p>
<p>The Best Way to Raise Your Kids instead of Best Places?</p>
<p>Honestly, I don’t think it matters to much where you raise your kids as long as there are a good set of parents behind them.</p>
<p>Sorry…but the weather in Nebraska and near Buffalo would put a lot of those top 50 off of my list. Brrr…and snowy too.</p>
<p>I’m from Brooklyn, NY which is probably THE WORST place to raise your children.</p>
<p>I had no idea there were that many places with names in Nebraska.</p>
<p>Brought to you by the Nebraska Chamber of Commerce…</p>
<p>[Great</a> Places to Raise Kidsfor Less](<a href=“Businessweek - Bloomberg”>Businessweek - Bloomberg)</p>
<p>Yes, I have become senile! Here is article, which is the one posted above (and it is a pain to navigate)</p>
<p>I would not want to live in a town with a population of 128 that’s 169 miles from the nearest city. I’d go stir crazy.</p>
<p>Our town made the list about 10 years ago, and it’s still a nice place to live! (And it’s not in the middle of nowhere.)</p>
<p>Make that about 15 years ago. It was before we moved here, which was 13 years ago. Time flies when you’re raising kids.</p>
<p>my town used to be like #3.</p>
<p>not anymore…dunno why.</p>
<p>Hey, hey, I live a mile from Clarence Center, NY. Clarence Public School District is fantastic, the cold weather enlivens the Buffalo Bills, but it’s a solid 40 minute drive to true downtown Buffalo where there are cultural resources (Albright Knox Museum, Buff Philharmonic, Shea’s Theater, several Frank Lloyd Wright homes). Niagara Falls is a quick drive away, so that’s mighty beautiful. Housing costs are low. New builds of 3000 square feet go for $300-350K. There’s an international airport within l0 minutes, no traffic jam on the way to it.</p>
<p>Best thing is that nobody here thinks they’re so great. That IS what makes them great. </p>
<p>It’s an entirely white, upper-middle-class population with some old rural roots. To me that’s not such a “great” place to raise kids because I expect mine to be able to work among a diverse population in bigger cities.</p>
<p>Not a hint of street safety issues, that’s for sure.</p>
<p>Anyway, mine were all but grown when we moved to this area 4 years ago. </p>
<p>Tomorrow I’ll buzz over there for a latte and see what I think again. As for the cold weather, it’s true, but that’s also because our upstate NY months from May-October are perfect, perfect, perfect. As for the snow, I think it builds community. We have a common enemy. In a blizzard, everyone helps each other out. It’s adorable.</p>
<p>Sorry to gloat, but ever since we’ve moved here, my extended family has given me a song-and-dance. I’m gonna send them ALL this article!</p>
<p>ditto math mom
what if your daughter wants to play rugby?
In Seattle we have a hard enough time keeping a team going, they have to combine with a team from a suburb.
I would feel too isolated
I like rural and I like city- but I would not want to live in an area that is smaller than some junior high schools</p>
<p>Their grasp of Southern geography is tentative at best!!! Also I guess Jackson MS doesn’t count as a “city”, but it does have some excellent cultural resources.</p>
<p>Helena, Al would be a nice place to live, but it isn’t located anywhere close to that pushpin - that would be Winfield or Sulligent :).</p>
<p>South Cleveland, Tennessee has apparently moved from Chattanooga to Memphis, according to their pushpin.</p>
<p>But yeah, as I read the list, it reminded me a lot of the college rankings - great if their criteria is the stuff you care about. Most of my critieria weren’t even mentioned. Didn’t make it all the way through the slide show, but 11 towns in Nebraska, and several “7 miles from Cincinnati” seemed a bit surreal.</p>
<p>Dang, I’m moving to Nebraska!</p>
<p>Seriously, Groesbeck is fine if your top priority in a school system is a winning football team. 
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<p>In the Cincinnati area, Mariemont & Madeira are known to be lovely little communities, but Groesbeck???</p>
<p>I think the writer/editors ought to be required to visit these places, learn things like how far it is from Chattanooga to Memphis (and how different these cities are in culture and geography), and be introduced to a few bales of hay.</p>