Best Places to Raise Your Family
The Top 100 Affordable Communities in the U.S.
Chapter One
Finding Your Best Place
Where you live affects your financial welfare, happiness, and overall quality of life. The good news is that in
today's mobile, networked, knowledge-based economy, it's easier than ever before to relocate. As a family,
if you choose the right place, you can achieve a balance between standard of living and the quality-of-life
factors-such as education, lifestyle, health, and safety-most aligned to your family's interests. Yes, you may have
to give some things up, like 250 days of sunshine a year or easy access to Broadway theater. But if there were a
"perfect" place, we'd all be there. This book will help you, as a family, choose your best place-the best
city, the best suburb, or the best small town-by presenting and analyzing factors relevant to your idea of an
attractive and affordable lifestyle.
In many ways, life in the 1950s seemed simpler. Families tended to stay put, and typically worked in the same place
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