where is the #1 city to raise children if you are middle incomed?
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Boise, Idaho if you are looking in the North West. It is a smaller city with good schools and a low crime rate. It is a clean city with good people. It has easy accessable recreation, nice parks, and strong communities. Although it is small, it is not a very slow-moving city. It is great for children because of the schools, parks, swimming pools, and all of the activities that one can get involved with. Its definately something that needs to be checked out.
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get a home and then care for some kids\n\ncharge money too I think
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Forbes Magazine did a special report in 2005 entitled "Best Places for Business and Careers." Using data from the research firm Economy.com, Forbes Magazine looked at business costs (labor, energy, tax and office space expenses) and living costs (housing, transportation, food and other household expenditures) to come up with their list. \n\nThe Best Metros are:\n\n1. Boise ID \n2. Raleigh-Durham NC \n3. Austin TX \n4. Washington DC - Northern VA\n5. Albuquerque NM \n6. Huntsville AL \n7. Fayetteville AR \n8. Norfolk VA \n9. Atlanta GA \n10. Madison WI\n\nThe Forbes website (link below) also includes ranking by cost of doing business, job growth, educational attainment, population. They also have a ranking for small metro areas.
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Forbes Magazine did a special report in 2005 entitled "Best Places for Business and Careers." Using data from the research firm Economy.com, Forbes Magazine looked at business costs (labor, energy, tax and office space expenses) and living costs (housing, transportation, food and other household expenditures) to come up with their list. Texas and Virginia come up at the top of the list with 7 areas in the top 20 because of highly educated labor force, and relatively low business cost.\n\nThe Best Metros are:\n\n1. Boise ID \n2. Raleigh-Durham NC \n3. Austin TX \n4. Washington DC - Northern VA\n5. Albuquerque NM \n6. Huntsville AL \n7. Fayetteville AR \n8. Norfolk VA \n9. Atlanta GA \n10. Madison WI\n\nThe Forbes website (link below) also includes ranking by cost of doing business, job growth, educational attainment, population. They also have a ranking for small metro areas.\n\nIsabel Isidro\nhttp://www.powerhomebiz.com
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Every city has something for children.  check out Las Vegas Kids to get you started
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The name is Head Start.\nContact the Department of Social Services in your town or check address on Yellow Pages. Just look for Head start. Child can go free if you qualify-low income, or a full time student, single parent etc
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Depending on where you live, you should check with your local DPW office (Department of Welfare).  You maybe be to get some funding for daycare, help with medical assistance as well as food stamp.  Sometimes if the waiting list is not to long you can get housing if it's offered.  Housing doesn't always mean "the projects" Some apartment complexes will take subsides payments.  There is also WIC (Women Infants and Children) They will help you from your pregnancy until your child is 5 (I think).  You can also try to look for what people in my  area call they Mom Mobile, these is an organization that will help you get or give free/discount prices on baby furniture and necessity.
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Go to South Side or Oakland.  You would probably have your best chance there.
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1.) Church 2.) Work 3.)Enroll the child in something\n4.) Go the park with child and observe the single fathers in the area. Pick a park in the area that has the most wealth.
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hi,\n\ndeciding is the important factor here now but in india one thing is to decided first than the rest \n\nwill reside near the children? unfortunately our country leads in crime rate.so whereever you choose it will be the best for your children because you know what is best for them since they are your children. both are good choice of cities for schooling but personally i feel pune is better than chennai since chennai is hugely populated and the city is getting lot more busy ..pune is still a lovley place with a beautiful environment..personally i would say go and check out the school in chennai/pune  before you get your children enrolled to be on the safer side\n\nbut above all this listen to your heart and you will come out with the best result\n\ngood luck to yo and your children
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Panama.\n\nThe poverty there was truely astounding.  I saw an entire city made of card board and the electricity was generater made and lined with extention cords.  It also had no plumbing so human waste was thrown in the street for the rains to wash away.  It was expected by a lot of families for the women to protestute to support them.\n\nThe area with the lowest crime rate was the block the police station was on and it had 18 muggings a day.  There were a lot of areas where if you did not have a gun, you did not need to go there.\n\nOf corse this was back in 1989 so things down there might have improved, but it made me realize how good we have it here.
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I am from Nashville and have raised three children here. The cost of living is not bad and there are jobs everywhere. Kentucky however has a very high unemployment rate.Unless you are a farmer I would suggest Tennessee.
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check your local park district,.  You can also ask other parents around the neighborhood if they have any ideas or talk to the middle and high schools to see what kind of feeder programs they have
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Look at preschools in your area. Or after care places.
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Any state with a large medium salary would also have the highest tax deduction and a higher cost of living, so you would look at Massachusetts, California, New York.\n\nIf you are looking for a career move, then consider AZ, NM, TX.  They don't pay as much but the taxes are lower as is the cost of living
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You don't specify-- do you mean around Manhattan? The Urban Baby message boards are a good and very active source of information: \nhttp://newyork.urbanbaby.com/community/messageboards_main.html\nI also like the GoCityKids site: \nhttp://www.gocitykids.com/?area=197\n\nI'd recommend contacting moms in your area for recommendations, and touring schools that are near your home. (GCK can help you find one in your neighborhood.)\n\nHere's a nationwide roundup of childcare websites: \nhttp://www.babycenter.com/refcap/baby/babychildcare/6104.html
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It depends on what you want to do for a living.  You obviously want to go somewhere where you will be able to earn if you have to.\n\nHousing costs can make it prohibitive to live in places like Washington DC, where the unemployment rate is practically nothing, but a three bedroom townhome costs 400,000 dollars 1 hour out from the city.  \n\nThere are lots of nice cities in the mid west like Des Moines, and further west like Topeka, Lawrence, Omaha, Tulsa, etc, where the dollar still buys you a decent house and where you have adequate social offerings from local universities.  Yes, they do get some winter but offer four seasons and a nice balance.  Believe it or not, Joplin Mo, for example, is quite a jumping town for a little city, with a quaint city center and some light industry and other prospects keeping the economy going.  You can get a decent house there for 150,000.  Eastern Kansas, Eastern Oklahoma have hill country and trees and the snobbier sort of shallow people that sometimes "must" live on one cost or the other stay away, keeping the costs down.  If you must live on the coast, Wilmington NC gives you a little value, a quaint city center, and water sports, beaches, etc.  A little pricey for NC, but there you are.\n\nI would caution you at your age that moving is not very easy when you leave your support network and friends and move somewhere where the support structures are not transitory (people don't move away).  It can be hard to break in.\n\nGood Luck.