Now, before you roll your eyes or think, "What, out of 15 cities?", no Mr. or Mrs. Cynic, Children's Health magazine voted Jersey City 13th best place to raise a family in the United States.
The magazine says they compared 29 quality of life variables in the areas of employment, health, housing, safety, education and family life. Jersey City was #1 in the Garden State and only Newark at #46 made the list from New Jersey. Burlington Vermont was the #1 ranked city.
In case you are wondering, New York City was #15. Put that in your pipe and smoke it Bloomberg, Jersey City is ranked higher!!
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Two thoughts:
1. They should've included tax burden. That weighs heavily on quality of life.
2. They should make an interactive model, where you can give more or less weight to one of the qualities and see the results as they pertain to your situation. For example, I have no school-age children, so I would like to give a lesser weight to education.
Good points Jim, both of them. I have no children period so this matter of 'raising a family' idea would look considerably different coming from my angle. I'd have a whole different set of criteria...
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