Best Places to Raise Kids?
iigs: Near family is my wife's primary deciding factor.Near a lot of opportunity is my primary deciding factor. I grew up essentially on a farm in a small enough town that we had no (and they still have no) stoplight. I'm very thankful for what I was given, and I take pride in my blue collar education/skills, but I was the only computer geek in my school, and while we were only a few minutes from a city of ~500k, I never built a social circle of people who shared my hobbies. I'd like my children to have the opportunity to experience a lot of cultures and be able to seek out situations that will allow them to excel at whatever skills they have.Fortunately my wife's family is in a big city, so we lucked out. :)