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Best Places to Raise Your Family, First Edition (Rated)
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Frommers (2006-05-08)
ISBN: 0471746991
EAN: 9780471746997
Dewey Decimal #: 306.0973021
Paperback: 464 pages
Edition: 1
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Best Places to Raise Your Family: Experts Choose 100 Top Communities That You Can Afford provides timely facts and expert in-depth analysis on 100 U.S. neighborhoods in an accessible and friendly format. Whether you're mulling over the idea of relocating your family, trying to decide where to live once you have a family, or just curious about how your hometown stacks up, you’ll be intrigued by Best Places to Raise Your Family. In addition to providing population statistics, each city is ranked on a number of essential factors such as: education, standard of living, health and safety, and lifestyle. Easy-to-use tables help you put this wealth of information to work to find the place that best suits your family's special needs and interests.
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Customer Reviews
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Best Places to Raise Your Family
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-09-09
0 out of 7 customers found this reveiw helpful
Great Book! Where each city is broken down and reviewed I would like to see a map of the city/state and surrounding area to see exactly where the city is located and what it is close to...
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Not worth it.
Rating  (1)
Date: 2007-01-03
29 out of 33 customers found this reveiw helpful
Somehow I live in one of these places and I know several others very well. I trying to move from one of the best places to raise my family. This book just didn't have the information needed to make a sound decision.
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Great for those seeking new places to live
Rating  (5)
Date: 2006-11-07
8 out of 16 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book is perfect for people interested in moving to better places to raise families. It is well organized and represents choices throughout the country. The one complaint I would offer is that many of the best places chosen are on the expensive side, but that is probably unavoidable, as people pay more to live in nice places. There are many inexpensive options described, as well. This book has been hugely inspiring for my family and we don't regret the purchase.
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Great Relocation Resource
Rating (4)
Date: 2006-07-26
8 out of 21 customers found this reveiw helpful
As just one component of your relocation research this is a great tool. While it is hard to question the underlying research presented in the book you have to look for nuances in the recommendations the authors make to gain a better understanding of a particular area. These carefully worded nuances are a critical part of gaining a true picture of the "Best Place" being rated.
Having lived in a few of the cities rated as "Best Places" the subtle comments reveal a much more accurate picture of the area than the statistical data.
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It's OK.
Rating  (3)
Date: 2006-07-26
60 out of 63 customers found this reveiw helpful
There is a lot of information here. We especially liked the 100 `family' places around the country, but isn't that what any suburb is anyway? Still, the selections are interesting.
There are just a few maps in the book and they are quite cheesy. Plus, a lot of the figures they use are recycled from the Census of six years ago. Any good web surfer can dig that stuff up.
I don't know about you, but I could have used less information on Starbucks outlets and `picture postcard' settings and a lot more on the schools. Isn't that why families move?
This book is an OK start. But there must be a better book out there on how a family in North Carolina can find a good school system in suburban Phoenix.
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Retail Price: $24.99
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