Family Circle's list of top ten cities....

[Kirby]

.... for families is in it's August issue and my town is one of them. Other towns are:

Sherwood, OR
Evans, GA
Indian Trail, NC
Edina, MN
Noblesville, IN
Perrysburg, OH
Hendersonville, TN
Kenmore, WA
Sun Prairie, WI

Their decision was based on affordable housing, good neighbors, green spaces and school systems.

 

[Planogirl]

How nice that Rockwall made it! The only reason we didn't look for a home there too is because of job location. I would love to be on the other side of Dallas though.

 

[MomofKatie]

Wow- I live in one of the top 10, too!! Indian Trail is nice- we have lived here 9 years, and it has really grown in that time. The Union County area is a good place to live for families. Nice low cost of living, schools are good, and amenities are close by while still feeling like we live "in the country".

 

[Golf4food]

Those are "cities"? Wouldn't they more qualify as towns? Did jobs factor into their equating at all? Would be great to live in a smaller town, but there's a reason such places aren't usually bigger - no more jobs!

 

[ICF]

Noblesville?!?!?!

 

[bcvgal]

.... for families is in it's August issue and my town is one of them. Other towns are:

Sherwood, OR
Evans, GA
Indian Trail, NC
Edina, MN
Noblesville, IN
Perrysburg, OH
Hendersonville, TN
Kenmore, WA
Sun Prairie, WI

Their decision was based on affordable housing, good neighbors, green spaces and school systems.

Woot Woot another Indian Trail, NC resident. Love it here. Close enough to large city(Charlotte) yet still feels like a small town.

 

[clarabelle]

I live in the city next to one of the citys on the list-if that makes any sense.

A great place to live -but not a small town. More like an affluent suburb. You can't really tell where one town ends and the other starts.

 

[java]

Hmm not a single one in the northeast? I guess affordable was the one that ruled most out.

 

[Kirby]

Those are "cities"? Wouldn't they more qualify as towns? Did jobs factor into their equating at all? Would be great to live in a smaller town, but there's a reason such places aren't usually bigger - no more jobs!

Just quoting from the article in the local newspaper. A lot of people who live here, work here or own businesses here but a lot more work outside of Rockwall. I'm sure that is the case in all of the cities that are listed. Just like clarabelle said

A great place to live -but not a small town. More like an affluent suburb. You can't really tell where one town ends and the other starts.

except that Rockwall is a little different. A lake separates it from the other large suburbs.

How nice that Rockwall made it! The only reason we didn't look for a home there too is because of job location. I would love to be on the other side of Dallas though.

We really like it out here. It still fills like country in some places.

 

[Inigo]

Noblesville?!?!?!

Nobletucky made the list?

 

[mrsklamc]

Noblesville is always on the Forbes list too. Can't think why. Affordable housing? What?

 

[ICF]

Nobletucky made the list?

I was going to call it Nobletucky, but didn't know if anyone else would get it!!

I have no idea of why they would be on the list. Schools are much better in Carmel, Zionsville and maybe even Fishers and all are as close (if not closer) to Indy.

Traffic sucks since you have to use 69 to get there and there are stop lights ever 50 ft on 37 due to all the new retail contstruction. You would have to pay me to live there....I'd never do it by choice.

 

[bekkiz]

We're the next town over from Kenmore, I love this whole area!

 

[Inigo]

I was going to call it Nobletucky, but didn't know if anyone else would get it!!

I have no idea of why they would be on the list. Schools are much better in Carmel, Zionsville and maybe even Fishers and all are as close (if not closer) to Indy.

Traffic sucks since you have to use 69 to get there and there are stop lights ever 50 ft on 37 due to all the new retail contstruction. You would have to pay me to live there....I'd never do it by choice.

I don't know if I'd do the northside, other than (maybe) Fishers. The traffic was too much to deal with up there. I've got cousins in Fishers and Carmel, and it's such a hassle to visit.

I much prefer the southside. I'd move back to Franklin, I think. We moved away 15 years ago, so I'm sure it's changed a lot since then.

 

[honugirl]

.... for families is in it's August issue and my town is one of them. Other towns are:

Sherwood, OR
Evans, GA
Indian Trail, NC
Edina, MN
Noblesville, IN
Perrysburg, OH
Hendersonville, TN
Kenmore, WA
Sun Prairie, WI

Their decision was based on affordable housing, good neighbors, green spaces and school systems.

Sherwood, OR? What the heck are these people thinking? I don't even think that classifies as a town. Sherwood is a suburb of Portland. It honestly has nothing to do there except a lot of farms, some flower places and an ice rink. They have some stupid Robin Hood festival every year that I was going to go to this year until I looked it up and realized how totally lame it is. They don't even have an archery contest! I guess you can drive like another 20 miles and go to the air museum in McMinville. Weird.

I honestly haven't even heard of Kenmore, WA and I've lived here all my life!

 

[emdav]

My brother lives in Sherwood. His neighborhood is full of young families and he has a great "green space" right behind his property. Seems to match their criteria to me.

 

[Justanopinion]

I live just east of Rockwall and I love it. Great town. The Harbor area is really building up nicely. There are a few things that I still have to drive further into Dallas, Mesquite or Garland for but on the whole...Rockwall has it all.

 

[golfgal]

I would love to see their definition of affordable. Edina, MN is one of the most expensive suburbs in the Twin Cities Metro area. Maybe the excellent schools outweighed that??

 

[Kirby]

I would love to see their definition of affordable. Edina, MN is one of the most expensive suburbs in the Twin Cities Metro area. Maybe the excellent schools outweighed that??

It would be interesting to see how they weighted their criteria. Anyone willing to buy a Family Circle and read the article?

 

[Camicar]

My town is one of them.

My reaction: "Seriously? Wait. Seriously?" "Did they not hear about the meth lab and crack house that operates openly on a main street one block away from an elementary school?"

Apparently our school district is and has been highly rated for years -- but our property taxes are also through the roof. Our property taxes are higher than anywhere else in the county. There is a good mix of property values. But we have also had problems with illegal immigrants and gang warfare brought up from Chicago. Every day on my way to work for 3 years I passed a crack house -- right on a main residential street amongst regular houses and one block away from an elementary school -- where there were open drug deals going on. It took our police force three years to shut it down. Around the corner, there was a meth lab right across the street from a day care.

I'm not saying that these issues don't face a LOT of small towns, but IMO when you have to drive by a crack house doing open drug deals every single day, this is not one of the top ten places to live.

Those are "cities"? Wouldn't they more qualify as towns? Did jobs factor into their equating at all? Would be great to live in a smaller town, but there's a reason such places aren't usually bigger - no more jobs!

Exactly. The vast majority of working people in this town of 22,500 commute to the nearby city.