Boston, NYC, DC - Best place to raise kids?

[Anonymous]

If you could choose the suburbs or the cities of Boston, NYC, or DC to put down roots and raise your family, which one would it be? Assuming you had enough $$ to live comfortably.

[Anonymous]

If money was no object, I think raising kids in NYC would be amazing. There’s just so much at your fingertips there, and I love being able to walk all over.

[Anonymous]

Eh just go to NYC if you can afford it. This area is full of people that are insecure that they're not New Yorkers anyway.

[Anonymous]

I’d go for Boston but I love the access to the mountains and the ocean that Boston provides.

[Anonymous]

Boston is yuck. As pp not d, NYC if money is not an issue. DC with kids is meh again unless you have gobs of money

[Anonymous]

Boston and suburbs would be most affordable of the three and is a great place to raise kids. Great public schools, outdoor life, and healthy lifestyles generally. Lots of culture in and around Boston. I would say yes to DC as second place of the three, but only if living in NW, not in the burbs or other sectors of the city. NYC would be my last choice as you would need a ton of money and even then it seems highly stressful to live there even as a rich person (just walking down the street is hard).

[Anonymous]

Boston

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Boston is yuck. As pp not d, NYC if money is not an issue. DC with kids is meh again unless you have gobs of money

Considering you can barely string together a coherent sentence, I don't think your take matters.

[Anonymous]

I live in the suburbs of NYC. It’s great if you have a lot of money but very HCOL and usually requires commuting to Manhattan which stinks.

That said, home is where my family is and I would move in a heartbeat if my family was going elsewhere. It’s mostly my family and my spouses that keep us here.

[Anonymous]

I'd probably choose DC, but I don't even think DC is a great place to raise kids. However I think it's the easiest of those three to raise kids, so I'd go with it. Boston second, NYC third.

The idealized image of raising kids in NYC is very appealing to me. No one I know there actually raises kids in that way and most are highly stressed and even the super high earners seem financially stretched. I don't think it's worth it.

I think the actual best places to raise kids on the Eastern seaboard are: Philly (city if you can afford private, western suburbs if you can't), Providence, Portland Maine. Outside Eastern seaboard, I'd go with Chicago, Minneapolis, San Diego, and Denver.

[Anonymous]

Boston and western suburbs are where I grew up. Public schools excellent especially in expensive towns where property taxes are high. No worries about religious fanatics interfering in schools. Plenty of activities and family fun. Ocean, skiing both have an easy drive.

Sadly NYC is not in good shape. The mayor isn’t doing a good job. The rat problem is gross. Until the garbage situation is fixed it’s not going to get any better. Who thought it would be a good idea putting plastic bags on the sidewalk fully of rotting food overnight until the garbage trucks get there. Oligarchs, Chinese billionaires and their children are living in the high end buildings. Without your own billion it would be hard to live as well as you’d want to.

DC - boring

[Anonymous]

Very marginally DC, but really, I'd rather not pick any of them.

[Anonymous]

Boston is too cold and segregated

NYC is amazing but who wants to either commute into the city daily or live without grass?

DC is nice - grass and parks, free museums and zoo, decent schools in the suburbs or private schools in the city, cars and public transportation. Far from perfect and it will be worse if Trump wins again, though

[Anonymous]

I’d live in a suburb near Boston, probably Newton.

[Anonymous]

Um if by DC you really meant Arlington then absolutely. I’d never live in the 3 places you picked and NYC is filthy and a transit nightmare.