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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live in NYC, I work in big tech, kids in private, feel like I'm going to burst into flames.

Looking to relocate, price WAY down, save hard. Possibly keep job, possibly get new remote job.

Would love to live somewhere somewhat pretty, and only other thing that really matters to me is really really good (like A rated) public or very inexpensive private schools.

Any tips? Do you love where you live or have lived that is like this? My proliferating gray hairs and wrinkles and stress related health issues thank you. [/quote]

I think your best bets would be California, New Jersey, Connecticut, or Massachusetts.[/quote]

Hello taxes!!!!![/quote]

Higher taxes and good schools tend to go hand in hand. That's why you often see people raising their kids in high-tax areas and then moving to low-tax havens for retirement -- good schools are the biggest, most tangible benefit of higher taxes, and once people have used that benefit, suddenly low-tax areas (with crappy school districts) look a lot more appealing.[/quote]

That's not true look at PA school tax. Some of the most expensive in the nation and the public schools aren't that good at all.

It's a total myth that higher taxes=better schools. [/quote]

This is an ignorant take. Pennsylvania is a large state with both very urban, very rural, and lots of suburban and small town school districts. The state also has some terrific schools, as well as some terrible ones.

However, the best schools in the state absolutely have high local taxes, in large part to fund schools. Particularly in the suburbs around the two largest cities in the state, you will find high local taxes that support highly desirable school districts.

The "most expensive" schools in the nation tend to be urban districts that support a large percentage of poor and at risk kids. These schools are expensive because they are often providing far more services than just educating kids -- they are often also providing subsidized childcare even for young kids, feeding kids in poverty, providing adult education, providing special needs services to families who have no ability to pay for it themselves, and helping to facilitate everything from housing services to medical care for the urban poor. DCPS, for instance, has very high per-pupil expenditure rates, because there is a large minority of students in the system who require a lot of very expensive services. But this is just the reality of urban school districts.

When it comes to suburban districts, better school are almost always associated with higher-than-average local taxes, whether via property taxes or in the form of bond initiatives and other taxes that pay for school facilities, teachers, and programming.[/quote]

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