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Pretty sure this question came up many times. i currently live in a big city, and plan to move out sometime, and hopefully get married and have kids. here's a checklist that i know:

low crime (check everything as some try to hide it as was the case for online real estate sites) mostly white good schools (although i may home school or private school) low taxes average to little traffic power/hydro/gas abundant

pretty sure i'm missing many. if you can chime in, or even say a city, cool.

Pretty sure this question came up many times. i currently live in a big city, and plan to move out sometime, and hopefully get married and have kids. here's a checklist that i know: low crime (check everything as some try to hide it as was the case for online real estate sites) mostly white good schools (although i may home school or private school) low taxes average to little traffic power/hydro/gas abundant pretty sure i'm missing many. if you can chime in, or even say a city, cool.

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We’re looking into moving. This is my list of things to check.

Racial demographics first. If it’s nig infested nothing else matters. Less than 10% is ideal. Look up the racial demographics of the local schools separately and racial demographics by age. Check what percent were born outside of US to avoid ‘white’ towns. Also look up how close the nearest mosque is to avoid ‘white people’. One time we went to look at a house and the place was crawling with muzzies. It was supposedly over 90% white there. Don’t let them fool you.

Crime rate. Not just violent crime rate. Look up drug overdose pet 100,000. Rates of rape is a good one to look up too. Sometimes otherwise safe places have high rape or overdose rate.

Political demographics. Look up who the area voted for in the last few elections.

If you have children or plan on it in the future look to see if the state allows vaccine exemptions for school. Most do. I used this map to rule out the ones with no exemptions: https://www.ncsl.org/research/health/school-immunization-exemption-state-laws.aspx

Also look up if the state requires the children learn about gay stuff. If you can stand hot weather moving to a don’t say gay state is ideal. You can homeschool your children but that doesn’t mean their friends, or your future grandkids will be saved from brainwashing.

Looking up which states have lower percentages of gays could help too. It’s social contagion and should be avoided.

I found this helpful for avoiding places that were too gay. It also lists whether the state requires them to teach LGBT and all sorts of stuff. https://www.lgbtmap.org/equality-maps

Another one to check is water quality. This site lists contaminants and you can look up specific areas. https://www.ewg.org/tapwater/

Check to see where the closest colleges are. They tend to take over places and ruin everything. I lived near a small college and watched them buy up half the town. And the college kids were always causing trouble, driving drunk, destroying everything in town because it’s temporary and they have home to go back to. This isn’t a deal breaker for me but it is something to watch out for.