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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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Make sure there is no welfare office in / nearby town.

No public transport (i.e. train station) is a bonus too. Because this is how the drug affected get around to the different towns.

Super cold areas help because you have to work hard to live there in winter.

Drive around town and if people are leaving stuff like bikes in their front yards then this is a good sign too (low theft).

Join the community groups on social media and see what people are saying.

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This is a really good post.

Go somewhere with no public transport.

There was a reason Beverly hills tried so hard to keep the subway from LA from having a stop in Beverly hills. There is a reason that the nice side of Atlanta in Buckhead and Lenox square shopping mall which used to be incredible went South immediately when they opened a subway station just outside the property. And there was a reason that that mall built a huge fence around three quarters of its property to make it extremely difficult for anybody to walk from that subway stop until next square mall. There's a reason the crime rate is soared there and people getting murdered and shot now.

Honestly I've never really thought about it before but I think public transportation is really biggest future indicator of whether in the next 5 years your place has a good chance of going to hell. All the other statistics are behind. But public transportation or if you see that they're debating public transportation and they've been talking about it in the last couple of City county meetings talking about expanding it into the area you're thinking of moving do not move there or whatever you do. Because overnight it will change the area. Literally overnight the day after the public transportation opens it will completely change the area.

I also think a cold place has merit as well for the reasons you mentioned.