Forbes says 2 Milwaukee Area Counties Make Forbes Top 10 List 2008 for Best Place to Raise a Family
By April Hayden-Munson, Brookfield Wisconsin Real Estate
Where is the best place to raise a family? Right where I live and practice real estate! According to Forbes Magazine there are 2 Wisconsin counties -- both in the Milwaukee area that rank among the top 10. Among the criteria to be selected are: A low cost of living including reasonably priced homes, and short commute times and excellent schools. Also the communities had to have populations greater than 65,000. And the average SAT and ACT scores must top 1,050 or 22, respectively. These factors reduced the number of counties under consideration to 51 in the country.After that, Forbes considered cost of living, graduation rate, home prices, property tax rates as a percentage of median home prices, percentage of homes occupied by owners, per-capita income, air quality and crime rate. He...
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