5 Best Cities to Have a Baby

re: 5 Best Cities to Have a Baby

selfmademom — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 01:40:31 GMT

I was so mad about this list! Chicago was in the BOTTOM 5. I don't know, but I find Chicago to be pretty family friendly. Great city park, plenty of organic options, alternative schooling, easy to get around. Why do they put these lists out there, just to make us feel bad?

re: 5 Best Cities to Have a Baby

CreativeTypeDad1 — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 18:25:28 GMT

Obviously there's some major bias going on here:

San Francisco? You have to be kidding...all our friends who had kids in the city moved AWAY because everything is really kid-unfriendly...

It's like they had to hide them in the closet or the neighbors were going to have them arrested.

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Strollerderby — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:35:31 GMT

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Strollerderby — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 22:34:50 GMT

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re: 5 Best Cities to Have a Baby

bubbles76angel — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:09:33 GMT

How did San Francisco make the list? It is notorious in California for being particularly family unfriendly (more families move out of the city than migrate to it). While I did have my baby in SF and currently live there (and love it), it has a high cost of living for the area, lots of restaurants that aren't particularly child friendly (though there are many that are too) - where the single hipsters go to drink - and the public school system is constantly dissed. Citymama moved out of The City and was happy to not have to worry about education. Glad we're on the list, but ?? whether it is appropriate.