FALLS CHURCH, VA -- If you're raising a family in Falls Church, kudos to you. A new study out Thursday says Falls Church is the #1 spot in Virginia to raise a family. One of the reasons is the number of playgrounds, according to the study by WalletHub.
•Falls Church has the most playgrounds per 100,000 residents, 30.06, which is 55 times higher than in Newport News, the city with the fewest at 0.55.
•Falls Church also had the lowest percent of families below the poverty line.

With steady economic growth projected for 2017 and 20 new bills being introduced by Virginia lawmakers to make higher education more affordable, the personal-finance Web site WalletHub Thursday released its report identifying 2017's Best Places to Raise a Family in Virginia.

Maybe raise a mexican family.

Wise old man Wrote:
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> Maybe raise a mexican family.


You ain't that wise. Falls Church is over 80% white and less than 10% Hispanic.

Falls Church is a fucking nightmare, what the hell are these rankings based on?

Maybe the good side of town (where normal folks can't afford to live anymore).

lolzzz sweeet survey Wrote:
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> Falls Church is a fucking nightmare, what the hell
> are these rankings based on?

To help families find the best Virginia cities in which to put down roots, WalletHub’s analysts compared 82 cities in the state across four key dimensions: 1) Family Life & Fun, 2) Education, Health & Safety, 3) Affordability and 4) Socioeconomics. Their sample considered only the city proper in each case and excludes cities in the surrounding metro area. They evaluated the four dimensions using 21 relevant metrics, which are listed below with their corresponding weights. Each metric was graded on a 100-point scale, with 100 indicating the most suitable conditions for family life.

Finally, they calculated overall scores for each city using its weighted average across all metrics and ranked the cities based on the resulting scores.

Family Life, Fun – Total Points: 25
•Playgrounds per Capita: Full Weight (~4.17 Points)
•Number of Attractions: Full Weight (~4.17 Points) Note: “Attractions” includes, for instance, museums, theaters and zoos.
•Share of Families with Children Aged 0 to 17: Double Weight (~8.33 Points)
•Weather: Full Weight (~4.17 Points) Note: This metric is based on WalletHub’s Cities with the Best & Worst Weather ranking.
•Average Commute Time: Full Weight (~4.17 Points)

Education, Health, Safety – Total Points: 25
•Quality of School System: Full Weight (~2.94 Points)
•High School Graduation Rate: Half Weight (~1.47 Points)
•Air Quality: Full Weight (~2.94 Points)
•Pediatricians per Capita: Full Weight (~2.94 Points)
•Share of Children Aged 0 to 17 Lacking Health-Insurance Coverage: Full Weight (~2.94 Points)
•Violent-Crime Rate per Capita: Double Weight (~5.88 Points)
•Property-Crime Rate per Capita: Double Weight (~5.88 Points)

Affordability – Total Points: 25
•Housing Affordability: Full Weight (~12.50 Points) Note: This metric was calculated as follows: Housing Costs (accounts for both rental and sale prices)/Median Annual Family Income.
•General Affordability: Full Weight (~12.50 Points) Note: This metric was calculated as follows: Median Annual Family Income / Cost-of-Living Index.

Socioeconomics – Total Points: 25
•Separation & Divorce Rate: Full Weight (~3.57 Points)
•Share of Two-Parent Families: Full Weight (~3.57 Points)
•Share of Families Living Below Poverty Level: Full Weight (~3.57 Points)
•Share of Households Receiving Food Stamps: Full Weight (~3.57 Points)
•Unemployment Rate: Full Weight (~3.57 Points)
•Wealth Gap: Full Weight (~3.57 Points)
•Foreclosure Rate: Full Weight (~3.57 Points)


> Maybe the good side of town (where normal folks
> can't afford to live anymore).

Ahh, so it's sour grapes because you can't afford it. Got it.

Dumb like all of the rest of these best places click-bait stories that WalletHub makes into its business.

All that you have to do it so alter the weightings, which are completely subjective, slightly and you'll get completely different results. Which may or may not apply to a given person's interests. Playgrounds per capita weighted higher than other things like number of pediatricians? Really? lol

I like Falls Church just fine but given a choice of anywhere, I'm sure that I could find somewhere better for my purposes. Which may not match up to yours. It's bullshit generated for ad revenue and used for bragging rights for brainless threads like these.

If you can afford a POS 3 bdrm for 800,000 dollars and 14k per year in property taxes - yea great.

Best advice we can give to children of Falls Church is to go play in traffic on Broad Street (route 7).

Except during the day as it's a perpetual traffic jam and will not have the desired effect.

Falls Church might be rich, but people were a lot friendlier in PG County.

op, wasnt there a pedophile running falls church who was convicted for going after daughter's sleepover friends ?

no shit he built lots of playgrounds...but not for the reason ass sucking press reports

Falls Church Transplant Wrote:
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> Falls Church might be rich, but people were a lot
> friendlier in PG County.

op, wasnt there a pedophile running falls church who was convicted for going after daughter's sleepover friends ?

no shit he built lots of playgrounds...but not for the reason ass sucking press reports



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