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What Do Parents Care About? Reader's Digest asked parents to rate 12 features of a good place to bring up a family. Here, on average, is how parents rated them on a scale of 1–10: 1 Good state schools 8.4
2 Low crime rate 8.4
3 Good local hospitals 7.7
4 Affordable family housing 7.7
5 High employment 7.2
6 Low risk of flooding 6.8
7 Lots of families live there 6.4
8 Local universities/colleges 6.0
9 Under an hour to a major city 5.7
10 Warm, dry weather 5.1
11 Under an hour to the coast 4.9
12 Under an hour to a National Park 4.8 Mean average of a “1–10” rating by parents, 10 being "extremely important”. YouGov conducted an online survey among 1,162 parents with children under 16 between February 12 and 15, 2007. Back to Magazine Articles
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