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Vivian Moon ![]() MUSA Council ![]() Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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Best Cities
for Young Families in
by Jonathan Todd on
March 9, 2015 | posted in Cities, Economics
Scores from #1 - #162 #1 Springboro |
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Vivian Moon ![]() MUSA Council ![]() Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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If City Hall really wants to know what young families want they do not need to go on another road trip or waste anymore of the taxpayers money....they need to read this study....then ask the difficult questions....does Middletown offer these wants and needs?
MethodologyAll data are from the 2013 U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey. Our methodology focused on four factors:
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John Beagle ![]() MUSA Official ![]() ![]() Joined: Apr 23 2007 Location: Middletown Status: Offline Points: 1855 |
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Monroe was lucky #13
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Vivian Moon ![]() MUSA Council ![]() Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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Thanks John
Sorry I forgot to add that one to my list when I posted.... Will post more later got to get the apple pie out of the oven... |
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Perplexed ![]() MUSA Citizen ![]() Joined: Apr 22 2009 Status: Offline Points: 315 |
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How interesting that the Doogmeister and his pal the Fookmeister are now pushing Middletown as a "Homeownership Destination" after six straight years of bulldozing so many dwellings and cutting back home rehabilitation? As recently as 2008, wasn't the City of Middletown working closely with real estate professionals, mortgage bankers and target area residents in a successful coordinated mission to increase the percentage of residential owner-occupancy and property rehabilitation here?
Despite the issues of public schools, high personal property and income taxes, crime considerations, etc., Middletown still is well positioned to attract "Urban Pioneers" due to lower than norm home prices and geographic proximity to nearby places of work? What gives Doogie and Fooksie? |
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VietVet ![]() MUSA Council ![]() ![]() Joined: May 15 2008 Status: Offline Points: 7008 |
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1. Home Affordability Certainly. You can get a very nice home in Middletown for a lot less than places that are more desirable......and that's the problem isn't it. Desirability. Not a good sign when the home prices are low because no one wants to live here. 30% of the score.....no points here. 2. Growth and prosperity Nope. Not in this town. No appreciable growth in the last three decades, unless you want to call ramping up the Section 8 population, increasing the crime and drug usage and attracting all the people other cities don't want to town. Declaring a poverty rate of 54% by the current city manager didn't help with publicity, image and a city to be ignored like the plague. Knocking down a good percentage of the city, not replacing the vacant land with new buildings and leaving the place looking like a bombed out war zone helped re-enforce the "dirty, ghetto, dregs of society" reputation we now have. 20% of the score...no real points for this either 3. Family friendliness Families in poverty killed any chance of success in this category.70% and 30%.....might get some points for families with one kid but the 30% poverty criteria shot this down 4. Educational quality Not in this school district. It is not until you leave high school that you have a glimpse of quality in education and that would be at MUM. Not so sure about CS as that school hasn't gotten off the ground as yet. 20% of the score......an absolute zero until you leave the public schools. Then the quality appears to happen without the influence of the school district woes. JMO |
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I'm so proud of my hometown and what it has become. Recall 'em all. Let's start over.
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