What Makes Plano One of the Best Cities to Raise Kids

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"WalletHub."

"The firm compared 182 U.S. cities across five categories: family fun; health and safety; education and child care; affordability; and socioeconomics. The ranking used 45 metrics across those categories to score each city.

Among the five main categories, Plano ranked fourth in the country for socioeconomics, fifth for health and safety, seventh for affordability, 29th for education and child care and 74th for family fun.

While parents sometimes find it difficult to find affordable housing in the city, they celebrate its schools, quality of life, safety and convenience. What was once considered a suburban community is now an established city in its own right, with a population close to that of Orlando, Fla’s."

The northern belt around Garland to Irving is ideal for families not willing to say sayonara to Downtown-Uptown and move McKinney-Frisco-Denton belt

After moving into my partner's place in Rockwall a couple of years ago, I can tell you that Plano is simply night and day compared to how the meme city of Rockwall is managed. While my partner didn't want to move her children out of Rockwall due to having to start over and such, there might not be a more inconvenient place to live in the metroplex unless you went further east.

I raised two kids in Plano. As parents, and as per my kids, Plano is NOT one of the best places to raise kids. We lived there for 17 years. Kids went through elementary through high school because it was labeled as having some of the top schools in the state. That was a myth.