I am looking for a town to move to but don't know where to look. Any ideas?

Question

I want a town of under 50,000 with hiking/camping nearby, scouting community or 4H, good schools, low crime rate, and most importantly a school system that is not immersion schools. I really like 4 seasons. Any ideas?

Answer 1

go to parents.com

Answer 2

i would have suggested my hometown of Talihina OK but the low crime rate does that one in. It has everything you listed except the low crime. It is a town of about 2500-3000 people with a fantastic school, 4h, scouting, tons of hiking and camping. Has the most beautiful fall foilage, rainy springs, sultry summers, and at least one snow fall a year. but the local law enforcement don't do their jobs well.

Answer 3

Well first of all you have to find a means of employment for yourself.  Or were you planning on letting the taxpayers take care of you and your family?  After you get employment you can check around where you work and the commute distance etc.  But first things come first...you have to be able to support your family before you  get them into scouting/4H, good schools and low crime rate.  

Answer 4

Woodbridge, CT is a great town. Awesome school system.  

Answer 5

Spencer, Iowa or the Iowa Great Lakes (Okoboji, Spirit Lake, etc.)

Spencer has EVERYTHING you are looking for -- some of the best public schools in the nation with busing available to all students, an amazing 4H program where projects go to the Clay County Fair -- the greatest county fair in the nation, they also have scouts with most Boy Scouts who continue past Webelos getting their Eagle award (for a girl to be honest I would go with 4H), an unusual level of arts and culture -- an art school, a thriving community theatre, galleries, a coffee house with open mike night and more, etc., and the middle and high schools have every kind of sport and activity you could imagine. The middle school is state of the art and was built in 2006.

Spencer is about 11-12,000 people. The Dickinson county towns of Okoboji and Spirit Lake are great, too -- that whole region has a year-round population of probably 5-6,000 and does have the great schools, 4H/Scouts, etc. and they are right on the Lakes of the Iowa Great Lakes region -- Okoboji is famous across the nation as a lake resort community and there is always something going on. Okoboji and Spirit Lake have a lot of culture per capita also and in both Spencer and The Lakes there are miles and miles of hiking trails and many great places to camp within a half hour radius.

We are also 1/2 hour from the Minnesota border and all the camping and hiking on the 10,000 lakes up there. Not far from the health care at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN either. The hospital in Spencer is also pretty state of the art though often you are referred out to Rochester or Sioux Falls, SD (75 ish miles away) for surgery. I think all of the clinics are outposts of Avera Sioux Falls or another larger hospital system in the region so it is no issue to refer to specialists an hour's drive away.

Lakes -- blue crystalline clean lakes. White sand beaches. It's like the ocean without battling the traffic to go to the ocean or the medical supplies washing up on shore.

Hurry. You can start your kids in school on August 19-20, and make it for Thanks with Franks where downtown businesses give out different kinds of hotdogs all up and down Grand Avenue on a Thursday night in August and there is entertainment, etc.

We moved from an Iowa town of 100,000 which is one of the meth (the drug methamphetamine) capitals of the world to a tiny town between Spencer and Okoboji two years ago. Our kids go to Spencer schools and we dearly love it.

I encourage you to check it out. I almost guarantee you can get a nice place to live for far less than you are paying now.

Jobs? Depends on what you do.

Answer 6

florida has some nice small towns up north inverness cross city or woodville. im pretty sure they have all that stuff

Answer 7

Iowa - and by the way - we have some cool stuff, not just corn.

Answer 8

i live in the columbia gorge in washington state. there is a lot of forest. you can wind surf, hike, canoeing, lots of 4h, girl and boy scouts, snowboarding, skydiving, swimming, and lots more to do! i am from stevenson, washington. its les than 10,000 even. great community. and 40 minutes from portland, OR. low crime rates. and we have hot summer and snow in winter.