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36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:
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Inaccurate and way too subjective, October 11, 2003
By A Customer
We visited 10 of the communities listed, and are quite familiar with seven more of them. First, the authors seem to have a preference for non-pedestrian-friendly, car-oriented suburban sprawl. Second, I don't know where they got their info. We went so far as to move to one of the communities listed in the book, and after we got there we found out that the "excellent public schools" cited by these authors were ranked 48th in the country, and that there was very little for children to do. Health care was rated 47th in the country and was subpar, expensive and difficult to obtain. Not only that, the community was not friendly or welcoming to outsiders, and it was a most decidedly un-family-oriented environment. We stayed a year and left this town. We had not gone only on the basis of this book's recommendation, of course, but we had taken it into consideration as part of the total picture and it turned out to be extremely misleading.Use with caution. If you want to relocate somewhere, visit the place, talk to folks, get the facts, trust your own judgment. Where to live is way too big a decision to trust to subjective opinions.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Be careful!, June 12, 2002
Please take note of the publication date - 1997. This means all the data is at least 5 years old (probably much older due to the time lag between gathering data and publication). Therefore information such as housing prices, job markets etc are all woefully out of date. It may have some interesting information, but don't bother using this book if you're looking for information on job situation, real estate or even taxes.
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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
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Published in 1997 - Too Old & Dated!, October 24, 2003
By A Customer
I was excited to receive this book, but hadn't noticed in the product description that it was last published in 1997, and since it's nearly 2004, this book was not very helpful. The data is time sensitive (cost of living, populations, tax rates, home costs, school info, etc). Each city review had a nice "contact" list at the end, but one major thing missing were website addresses (which would've helped locate more recent data). Only the addresses & phone numbers were listed, and most were not toll-free numbers. Shame on me for not noticing the publication date, shame on Amazon.com for recommending it as a match with "The Places Rated Almanac" (the book found me, I wasn't looking for it specifically).
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