Fairfield ranked among best family places

Fairfield ranked among best family places
By Ben Antonius | Daily Republic | May 21, 2008

FAIRFIELD - Smile parents. Your kids are growing up in the 13th best city in California.

At least that is the finding of Best Life magazine, which placed Fairfield at 50 on its list of the '100 best places to raise a family.'

The men's lifestyle magazine said the cities represent the best combinations of the factors men consider for their children.

'(Fathers) want to raise their children somewhere safe, where they can attend good schools with favorable student-teacher rations, above-average test scores, and respectable budgets,' the magazine concluded.

With those criteria and using national census, education, health, crime, museum and law data, Fairfield ranked just ahead of Antioch and just below Escondido on the list.

The ranking placed Fairfield above such cities as Denver, Chicago, San Francisco and Baltimore. Among the large cities ranking above Fairfield were San Diego, Los Angeles, New York and Sacramento.

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