Your Children's Success Depends on Where You Live

[Jumpinjack]

Where you grow up really matters. A study released recently shows the extent to which children can climb up out of poverty based on location. Go to the story link below to see the interactive map and find Jacksonville's ranking.

Climbing the income ladder occurs less often in the Southeast and industrial Midwest, the data shows, with the odds notably low in Atlanta, Charlotte, Memphis, Raleigh, Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Columbus. By contrast, some of the highest rates occur in the Northeast, Great Plains and West, including in New York, Boston, Salt Lake City, Pittsburgh, Seattle and large swaths of California and Minnesota.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/22/business/in-climbing-income-ladder-location-matters.html?smid=pl-share

[BrooklynSouth]

The takeaway: if you're a poor Southerner, move to a high-density city. It's hopeless otherwise.

[Jumpinjack]

Wouldn't think all those places in the Dakotas and Montana would qualify as high density.

[JFman00]

Wouldn't think all those places in the Dakotas and Montana would qualify as high density.

People from low population states are at an advantage when it comes to college admissions thanks to the drive for geographical diversity.

[BrooklynSouth]

Wouldn't think all those places in the Dakotas and Montana would qualify as high density.

If you are very poor, you could move to a fracking boom town, which is what all the blue areas on the map are. I'd still recommend moving to a city over moving to a freezing or burning desert to live in an RV with 6 other men. Especially if you have a family.

http://www.psmag.com/business-economics/this-is-your-town-on-fracking-60257/
"apartments that used to rent for $300 a month now command $2,000"
"housing for tens of thousands of temporary residents"

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/13/us/west-texas-oil-boom-creates-housing-shortage-and-other-issues.html
"Midland officials estimate that the city's population has swelled by about 8 percent in the last two years, to about 120,000. There is talk of eventually hitting the 150,000 mark"
"The Midland Independent School District has about 22,500 students and is adding about 750 a year"