With suburban living getting more and more expensive, Business Week compiles a list of places where buying a single family house in a good neighborhood isn't a dream.
"Buying your first house? Fleeing the city for a life within your means?
Here's a novel idea: Move to a suburb where you won't break the bank or get your car broken into. A community with reasonable home prices and decent schools. A suburb close to your city job, with a lively downtown of its own.
It's not hard if you know where to look. For every prosperous estate section or low-rent neighborhood, major metropolitan areas have communities nearby that offer the winning combination of affordability, academics, safety, and culture that most families dream about but can rarely find-within their budget.
Working with Portland (Ore.)-based Web site Sperling's Best Places, BusinessWeek.com came up with a list of 25 affordable suburbs near the nation's largest metro areas. These suburbs may not have the greatest schools in the country, or the lowest crime rates, but most of them do better than average in these categories."
Among the communities spotlighted are Roswell, Georgia (Atlanta),
Sandia Heights, New Mexico (Albuquerque), Matthews, North Carolina (Charlotte), and Evendale, Ohio (Cincinnati).
Read the full story: The 25 Best Affordable Suburbs in the U.S.
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