Thank you so much for the well thought out response. This is all very valuable information for us. That gun violence map is very demoralizing tbh. It looks like there’s really no part of the map that doesn’t see some sort of a shooting.

As I mentioned we are coming from a town where you can literally leave the doors unlocked, car running when going to a store, etc. I’m use to all of it coming from Southern California, but my family sure aren’t.

It looks like according to that data that the Far Northeast sees the least amount of shootings. That said, without getting too political, we certainly would rather choose to not be near “in your face” trumpers and those with similar ideology. I’m not seeing too many options for us tbh.

Schooling, we are looking for a little more atypical options like Montessori, Philly Free (type), etc. so the public school system isn’t a deal breaker for us.

It’s a 6 figure job with full city benefits. It opens the door for future opportunities elsewhere. Passing on it would be very disheartening for me. I’d want to make it work but so many signs are pointing in the opposite direction. Gah