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2/1/2012
I was born in Spokane, and I raised my child in Spokane. I moved away 10 years ago, but visit my aging family there often. Spokane is virtually a ghost town compared to what it used to be, there are very few jobs, many of the homes are run down, lots of closed businesses, and if you have children and you want them exposed to culture... Spokane isn't the place to move. If you are ready to retire and have a sufficient income by all means come to Spokane, they have great lakes to fish from and home costs are low. I don't recommend it for families, one reason is because Spokane houses a prison right on the edge of the city. It houses sex offenders and some of of Spokane's neighborhoods have a high population of sex offenders living in them because when they are released they move to Spokane. I also find a lot of the teachers I have encountered there while my daughter attended school were not in my opinion very qualified to teach and I was actually discouraged by two public school employees; a principle and student counselor to not take my daughter out of private school or her home school situation because the student teacher ratio was ridiculously not balanced and my daughter would most likely not get the individual attention I wanted her to have in school. My daughter is a 4.0 student but had low grades during her first 4 years of public school education because teachers weren't interested in teaching just interested in getting them in and out... This included when I approached the teaching staff many times to ask what I could do to assist with helping my daughter with her education. The crime rate their is high, I live a clean law abiding life but I have 5 friends who were murdered in individual incidents and all except for 2 of them were unrelated. One of them was a child. I recommend before you decide to just make the leap and move there to visit and secure a job before you make the move. There are a lot of great private schools there and home schooling is supported.
Bp | Aloha, OR