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Northshore October 2025
  In a recent analysis of the Best & Worst States to Raise a Family by personal-finance website WalletHub, Massachusetts ranked No. 6 overall and earned particularly high marks in four out of five categories, including “family fun,” “health and safety,” “education and child care,” and "affordability,” making the state an attractive home for parents with young children. Even in “socio-economics,” the final category, it outranked 28 states. Education and technology are unsurprisingly Massachusetts’ biggest industries, considering the state is the No. 1 most educated
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