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We’re All Tiger Moms Now | The New Yorker

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Last week, the New York Times ran an article titled “Where Should You Raise Your Children?” The answers, taken from a recent study by the personal-finance company WalletHub, were not particularly surprising, but they were notable in their near-uniformity. Fremont, California, a city of two hundred and thirty thousand people that sits between Oakland and San Jose, posted the highest score. More than sixty per cent of its population is Asian. Irvine, California, whose population is more than forty per cent Asian, came in third place, followed by Plano, Texas, a suburb of Dallas that is famous for its large population of highly educated immigrants from East and South Asia. One should be careful about drawing too many conclusions from provocatively titled studies, especially those that measure vague criteria, such as “family fun.” Still, the WalletHub study confirmed a bit of conventional wisdom that has taken shape during the past twenty or so years. If you want to move somewhere in Ameri

Save this story Save this story Last week, the New York Times ran an article titled “ Where Should You Raise Your Children? ” The answers, taken from a recent study by the personal-finance company WalletHub, were not particularly surprising, but they were notable in their near-uniformity. Fremont, California, a city of two hundred and thirty thousand people that sits between Oakland and San Jose, posted the highest score. More than sixty per cent of its population is Asian . Irvine, California, whose population is more than forty per cent Asian , came in third place, followed by Plano, Texas,

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