Hampton Roads #5 of 50 for Working Mothers

Forbes magazine has ranked Hampton Roads #5 of 50 metropolitan areas for working mothers. Hampton Roads includes Virginia Beach, Chesapeake, Norfolk, Portsmouth, Hampton and Newport News. The criteria was varied but includes such things as number of physicians, school-district-per-pupil expenditures and violent crime rates as reported by the FBI.

A steady paycheck is nice but included in the criteria was a healthy employment rate, safety, health care and education. I don't think they included weather in the criteria because Buffalo-Niagra was #1.

Richmond was seventh and D.C. was 9th. Raleigh, N.C. was 41st and Jacksonville, Fl was 37th (the Navy wants to move a carrier there, go figure). At the bottom of the list was Las Vegas.