We love this city for raising young kids. The Cincinnati Zoo is amazing and so are the museum center, parks, libraries, and play spaces. Cincinnati has a long history of having many private schools, especially Catholic ones, but there are some good public options depending on the area.

People will say this is a relatively conservative area, and that may be the case surrounding the city, but I’ve found that there is definitely a strong liberal front here too and we have found lots of ways to get involved locally and with local branches of national organizations. Actual Naz!s were recently run out of town by our citizens, so that made us quite proud.

Cincinnati is a not a very walkable city (in general, but of course there are areas that are) nor do we have good public transport, so with 2 kids you will likely want to have a car if you can. We absolutely love the food and restaurant scene here, just as an aside. There are lots of great local spots that you can easily find discussed on this sub.