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I was under impression that Texas does have good schools, e.g. 3 of top 20 schools in the nation according to USNews are in TX: http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/national-r...

Also, what are the "education states" and why?

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Amusingly Miami has 3 schools on that list (Florida has 5), and all of California has 2 (neither in the Bay Area).

Though unless you're planning on sending your kids to one of these schools I don't think this really tells you much of anything.

2 are in neighboring "counties" in seattle. Wooh boring seattle.

Kirkland and Bellevue are both in king county.

thus the effing quoties. I live here I know theyre both in king county. But thanks for being both pedantic and stupid. it keeps smart people in SV and away from trying to get my job.

They're rather distant culturally though: compared to Seattle proper, Kirkland and Bellevue are whitebread, suburban, relatively conservative.

Of course compared to the rest of the state...

Basically, Bellevue and Kirkland (as well as Kenmore, Bothell, Renton, etc...) are just like any other suburb outside of the Bay Area. As for the rest of the state, most of my family lives in the Spokane area and were originally from Walla Walla...

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