Thanks, appreciate the thoughtful reply. Didn't mean to paint it as perfect or dismiss the city's problems, just trying to balance out the very negative posts that started in this thread with a positive perspective. My wife works in health care and brought with her good experience, so things have worked out well. Before we made the move, we read many negative posts on city-data.com forums about the downsides, so I am aware that there are many issues -- it's just that those posts almost scared us out of a move that has turned out to be a great decision, so I feel the need to throw some positive job stories into the mix.