Looking For a Nice Safe Community with a Fairly Conservative College

12.07.02 | mlmr

[mlmr]

I am looking for a safe, conservative community for my family. I live in the middle of liberal La-la land and homeschool my children. There are some changes in our lives and I now have to work and the children need to be in schools. They are not going to be quite as supervised or protected as before and I need to provide a safe community for them. I have a gifted and talented daughter who could take college courses. I have three younger children who I need to place in good public or Christian schools. Safety and conservative culture are two major factors here. Any input from Freepers would be gratefully received.

[crystalk]

It is little known that a thin strip of West Va reaches far north between Ohio and Pennsylvania.

In that hilly, pretty, rural area near the Ohio River, is a little college called Bethany College, operated by the Disciple of Christ denomination. A few miles away is a state college. A few miles further away are two Catholic colleges, both conservative, the Jesuit U of Wheeling and the Franciscan U of Steubenville.

All of this is near both Pittsburgh and Washington, PA, where other colleges and Us exist.

All of it is cool in the summer, snowy in the winter, and yet you can fly to anywhere out of nearby airport at Pittsburgh.

You have a choice of 3 states to live in, so you can figure out where to pay income taxes, sales taxes, car insurance etc.

This may be the ticket.

[PoorMuttly]

"Distance Learning" on the internet. One can get an excellent, State University degree, and only deal with mentors, from time to time. Live anywhere one wants to.

[tracer]

The BYU center in Jerusalem is temporarily (it is hoped) out of commission, and BYU Hawaii, NE of Oahu is nice. But gaining admission to any BYU campus is extremely competitive whether an applicant is LDS or not.

Indiana U.-Bloomington, my undergraduate alma mater, is a good school in a very beautiful and safe setting, as is Miami of Ohio....

[mlmr]

Sounds idyllic...I will check it out.

[mlmr]

I could do distance learning from here but my issue is that I have a daughter who needs more intellectual stimulation so I would like to have her take some classes. I also have three others who will have to go into schools next year. I need to find decent schools and a conservative college campus within walking, biking distance from our house. If I am particularly fortunate I will find employment near or on the campus. I need to place my children in a situation where they can be more free and safe.

[crystalk]

Everybody has been leaving West Va for 55 yrs now so there are lots of big old rambling houses for not much money, if you can do a little fixup and are not afraid of lack of modern central heat in some. This seems true in towns just as much as out in the boonies.

[crystalk]

The reason I should say anything about Bethany and its near neighbor the "West Liberty State College" isn't it called, look it up, in that little strip of West Va only about 5 miles wide I think...

Is that very near there over the Pennsylvania line, is where the heroic [conservative Catholic] Dr Adovasio has stood American archaeology and anthropology on its head, incurring opposition, by showing that humans occupied the "MEADOWCROFT ROCK SHELTER" some 19,000 years ago, long before anyone else would admit that humans were even in North America, or anywhere in the Americas for that matter.

That is just like, over the hill from Bethany, and I think some of the summer archeology students stayed there.

[PoorMuttly]

You are a nice person, and you and your children will do fine. You'll all find the way.

[mlmr]

Thank you for your kind words.