Sarah Eller and her husband Carl don't have any children, but they are still able to see that their hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina is a great place to raise a family.


Forbes Magazine can see it, too. The magazine, which produces an annual ranking of American cities and their livability, placed Raleigh, North Carolina at the top of their 2014 list of great places to raise a family. That's up from third place the year before, and Sarah Eller says her hometown deserves another top rating in 2015.


If that happens it is going to feel familiar to Sarah Eller of Wake County and her family and friends around Wake County. Raleigh ranked #1 in Forbes ratings from 2007 to 2009, and again in 2011. It's the only city on the East Coast to crack the top ten, and one of the reasons for its consistent showing is that the business costs there are eighteen percent below the national average.


There are a lot of brains there, too; not for nothing is this part of North Carolina known as the Research Triangle. Raleigh is home to North Carolina State University, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Duke University are both nearby. Forty-two percent of the adult population in Raleigh has a college degree, which is among the best rates in all of the United States.


Other top cities in the Forbes ranking are Des Moines, Iowa, Provo, Utah, and two cities in Colorado: Denver and Fort Collins.


None of this is lost on the powers that be in Wake County. Officials in the Wake County Public School District say that one of the reasons Raleigh is such a great place to raise a family are the outstanding public schools there. Sarah Eller is a social studies teacher at Thomas Jefferson High School, the same school she attended as a teenager. Her husband Carl is a woodshop teacher there, and he too attended Jefferson High. She earned a Bachelor's degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and went on to earn her Master's degree in Education, also from UNC.


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