Newport News, Virginia

Anonymous
2y ago
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Newport News is a large city and your experience will vary depending on where you are. There are some really nice pockets near CNU and in the Hilton village. There are some really rough areas around the shipyard and into midtown. Some elementary schools are good, but the middle schools and high schools are not great. There are options in York county and across the James River, but there will be trades offs in cost or commute time.

manofthewild07
2y ago
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Pretty sad how many people are allowed to comment on somewhere they clearly haven't spent any real time in, if they've even visited at all.

Like any mid-size to large southern city with an large industrial sector it has its good side and its bad side. Outside of the rougher side its a perfectly safe and even really nice place to live and raise a family.

I like it because we actually have everything you need/want here and a lot of diversity of people and something everyone can afford. There's a house down the street from me selling for over a million bucks, and others not far for $300-350k. Its an affordable mid-size city with great parks.

Sure the schools could be better, but there are enough decent schools that any kid with attentive parents will be fine (most successful kids are successful because of their parents, not necessarily what school they went to).

I mean how bad could it be? We have a whole foods, fresh market, and trader joes… they dont put up stores in places that are "rough", "dangerous", or shit holes.

We have a national physics lab, multiple international company headquarters, its right between two well connected airports, close to beaches, and we get all 4 seasons equally.

We have at least a couple indian grocery stores, several korean/japanese/chinese grocery stores, a couple caribbean grocery stores, good sushi, good seafood, great korean, good thai, great indian/nepalese, a couple good local coffee roasters, etc.

Lookslikeseen
2y ago
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You’ll hear this about a lot of cities in this area, but it entirely depends on what part you live in. There are some fantastic neighborhoods in NN, there are others I won’t even drive through at night if I don’t have to. Hampton and NN public schools leave much to be desired one way or the other, so if you can go elsewhere or afford private school do that. Hop on GreatSchools.org and take a look around, you’ll see.

If the job you’re getting is at the Shipyard, I would move across the JRB or the MMBT then commute in. I wouldn’t recommend living down that way if you can avoid it.

If you’re getting a job at Ferguson or somewhere up that way, I’d move to Kiln Creek. It’s expensive but it’s a nice community in there with tons of stuff for your kids to do.

Pros and Cons of Living in Newport News Virginia