Virginia Beach is truly a perfect city in every sense. To know more about the city is through its revealing facts. The word fact reminds me of Samuel McChord Crothers, who speaks, “The Trouble with Facts Is That There Are So Many of Them”, this is true with Virginia Beach.

When survey was conducted in US under “Top 100 Places to Raise a Family” based on cities crime, cultures, housing prices, professionals, health cares, education and other things. Virginia Beach stood 2nd with the first being Hawaii. The criteria’s which worked in the favor were low crime rate, more number of people employed, more educational avenues and standards, less inflation, pollution and much more.

The present look of Virginia Beach is far more different than those of in nineteenth century. This small hamlet rose into prominence when a rail road connecting its oceanfront with Norfolk was constructed, along with the first hotel. Later the place was turned into a town and further progressed into a city, making it the largest city in Virginia.

There are lot many sources that constitute the economy, but the major source is Tourism, that makes it evident with the heavy influx of tourists. Definitely this place offers the best things which make tourists throng this place. First and the foremost is the clean air, and this clean air comes from the Atlantic Ocean.

No, this is not a fib, but a stark truth accredited by the Environmental Protection Agency who strongly support, that there are no bad air days in Virginia Beach- Boon for Health. Secondly it has the most astounding landmarks to visit. The beaches here are a treat, clean and purely enjoyable beaches with myriads of activities.

It has the longest line of delightful and safest beach, which finds its mention in the Guinness Book of World records. No public drunkenness and vulgarity of any sort is tolerated. The whole world is concerned about the tons and tons of garbage dumped which is not only hazardous to health but poses great threats to environment, people try to keep such landfills away from human habitation.

But people of Virginia Beach are an exception; they actually organize innumerable events like carnivals, fireworks and Independence Day in and around this land fill. Don’t make faces, they don’t love dirt and filth, but have created something unique and beautiful from huge pile of accumulated trash which is popular as MT.Trashmore

The Trashmore Mountain is the standing example of a very large landfill, turned into a 60 ft tall mountain fully covered with lush green grass. This proves to be the most unbelievable factor for the tourists.

May it be any city; events are the heart and soul when it comes to entertainment. Likewise Virginia Beach boast of several events, but the one that seems so unusual is the Annual Delmarva Chicken Festival. In this festival the frying pan which is used is the largest in the world and has the capacity of 180 gallons of oil. The festival started  in 1950 is still celebrated today. The frying pan used can fry up to 800 chicken quarters at once. You must be trying to gauge, how big the pan is, don’t tax your brain so much, I will help you out with it, it is almost twice the size of a Jacuzzi.

These were my little efforts to compile all the wonderful facts that make up Virginia Beach.

Sometimes the deciding factor for the parents to settle down in certain place depends entirely on what educational standards the place offer to their children. When we talk about Virginia Beach we find education is on the fore front with several public and private schools are shaping the future generation and considerable amount of colleges and universities giving the youths opportunities to grow and flourish in their desired field of study.

The schools and colleges maintain all the educational standards required for the proper growth of an individual. Moreover one can go through the several options and find out the best from the education and career point of view. The number of schools and varied career options gives you an idea of how concern and aware people are about education.

The literacy rate of the place is commendable with around 28.1% of the people of age group 25 and above hold graduates degree, while 90.4% people have high school diploma or any course equivalent to it, as stated by US

Census. Moreover the schools or college drop out rates are very low.

The school systems in Virginia Beach have public as well as private schools. These schools incorporate elementary, middle and high schools. Those who feel their child along with the education should also know about their religion. The private schools are what you are looking for. The education system here, along with the study curriculum also advocate a particular religion so that good habits are inculcated and they get exposure to religion and God.

This could be the strong reason for many parents to send their children to private schools. When we talk about public schools Virginia Beach City Public Schools is one of the largest in the whole State. The public schools are in itself form a small world with students of different genders, races, religious and nationalities take education.

Many parents feel this gives their children diverse atmosphere and prepares them for the life after school- the actual

world. Virginia Beach is the home to good colleges and universities. Also there is no dearth to specialty schools offering courses in varied field like technology, fine art, business marketing, Visual and performing arts, information technology and many such courses that prepares the students for pursuing job.

Virginia Beach offers the complete conducive atmosphere and proper scope for education and progress in desired field. For graduate and post graduate courses Virginia Beach has two popular universities The Regent University and Atlantic University. More courses are provided in Virginia Wesleyan College, ECPI College of Technology and Bryant and Stratton College.

Virginia Beach has gone a step ahead to educate the masses and keep them updated with the knowledge by giving them free access to Virginia Beach Public Libraries that have proved to be of great help of students in their studies.