{"id":958585,"date":"2026-07-25T15:52:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T15:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/958585\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T15:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T15:52:25","slug":"shaqs-big-chicken-closes-fort-worth-location-and-more-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/958585\/","title":{"rendered":"Shaq&#8217;s Big Chicken closes Fort Worth location and more news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Raising a child is not an easy or inexpensive feat, and a <a href=\"https:\/\/smartasset.com\/data-studies\/cost-of-raising-a-child-in-major-u-s-metros-2026-study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">new study<\/a> has determined Fort Worth parents are saddled with the second-highest costs for childrearing in Texas, with expenses jumping higher than any other metro statewide since 2025.<\/p>\n<p>SmartAsset&#8217;s latest report, &#8220;Cost of Raising a Child in Major U.S. Metros \u2013 2026 Study,&#8221; calculated year-over-year changes in the annual cost of raising a child (factoring in childcare, additional housing costs, food, transportation, medical costs and other necessities) in the 48 largest U.S. metro areas. <a href=\"https:\/\/livingwage.mit.edu\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">MIT&#8217;s Living Wage Calculator<\/a> was used to compare the living costs of a household with two working adults and one child to that of a childless household with two working adults.<\/p>\n<p>Childrearing costs in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington have grown 4.5 percent since last year, totaling $23,340 for a family of three in 2026. That&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworth.culturemap.com\/news\/city-life\/cost-raising-children-dfw-smartasset\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">over $1,000 more<\/a> than what it took to raise a child in 2025, and it&#8217;s $1,414 higher than what it took <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworth.culturemap.com\/news\/city-life\/raise-child-cost-fort-worth-dallas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">in 2024<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This is how SmartAsset broke down the annual cost for raising a child in Dallas-Fort Worth:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ee-ul\">\n<li>Cost of childcare: $10,736<\/li>\n<li>Cost of food: $1,826<\/li>\n<li>Other expenses: $10,778<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Though DFW has the second-steepest costs for raising a child in Texas, the metro is actually much more affordable than most other places in the U.S.: DFW ranked 39th in SmartAsset&#8217;s national list of cities with the highest childrearing costs in 2026, making it the 10th most affordable U.S. metro for raising a family.<\/p>\n<p>San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont in California topped the list with the highest childrearing costs in the U.S., at $43,171. The cost for raising a child in this California metro soared nearly 11 percent higher since last year.<\/p>\n<p>Memphis, Tennessee ranked dead last as the most affordable U.S. metro for raising a child in 2026. Families will spend less than $20,000 to raise a child in Memphis, only 3.24 percent more than what was needed in 2025.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Raising a child in other Texas metros<br \/><\/strong>It may come as no surprise that Austin is the most expensive place to raise a child in Texas, and it appeared as the 31st most expensive U.S. metro for families. Parents will spend nearly $25,000 to raise a child in the state&#8217;s capital city, which is $703 higher than it was a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile,  San Antonio-New Braunfels is the most affordable metro in the Lone Star State for raising a family, and it&#8217;s the third-most affordable place for raising a child nationwide. San Antonio parents will spend $21,393, or $448 more than last year, on their childrearing costs.<\/p>\n<p>Houston also ranked among the top 10 most affordable U.S. metros for raising a child, landing in 7th place nationally, with childrearing costs adding up to $22,605 in 2026. That&#8217;s only $737 more than last year.<\/p>\n<p>The top 10 most affordable U.S. metros for raising a child in 2026 are:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ee-ul\">\n<li>No. 1 \u2013 Memphis, Tennessee ($19,922)<\/li>\n<li>No. 2 \u2013 Nashville, Davidson-Murfreesboro-Franklin, Tennessee ($21,216)<\/li>\n<li>No. 3 \u2013 San Antonio-New Braunfels ($21,393)<\/li>\n<li>No. 4 \u2013 Birmingham, Alabama ($21,684)<\/li>\n<li>No. 5 \u2013 Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, Virginia ($22,314)<\/li>\n<li>No. 6 \u2013 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, Georgia ($22,470)<\/li>\n<li>No. 7 \u2013 Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands ($22,605)<\/li>\n<li>No. 8 \u2013 Richmond, Virginia ($22,658)<\/li>\n<li>No. 9 \u2013 Louisville\/Jefferson County, Kentucky ($23,270)<\/li>\n<li><strong>No. 10 \u2013 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington ($23,340)<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Raising a child is not an easy or inexpensive feat, and a new study has determined Fort Worth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":958586,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,22790,7371,7372,167808,20337,22267,10084,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-958585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-america","tag-closings","tag-fort-worth","tag-fortworth","tag-holiday-attractions","tag-hot-headlines","tag-most-popular","tag-openings","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116981422149084012","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=958585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/958585\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/958586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=958585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=958585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=958585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}