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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This place is brutal. We commute 45 minutes to an hour each direction. We pay thousands of dollars a month for a small home that isn't even metro accessible. We pay over $2k a month for a nanny share because we are still on waiting lists for daycare. Friends of mine pay that much for their kid to go to kindergarten because they refuse to put her in DC public schools. We work 50 hour weeks and are considered to have relatively low-stress jobs for our line of work. It's 100 degrees in May, so we can't go outside and play with DD. We carry blackberries everywhere we go. Seriously, how do people function this way long-term? We're so overstressed and undersupported, it's ridiculous. Plus, and not to start a firestorm here (but it's bound to happen), lots of moms in this area are total helicopters who can't imagine not buying their precious LO $50 shoes for preschool. Seriously, are people HAPPY here raising children? I mean, it's a fabulous place to live if you're young and single. But raising a toddler and preggo it's like one big stress bubble!![/quote] [b]Well, you seem to be combining here. If people are paying for private school to avoid DCPS they shouldn't have bad commutes like you do. Otherwise they are doing something wrong since many people live in DC to avoid commuting. And why are you paying so much for a house that is far out and small? Seems like you are missing the trade off part of living here and raising a family here. Maybe you'd be happier renting?[/b]We have a small house but we are close in and have good commutes. We make enough to be comfortable but not enough to know or care about anyone paying $50 for preschool schools. We love our jobs, and we wouldn't have them outside this area so it makes it a little easier to spend 45 or 50 hours a week on them. The key for us is job satisfaction and family nearby. I do think it would suck more if we didn't have my parents who retired not too far from here, and DH's siblings are in the area as well. I admit it's tough here sometimes but you don't have to get caught up in the world of helicopter moms etc. There are a lot of diverse people here and it's a lot easier if you find a good group of friends.[/quote] OP here, sadly we ARE renting. If we had it to do over again we would choose a metro accessible neighborhood, but honestly, DC is a large town with horrible traffic, so even though we live 5 miles from our jobs, that 5 miles takes 45 minutes. If we lived any closer we couldn't afford the third bedroom in our house, which is the only way we have any support at all for when family comes to visit.[/quote]
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