Chantilly High or Langley?

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Anonymous wrote:Those are two very different communities and your housing budget would place you in very different social places - you’d be rich at Chantilly and poor at Langley. What are your other priorities?

You would not be poor at Langley. You’d be average.

- Langley mom

In 2022, a $1.1-1.2M housing budget means you're below-average economically in the Langley HS district.

But someone has to be, as there's always a distribution. The Langley district is spread out and I don't think people are spending much time keeping tabs on who lives in the more affordable areas, which in Langley's case means (1) western Great Falls near Loudoun, (2) the Vienna neighborhoods off Route 7, and (3) the Kings Manor townhouses in McLean. Teaching your kids they can't always have everything some other kid has is a valuable lesson.

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Anonymous wrote:I was going to say Chantilly until your post about your social status. Please stay away.

Exactly - on middle class people actually worry about their social status being signaled through their neighborhood choice or public school - actually Chantilly has way strong STEM and a better cohort of physics-oriented students - so why would you go to Langley?

The truly rich people who can afford any house would stay where they feel the most comfortable and among people they enjoy.

There are way more convenient asian grocery stores near Chantilly than there are near Langley - why would an asian american who was secure enough in their wealth want to stay in Langley?

There's only one grocery store in the Langley area, a Safeway at Great Falls Village. You have to drive miles for anything.

Please don't bother posting if you can't stick to the truth. There is that Safeway, a Giant in McLean, a Harris Teeter near Tysons, and a Lidl coming to McLean.

Isn't the GFV Safeway is the only grocery store within Langley's boundaries? Other stores are in areas zoned to other schools.

Does FCPS monitor to make sure that you only go to a grocery store in your boundary?

(We shop at the Great Falls Safeway. It is more than adequate. And extremely convenient for those of us who live in GF. If we ever need a bigger or more unique store, there are plenty that are only a short drive away on Leesburg Pike or in Reston.)

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So bizarre.

I love Safeway so much I have an annual freshpass. However, here are some items I buy elsewhere:
50cfu biokefir-whole foods
pau d'arco tea-vitamin/moms
opo squash,bittermelon, fermented blackbean-Aditi/GreatWall/H-mart
powder laundry-Sierra
1 gr sugar ricotta-Italian Store/Rest. depot
non-Korean pignoli-Sfizi, Italian Store
blood&tongue/zeigenwurst-German Gourmet
flax ricecakes-Giant
juniper-fresh market/moms
bell&evans whole-balduccis/whole foods
adirondack ice cream/low sugar high fat (custard style) -balduccis/german gourmet

Tysons/Vienna/W. McLean/N. Merrifield is close to these plus Harris Teeter(great baby back). Great Falls is doable to these, but slightly more of a hike and on lonely roads. Those living in Great Falls, where do you get low sugar/ethnic foods like these?

I admittedly have never bought most of those items, but the Reston Whole Foods is only 15 mins away and there is a Super H Mart and a Mom’s in Herndon (maybe 20 mins away). We also have a great butcher near the Village.

Is there more driving to get certain things? Of course. But Reston, Tyson’s, etc. aren’t really that far away. And there is very little traffic on the main roads to those places (ie Springvale/Baron Cameron to get to Reston; Old Dominion to Spring Hill to get to Tyson’s). We see it as a very small trade off to live in a great, tight-knit community that in many ways feels like a small town.

A tight-knit small-town community typically doesn't have huge homes on big lots where people often don't know their neighbors, or send its kids off to a middle school and high school in another part of the county miles away.

I live in Great Falls (moved here at the beginning of the pandemic), and I've never even seen my neighbors. We joke that they're foreign spies.

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Anonymous wrote:I was going to say Chantilly until your post about your social status. Please stay away.

Exactly - on middle class people actually worry about their social status being signaled through their neighborhood choice or public school - actually Chantilly has way strong STEM and a better cohort of physics-oriented students - so why would you go to Langley?

The truly rich people who can afford any house would stay where they feel the most comfortable and among people they enjoy.

There are way more convenient asian grocery stores near Chantilly than there are near Langley - why would an asian american who was secure enough in their wealth want to stay in Langley?

There's only one grocery store in the Langley area, a Safeway at Great Falls Village. You have to drive miles for anything.

Please don't bother posting if you can't stick to the truth. There is that Safeway, a Giant in McLean, a Harris Teeter near Tysons, and a Lidl coming to McLean.

Isn't the GFV Safeway is the only grocery store within Langley's boundaries? Other stores are in areas zoned to other schools.

Does FCPS monitor to make sure that you only go to a grocery store in your boundary?

(We shop at the Great Falls Safeway. It is more than adequate. And extremely convenient for those of us who live in GF. If we ever need a bigger or more unique store, there are plenty that are only a short drive away on Leesburg Pike or in Reston.)

+1
So bizarre.

I love Safeway so much I have an annual freshpass. However, here are some items I buy elsewhere:
50cfu biokefir-whole foods
pau d'arco tea-vitamin/moms
opo squash,bittermelon, fermented blackbean-Aditi/GreatWall/H-mart
powder laundry-Sierra
1 gr sugar ricotta-Italian Store/Rest. depot
non-Korean pignoli-Sfizi, Italian Store
blood&tongue/zeigenwurst-German Gourmet
flax ricecakes-Giant
juniper-fresh market/moms
bell&evans whole-balduccis/whole foods
adirondack ice cream/low sugar high fat (custard style) -balduccis/german gourmet

Tysons/Vienna/W. McLean/N. Merrifield is close to these plus Harris Teeter(great baby back). Great Falls is doable to these, but slightly more of a hike and on lonely roads. Those living in Great Falls, where do you get low sugar/ethnic foods like these?

GF resident here. I haven't heard of most of these things either. The Safeway here is not nice, so I do most of my grocery shopping in Sterling (Coco's, Target, Giant, Lidl, Indian market) with an occasional trip to H-Mart. Anything unusual I can get delivered.

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Anonymous wrote:Those are two very different communities and your housing budget would place you in very different social places - you’d be rich at Chantilly and poor at Langley. What are your other priorities?

You would not be poor at Langley. You’d be average.

- Langley mom

In 2022, a $1.1-1.2M housing budget means you're below-average economically in the Langley HS district.

But someone has to be, as there's always a distribution. The Langley district is spread out and I don't think people are spending much time keeping tabs on who lives in the more affordable areas, which in Langley's case means (1) western Great Falls near Loudoun, (2) the Vienna neighborhoods off Route 7, and (3) the Kings Manor townhouses in McLean. Teaching your kids they can't always have everything some other kid has is a valuable lesson.

Yep! We are in GF near Rt 7 and family income is just not something kids dwell on (maybe some do, but my kids’ friends don’t). Some of my kids friends are massively wealthy, but they still come over to our tiny house to hang with my kids. They also like my cooking.

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Anonymous wrote:I was going to say Chantilly until your post about your social status. Please stay away.

Exactly - on middle class people actually worry about their social status being signaled through their neighborhood choice or public school - actually Chantilly has way strong STEM and a better cohort of physics-oriented students - so why would you go to Langley?

The truly rich people who can afford any house would stay where they feel the most comfortable and among people they enjoy.

There are way more convenient asian grocery stores near Chantilly than there are near Langley - why would an asian american who was secure enough in their wealth want to stay in Langley?

There's only one grocery store in the Langley area, a Safeway at Great Falls Village. You have to drive miles for anything.

Please don't bother posting if you can't stick to the truth. There is that Safeway, a Giant in McLean, a Harris Teeter near Tysons, and a Lidl coming to McLean.

Isn't the GFV Safeway is the only grocery store within Langley's boundaries? Other stores are in areas zoned to other schools.

Does FCPS monitor to make sure that you only go to a grocery store in your boundary?

(We shop at the Great Falls Safeway. It is more than adequate. And extremely convenient for those of us who live in GF. If we ever need a bigger or more unique store, there are plenty that are only a short drive away on Leesburg Pike or in Reston.)

+1
So bizarre.

I love Safeway so much I have an annual freshpass. However, here are some items I buy elsewhere:
50cfu biokefir-whole foods
pau d'arco tea-vitamin/moms
opo squash,bittermelon, fermented blackbean-Aditi/GreatWall/H-mart
powder laundry-Sierra
1 gr sugar ricotta-Italian Store/Rest. depot
non-Korean pignoli-Sfizi, Italian Store
blood&tongue/zeigenwurst-German Gourmet
flax ricecakes-Giant
juniper-fresh market/moms
bell&evans whole-balduccis/whole foods
adirondack ice cream/low sugar high fat (custard style) -balduccis/german gourmet

Tysons/Vienna/W. McLean/N. Merrifield is close to these plus Harris Teeter(great baby back). Great Falls is doable to these, but slightly more of a hike and on lonely roads. Those living in Great Falls, where do you get low sugar/ethnic foods like these?

I admittedly have never bought most of those items, but the Reston Whole Foods is only 15 mins away and there is a Super H Mart and a Mom’s in Herndon (maybe 20 mins away). We also have a great butcher near the Village.

Is there more driving to get certain things? Of course. But Reston, Tyson’s, etc. aren’t really that far away. And there is very little traffic on the main roads to those places (ie Springvale/Baron Cameron to get to Reston; Old Dominion to Spring Hill to get to Tyson’s). We see it as a very small trade off to live in a great, tight-knit community that in many ways feels like a small town.

A tight-knit small-town community typically doesn't have huge homes on big lots where people often don't know their neighbors, or send its kids off to a middle school and high school in another part of the county miles away.

Well we live here and we know that it is a tight-knit community (and we are good friends with our neighbors and most others on our street). Added bonus: Lots of families with younger children have moved here in the past year or two, which is great for the kids. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

Covid was probably the best thing that happened to Great Falls since the 2008 recession. Of course, as employers return to the office gradually, more people will find out what it's like to have to commute from Great Falls to their jobs.

GF wasn't having any issues in the home sales department prior to Covid - what a weird post. And many - if not most - people in GF have short commutes to their jobs in the Reston/Tysons/Vienna corridor - or from home. Sour grapes are so unbecoming.

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Anonymous wrote:Those are two very different communities and your housing budget would place you in very different social places - you’d be rich at Chantilly and poor at Langley. What are your other priorities?

You would not be poor at Langley. You’d be average.

- Langley mom

In 2022, a $1.1-1.2M housing budget means you're below-average economically in the Langley HS district.

But someone has to be, as there's always a distribution. The Langley district is spread out and I don't think people are spending much time keeping tabs on who lives in the more affordable areas, which in Langley's case means (1) western Great Falls near Loudoun, (2) the Vienna neighborhoods off Route 7, and (3) the Kings Manor townhouses in McLean. Teaching your kids they can't always have everything some other kid has is a valuable lesson.

DP. You are correct that no one who actually goes to Langley thinks about or talks about the wealth of their peers. Curiously, that seems to be the sole purview of people whose kids go to school elsewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:I was going to say Chantilly until your post about your social status. Please stay away.

Exactly - on middle class people actually worry about their social status being signaled through their neighborhood choice or public school - actually Chantilly has way strong STEM and a better cohort of physics-oriented students - so why would you go to Langley?

The truly rich people who can afford any house would stay where they feel the most comfortable and among people they enjoy.

There are way more convenient asian grocery stores near Chantilly than there are near Langley - why would an asian american who was secure enough in their wealth want to stay in Langley?

There's only one grocery store in the Langley area, a Safeway at Great Falls Village. You have to drive miles for anything.

Please don't bother posting if you can't stick to the truth. There is that Safeway, a Giant in McLean, a Harris Teeter near Tysons, and a Lidl coming to McLean.

Isn't the GFV Safeway is the only grocery store within Langley's boundaries? Other stores are in areas zoned to other schools.

Does FCPS monitor to make sure that you only go to a grocery store in your boundary?

(We shop at the Great Falls Safeway. It is more than adequate. And extremely convenient for those of us who live in GF. If we ever need a bigger or more unique store, there are plenty that are only a short drive away on Leesburg Pike or in Reston.)

+1
So bizarre.

I love Safeway so much I have an annual freshpass. However, here are some items I buy elsewhere:
50cfu biokefir-whole foods
pau d'arco tea-vitamin/moms
opo squash,bittermelon, fermented blackbean-Aditi/GreatWall/H-mart
powder laundry-Sierra
1 gr sugar ricotta-Italian Store/Rest. depot
non-Korean pignoli-Sfizi, Italian Store
blood&tongue/zeigenwurst-German Gourmet
flax ricecakes-Giant
juniper-fresh market/moms
bell&evans whole-balduccis/whole foods
adirondack ice cream/low sugar high fat (custard style) -balduccis/german gourmet

Tysons/Vienna/W. McLean/N. Merrifield is close to these plus Harris Teeter(great baby back). Great Falls is doable to these, but slightly more of a hike and on lonely roads. Those living in Great Falls, where do you get low sugar/ethnic foods like these?

GF resident here. I haven't heard of most of these things either. The Safeway here is not nice, so I do most of my grocery shopping in Sterling (Coco's, Target, Giant, Lidl, Indian market) with an occasional trip to H-Mart. Anything unusual I can get delivered.

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We go to the Reston Giant or Harris Teeter, as well as Sterling Costco and Target. I sometimes shop at the GF Safeway, but rarely these days.

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Anonymous wrote:Those are two very different communities and your housing budget would place you in very different social places - you’d be rich at Chantilly and poor at Langley. What are your other priorities?

You would not be poor at Langley. You’d be average.

- Langley mom

In 2022, a $1.1-1.2M housing budget means you're below-average economically in the Langley HS district.

But someone has to be, as there's always a distribution. The Langley district is spread out and I don't think people are spending much time keeping tabs on who lives in the more affordable areas, which in Langley's case means (1) western Great Falls near Loudoun, (2) the Vienna neighborhoods off Route 7, and (3) the Kings Manor townhouses in McLean. Teaching your kids they can't always have everything some other kid has is a valuable lesson.

Yep! We are in GF near Rt 7 and family income is just not something kids dwell on (maybe some do, but my kids’ friends don’t). Some of my kids friends are massively wealthy, but they still come over to our tiny house to hang with my kids. They also like my cooking.

DP. Same here. My kids' friends live all over the area and no one cares how big one house is compared to the other. Such a ridiculous thing to obsess over. And we also live in a small house.

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Anonymous wrote:I was going to say Chantilly until your post about your social status. Please stay away.

Exactly - on middle class people actually worry about their social status being signaled through their neighborhood choice or public school - actually Chantilly has way strong STEM and a better cohort of physics-oriented students - so why would you go to Langley?

The truly rich people who can afford any house would stay where they feel the most comfortable and among people they enjoy.

There are way more convenient asian grocery stores near Chantilly than there are near Langley - why would an asian american who was secure enough in their wealth want to stay in Langley?

There's only one grocery store in the Langley area, a Safeway at Great Falls Village. You have to drive miles for anything.

Please don't bother posting if you can't stick to the truth. There is that Safeway, a Giant in McLean, a Harris Teeter near Tysons, and a Lidl coming to McLean.

Isn't the GFV Safeway is the only grocery store within Langley's boundaries? Other stores are in areas zoned to other schools.

Does FCPS monitor to make sure that you only go to a grocery store in your boundary?

(We shop at the Great Falls Safeway. It is more than adequate. And extremely convenient for those of us who live in GF. If we ever need a bigger or more unique store, there are plenty that are only a short drive away on Leesburg Pike or in Reston.)

+1
So bizarre.

I love Safeway so much I have an annual freshpass. However, here are some items I buy elsewhere:
50cfu biokefir-whole foods
pau d'arco tea-vitamin/moms
opo squash,bittermelon, fermented blackbean-Aditi/GreatWall/H-mart
powder laundry-Sierra
1 gr sugar ricotta-Italian Store/Rest. depot
non-Korean pignoli-Sfizi, Italian Store
blood&tongue/zeigenwurst-German Gourmet
flax ricecakes-Giant
juniper-fresh market/moms
bell&evans whole-balduccis/whole foods
adirondack ice cream/low sugar high fat (custard style) -balduccis/german gourmet

Tysons/Vienna/W. McLean/N. Merrifield is close to these plus Harris Teeter(great baby back). Great Falls is doable to these, but slightly more of a hike and on lonely roads. Those living in Great Falls, where do you get low sugar/ethnic foods like these?

I admittedly have never bought most of those items, but the Reston Whole Foods is only 15 mins away and there is a Super H Mart and a Mom’s in Herndon (maybe 20 mins away). We also have a great butcher near the Village.

Is there more driving to get certain things? Of course. But Reston, Tyson’s, etc. aren’t really that far away. And there is very little traffic on the main roads to those places (ie Springvale/Baron Cameron to get to Reston; Old Dominion to Spring Hill to get to Tyson’s). We see it as a very small trade off to live in a great, tight-knit community that in many ways feels like a small town.

A tight-knit small-town community typically doesn't have huge homes on big lots where people often don't know their neighbors, or send its kids off to a middle school and high school in another part of the county miles away.

Well we live here and we know that it is a tight-knit community (and we are good friends with our neighbors and most others on our street). Added bonus: Lots of families with younger children have moved here in the past year or two, which is great for the kids. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

Covid was probably the best thing that happened to Great Falls since the 2008 recession. Of course, as employers return to the office gradually, more people will find out what it's like to have to commute from Great Falls to their jobs.

GF wasn't having any issues in the home sales department prior to Covid - what a weird post. And many - if not most - people in GF have short commutes to their jobs in the Reston/Tysons/Vienna corridor - or from home. Sour grapes are so unbecoming.

Nope. GF was lagging behind other areas for many years.

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Anonymous wrote:I was going to say Chantilly until your post about your social status. Please stay away.

Exactly - on middle class people actually worry about their social status being signaled through their neighborhood choice or public school - actually Chantilly has way strong STEM and a better cohort of physics-oriented students - so why would you go to Langley?

The truly rich people who can afford any house would stay where they feel the most comfortable and among people they enjoy.

There are way more convenient asian grocery stores near Chantilly than there are near Langley - why would an asian american who was secure enough in their wealth want to stay in Langley?

There's only one grocery store in the Langley area, a Safeway at Great Falls Village. You have to drive miles for anything.

Please don't bother posting if you can't stick to the truth. There is that Safeway, a Giant in McLean, a Harris Teeter near Tysons, and a Lidl coming to McLean.

Isn't the GFV Safeway is the only grocery store within Langley's boundaries? Other stores are in areas zoned to other schools.

Does FCPS monitor to make sure that you only go to a grocery store in your boundary?

(We shop at the Great Falls Safeway. It is more than adequate. And extremely convenient for those of us who live in GF. If we ever need a bigger or more unique store, there are plenty that are only a short drive away on Leesburg Pike or in Reston.)

+1
So bizarre.

I love Safeway so much I have an annual freshpass. However, here are some items I buy elsewhere:
50cfu biokefir-whole foods
pau d'arco tea-vitamin/moms
opo squash,bittermelon, fermented blackbean-Aditi/GreatWall/H-mart
powder laundry-Sierra
1 gr sugar ricotta-Italian Store/Rest. depot
non-Korean pignoli-Sfizi, Italian Store
blood&tongue/zeigenwurst-German Gourmet
flax ricecakes-Giant
juniper-fresh market/moms
bell&evans whole-balduccis/whole foods
adirondack ice cream/low sugar high fat (custard style) -balduccis/german gourmet

Tysons/Vienna/W. McLean/N. Merrifield is close to these plus Harris Teeter(great baby back). Great Falls is doable to these, but slightly more of a hike and on lonely roads. Those living in Great Falls, where do you get low sugar/ethnic foods like these?

GF resident here. I haven't heard of most of these things either. The Safeway here is not nice, so I do most of my grocery shopping in Sterling (Coco's, Target, Giant, Lidl, Indian market) with an occasional trip to H-Mart. Anything unusual I can get delivered.

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We go to the Reston Giant or Harris Teeter, as well as Sterling Costco and Target. I sometimes shop at the GF Safeway, but rarely these days.

We go to the Wegman's in Tysons and the Harris Teeter in Tysons, among other places. We are also excited to try out the Lidl in McLean. I cook from scratch, so I can get most of my ingredients for ethnic food at the grocery stores I visit. If there is something they don't carry, I can usually find it at one of the ethnic stores in Sterling, Merrifield, or Herndon, or I order it.

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Anonymous wrote:Those are two very different communities and your housing budget would place you in very different social places - you’d be rich at Chantilly and poor at Langley. What are your other priorities?

You would not be poor at Langley. You’d be average.

- Langley mom

In 2022, a $1.1-1.2M housing budget means you're below-average economically in the Langley HS district.

But someone has to be, as there's always a distribution. The Langley district is spread out and I don't think people are spending much time keeping tabs on who lives in the more affordable areas, which in Langley's case means (1) western Great Falls near Loudoun, (2) the Vienna neighborhoods off Route 7, and (3) the Kings Manor townhouses in McLean. Teaching your kids they can't always have everything some other kid has is a valuable lesson.

DP. You are correct that no one who actually goes to Langley thinks about or talks about the wealth of their peers. Curiously, that seems to be the sole purview of people whose kids go to school elsewhere.

How fantastic that OP has the benefit of the views of some random Langley mom who constantly pretends she knows what everyone in her pyramid thinks or says.

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Anonymous wrote:Those are two very different communities and your housing budget would place you in very different social places - you’d be rich at Chantilly and poor at Langley. What are your other priorities?

I hear you. May be that’s the reason I want to move to GF.
We are an Asian couple and part of me wants to transition to that social strata.

DH is afraid to make that transition. I want kids to have that taste of a different social circle. My personal belief is that you become what group you are part of. We combined make around 275K and I am sure we would be in lower spectrum at Langley.

Please enlighten or correct me if my way of thinking is wrong.
Is there a different lens I should be looking through as well?

Barf.

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Anonymous wrote:We also live in Fairfax City and have concerns with the the elementary and middle schools, so will not send our kids to FFX High School. (Luckily our kids qualified for the AAP Center and left for Mosaic, which is worlds better than any City elementary school, but the middle school AAP is a joke). Chantilly is in the same FCPS region (region 5) as Fairfax High school, and has the same Asst. Sup't leadership. I would therefore not consider Chantilly if you are unhappy with Fairfax City. Chantilly may be great, but ...Good luck.

Our DC went to Willow, Lanier (KJMS), and now FHS. I'm not sure the issue. We have higher income that OP and there are certainly lots of people with more money than we have (since social status seems to be a concern). It's a great school, and we loved out pyramid. Great community feel and you don't get lost in the super large HSs. But you want to go? Bye.

I'll keep my thoughts on Langley, and the people I know who went there, to myself.

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I am a child of poor Asian immigrants. My parents wanted me to attend a school in the best school district so we lived in the cheapest house in a neighborhood similar to Langley. I feel very comfortable around rich people even though I didn’t grow up rich.

We now live in the Langley pyramid. You will find an excellent peer group with well educated parents. The parents are all fairly successful. Lots of doctors, lawyers, tech executives, etc. We have a seven figure income and my kids have a very different childhood than we did.

If OP moved to Langley, they would be on the lower end of income and house. The cheapest home you can live in feeding into Langley is $1.2m. McLean High is full of very smart Asian kids whose parents stretch to send them to the best school district just as my parents did for me.

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Anonymous wrote:Those are two very different communities and your housing budget would place you in very different social places - you’d be rich at Chantilly and poor at Langley. What are your other priorities?

I hear you. May be that’s the reason I want to move to GF.
We are an Asian couple and part of me wants to transition to that social strata.

DH is afraid to make that transition. I want kids to have that taste of a different social circle. My personal belief is that you become what group you are part of. We combined make around 275K and I am sure we would be in lower spectrum at Langley.

Please enlighten or correct me if my way of thinking is wrong.
Is there a different lens I should be looking through as well?

Barf.

So, we earned about $230k combined when we first moved to GF and there were a lot of other families like us (i.e. dual feds or some combination like that). While we were probably in the “lower” spectrum in terms of income, it really wasn’t an issue. My kids made friends and have had a great education. As far as social circles go, your children don’t have to hang out with other Asian kids — their friend group will be whatever club, sport or activity they are involved in. The only downside I can think of is there are a lot of high-achievers at the school, so it will be hard to stand out when you are searching for colleges to go to.