Why isn’t everyone moving to the Main Line?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I went to Penn for post grad work,,,and it was fairly like here--everyone thought they were living in the best place on earth, that everything else was provinicial...and that only their schools were good enough for their kids.....they detested South Phlliy as much as DCUM detests redneck Virginia...so atititude is one of the same...however I have to admit the architecture both in the City and burbs og Philly is much more beautiful than DC/DMV.
only difference is: Philly is overpopulated with docs and DMV with lawyers.....ultimately docs can help more....

you are right! i hadn't really thought about it, but it feels like everyone is either a doctor or their spouse is a doctor. like fully 50% of the parents at my kid's school are some kind of medical doctor.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://redf.in/IRU7tE

Radnor is the #14 school district in the country this year in Niche.

https://radnorite.com/3798/currents/the-disparity-within-pennsylvanias-education-system/

Written by a Radnor student newspaper columnist.

Very high-inequality with the town-based school districts there. Wallingford-Swarthmore SD vs William Penn SD, both in Delaware county and a couple miles from each other are another example. Raising my kid in that kind of environment might make me uncomfortable.

So you are ok with inequality here?

In places with town school districts, there’s no rezoning, busing, magnets or lotterying into another school. You’re stuck where you are. If you’re in McLean, you’d probably love that. Someone in Annandale, probably would not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to Penn for post grad work,,,and it was fairly like here--everyone thought they were living in the best place on earth, that everything else was provinicial...and that only their schools were good enough for their kids.....they detested South Phlliy as much as DCUM detests redneck Virginia...so atititude is one of the same...however I have to admit the architecture both in the City and burbs og Philly is much more beautiful than DC/DMV.
only difference is: Philly is overpopulated with docs and DMV with lawyers.....ultimately docs can help more....

you are right! i hadn't really thought about it, but it feels like everyone is either a doctor or their spouse is a doctor. like fully 50% of the parents at my kid's school are some kind of medical doctor.

and in NOVA 75 percent are lawyers

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Penn for post grad work,,,and it was fairly like here--everyone thought they were living in the best place on earth, that everything else was provinicial...and that only their schools were good enough for their kids.....they detested South Phlliy as much as DCUM detests redneck Virginia...so atititude is one of the same...however I have to admit the architecture both in the City and burbs og Philly is much more beautiful than DC/DMV.
only difference is: Philly is overpopulated with docs and DMV with lawyers.....ultimately docs can help more....

you are right! i hadn't really thought about it, but it feels like everyone is either a doctor or their spouse is a doctor. like fully 50% of the parents at my kid's school are some kind of medical doctor.

My niece goes to a Philly area private k-12 school and from what her family has said, it seems much more “middle class” than that kind of school would be in the DMV, presumably because lower COL makes it easier to afford private. Lots of kids of city employees, accountants, middle manager types and teachers there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I went to Penn for post grad work,,,and it was fairly like here--everyone thought they were living in the best place on earth, that everything else was provinicial...and that only their schools were good enough for their kids.....they detested South Phlliy as much as DCUM detests redneck Virginia...so atititude is one of the same...however I have to admit the architecture both in the City and burbs og Philly is much more beautiful than DC/DMV.
only difference is: Philly is overpopulated with docs and DMV with lawyers.....ultimately docs can help more....

Please don't speak for every one who is from Philly

majority at Penn are like this .....majority in DMV are also like this...I never said everyone is....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For whatever reason, PA, NJ, all of the New England states and Illinois have absurdly high instate college tuition rates.

Not everyone is obsessed with state schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For whatever reason, PA, NJ, all of the New England states and Illinois have absurdly high instate college tuition rates.

Not everyone is obsessed with state schools.

Well isn’t that lovely. Most people can’t afford $45k+/year for college.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I went to Penn for post grad work,,,and it was fairly like here--everyone thought they were living in the best place on earth, that everything else was provinicial...and that only their schools were good enough for their kids.....they detested South Phlliy as much as DCUM detests redneck Virginia...so atititude is one of the same...however I have to admit the architecture both in the City and burbs og Philly is much more beautiful than DC/DMV.
only difference is: Philly is overpopulated with docs and DMV with lawyers.....ultimately docs can help more....

you are right! i hadn't really thought about it, but it feels like everyone is either a doctor or their spouse is a doctor. like fully 50% of the parents at my kid's school are some kind of medical doctor.

I’d vastly prefer that to lawyers everywhere.

[Anonymous]

It’s pretty clear some of the people commenting here have never been to the nicer parts of the main line and have no idea what they’re talking about. It’s like all gorgeous houses and golf courses.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:https://redf.in/IRU7tE

Radnor is the #14 school district in the country this year in Niche.

https://radnorite.com/3798/currents/the-disparity-within-pennsylvanias-education-system/

Written by a Radnor student newspaper columnist.

Very high-inequality with the town-based school districts there. Wallingford-Swarthmore SD vs William Penn SD, both in Delaware county and a couple miles from each other are another example. Raising my kid in that kind of environment might make me uncomfortable.

So you are ok with inequality here?

Much less inequality here.

Huh? Not true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s pretty clear some of the people commenting here have never been to the nicer parts of the main line and have no idea what they’re talking about. It’s like all gorgeous houses and golf courses.

But this one time they went to TeMpLe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s pretty clear some of the people commenting here have never been to the nicer parts of the main line and have no idea what they’re talking about. It’s like all gorgeous houses and golf courses.

I have. Not my cup of tea.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Too white & insular

As compared to say Bethesda?

Yes. It’s a rare thing nationally-speaking how we have such high-performing, racially diverse schools in the DMV.

Bethesda is one of the whitest places I have ever seen outside of northern New England and upper Midwest. It is the epitome of white privilege.

Do you mean Potomac? Our BCC-feeding ES is almost comically diverse...like as if they assembled our kid's class to take a picture to advertise diversity.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://redf.in/IRU7tE

Radnor is the #14 school district in the country this year in Niche.

https://radnorite.com/3798/currents/the-disparity-within-pennsylvanias-education-system/

Written by a Radnor student newspaper columnist.

Very high-inequality with the town-based school districts there. Wallingford-Swarthmore SD vs William Penn SD, both in Delaware county and a couple miles from each other are another example. Raising my kid in that kind of environment might make me uncomfortable.

So you are ok with inequality here?

Much less inequality here.

!!![Spits out tea]!!!

[Anonymous]

Here’s a few in Lower Merion.
These neighborhood feature sidewalks, friendly neighbors, and are walkable to shopping, train stations and schools.
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