Best places to live with easy driving commute to Georgetown

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Palisades

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Anonymous wrote:Palisades

Not unless you're planning to go private after fifth grade.

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Anonymous wrote:I only know three families who live in MoCo. All three send their kids to private because of overcrowding at MoCo publics. Make sure you're okay with the MoCo publics if you're going to decide on a longer drive to Georgetown than some of the Va neighborhoods others have mentioned here.

Yes, because the VA schools do not have the same issue????? Have you heard about the split schedules being discussed?

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Anonymous wrote:I only know three families who live in MoCo. All three send their kids to private because of overcrowding at MoCo publics. Make sure you're okay with the MoCo publics if you're going to decide on a longer drive to Georgetown than some of the Va neighborhoods others have mentioned here.

Yes, because the VA schools do not have the same issue????? Have you heard about the split schedules being discussed?

Not the PP, but where is this? The topic has never come up in McLean, as far as I know. As for MoCo, I have to believe most families in Bethesda and Chevy Chase continue to send their children to the excellent public schools.

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DC elementary schools in neighborhoods like palisades, Spring valley, Chevy Chase and Wesley heights are excellent. Maybe private is way to go for later on. Westmoreland hills is like living in spring valley except it's Bethesda so you can do public the whole way. Glen Echo may be an option too

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Anonymous wrote:DC elementary schools in neighborhoods like palisades, Spring valley, Chevy Chase and Wesley heights are excellent. Maybe private is way to go for later on. Westmoreland hills is like living in spring valley except it's Bethesda so you can do public the whole way. Glen Echo may be an option too

It really depends on how old your kids are. If I had a fifth grader, I'd think hard about whether to send them to Hardy--although Hardy is still majority out of boundary students, it seems many more IB families are confident enough to send their kids to Hardy just in the past year or two. As it stands, I have a kindergartner, and I have no doubt that Hardy will be sought after by the time she's ready for middle school (we are zoned for Deal, which is supposedly excellent, but just seems huge). However, I also predict that Hardy will be majority in-boundary by then, and much harder to lottery into.

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McLean.

Takes me 20 minutes to get to Georgetown--I live close to Langley High School. Plenty of nice houses in the $2m range.

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Anonymous wrote:Forest Hills.

Yup. Or the western part of CCDC.

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Anonymous wrote:I would live in bethesda just on the other side of western and commute in by bike along the cct.

LOL, that's so cute.

We live in Chevy Chase MD and both work in Georgetown - 5 minute walk to Bethesda metro then a quick ride.

Even driving it is around 30 minutes -- 20 during off times

A quick ride to what in Georgetown from the Bethesda Metro?

LOL. I was wondering the same.

My husband has worked in Georgetown for 20 years. Most of the people in the office he runs Metro to Foggy Bottom and walk. He drives from Chevy Chase, MD.

They walk to the far western side of Georgetown (37th and O) from foggy bottom? That's 1.5 miles.

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Anonymous wrote:I would live in bethesda just on the other side of western and commute in by bike along the cct.

LOL, that's so cute.

We live in Chevy Chase MD and both work in Georgetown - 5 minute walk to Bethesda metro then a quick ride.

Even driving it is around 30 minutes -- 20 during off times

A quick ride to what in Georgetown from the Bethesda Metro?

LOL. I was wondering the same.

My husband has worked in Georgetown for 20 years. Most of the people in the office he runs Metro to Foggy Bottom and walk. He drives from Chevy Chase, MD.

They walk to the far western side of Georgetown (37th and O) from foggy bottom? That's 1.5 miles.

I was just answering the question of where people use Metro if you work in Georgetown (this particular office is east of Wisconsin.) I agree that it's not a good choice for people who work AT Georgetown University which is much farther.

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Anonymous wrote:I would live in bethesda just on the other side of western and commute in by bike along the cct.

LOL, that's so cute.

We live in Chevy Chase MD and both work in Georgetown - 5 minute walk to Bethesda metro then a quick ride.

Even driving it is around 30 minutes -- 20 during off times

A quick ride to what in Georgetown from the Bethesda Metro?

LOL. I was wondering the same.

My husband has worked in Georgetown for 20 years. Most of the people in the office he runs Metro to Foggy Bottom and walk. He drives from Chevy Chase, MD.

They walk to the far western side of Georgetown (37th and O) from foggy bottom? That's 1.5 miles.

In Georgetown isn't the same as at Georgetown. Some posts specify location. This person didn't specify the university so may not need to walk to 37 and o. And the op has not specified where in Georgetown her DH works.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm in Sumner in Bethesda. Georgetown U is about 15 mins, even at rush hour. We've got great schools. But most of the houses are well under $2 million so probably not fancy enough. Maybe Westmoreland Hills? Or some of the new builds in Glen Echo Heights? GEH is not a fancy neighborhood but there are some nice houses there. Spring Valley has lovely homes, not sure about the schools or how many people there use the public schools.

Brookmont is an even better answer. But all of those are good.

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Anonymous wrote:I would live in bethesda just on the other side of western and commute in by bike along the cct.

LOL, that's so cute.

NP here. Don't get your post. A lot of people live in neighborhoods near the CCT (brookmont, palisades, glen echo heights) and bike in to georgetown or beyond. what's cute?

What's cute:

Summer (90 degree days)
Spring (rain)
Winter (freezing, ice, snow)

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Palisades, Key elementary for PK through 5th, then private for middle and high schools. You'll have lots of neighbors doing the same thing.

Palisades is a nice and tight knit UMC village super close to all the amenities of the city. Can't go wrong. Unique and varied housing stock.

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Anonymous wrote:I would live in bethesda just on the other side of western and commute in by bike along the cct.

LOL, that's so cute.

NP here. Don't get your post. A lot of people live in neighborhoods near the CCT (brookmont, palisades, glen echo heights) and bike in to georgetown or beyond. what's cute?

What's cute:

Summer (90 degree days)
Spring (rain)
Winter (freezing, ice, snow)

Daily white knuckle games of chicken are also cute. There is no free lunch, folks, but the option to use the bike trail IN ADDITION to a car or a bus is huge plus.

Signed,

A long-time Kalorama resident who walks to work in the West End and gets ahead professionally by being massively more productive, relative to colleagues, in the first and last hours of the day.