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If you had $1,000,000 budget for a home, work in DC and desire a short cummute, and cannot afford
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Anonymous
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won't go into neighborhoods here but will say this much:
Even if you have no chance of being "house poor" with your $1m allotment, I'd squirrel away half or 1/3 in case you're dissatisfied with your school and wish to take the private route. |
Anonymous
If I had a million to spend Janney would by far be my choice over Eaton -- much better academics and renovated building soon. But, for a million, I would really look hard at close in MD suburban schools. Now, with the market down, you could definitely find a house under a million in any of the Bethesda/Chevy Chase school districts along the DC border and the difference in academic quality would far make up for the extra 15 minutes in commute. |
Anonymous
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Easy! 1st choice would be North Arlington, 20007 zip code.
2nd choice would be Woodley Park, 3rd would be Palisades. MD burbs are not even in the running. |
Anonymous
FYI - The middle school for Palisades is Hardy. There has been some turn-over there and I would be cautious before signing up blindly to it. |
Anonymous
Good point. Key's lovely though, and I LOVE the neighborhoods. |
Anonymous
| As a parent who works in Foggy Bottom, I would second PPs who advocated for Arlington and Falls Church City because of the metro and quality of schools from k through college. While you can drive, it's nice to know that you can take the orange line to work. |
Anonymous
| 11:56, I'm confused? The 2007 zip code is in DC? What is the VA zip code for North Arlington that you like? |
Anonymous
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20007 is Georgetown - pp must have left out a digit.
Me, I'd look at Chevy Chase (20815) or Bethesda (20817, among others). Then you have the option of staying in great publics all the way through high school. |
Anonymous
| 20817 is the part of Bethesda to avoid if you want close-in, short commute, near Metro, etc. Stick with 20814 and 20816. |
Anonymous
| McLean/No. Arlington: Chain Bridge Forest/Chesterbrook Woods. Jump across the Chain Bridge in less than a mile. Great schools if you're in either the Arlington or McLean line, and several of the homes straddle the border, so you can actually choose either the Yorktown High or McLean high pyramid. |
Anonymous
Oops! That was a typo, it was supposed to be 22207. |
Anonymous
| I live in DC in 20007 in Georgetown. We paid the big bucks for our child to go to private school all the way through. If you want to save money all the way through -- I like the idea of earlier posters who say to look at closeby VA -- that way you'll have a lot of great public university options as well. We pay super big bucks for private university now since DC doesn't have public universities beyond the pitiful UDC. |
Anonymous
Huh. I'll have to call bullshit here. You actually had a choice to send your teens to basically any public university in the country and pay in-state tuition. No need to pay super big bucks for a private U. 10+ years ago, Congress passed that law that guarantees residents of the District of Columbia in-state tuition at "any public college or university in the country or any private college or university in the Washington, DC, metropolitan region which has signed a Program Participation Agreement with the DCTAG Program." There are literally hundreds of public universities where a DC kid gets in-state tuition. Here are the particulars. The only catch is that your HHI can't exceed $1 million a year. http://osse.dc.gov/seo/cwp/view,A,1226,Q,559807.asp Here is the very long list of participating universities and colleges, plus art schools and all private schools in the DC area such as GW, Georgetown, Catholic, etc. http://osse.dc.gov/seo/frames.asp?doc=/seo/lib/seo/hefs/dctag_eligible_institutions.pdf |
Anonymous
| The link you provided says the DC award is limited to $10,000 per year for the difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition at public colleges and universities. It's only $2,500 a year at private colleges and universities. Full time undergraduate tuition at Georgetown is $38,616, and while $2,500 is certainly better than nothing, it's a miniscule proportion. Full time out-of-state undergraduate tuition at UVa is $31,870 (vs. in-state tuition of $9,870. So UVa would cost $12,000 over the in-state rate even with the $10,000 subsidy. |
Anonymous
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better than nothing...
and is it easier or harder to get into UVA as a Virginia resident? I read an article a while ago that said state schools are actively looking for our of state tuition |