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[quote=Anonymous]I think COVID-19 makes the isolation, cocoon-like environment of living in an SFH more attractive as city amenities are almost all shuttered.  BUT, spending more time with family makes me appreciate spending less time commuting and more time with family.

You can be happy anywhere and miserable anywhere.  It depends on what you value.  We moved from EOTP to a burb with on average, 2 hours a day each spent in commuting, early in our parenting journey and ended up moving WOTP into a smaller SFH but only spending 1 hour a day commuting per parent on average.  Those extra 10 parenting hours per week (1 hour per day x 5 days a week x 2 parents) or 500 hours per year mean more time cooking, cleaning, parenting, exercising, or just relaxing.

BTW while moving around was painful at the time, the journey wasn't bad for us economically because we've now collected a diversified set of rental properties.  We make a lot on our EOTP rowhouse FWIW but break even on the SFH in Vienna.

And based on college acceptance statistics in the top FCPS and MCPS vs. Wilson and SWW, our kids more likely to get into top tier colleges.  [/quote]

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