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[quote=Anonymous]I live in PG county and think that despite what the extremely biased MoCo and NoVa slant of DCUM that the Crofton school district is mediocre.   It isn't bad and it isn't the strongest.  It's a fine school system and I know plenty of kids from the area that got a decent education and went to good colleges.

I personally think that if your DH works in the Bowie/Crofton area that it would be a HUGE mistake to move to the Burke/W Springfield area.  Unless you like feeling like a single parent.  The commute may be a reverse commute, but you are talking a hideous commute.  You have to deal with the Wilson Bridge and the SE portion of the Beltway and US-50 twice daily.  While it may not be as bad as the mixing bowl, it is still not a good commute.  Your DH is likely to be getting up early enough that he will be no help in the mornings and not getting home until the kids are in bed or close to it.  So, he'll be a weekend parent and you will be handling 95% of the weekday parenting.  Google says that the trip takes about an hour.  On a typical weekday with commutes anywhere in the vicinity of the rush hours and he will be lucky to make the trip in 90 minutes each way.  Also, in the summer, US-50 can get worse around weekends and holidays as he'll be hitting beach traffic on top of regular traffic.

I would definitely take the lower housing and COL for PG County, save up the difference for a few years and put your kids in private school.  I think the entire family will do much better that way.  We have a much better house for a lot less than our friends in MoCo.  We greatly appreciate our under-30 minute commute and would hate to be spending that type of time away from our kids trying to commute from a better school district and we'll pick schools for our kids when they are of school age.[/quote]

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