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[quote=Anonymous]My family will be moving to the Richmond area with two kids, though they won't be school age for another year. Based on one trip, online research, and local friends suggestions, we are strongly considering the Short Pump and Midlothian areas. It seems they have the best performing schools. We are leaning toward Short Pump because the demographics are more diverse(DH is south asian). What is your experience with the schools in those areas? Is overcrowding an issue, are they cutting budgets for certain programs? How are teachers treated and do they stick around? How are the parents, meaning are people amiable or is there a lot of competitive snobbery?
 
From a purely neighborhood prescriptive, we don't like how there's that one major highway in Short Pump with all the stores, and it has more of those suburban sprawl developments. Midlothian seems to have bigger lots and older neighborhoods with mature trees, but we get the sense that there is a stronger religious community. That not necessarily bad, but we might miss out on activities if that's one of the main ways people make friendships. Of course, we could be entirely wrong about what we are feeling.

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