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[quote=Anonymous]Has anyone else run into the following problem? We are currently house hunting and better schools are a top priority as we have young elementary kids and are currently very dissatisfied with our school options.

So we're mostly searching based on school boundaries. The problem is that we don't like the houses IB for these schools. It's not a price thing because we can well afford a good chunk of the homes within boundary. It's just we don't like what's there. And the issue isn't stuff like not big enough, or we want updated kitchens/baths. We are fine with a fixer-upper and have a pretty small family so flexible on space. It's more like the houses in boundary are ugly, if they are renovated their renovations are ugly, they have no charm.

I think part of the problem is that we are targeting some suburbs that have good housing stock situated around the historical town center of the suburb, and those homes feed into the least well-regarded school in the suburb, because it has the most economic diversity. And then the schools that people seem to like better are further out, with less economic diversity but also newer housing stock, which in this case means a lot of hideous homes built in the 80s and 90s, as well as massive new builds with some questionable design choices (charmless and, honestly, more house than we want).

We'd love a smaller older home closer to the town center, but then struggle to find anyone with good things to say about the schools (even among current families who would be motivated to praise). And since we're moving for schools as a primary motivator, this is a problem.

I feel like we're going to wind up in a home I really don't love just to get access to a school pyramid we're happy with, and then we'll just move as soon as the kids are done with high school so we can live in a house we actually like.

Does anyone else have this problem? Why is it so hard to find a house we love that is within a boundary for a school we love too? [/quote]

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