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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One thing that I would add is that although I think there are more resources generally available in NoVA, it is much more competitive to access those resources than it feels in San Diego.  For example, when signing up for summer camps in the DC area, my family would make sure to sign up in December/January prior to summer and would make sure to do so as soon as sign ups opened up.  In contrast, in San Diego, I didn't have to sign up until March/April and there was no issue whatsoever in getting access to summer camps.

I know people knock the schools in California vs. Northern Virginia, but I think that you can find very similar school districts in San Diego (especially around North County as someone mentioned) to anything that you can find in Northern Virginia.  My family and I moved between the areas and I once remarked to my spouse that the activities that we do in NoVA have ended up being the same as what we had available in San Diego.

If you expect your kids to be into sports, I suspect San Diego will have an edge over Virginia simply because the weather is better and so it's much more accessible.  For example, one of my kids plays tennis here in NoVA and it's so difficult to find a good coach, unless you are already a good tennis player.  I realize that there aren't many coaches because the coaches don't have easy access to tennis courts and so they can only work for 1/2 to 3/4 of the year.  In contrast, in San Diego and Southern California more generally, courts are widely available and the better weather makes it possible for coaches to work year-round.  Thus, we find when we visit during the summer, that tennis instruction is, on average, much better in Southern California.  That said, we now have a coach in NoVA that we like and there are places like JTCC, which are excellent, but we find that everything here is catered to kids who are really committed.  Beginner lessons around NoVA are uniformly awful.[/quote]
Thanks so much! How would you compare the quality of the private schools (if you have experience with them) in both north county SD vs NoVa? Are they on par or are the NoVa private schools better (in terms of quality of the teachers, resources etc)? [/quote]

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