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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]commute, commute, commute.[/quote]

Seems like everyone speaks on the commute.  I recently moved to DC from Maryland, so my thinking is that 1.5 miles isn't far at all.  Of course, in MD, that takes 1 minute.  In DC, it could take upward of 25-30 minutes.  I may need to rethink some of my picks.[/quote]

I am PP who left a school where the commute was 1.5 miles. Part of the problem was that it was in the opposite direction from my work--if it had been 1.5 miles but right by my work, it would have been at least a bit different of a calculation (though I'm glad we are at a school that right on our block--cannot have an easier dropoff/pickup than that). Also, consider public transportation. I could take the bus to the charter we went to, but it was still a half-mile walk from the bus, and that took a long time to walk with a three-year-old. Biking worked pretty well, but it didn't work on rainy days and such. (We got a bike seat rather than trailer because it was a pain to haul the trailer down every morning, so our child was not protected from inclement weather.) That meant that on many days, we ended up driving. But we couldn't park in the zone where the school was, so I'd have to drive to the school, find parking, drop off my child, get back in the car, look for parking at home, and then take the bus to downtown. This meant that anytime I drove I was always late for work.

The whole thing was very stressful, and now we're much happier and more relaxed at our neighborhood school.[/quote]

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