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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know that I have had enough! [/quote]

I go back and forth. Sometimes I'm sick of the PG hate, and then when I sail in on a 20 minute commute, and walk everywhere I need to go, and can go shopping on Saturday without horrible traffic...I wish them all well and hope they stay in MoCo and NoVA!

We even have our kids in PG schools and are happy. We looked at MoCo schools (have to stay in MD) at one point and realized that the ones in neighborhoods we could afford weren't even really trying. They were still coasting on the MoCo schools of 1996. Our local PG school still has middle of the road ratings, but d@mn that staff is working to improve. *They* are tired of being the butt of local jokes, and are working hard to recruit and retain local parents. None of the MoCo schools we visited seemed to care much about the parents. The PG schools reached out and won us over. [/quote]

This is us.  If I go by myself, I can be door-to-door in 16 minutes.  When I drop my kids at preschool and then go to work, I can make it in 35 minutes.  For the same price house as my friend in Bethesda, I get 1200 sf more house and mine was brand new while his was about 20 years old and they had to do major renovation in the first 2 years (complete kitchen and one bath overhaul) plus put up with a lot of really annoying house characteristics.

Plus, the people are much nicer.  I have worked in PG for well over 20 years and love the people where I work, where I shop, and where I play. I have been involved in a number of pastimes in the local area and the people I associate with are so much nicer.  I have participated in many of the same pastimes in MoCo over the last 20 years and the people grate on my nerves.  So many stuck-up, condescending, and rude folks in Moco who just want to feel superior.

We're much happier in PG county.  In PG county, we can afford to have a nice house and [b]still send our kids to private school for less than it would cost for comparable in MoCo[/b].
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We have our child in PG public schools now, but will send her private next year. Frankly, we'd probably be sending her to a private school next year if we lived in MoCo or NoVA next year too, as the issues are with her and her academic needs and not the school system, per se. We figured we could live in PG, try public school, and if it didn't work out, we have an extra 15k/year or or more to send her to excellent private schools. We couldn't do that in most of the rest of DC area. [/quote]

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