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[quote=Anonymous]If you were to live in Providence, you might like the area near Blackstone Boulevard on the East Side.  That area would be easy distance to Wheeler or Moses Brown, which are the most highly regarded independent schools in the city.  A number of my friends send their kids to Gordon, which is a progressive school.  Lincoln is a small Quaker girls school.  And there is Providence Country Day, which I know nothing about.

Most of my friends in Barrington and East Greenwich send their kids to public school and seem happy with the schools.  The exceptions are parents who want a Catholic education for their kids.

I'm a New Englander who lived in the DC area and then moved back.  I think New Englanders are cooler socially and more insular, but Rhode Island has a lot of transplants.  Even though Boston is closer, I think Rhode Island is more oriented toward New York than you might expect as an outsider.  And, personally, I find Boston to be boring and provincial.

Rhode Island is broke and corrupt, the economy is much better in Mass-although you won't notice those problems as much if you are ensconced in Barrington.  Providence is a great little city-arty and unpretentious and quite international, with a high percentage of immigrants-which is a plus for me.  [/quote]

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