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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP. Fairfax County. You have to love autocorrect.[/quote]

They are good. But Fairfax county is NOT DC in any way. So whatever pulls you towards DC might not be there in the actual place that you live in an hour or more away from the city. You might be able to find other similar or even better school districts in other areas. [/quote]

+1.  You won't get a "sense of place" as much in the suburbs as you would in DC itself.  I'm speaking from experience--I'm the former CA resident who moved to DC.  Before DC, we briefly lived in a somewhat bland MD suburb with highly ranked schools, and decided that was not what we wanted.[/quote]

OP. Thank you. It sounds like you lived the experience we're contemplating. I was really hoping the excellent-sounding Metro could bride the gap somehow ...[/quote]

PP here.  It's been a 180 in our current DC neighborhood compared to the former MD suburb.  We live in a SFH neighborhood on the edge of a large wooded area in DC, Rock Creek Park, where we frequently hike, jog, ride bikes, walk the dog.  I remember flying out to interview here and thinking and green and lush it is compared to CA.  And, we've found the people to be career-oriented but kind, and don't get the fake air we got in our former CA town (not NorCal).

Right now we're out of town in NYC, and neighbors have already emailed and texted to let us know they've collected a package for us.  Our neighborhood is low crime, very international, very liberal, and extremely diverse (important to us as POC who did not want our kids to be the "lonely onlies" as they would have been in CA where we likely would have bought).  We feel lucky to have landed here.  We don't work for the government, either.

I mentioned before that the weather is terrible, but there are so many other pluses given the international, diverse climate (we are an immigrant/1st-gen family) and cultural amenities that we are here for the long haul.  We do not live in a transient neighborhood, although we *may* move back to CA one day, as empty nesters.[/quote]

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