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[quote=Anonymous]So much negativity about DC!  I'm also a CA transplant -- lived here for 25 years -- and have been really happy here.

However, for what OP wants, I'd recommend San Luis Obispo.  I went to college there and have a few friends who stayed in the area (and one who did early retirement to the area) to raise their families and they have been very happy with the lifestyle and the schools.  It's not cheap but certainly more affordable than the Bay Area, good schools, wonderful outdoor recreation, close to beach, and being a college town there are lots of cultural activities.  While I'm really happy in DC and we expect to retire here, if I was to move anywhere it would be to SLO.

For DC, I live in Arlington now but have previously lived in MD burbs and in northwest DC and I work in DC.  I'm close to metro and do (pre-COVID) use it regularly.  We're in a really walkable neighborhood which has been great for my kids as they became teens because they can have an independence I didn't get in a car-dependent LA suburb.  So many free museums and other activities.  Easy drive to the mountains but can also go to Rock Creek Park, Roosevelt Island, or other close-by natural areas when we want to be in nature.  When I first moved here from LA what most struck me was how much more interested in the world people were -- I met people who traveled a lot, talked about a wide variety of topics, made time to volunteer.  Definitely not the kind of people I was meeting in LA and I just felt like I fit here much more than there.

Now in Arlington, my neighbors are generally down to earth people who work for the government, non-profits or IT and I don't think my kids have felt too much pressure in their schools. However, I think it's a bit different for families with younger kids in our area. So I don't think someone moving in now with little kids has the same experience. We and most of our neighbors have lived her since pre-housing boom and the type of people who bought here when it was somewhat run-down houses for $200k are a lot different than the people moving into a neighborhood that became trendy and paying $1.2M+ for a flip. My kids have also been just ahead of the big wave of overcrowding in the schools so haven't borne the brunt of that.

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