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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I am happy to answer questions. I have children and have lived in both Fairfax County and the peninsula in SF (Burlingame).

Personally, I don't think you would be happy in the bay area.

Yes, there are people who are moderate-conservative in the Bay Area and happy. But they also tend to be people who make enough money to build a small bubble of like minded people around them with certain schools, social circles, etc.--and 200k is not enough to build that kind of bubble. [/quote]

Thank you for your input. Yes that's exactly my concern, I don't want to make a decision I will later regret, so I find many responses here valuable to get a better imporession on what to expect. 
My main question at this point is if I can build that bubble in a 2-hr commutable area around SV (Monterey? WC? ..) with reasonable rent and a good private school.

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I attended public school in WC, it was and continues to be mostly white nuclear families. My parents are immigrants from Asia and there was and is some but not a ton of diversity in the suburbs. The parochial schools there vary in quality and should he examined carefully. Parochial schools in Sf are more light on religion that others but tend to be very academic and racially and economically diverse, they have a lot of motivated parents that create nice communities. You’d need to visit schools to see what would be a good fit for your kids and don’t discount public schools. The ones in Marin, like Ross and Mill Valley are phenomenal and not as California Marin progressive as you’d think.

200k is livable in some suburbs but not all. The reality is down in Silicon Valley it’s going to be hard. Not impossible but frankly I’m on this forum bc we are looking to relocate. My kid thinks we are poor  because we have to fly our own plane and don’t own more than one house. [/quote]

Thank you for your datapoints. Based on previous posts, I am discrediting public schools not just for the progressiveness, but because of the quality of education itself. So you suggest I look into private schools around WC?

[quote=Anonymous]Op - can you work remotely in Virginia,  and commute into CA on the days you need to be in the office?[/quote]
That would be the ideal thing but unfortunately companies now are slowly moving away from the pandemic remote model and are requiring in-office work..[/quote]

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