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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are officially moving but I don't even know where to begin... Tell me what neighborhood / block / elementary school you live in and love... here are my specific asks:

- Needs to funnel into a top PUBLIC high school (we don't have private school money) (I'm looking at Whitman, Wootton, BCC, Walter Johnson in MD and Langley, McLean districts in VA)
- Needs to be within commuting distance to Georgetown 
- Needs to be densely populated (houses close together, super neighborhood feel, mature trees would be a plus, I need a yard but I don't want a big one)
- Needs to have a community that gets together a lot / kids outside playing / parents that like to have drinks together etc.
- A plus would be a pool that everyone goes to 
- a bigger plus would be that most neighborhood kids go to the public school (rather than private)
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I live in McLean near St John’s Catholic Church.  The teardown houses are going for $1.2-$1.4m now- those generally get sold directly to the builders. Some of the teardowns are just older houses that have been lived in and kept up, some have not been kept up and need a ton of postponed TLC.  Figure out which area you want and get a good real estate agent who will know when the kept up houses will go on sale.  There will be competition.  We have lived in our neighborhood since the mid-90’s and with the exception of about a year from late ‘08 to late ‘09, every house has had multiple offers.

The community you seek is hit or miss and goes block by block and changes frequently.  Our neighborhood has gone through ups and downs - if there is a critical mass of children in the same age group AND there are several families willing to do the grunt work of organizing activities it will work.  You need to be willing to do the grunt work, if you want it.  It is fairly easy, but for some reason most will participate but not do anything to help organize.

Most send their children to public school. Get on the waitlists for the area pools and see which one moves the fastest.

Think about if you prefer an AP or an IB high school.  Marshall, Meridian and Washington& Liberty are IB. McLean, Madison, Langley, and Yorktown are AP.  [/quote]

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