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  You need to MOVE, move to a different state, small town---you know, where you can buy 5 bedroom homes for at the MOST, $78,000--yes, 78,000.....plus land to go with it.....NO REGRETS AT ALL !!!!!   Only a 15 minute commute. [/quote]
To a job in what field, and with what salary?[/quote]

And schools?? That so what traps us here, low COL generally means and school quality. [/quote]

People worry too much about this. I grew up in rural part of the Midwest. My bff from college (we went to a top national school) came from the best public schools in NJ. I graduated with a higher GPA than her (and yes, we both took college seriously). To a large degree, it is what you put into it. Was I a bit behind freshmen year, sure. Did I end up graduating in the top 5% of the business school, yes.

Your kid is not doomed for failure if they don't have the best schools ever.[/quote]

+1. Was just discussing this with a good friend. Between the four of us (including our SOs), two of us went to the BEST magnet schools in the country and good private colleges. Two of us went to totally normal middle America "good" public schools, then went to good state colleges. We all got into and went to good grad schools and have all done equally well in our careers (we're all lawyers, so "success" is pretty easily definable).  It literally doesn't matter where any of us went to HS so long as it was pretty good.  In fact, my friend who went to a top magnet school found it so oppressive and stressful that 20 years later she still trembles when she talks about it.  She would waaaayy rather give her kid the other path, to the extent that all roads get to the same place.  [/quote]

But if you embrace this attitude, you can live in a lower cost of living town in this area, like in PG County, and not have to deal with the financial stress of a million dollar house, and still have your good job in DC.  Just sayin'[/quote]

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