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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, you should read this: One home, 1,200 potential buyers: The Bay Area’s daunting real estate math https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/1-home-1-206-potential-buyers-The-daunting-math-16833334.php

This is what we have been trying to tell you about housing costs.

There isn’t a “commutable” area that is “affordable” that everyone else hasn’t already found.[/quote]

I understand that COL in SV is higher than DMV, but I'm still looking to rent, not to buy. From a rough search on zillow, I am finding decent houses/TH in WC with 4.5 - 5K rent. Same for the Peninsula area. Some pp mentioned a parochial school costs around $15k, so this might still be viable from an economic standpoint?

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]VA and CA have identical average 8th grade math scores for public school students above the FRPL cutoff (which is an imperfect way to get apples to apples but helps a little). [/quote]
Not really a good comparison.  FCPS is a whole lot better than the majority of the school districts in VA.  Likewise, there are more affluent school districts in CA that score better.

Apples to apples -- you want to compare FCPS to a like SES/demographic school district in the Bay Area. You can't compare by size because most of the school districts in the Bay Area are small, town/city based.

FCPS allows students to take Alg in 7th grade.  I don't think a lot of CA schools allow that now.[/quote]

I think I am fairly convinced that generally, CA/SV public schools < NoVA public schools in terms of quality of education (some mentioned potential exceptions in Marin).

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This OP had to be a troll. No one would be moronic to consider uprooting their family to SV for a paltry 200k. [/quote]

I was wondering if OP is a troll too.[/quote]

Can’t believe this obvious troll thread dragged out this many pages. [/quote]

I was a troll, I would spend my time much more "efficiently" to troll other posts in DCUM and not have all this back and forth discussion with some good people. I would say you are a troll (probably posting multiple times) because you want to derail my thread into personal attacks. I would suggest you spend your time somewhere else, noone forces you to reply here. I will be reporting all personal attacks to DCUM admin to clean up my thread, so don't waste your time here.[/quote]

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