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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here...All of our family and most of our very close friends live there. We lived in San Francisco and left for what we thought was going to be 2 years max. In the end, we stayed in DC for almost a decade. And now, three kids later, we're trying to figure out the best place to move - we never explored the suburbs when we lived in the City, pre-kids.

I am somewhat prepared for the disappointment in the schools, but think being close to grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, etc. will also provide something unavailable to us on the East coast.[/quote]

In this case, I would try to live as close to them as you can. There are some nice things about living here, but lately the hard parts make it not worth it to us anymore. In the last two years the traffic has gotten much, much worse, and everywhere I go, there are new huge buildings going up, that will have more people on the roads. The schools don't have two nickels to rub together, and even the good schools that have money, have so many kids doing Russian math/Kumon/Math olympiad that it creates an arms raise of math enrichment. Maybe that happens in most major cities in the US now, I don't know. I am just over it.

We aren't super weathy (but maybe you are, so this is not a problem) but there is no way that our kids could make it if they start out here after college/grad school. It is just way too expensive. We will encourage them to settle somewhere ese.

If we could be on the east coast and have the ability to work from home, we would just do VRBO right where we want to be for the month of July each summer!  That would be the best of both worlds!

Good luck in your research and your move![/quote]

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