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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does anyone have opinions on Natick?[/quote]

I grew up in the area - Natick is a fine place to live. But it has none of the cachet of Newton or Brookline or any of the seaside towns w/quick downtown access like Hingham. Much more of a suburban feel. For example, it's more Vienna than Del Ray.

I imagine you'd get a ton more for your money in Natick. If you're comfortable with that kind of distance from Boston (e.g., a little further west from Newton) probably good to look at Sudbury or even Westborough, both small towns with very good schools. The further away from Boston you get, the more conservative the vibe tends to be, even if most of your neighbors anywhere in the general vicinity of Boston will almost certainly be liberals and/or Democrats.

Given that you're looking for a progressive private school, I might focus your search on that, and then pick the town based on proximity. Because public schools are town-based, rather than county-based, that often shapes house hunts in MA. Most of the kids who went to private schools when I was growing up went to Catholic school, but there are a few nearish Natick like St. Marks and Fay School that are worth checking out. Or Buckingham Brown & Nichols in Cambridge. I don't know if any of those qualify as progressive, though.[/quote]

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