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[quote=Anonymous]Moving is easier said than done when you own a house.  Nothing is selling in our neighborhood right now - well, that's not completely true, there was a foreclosure that sold a couple of months ago.  We do not have the resources to buy another house until our current house sells - which then makes a change of school completely contingent on a conventional sale in the housing market, which right now is terrible.  It also adds the extra expense of needing a second car plus the insurance and gas money that would entail, I would assume a higher mortgage/rent since comparable houses in MoCo (at least when we were looking a couple of years ago) cost much more than we currently pay on our mortgage.  Not to mention child care expenses we would incur (of which we have none right now due to the close proximity to both of our works allowing DH and I to juggle schedules). Also, the commute for DD is time spent with family - maybe that sounds stupid, but I did a 45 minute commute to school K-12 and loved that time I spent singing in the car with my mom and brother.  We send her to a magnet she will bus there (I don't know how long a ride that would be) and lose a good hour+ of time with me and my husband individually due to us being in cars solo making commutes.

We live frugally and well within our means where we are now.  I appreciate the pitch for MoCo public schools, but sometimes people on this forum make it sound like you can change houses as easily as you change underwear.  Maybe that is true for some people, but I also have to think those people must be much more well off than us.  We've crunched the numbers on a move vs. private school, and with the market as it is right now it doesn't add up for us (it would add more expenses than we have budgeted for a private school, not to mention the stress of moving) so we're trying to work with the options we have.

The additional factor is she is pushing very hard for single-sex education and as an educator I feel there is  a lot of value in single-sex education for girls, so I'm happy to support that if we can make it work.

Re: post about "deep pockets" - the school we were told had no FA is a big 3 school, which I assumed = deep pockets.  Is that inaccurate?  Or rather, can you give us some schools that you would consider to have deep pockets as far as aid is concerned?  [/quote]

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