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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love our neighborhood's quiet streets and convenient physical location (we're renting). But I know there are further-out, less convenient locations where I'd fit in better socially (more alternative, more international, more diverse). I think if my husband and I didn't have kids we would definitely look to buy where we are now, since our social life doesn't have to revolve around our neighborhood. However, I think about my kids and the friends they will make through school.

Is it better to be in a great location and be clinging to the bottom of the social ladder (here we'd be lucky to find something we could afford, and then it'd be a stretch for us), or to be in a neighborhood we can afford without such a stretch and where we might find more like-minded families. I do want my children to "fit in" and not feel like outcasts. I also am not very patient with them having playdates when I find the other kids spoiled and rude, and I'm finding that here. I know I'll get in trouble for saying that... I guess I'm just not good with kids. But I am sure there must be lower-key families like ours in this neighborhood too, and it could just take time to fit in.

If we stay in the great-location neighborhood, the investment in our home will be more secure.
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What does "more alternative" mean?

Are you saying your street is WASPY and J Crew? Dig a little deeper. I live in one of these neighborhoods and am a pretty radical thinker.[/quote]

You might be radical but you have to admit that there are entire neighborhoods in this city that are predominantly "waspy and Jcrew".  It's easier said than done to meet the 1/10 or 1/15 families who are down-to-earth or "radical".   If you know how to find them in the midst of a predominantly very different culture, please let me know!  It often comes down to luck--who you happen to buy a house next to, who your kids befriend at school, who ends up in your kid's section of soccer.  When 90% (or whatever) of the culture is one way it's just chance that you are given a chance to connect with the fraction who aren't. [/quote]

Yeah, your views on this will change in a hurry when dc are in school. I was all for diversity until Jalonte from the Hood started explaining to dd in first grade how people get arrested and smoke crack pipes.

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