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[quote=Anonymous]Depends on your budget and you can't go wrong with either.

The schools are better in Bethesda, but it's not like Alexandria has terrible ones.  Alexandria has some great elementary schools, and if your kid is at all motivated and/or you pay attention to their progress they'll do well in the middle and HS.  And the schools will likely get better and better the more Amazon and Virginia Tech moves in.  Their rankings are lower on Great Schools thanks to how they skew against schools with low income and non-native English speaking students.
Also in-state college options in VA &gt; MD.

In terms of feel, Bethesda is more refined and stately though perhaps stuffy while Alexandria has a more relaxed feeling with better diversity in terms of housing stock and people and things to do.

Bethesda/CCMD is the safest part of the close-in metro.  Alexandria is also very safe.

Your dollar tends to go much further in Alexandria and the income tax savings could allow a bigger mortgage / fund your kid to go to private school if need be.

SS is great and kind of a blend between Bethesda and Alexandria, wide array of housing stock and very diverse and Sligo creek is nice.  But parts of SS are much less safe and schools are more hit (Woodlin, Blair etc) or miss (Northwood).

In the right neighborhood+house all are great options.[/quote]

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