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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think it's fine. "Middle class striver" values are hard work, the importance of education and knowledge, and earning a good living. Those are the types of values I want to inculcate in my children.[/quote] Interesting. I really dislike/reject the pervasive idea that if my teen isn't decked out head to toe in Lululemon with regular hair highlights and a $50/week Starbucks habit that there is some wrong/lacking in our family. IYKYK. [/quote] Same. I value education and hard work, but I do not value the competitive social environment here where people (including kids) are constantly evaluated for having more or better or anything -- clothes, vacations, cars, homes, access to powerful people, you name it. It's toxic and exhausting. We're letting our kid finish out elementary here because she's doing well at that school and it allows us to make some long term plans regarding our careers. But we're moving for middle school, out of the DMV altogether. I literally have a countdown on my phone to the day we list our house for sale, and we already know the city we're moving to and the likely neighborhood we'll be in. Good schools and lots of other features we like, but we have friends and family there and it's nothing like the toxicity of this area.[/quote]
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