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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, you and the rest of DCUM will hate this, but if you really want economic diversity you can't also buy in the very top rated school zones. Rich people already did. That is the reality of the DC area. If you live in a top school zone with a million dollar house, where are your kids going to experience this diversity?

I'd consider: Rockville, as recommended; Annandale; Hyattsville, College Park, or Greenbelt (all close together); Bowie.

I live more than an hour outside DC because my spouse works in our town and our housing budget was too low for DC (so my commute stinks), but I send my kids to schools that are not the "best" in the county. They're still pretty good, but more diverse and in a walkable area near our downtown. There are always tradeoffs. [/quote]

PS Silver Spring might work too.[/quote]

OP. Yeah I didn't mention "top-rated" schools in my post, because I know that higher ratings don't mean better schools. This competition to "win" at school and get "the best" for your kid, whatever that means, is part of what I'm hoping to avoid. My oldest actually did better in a lower-ranked school before we moved to Westchester, and we liked it much better there too. [/quote]

We also moved from Westchester and I think you will be surprised at how weak the Montgomery County schools are in the lower grades.  Elementary schools here are a mess and the county-wide system doesn’t help since even the highly ranked ones have poor curricular choices.  If your kids are older than elementary, the schools do get better in the upper grades.

We live in Chevy Chase and we moved from Larchmont.  People who have never lived in Westchester think they are similar, but they actually have very little in common.  The two metro areas are just organized very differently and populated with very different people.  That isn’t a knock on either place, but I would be careful to make one-to-one comparisons. I think you will like the vibe here. There are lots of people with interesting jobs and people from all over the place, both domestic and international transplants, so everyone is looking for new connections. [/quote]

I’d love to hear your explanation of the differences. I’m sure they’re different, but I’d also hazard a guess that the list of places that are more like Larchmont than Chevy Chase is is very, very short.[/quote]

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