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[quote=Anonymous]To the question of why people with kids are still leaving the Hill.  Here's my take.  We are in PS3 at a public school on the Hill and people seem pretty happy there.  A number of our classmates' parents have expressed to me they plan to move in a few years.  But they don't mention the school as a reason, it's more of a "we'd like more space," or we want to move closer to family, type of thing.  We have a lot of classmates whose parents have lived in their rowhouses since they were first married, or before.  Maybe you can stick it out in that little house, and save some money until your first child is in K or 1st.  Then you want to upgrade.  You may love the Hill and love your school but at that point, it doesn't make sense to buy another house on the HIll without more certainty about MS.  If you are entertaining ideas of leaving DC at some point anyhow (and most of us do, right?), not having a great MS/HS option is just one more factor leading you to make the choice to move off the Hill.  So while I don't think people are necessarily leaving the HIll in droves exclusively because of schools, the MS/HS situation certainly doesn't help matters, and I still think we are in a situation where only the truly committed stay.  And since DC folks are more transient than most of our countryfolk by nature, it's easier for us to make a move.  I do feel like if we had a good MS/HS option, inertia would kick in and more people would decide to stay.[/quote]

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