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[quote=Anonymous]Interesting thread. Caught my eye because I was wondering why there was an LA section in DCUM. So here's my take born and raised in the LA area and having spent my professional life in DC--and married to the same. I think that DC is better for middle class professionals with children. My husband and I are both UC grads and were born in SoCal. Between the two of us, we have two masters, a PhD and JD -- earned in large cities in the Northeast. Moved to DC after grad schools where then we bought a home and kid came later. We know a lot of Californians here -- and we all MISS it terribly. The problems with raising a family in LA, as I see it, are you are hooked to a car and lots of traffic (various studies show traffic in DC is actually worse, FYI). But the difference is we have better public transportation and suburbs that are bikable. In 20 years, we have never commuted to work by car. If we were loaded with cash and could afford private school for our kid, then we'd move back to SoCal for sure. Not sure what Amazon will do to close-in Virginia -- it may have the Silicon Valley problem very soon and make home ownership more unattainable. Hope is to move back to SoCal when DD goes to college and drastically downsize.

As for earthquakes, fires, etc., it totally depends on where you were raised, I think. I grew up with earthquakes and fires, but the freezing rain/ice and rare hurricanes freak me out in DC. 
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