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[quote=Anonymous][quote] Patting yourself on the back because you made what turned out to be a very fortuitous real estate choice and getting angry at families who are simply trying the best they can is a bad look, and I suspect it will come back to bite you.[/quote]

PP you're responding to, and I appreciate your lengthy explanation.  Sincere question: why did you decide (as a couple, yes? possibly with a remote idea of kids?) to purchase a home where you did, and then stay there for years, rather than spending the same exact number of dollars to buy a home located in a zip with a proven record of schools?  ie, was it a real estate appreciation play? did you assume you'd break up with each other, so no kids? did you think, "yeah kids someday" but assign higher value to commute & walkable restaurants?

I believe you when you say your friends were reassuring re: schools evolving, and I get that you relied in part on that.  Did you consider exact-same-price homes in, say, Rockville, Kensington, or City of Fairfax?

I know young, childless couples who did just that -- bought a split-level near the Glenmont or Twinbrook metros, for example.  One couple bought a 1970 house in Reston with no curb appeal.  To a person, these then-childless people are as PPs describes: Asian or African 1st gens or immigrants themselves, from places like Ghana, India, Morocco.  DC wasn't even on their radar for a SFH purchase although several lived there in condos [/quote]

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