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[quote=Anonymous][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]

I think it's a little nuts to buy a house in a far suburban school district when you aren't yet pregnant!  If it's Takoma or SS or CC or Bethesda, fine, but Rockville?  Honestly, you really want that long long commute for so many years for a school you don't have a child in?  I had a friend who did that and it took her five years to get pregnant, and then another five years before her kid started K at that supposedly wonderful school.  Ten years of paying and driving and in that time, you could decide to move away anyway, or MoCo could re-boundary, or your school could stop being so appealing, or whatever.  I would definitely go for the short commute.[/quote]

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