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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are currently raising our kids in a very competitive UMC community. There’s some racial diversity but next to no socioeconomic diversity. Top 1 percent ranked public school in the national, starting price for a modest house is 1.5-2n… it’s very much a bubble.  [/quote]

I have been down your "road not taken" after two stints living in the MD suburbs in "W" school neighborhoods.

I enjoyed the more relaxed, somewhat less UMC communities that I lived in before and after my year at a "W" feeder middle school quite a long time ago.  I found there was a lot more snobbery and pointless academic pressure at that school compared to where I had come from and where I lived next after a second rapid interstate move. That experience is why I decided that I would never endorse attending "the best" schools just based on reputation.

In my 20s, I worked in DC and lived in the MD catchment area of another "W" school.  Plainly put, my husband and I couldn't figure out how to finance the life we wanted in that area so we moved away.  At the time, I would have aspired to a $450-$650K tiny colonial somewhat within walking distance to the Bethesda Metro.  These houses are now 2x-4x the price.  Could not have afforded that kind of house before grad school and would have sacrificed probably 10 years of young family life to getting financially comfortable if we had moved back to where I wanted to live.

We now live in a small suburban city far from the DMV]

Would you mind sharing the name of general area of your new happy home? [/quote]

I live in Oakland County, Michigan.  Classic flyover country.  Originally from Pittsburgh, which I also recommend as a friendly place if you can find a job there.

The amount of this thread devoted to using Lululemon as a symbol of all that's wrong with American materialism reminds me that there is a Lululemon-heavy neighborhood to the north of me.  Lol, so if you want to be my neighbor, let me know so I can share more precise directions. Also, you should be prepared to live in a 3BR Tudor or Craftsman bungalow.  We don't have many Colonials here.  Other more typical suburbs (1950s-1990s houses) are nearby.

Who else here is a lurker from outside the DMV?[/quote]

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