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So . . .what are your thoughts on green, big yards and friendly neighbors in freakishly close-in, metro accessable brookland?  Capitol hill and Georgetown I can see as overhyped, but Brookland?!  I bet most folks in "upper NW" like yourself have never even been to Brookland.  And why would you?  No hype to get you there.  Just cute SFH on large lots.  Its a sleepy suburb right smack inside the city.  [/quote]

But what about schools? I know there are some good public schools in DC, but I don't have any colleagues living in DC that send their kids to public school.  I have three kids and a stay at home wife. Shelling out $35K+ per child per year to pay for private school doesn't strike me as good value for money. I'd rather save some of that money for college and be able to travel fairly frequently with my family. Plus, I'm not persuaded that my kids won't get a rock solid education and have as good a shot at getting into the top schools of their choice coming out of their Howard County school as they would coming out of a DC private school. [b]Frankly, if I paid the kind of money people pay to send their kids to Sidwell and St Albans and they ended up going to a second or third tier school like AU or Virginia Tech, I'd be seriously annoyed, but it happens fairly often.[/b] One of my colleagues is constantly complaining about how she's spending her kid's inheritance paying for them to go to Maret. But she's caught up in the whole prestige thing. Yes I know there are benefits to sending your kids to school in an environment of wealth and privilege, but you can certainy get that in college if that's what you want. Anyway, you keep Brookland. I'll take Howard County any day. For the many people who are transplants to DC from other areas, before you decide you can't take the DC area, you should give serious consideration to life outside the beltway. [/quote]

Would you please post on the private/ independent schools forum?  We could use your line of sanity and reasoning there...[/quote]

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