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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live in Eckington and can concur with Ledroit and Bloomingdale PPs.  We are in a financial position that we can afford private school if by K or whenever we feel it is necessary, for example if our DCPS or charter option doesn't work.  We could not afford charter if we had comparable housing and convenience WOTP.  Burbs would cut into our family time substantially (adding 45 minutes to our commute each way per day equals about 750 lost parenting hours per year for two working parents or 48 waking days) and/or would put us in a precarious position financially.  We live in a 2500 sq ft rowhouse with a basement unit paying half our mortgage.

The hipness we see as a perk that helps attract more investment in the neighborhood but we didn't move here for that.[/quote]

We live in Eckington and I am loving it.  Could not be more delighted with the community of families and short commute.  Our child will be continuing at Langley for PK4 and we know several families who are staying for K so would have no qualms about doing that.  The real issue IMHO is middle school-- Langley has been great, in particular the teachers have been excellent.  We can definitely build to a strong early elementary, but that is as far as it goes as long as we feed to Dunbar.[/quote]

I'm in U Street area, which means I have a seven figure home and feed into Garrison. It seems our neighborhood is being more gentrified by wealthy DINKs than Bloomingdale and Eckington, which are getting more middle/upper middle class families, so I think the development pattern may look a little different for our IB. We're still early days so are cool w Pre K at our IB but haven't decided what we'll do in the big lottery vs. private vs. moving debate in a few years if things go south. I suspect we may leave the east coast altogether by that point. I don't really see us WOTP or in the burbs (that's not meant to be a dig on those areas, they're lovely, just not for us).[/quote]

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