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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Thank you everyone for the advice. I've read mixed reviews about Wilson though. Is it fair to say that it has had some ups and downs? Is Deal considered better than Hardy? With the move, we would prefer to settle down as permanently as possible. We are not adverse to the suburbs in VA or MD, though we've always lived in cities (first NYC then Melbourne). We are completely comfortable to rent for a year (or years!), but would prefer that wherever we are is in the location where our kids will go to school longterm.

My son will be 5 as of September 2019. The twins will 1 year 11 months.[/quote]
AU Park or Tenleytown. You wiill have lots of safety--Janney or Hearst, Deal, Wilson, lots of possibles for HS--charters, Walls, Ellington etc. and there are also some reasonable private schools. YOu are also thinking WAY too far ahead. Lots could change before HS including new school options--but you will be 'safe' in AU Park, and it meets your budget.
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OP here :) THANK YOU for your advice. I am probably thinking too far ahead! I think since we know the HS where my daughter would be going if we stayed in Australia so well, it's so hard to move without "knowing" all of the details... but I think I need to have a bit of faith and also things will definitely change in the next eight years. [/quote]

OP, we are an international family in AU Park and we love it. It's a safe, leafy neighborhood, and it's nice to be able to walk to the metro and the shops/restaurants in Friendship Heights and Tenleytown. Janney is a wonderful school with lots of people from all over the world. We are nine years out from Wilson, and I think the school, which we would probably send our kid to now, will still improve over the next decade as IB enrollment is going up and they recently shrunk the boundary. So I'm not worried about it at this point.[/quote]

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