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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the first poster who brought up the issue of schools. We actually looked to buy in Capitol Hill, but felt we were priced out. Instead, we live in Alexandria City (Del Ray), in a place that was probably $100-$200k cheaper for the same size space (1600 sf). We love our 'hood, and our schools are probably no better or no worse than the schools in Capitol Hill (I don't really know), and I certainly don't think we're abusing our son by sending him them to our neighborhood elementary school with the okay-ish test scores. Like many parents who live in the city, the issue gets trickier as our sons gets older. Do we send him to the high school with the so-so rep? Do we want to be living in such close quarters with a teenaged son? I don't have the answers. More than likely, we will end up moving to a more "affordable" city so that we can live in a small house within city limits (and either go private or public, depending on the place). Of course, the term affordable is subjective, but I don't think you can argue that DC has one of the highest costs of living in the country.

So, given some of the issues we've encountered living here with two working parents with good jobs, the article bugged me. That was and is my only point. Please don't hate on us suburbanites. Many of us don't hate city folk but are simply working within the confines of our somewhat limited resources.[/quote]

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