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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are new parents, you should be able to buy a smaller house with better schools and only move later if you have to.

I personally would not buy in the most poorly ranked school areas in Arlington simply to get a huge house.  YMMV.[/quote]

If she has a time machine. I don't know OP's budget, but I would bet that she is priced out of "good" school zones in Arlington and FCC, [b]even tiny tear downs.[/b] That's why she's looking in other areas, not because she wants a McMansion, but because she can only afford a modest home in the areas with "bad" schools. It's that or move out to Ashburn, and many of us would rather be present in our kids' lives rather than spending hours commuting just so our kids can attend homogenous schools. [/quote]

Nope.  [b]OP specifically wrote that they are looking for a "big" house[/b], and that the only big houses they can find are in bad school districts.  If she has enough money to buy a big house in South Arlington, she almost certainly has enough money to buy a small house in North Arlington.  Not necessarily even a "tiny tear down," but a liveable house that doesn't have huge living rooms or a bathroom off every bedroom.  Kindly don't contort yourself to rewrite this question into one where the OP isn't clearly putting their desire for a big house (even though they just started their family) at the top of their wish list, despite the OP's own words.[/quote]

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