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  You need to MOVE, move to a different state, small town---you know, where you can buy 5 bedroom homes for at the MOST, $78,000--yes, 78,000.....plus land to go with it.....NO REGRETS AT ALL !!!!!   Only a 15 minute commute. [/quote]
To a job in what field, and with what salary?[/quote]

And schools?? That so what traps us here, low COL generally means and school quality. [/quote]

People worry too much about this. I grew up in rural part of the Midwest. My bff from college (we went to a top national school) came from the best public schools in NJ. I graduated with a higher GPA than her (and yes, we both took college seriously). To a large degree, it is what you put into it. Was I a bit behind freshmen year, sure. Did I end up graduating in the top 5% of the business school, yes.

Your kid is not doomed for failure if they don't have the best schools ever.[/quote]

Yes, but didn't they teach you statistics in business school? [b]The odds are less favorable[/b]. Peer effects are real.

And rural Midwest is generally fairly higher SES since its farmers who are essentially small business owners. I doubt you were going to school with from hands. [/quote]

less favorable for what?  getting into college and having a successful life?  or getting into Harvard?[/quote]

Overall outcomes. I came from a rural high school filled with the local processing plant workers. 75% graduation rate,maybe 50% go to college, and this is best high school in county. Many bright kids fell into wrong crowd and spent their 20s in a drug induced haze and end up working as pet shop groomers in their 40s. When the majority culture of a schools football and drunken parties in the woods, it can definitely overcome parental direction. It's not a death sentence but why stack the deck so you can take it easy? And I did leave this school for Ivy League, and I was behind all four years, but I studied science probably easier to catch up for high school when majoring in English or business, especially if your parents were in the field. [/quote]

I think that there may be school districts in the country that fall somewhere between what you experienced and MoCo, Fairfax.  Moving away from DC doesn't have to equal bad schools.[/quote]

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