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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think you should look to rent in the Belle View Condos, just south of Old Town. You should be able to find something less than $2500 (to allow for childcare).

The ES is Belle View, which is a good school. The middle and high school aren't fantastic right now, but may change in the eight years before you need MS (or your financial circumstances may change, or you may be able to swing a scholarship at a private).

Your commute to Alexandria will be 10 minutes driving. There's also an express bus that runs through Alexandria, and into DC (if you ever get a job in the city).

The area is a little quiet, but it's safe and family-friendly, walkable to stores and the rec center, library, right by the river (for walking/running/biking if you're into that), and easily accessible to Old Town.

I am a single mom of a 3 year old, I work in Old Town, and make just a bit more than you do ($85K), and am really happy in Belle View.

For full-day preschool, look at Blue Bird in Old Town. It's not fancy, but it's safe, and inexpensive (~$1300/month), and my child seems be to learning things.[/quote]

Different poster.  This rec for the Belle View Condos is a great idea!  You would have a super-easy commute and the area is charming.  It is very walkable.  Your child could walk to school when he is old enough to walk to school alone.  The nearby shopping center has a CVS, Safeway, post office and a great little family restaurant.  The Mount Vernon rec center is close enough to walk and it has an indoor pool, ice-skating rink and little rooms that you can rent out for birthday parties.  Right next to the parkway so a nice, wooded feel.

The upside from Del Ray or Old Town is that the traffic in the general area is much better and you won't have all the parking hassles.  Also, it is much more low crime.

If you were my daughter, this is an area I would definitely want you to consider.  Very safe.
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