Reply to Moving from NYC Burbs to MD/DC/NOVA

Forum Index » Real Estate

Reply to "Moving from NYC Burbs to MD/DC/NOVA - Biracial Family"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Rent in Capitol Hill near Eastern Market. Coming from Brooklyn this is your best option. The PK3 programs are all good. You may not get into your IB but you will probably get in somewhere when she is 3. That buys you several years to decide whether long-term city living with kids suits you. We love it here but I get families who move in the upper grades. We've been doing a mix of public and private depending on what each kid needs.[/quote]

This.  [/quote]

Yes, this. If one of you works in Arlington and one near Union Station then this is a no brainer: Capitol Hill. It has the diversity you want, the metro commute, the walkable Brooklyn style lifestyle, and the schools at least for a few years (until grade 5 if you move in boundary for Brent). Charter schools too.

All these other places are very nice and diverse (Crestwood, SP, Rockville, SS) but the commute will destroy your soul, especially if you insist on public transit. [/quote]

I think the Hill would be good location-wise, [b]but it won't have at least 10% middle/upper SES AAs.[/b]  Crestwood and Rockville check that box, but won't necessarily be walkable and Metro-accessible.  Will be hard to meet all of OP's requirements with any neighborhood, so she'll have to decide what her priorities are.[/quote]

Are you kidding? Of course it would. Maybe not 30-40% UMC but certainly both some UMC and MC AA families. Many have lived here for generations. It's true some of my UMC AA neighbors send their kids to private though.[/quote]

PP here.  I'm AA myself and I know plenty of middle and upper middle class AA families in Shepherd Park, Crestwood, and Rockville areas.  I only know one such remaining family *with school-aged children* on the Hill (I know one other family but they recently moved to a different part of DC given that middle school was on the horizon).   The Hill is great in many ways but has always been sort of weird to me because of it being mostly upper SES white families but lower SES/impoverished AA families.[/quote]

I live on the Hill and I'd say the one exception to this is biracial families. I can think of lots of families with one white and one AA or one white, one  Latino parent. [/quote]

NP here, we're an U/MC African American family on the Hill, I agree not terribly common but not a unicorn situation either, including at school. A good number of the U/MC AA families (along with a few white and biracial) at my DC's school live in the nice neighborhoods east of the river.  So not exactly on the Hill but not much further away. [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics