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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Really prefer it to DC. We were city people and moved to DC... and I think Silver Spring was more what we were looking for. Yeah, it's kind of suburban. Yeah, downtown has a ton of chain stores. But... they are useful chain stores. And downtown also has a lot of great unique institutions. Create Arts and Highwood theater for kids are awesome. I've heard Roundabout is too. Levine Music is now there... and probably other stuff I am missing. We were trying to buy really close to downtown and ended up in Sligo Park Hills, which is a good geographical balance between Silver Spring and Takoma Park. (And Takoma Park's community center has a ton of great kid stuff too. Dungeons and Dragons, martial arts, and... I don't know. Sports.) All in all it has the feel of a neighborhood where your kids can roam, which is what I was looking for.

I have been extremely, extremely impressed with East Silver Spring Elementary. I know it's not on the "best" lists, but they really seem engaged with the kids and the community is inclusive and excellent. So much more so than our more highly rated former DCPS.

I've toured both Takoma Park MS and Silver Spring International MS, and I really liked them both as well. Inventory seems to go fast in the area... but with good reason. Since we moved here, I'm just starting to explore the stuff farther out, and it also looks good. S[b]ilver Spring has this kind of middle-class vibe that seems really diverse and also really stable. Really wish we'd come here sooner. [/quote][/b]

Well said and I couldn't agree more. For a second, I thought I wrote this until you said you are at ESS. I could have written this post, except we are at Sligo Creek Elementary.  What I love most about Silver Spring is that it has a small city/town vibe,  but it is urban and diverse. We live in walking distance to DTSS, and we usually run into neighbors/classmates on our errands or at the parks. I hope that the vibe doesn't change, but I fear that it might as word gets out.

And, when we were looking, we were considering both ESS and SCES-- we couldn't find anything in that neighborhood at the time.[/quote]

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