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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP. Thanks for the quick reply. Just to clarify, we will not be in the workforce--this is an early at least semi-retirement. If you can call raising two daughters any kind of retirement ... Do you find the DC area stressful apart from work?[/quote]

I don’t find it stressful. I moved here from manhattan. It’s WAY less stressful than manhattan. There are so many cultural things to do here, but of course they are all closed here.

I probably would live in the suburbs if you are looking for less stressful. Will you use private or public school? [/quote]

OP. Perhaps naively we had figured on buying a house based on public school. Coming from out of state, it's scary to rely on acceptance to a private school and hard to know the culture of those schools. Tough to budget for two kids full K-12 private, too. Northern Virginia seemed perfect--a Metro ride (or short drive) away from 20 Smithsonian museums, some of the highest-ranked public schools in the nation, and the option for an active suburban town or a five-acre lot further out. But neither of us has spent more than a week in the DMV, DND that insulated by conferences or vacation activities. I most certainly don't know what I don't know.

Manhattan, of course, offers it's own very strong case, but my wife is not inclined to live in the city proper.[/quote]

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