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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please share your wisdom or cautionary tale. Did you move your family from a big city to acres of land in Great Falls or New Zealand? Trade suburban life for the city center? Leave for another country, or immigrate to DC to find things were (or weren't) what you expected? How did it work out for your kids? What would you have done differently, and what are you glad played out the way it did? I would love to hear your story.

Additionally, I would love to hear your advice for a 40-year-old couple with two kids under two, leaving high-stress San Francisco Bay Area jobs to focus on raising our family. Would you choose the cultural cornucopia of the DMV? If you could choose any neighborhood and any school, where would you have sent your own kids? Our excellent local school district felt obligated to post guards and place cameras at the railroad tracks to deter high school suicides. It's scary. Do you love your school, and does it support your children?

Gratefully,

Please excuse typos from an exhausted dad sneaking out of bed to post in the middle of the night.[/quote]

Unfortunately the highest performing schools have suicides here too. So you’ll need to choose a middle of the road school pyramid to avoid that. [/quote]

OP. With kids so small we don't know if they will thrive or shrivel in a Langley or McLean or any of the other excellent schools. What will these schools even be like in fifteen years? Is it better to be a bigger fish is a smaller pond? Maddening. I hope you found your fit. Is there any place to find more about the culture of these schools?[/quote]

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