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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We lived in Adams Morgan ithout a car and now live downtown.  Bought a car to get our kid to and from his charter, over an hour to get to by metro and bus but 10 minutes by car.  The only saving grace is we can walk to work, stores, etc.  The urban lifestyle without a car in DC isn't possible with kids.  [/quote]
 
Statements like this set me off. CLEARLY a carless lifestyle is possible but requires trade offs.  I have children at three different schools spread around the city and a typical day does not involve a car to get them there.  Our choice of schools heavily weighed this outcome.  [b]We passes up a clearly better school option for one that is just ok so no car transport was needed now or in the future. [/b] Not judging your choices, just pointing out that your final blanket is not, by any means, true.[/quote]

Really?  You really passed up a better school option because you didn't feel like getting a car?  [b]Yes, I'm judging.[/b]

Please don't come crying back to this board when your school goes to pieces.  We're making choices now for our children's future.

I would never choose a second tier school because I didn't want to get a car in the city.[/quote]

NP.  [u]Why[/u] are you judging her choices, have you asked yourself that?  Does she need to make the same decisions as you, so that you can feel validated?  It takes all kinds in this big old world.  Is it really so hard to just agree to disagree?  Can you offer your opinion or advice and still keep your claws sheathed?

Sheesh.  That's the thing about this board that drives me nuts.  [/quote]

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