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[quote=Anonymous]I think you need to make a prioritized list.

I will share my experience just as food for thought.

I bought an OK 4 bedroom house in Ashburn when my kid was a baby thinking to send my kid to private school.  I didn’t end up liking the neighborhood.  There were very few families with young kids in our immediate neighborhood….I’m talking our street and a few in either direction.  Turns out the local elementary mostly had kids from the section 8 townhouses and apartments about a mile away, very few from the neighborhood of SFH’s that the school is actually located in.  I felt like buying there was a mistake, we only made friends with the one other family on the street with kids.  Neighborhood friends are important to me.  If they weren’t the place would have been fine.

Moved away from DMV for work, moved back when kid was entering kindergarten, decided to give living in DC a try.  Rented an apartment for 1 year close to an elementary school we thought we would like.  Ended up making a lot of friends with kids the same age there.  So we bought there.  It was a much smaller and older house than the Ashburn one, but friends and community are more important to me than a big yard and house.

I grew up thinking a SFH was a must have, l don’t think that any more.  [/quote]

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