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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]While I am sure it is not a universal experience, my friends who have moved to the suburbs have described their years with very small children as extremely isolating and the worst years of their lives. Living in an EOTP neighborhood with lots of small children, I have not felt isolated at all in these years. We chose to buy in DC prekids planning to take advantage of DC’s prek program and knowing that we may need to move later on if the schools weren’t working for us. We were lucky and lotteried into a DCI feeder so currently have no plans to move. For what it’s worth, the average amount of time that an American owns a single home is something like 7 years. Your first home is very unlikely to be your forever home so I recommend that you stay conservative in your home purchase so you have more options later on. [/quote]

Correct, this is not a universal experience.

Also, how old are your kids? I'm guessing still in elementary. DCI does not look as good close up as it does from the distance of PK.

Winning the PK lottery just postponed your crisis, it didn't get rid of it.

It's also ridiculous in these threads when people act like your options are (1) terrific, vibrant city neighborhood with lots of kids and convenient transit and all the amenities, or (2) far flung suburb where you have to drive to get your mail. It's not that binary. I know plenty of car dependent people in DC (including some in Petworth), and I know folks in suburbs that are walkable, community oriented, and lively. [/quote]

Yeah, i actually don't think elementary school parents should be able to give their advice to this OP. Too many elementary schools are totally fine, and they have NO clue how stressful it is to reach middle school and try to find a sufficiently viable path EOTP.

And I'm saying that as someone who found a path and is set through 12th (BASIS and both my kids are good fits there). And we have similarly well situation friends (Latin, lotteried for JR feeders, surfed through mediocre middle schools and then ended up at Banneker or Walls).

The exhilaration of navigating this is real.

But we have many friends who had had to move before middle school, who are stuck in poor schools, and who wish they had just moved earlier and saved themselves stress and their kids a subpar education while they figured it out. This is a significant population and it's a brutal outcome.[/quote]

I can’t agree more. It is so stressful. [/quote]

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