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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would choose Dulles or Sterling over Nortth Carolina any day. Your access to DC will not be as limited as some other posters suggest.[/quote]

+1 some DC residents are so entitled. [/quote]

Realistically while your kids are young, in a two full time working parent household, you will go to DC once a month, if that. With up to 1 hr or 1 hr plus commutes, just doing a 40-50 hr job sucks up so much time. But later, if you as a music teacher have a short commute, plus maybe don't need to do 40 hrs every soul sucking week, then you might enjoy what DC has to offer more. With 2 young kids and a 45 hr job with 45-70 min commute each way, my life is so confined to work home errands repeat that I have real resentment towards the mortgage and the 9,000/year in real estate property taxes we pay. I live near DC but do not benefit from what DC offers. We save very little due to COL. I was thinking we could be living in Podunk and our daily lives would be the same. Except Tysons mall. At least I have that nearby (sigh).[/quote]

I dont go near DC. I live in the burbs and make it in MAYBE once a month and its adults only, uber, trashed, uber home.

We spend just about every weekend May-Thanksgiving in the Blue Ridge Mountains. My kids much prefer lake life, hiking, tennis, golf, PYO, and family friendly wineries/breweries to being dragged along with the smelly masses through museums they've been to a bazillion times with out of town guests and on field trips. Snooze.[/quote]

Lake life?[/quote]

I am curious about this as there are no natural lakes in VA or MD!

And what kids likes wineries or breweries ? As a non drinker they are quite boring. But if your kids are full participants well that makes sense. [/quote]

Dc resident here. My kids love going. We go to a windery every mothers day and I'd say its my kids very favorite event each year. They have corn hole, horseshoes, badminton, and we bring a football and Frisbee. We also pack a great picnic.  My son even asked to have his bday party there, but of course that is not realistic.

What kid doesn't love to go somewhere with their family and play games outside? Its like a park where the parents want to stay and hang out for a long time.

I'd definitely say if logistics worked for us and we were closer to wineries, that would be much better than what we do now on the weekends. We only live here because we have to. DH got his position with the current administration  and we'll be packing it up in January.  Thank God.[/quote]

Weird.
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Not weird. My kids love this too. Many of the wineries are family friendly. My kids love going to Dukiene.  They have a pond they allow the kids to fish in and catch and release. We go therr about 3xs a year. Full of families. I guess weird families that like to have fun outdoors.[/quote]

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