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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I think it just depends on what your priorities are.  Not suggesting yours are wrong, just that perhaps mine are different so I'm happy here.  We moved to a poor neighborhood which happened to gentrify in the last few years and our kid mostly went to decent DCPS schools out-of-boundary.  I love living by a metro stop and going to good theater, films, and restaurants along with walking down by the river and enjoying the leafy greenness of DC.

But the truth is that it might be a generational thing. If you got here before the big migration of the middle class to urban neighborhoods, you could get a cheaper house near the metro and you could get your kid into good DCPS schools OOB.  Any problems with the schools I used to chalk up to the challenge that came along with the cheaper housing.  And I also didn't mind the crime so much because my house was affordable.  But for folks who have come more recently to my neighborhood, they're paying a [i]lot[/i] for a house and there's [i]still[/i] crime and there's [i]still[/i] issues with schools.

Also, it just gets easier when the kids are older.  Having young ones is hard just about any place at any time.  Good luck finding what suits you, OP![/quote]

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