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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live in DC and are middle class. Our neighborhood ES is not a good option, at least past the lower grades.  We had ridiculously high waitlist numbers on the OOB lottery. We were waitlisted at every charter we applied to. We are now faced with either sending DC to a fairly crappy public school, or applying to a private and hoping for financial aid. Or moving to the suburbs; even then, we are facing huge public elementaries. I know we are not the only ones in this situation. [/quote]

Don't you have the same problem in every expensive urban area? Look at NY, San Fran, and LA, in addition to DC. All of these cities have lots of job opportunities and great lifestyles for wealthy people, but they certainly are not affordable for people that don't pull in high incomes. What makes no sense to me is why you'd ever live in one of these extremely expensive areas if you couldn't afford to do it and were unhappy with the options. If you're here for the job opportunities, then likely those job opportunities are good, and you can afford a good school and/or a good suburb. If the job opportunities suck, than why wouldn't you move to a lower COL area? Same goes for people living in these other very expensive cities. People complain about not being able to afford NYC unless they make $X salary. Yeah, that's true, except why live there unless you have a great job that allows you to enjoy the amenities that you have to pay more for? [/quote]

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