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[quote=Anonymous]We lived on the Hill for 14 years pre-kids/with babies and loved it.  We loved it so much that it was really hard to leave, but a combination of wanting a third kid and having bad luck in the preschool lottery a few times made a move necessary.

We left when our oldest was 4. We ended up in MD, but 1/4 mile from the DC line in Friendship Heights.  We are still walking distance to the metro, and my DH commutes by metro, but Friendship Heights doesn’t have much to walk to.  We can walk to downtown Bethesda in 15 minutes but honestly we don’t.  It’s too easy to park there and not worth it.

All that being said, we are really happy that we made the move. The Hill is so great for babies (I had my third baby here and there wasn’t the same community/storytimes/playground culture as on the Hill) but Chevy Chase/Bethesda is great for older kids and teens.  We send our kids to private school, but our neighborhood in the BBC cluster has lots of kids that go to public.  We have a neighborhood pool and swim team and even my eight year-old can walk to the pool himself and hang out with his friends.  We have a much bigger house with a pretty small yard (that we pay someone to take care of because that is not our thing.)

We always thought we would move back to CH when our kids were grown, but we like it here and will probably just downsize to a condo and get a summer house somewhere else.  No regrets. [/quote]

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