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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the OP, I actually used to sled down Cumberland Ave as a kid! That said, I’m not sure I want the same neighborhood for my kids. It was wealthy then and it seems like it’s even more wealthy now. Can a place where all the houses are $2m + be ideal for kids, even if we can afford it? I guess I’m trying to figure out where the Somerset of the 80’s is now. Because Somerset of now feels more like Kenwood then, or something. Maybe I’m being unfair.

You have to ask these things on dcum, because no one can have this conversation in real life. It’s too obnoxious. But I think we must not be the only ones in a situation where if we were childless, we might spend more, but for now we’re basically crafting our home life in service of raising our kids, and it’s maybe not optimal to just buy the most expensive house we can.

I’m not even sure what I’m worried about with the homogenous wealth, I just feel wary of it. Maybe it’s entitlement? Maybe it’s a sort of helplessness that some kids develop from having the skids greased too much? Maybe it’s pressure to maintain that lifestyle that I don’t want my kid to have?

But who am I kidding that if I buy my kid a used Camry instead of a Range Rover or whatever it’s going to make a meaningful difference? And in the meantime, would it be a better life if we lived in a big house near a pool?[/quote]

I get this. We live in East Bethesda and I sometimes wonder if we should have bought in SS but the reality is we like our neighborhood a lot (and maybe I’d like it more if we had a neighborhood pool).

I’m hoping it comes down to how you raise them—  I’m not going to make my kids take out student loans for college just so they have “skin in the game” — I’m going to hope I can raise them to take college seriously. 
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