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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]3 kids, 9th grade (could repeat grade if were to switch schools as very young for grade), 6th and 4th grade.

I may be offered a job in nyc. I make $350k in dc right now.

How much more would justify a move with a family from dc? Dh can work remotely $150k salary [/quote]

I would need to make double and even then I wouldn't live in NYC, but a suburb.  Do your kids want to move?  Do they have close friendships? If they have good friends and you have a network in DC I would stay unless you may be laid off or something.  Look for something new in DC.  Also, what is commuting time?  If it will be more if you move do you want to be away from your kids (if you take NJ transit, it can be a mess, take early trains).

I know a few families who lived in NYC with a higher HHI  and they all moved/ say they are happier in the suburbs.  One with 7 figure salary moved to Old Greenwich and loves it, another moved to Chatham, NJ and two who moved to Princeton, NJ.  They lived in the city, loved it (some Brooklyn), but were tired of the crime, figuring out schools, and living in small apartments.  Two families had kids in school and it worked out fine, the other has a toddler.

I would go look at some of these areas if you can if you are thinking of moving to see if you like certain areas/ cost of taxes etc (NJ and CT have high taxes) impact take home pay.

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New Yorker here, in Manhattan. [b]No one truly likes the suburbs all that much, they just say that.[/b] If OP is comfortable doing public school - and there are amazing publics but you have to work to get in them- living in Manhattan or Brooklyn or queens is highly preferable. Why move to NYC to not live in NYC?

Being a teenage in NYC is amazing. And not sure what you mean about crime. It’s really not that big of an issue despite what you might read. [/quote]

Not true. There are many nice suburbs where people genuinely enjoy living. YOU may dislike suburbs but you’re not everyone.

I do agree that it doesn’t make a lot of sense to trade one suburb with another. Stay in the DC suburbs. [/quote]

Sure, people can end up tolerating their suburb. But anyone who moves to NYC to live in NYC and then ends up moving to a NYC suburb (still very expensive and you have to commute, but the school thing is easier) does it for one of two reasons- they don’t have the $ to live how they want to live in NYC and/or they are worried their kids won’t make the cut at one of the top NYC publics. [/quote]

If OP moves now with a 9th grader, it's too late for a selective public or top private in NYC. So schooling wise, a suburb is probably their best bet.[/quote]

80% of our senior leadership commute from DC, Boston and Philly, they also share apartments for staggered 2-3 days of the week. Something OP can do for 6 month to figure things out.[/quote]

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