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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I still think folks are too cramped in their thinking about OP's options, as if everything is riding on the first house they buy or on placing all their chips on the lottery.  This seems to me to ignore things like the future potential for appreciating of DC real estate and continued improvement in the DC public and charter school landscape.  There's already a good amount of flexibility out there for early elementary, and while middle and high schools have a ways to go, they offer a much better world than even a few years ago.  As others are suggesting, why not buy in Trinidad or Eckington or Park View or some other "gritty" neighborhood with better housing prices and some quiet buzz, plus elementary options that will last you three or four years?  Then see how those schools improve and play the lottery for a few years to try and get something through fourth or fifth grade? By then, you might not be in bounds for a good middle school, but you might have lotteried into something, or your house might have appreciated enough to sell for a premium to someone who cares less about schools so that you could trade up to a better neighborhood.  This is exactly what happened to us.  Not saying it's a guarantee -- but frankly, there are no guarantees in life.  Just risks that some people are comfortable with and some are not.  Why not go after something new and different?  It's not like OP can't decide in a few years it's not for them and then head for the suburbs.  But for now, it sounds like OP is game for trying something else.  [/quote]

Has OP said how old her child is?  If she buys in a gritty neighborhood has to move in a couple of years, any appreciation will be eaten in realtor fees.  [/quote]

OP child is 4.[/quote]

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