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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NWDC is friendly and a great place to raise kids, especially if you want them to have a sense of confidence in navigating cities as they grow into adolescence. A great mix of interesting people. I love living here. Good luck with your move![/quote]

Stressful, cut throat, superficial, competitive, sneaky, petty too when it comes to kids. The schools in NW can be pressure cookers. Works for some kids but if you have kid who are not top students they will feel behind.[/quote]

[b][b]This has been our experience. Absolutely awful. My husband grew up here and so actually believes that kids' childhoods are supposed to be some kind of strenuous boot camp for life. His childhood in DC was basically an elitist pressure cooker under the thumb of a narcissit mother. Other than the narcissist mother, my poor children have experienced the same. They hate it and can't wait to go somewhere where real people live. They cannot believe how friendly people in the world are when they go to other places. [/b][/quote]
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NP. I need to know more, such as where you live,  where your kids go to school , and what you and DH do for work and social activities

I am a fed lifer married to a high school teacher whose kids go to public school and who socializes with mostly other feds, teachers, nonprofit types. Neighbors mostly have similar type jobs-- even the lawyers are in public-interest fields. What you describe doesn't fit our experience.[/quote]

My kdis grew up here, and are now at college elsewhere.  They don't think this is true at all, and while they are enjoying their respective new locations (MA and MI), they like it ere and have found positives and negatives elsewhere.  Perhaps your attitude rubbed off on your kids?  People are very friendly in other places, but not necessarily actually any kinder or better people.  The one thing they do like about this area is that people are much more well informed about the world outside of the US.[/quote]

My DC are in college too, as you say, "elsewhere."  They got as far away from DC as possible, hated everything about the parents here and the way children are raised.  And no, before you ask, they didn't run from us, we have a second home near where they both attend college.  There's a lot of truth in the statement about strenuous boot camp of life, only those that support that type of child rearing will call it out as positive.  
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