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For being such an expert, you’re really off base. California is home to MANY immigrants, and many of them hold conservative values.  I don’t believe you can lump them with Trump conservatives who cry about freedom and masks, and so forth. There are so many ‘cultural conservatives’ in California, they’re a bit overlooked in the media. Plenty of Latino, Indian, Asian, Middle Eastern, Armenian Californians have traditional family values and eschew liberal ideology.

I think OP will find his community, the question is finding a place that’s affordable with a decent commute! [/quote]

Thank you for your thoughts. Yes what you say sounds true. Hope this forum help me find the answer to this question!

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Please don’t be ridiculous. Your HHI is 140k and no room for growth and you don’t want 200 with ample room for growth? 
You may be able to afford 3 bedrooms, not sure. If you bring in 10k/mo you can spend 4-5k/month on rent.
And I repeat, do not live far from where you work. Not worth it. 
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From my discussions above, it seems that Bay area public schools are out of the question ("dumbed-down" - "equitable" math, much lower educational quality overall compared to VA schools). So I need to have room to afford private school tuition for 2 kids.

[quote=Anonymous]MV poster again: here in the classrooms you are more likely to see the rainbow flag than the American one, lol
Conservatives keep to themselves and have their own small communities but don’t protest openly against public school policies. They pull their kids out or suffer in silence so to speak.
I am friends with many immigrants who are on the conservative side and their main strategy is avoidance and keeping a circle of like minded friends [/quote]
 
I guess you are referring to public schools right? I am not considering them based on the previous discussion, what you said is yet another good reason for that.

[quote=Anonymous]Yes, unfortunately if OP wants one of the good privates, he has missed the cycle. And those are insanely competitive even if he wasn’t off cycle. [/quote]
Good point. Hopefully I can get find a temporary solution for now (get into another private school with less demand and apply within the cycle next year, or push back the start date of that job). But regardless, I want to see if there is a viable solution for me or not in the first place.

[quote=Anonymous]Hi! We live in SF, I’m originally from WC and my husband drives down to the valley approx 1x a week. As pp stated, admissions season is over, some schools are highly competitive and besides tuition (there are 6 single gender independent schools in Sf tuition is about 40k) there is the donation to cover the gap, which is generally between 5 and 8k and everyone had a capital campaign where they will ask another 10-100k. Parochial schools often have rolling admissions, much lower tuition (10-15k sometimes w max around 20k no matter now many kids you send) many parochial have good academics and you’ll find conservative immigrant families there.  East bay is generally more affordable w some good public schools, lamorinda and WC/Alamo/Danville tend to skew conservative but very white. [/quote]

Thank you for your input. Wow what are these numbers! 5-8k "donation"?? 10-100k "capital campaign"? Aren't they considering lower incomes for that? I think $40k max per kid is what I would pay, not a dollar more, its starting to get ridiculous after that and I can't afford it anyway.
As I wrote above, I am not considering public schools there. Are these parochial schools you refer to in WC or in the Bay area in general?[/quote]

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