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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op, they are not your tribe any longer. Accept it. Don't make it worse by assigning blame. Btw, you would seem clueless to not understand a basic fact: those neighborhood kids are your child's peers, only you're saying they're not good enough. You are seeking better. Or you are seeking a school environment better than what these have parents have chose. So that's criticism. Not spoken but it's there. Be gracious. You should never have to accept rude comments to your face but accept that the dynamic for you within the neighborhood has drastically changed. That's on you. You chose this.[/quote]

This is fantastic, thank you. And I think can be used anytime someone makes a choice that they see as trading up. You’re necessarily saying “what we had and what you still have is not good enough for me, so I’m making an active (and expensive) choice so that I can get away from what you are doing.” There’s no way to say that where the person you’re leaving isn’t going to feel wounded. We’ve had people move off our close knit street for big houses and there’s this same dynamic - they want to stay friends and think nothing will change. But they go on about their bigger house and better yard and fancier friends and better schools and it’s just really hard not to hear “your choices are not good enough for me.”[/quote]

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