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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm still not certain why people pay the premium to live in MoCo if they are going to send their kids to private.  The same houses in MoCo typically are significantly more expensive than just about anywhere else in the Metro area (although some parts of NoVa are comparable).  But the premium is in large part because of the school system.  So why pay that premium and still pay for private school?  It seems like you're paying for both.

I do understand the situation one PP mentioned of a SN child who was not adequately served by the public school system, but there are a ton of non-SN children from MoCo families that are going to privates. [/quote]

Couple of things -- the same house usually costs more in much of nwdc, on a price per square foot basis.  Apples to apples.

Despite this fact -- it requires more $ to buy the 5 bed 4 bath colonial by the friendship heights metro than it does in wood acres -- the similarly priced MoCo neighborhoods are nicer looking on the whole. Fewer renters who don't mow the lawn, more landscaping and trees, less grub and fewer "people who don't look like me" waiting for the bus on the corner of my street.  This is NOT my assessment but that of many of my Bethesda acquaintances made thru sports, work etc[/quote]

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