It depends on how many kids OP would need to be paying private school for. With 2 or more kids, I can see how someone could afford quite a lot of house but not be able to throw $100K+ in after-tax money at tuition.

I was thinking the list sounded like City of Falls Church.

Anonymous wrote:Look at Rock Creek Forest or Rosemary Hills.

Not OP. Would these neighborhoods work for a Latino family (not white, not rich) or are going to feel out of place?

Look at the neighborhoods off 123 in McLean. I don't know about pools or community gathering. But it's a great commute to G-town and McLean is a great high school.

The Hamlet in McLean.

The Langley district in McLean doesn't have a neighborhood that meets all of those criteria. Arlington might.

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Anonymous wrote:Garrett Park, MD. Trees (check the google satellite view!), neighborly feel with close together houses, pool, WJ (ok, Woodward...). Checks your boxes.

Except that nowhere commutes well to G'town outside of G'town itself, but MARC and Metro get you into DC easily if you roll that way.

That would be a terrible commute, Garrett Park is way out there. Without a budget, we can imagine that OP could afford a lot better, a lot closer.

OP said that they don't have 'private school money'. That's going to rule out most of the McLean district. I don't think there is anything in the Langley district that meets the criteria. The parts of the Whitman district that do are expensive enough that you'd need 'private school money' to live there

Anonymous wrote:nowhere commutes well to G'town outside of G'town itself.

Gondola now!

Anonymous wrote:Garrett Park, MD. Trees (check the google satellite view!), neighborly feel with close together houses, pool, WJ (ok, Woodward...). Checks your boxes.

Except that nowhere commutes well to G'town outside of G'town itself, but MARC and Metro get you into DC easily if you roll that way.

That would be a terrible commute, Garrett Park is way out there. Without a budget, we can imagine that OP could afford a lot better, a lot closer.

Without a budget, this is useless.

Garrett Park, MD. Trees (check the google satellite view!), neighborly feel with close together houses, pool, WJ (ok, Woodward...). Checks your boxes.

Except that nowhere commutes well to G'town outside of G'town itself, but MARC and Metro get you into DC easily if you roll that way.

Look at Rock Creek Forest or Rosemary Hills.

Anonymous wrote:Budget?

+1 Need a number to work with.

Budget?

The neighborhoods that meet your criteria are probably out of your price range if you can't afford private.

We are officially moving but I don't even know where to begin... Tell me what neighborhood / block / elementary school you live in and love... here are my specific asks:

- Needs to funnel into a top PUBLIC high school (we don't have private school money) (I'm looking at Whitman, Wootton, BCC, Walter Johnson in MD and Langley, McLean districts in VA)
- Needs to be within commuting distance to Georgetown
- Needs to be densely populated (houses close together, super neighborhood feel, mature trees would be a plus, I need a yard but I don't want a big one)
- Needs to have a community that gets together a lot / kids outside playing / parents that like to have drinks together etc.
- A plus would be a pool that everyone goes to
- a bigger plus would be that most neighborhood kids go to the public school (rather than private)