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I thought upper-middle-class families just went to private school.

• thatfrenchguy 6y ago
  Nope, upper-middle class families buy a 1.5 to 3 million dollar house "to be in the right school district" in the Bay Area. Ask your colleagues with kids :-)
  • myrandomcomment 6y ago
    Yup! Had a kid. Where to live? Menlo, PA, Los Gatos, Cupertino, Los Altos. Moved to Los Gatos. Schools were the single driving factor in picking the area in which to look for housing. Without having a kid, downtown San Jose, Redwood City, East PA, etc would have been on the list. SF was never on the list for what it is worth. I like cites. Tokyo, NYC, London, etc. SF is not a really city as the side walk roll up at 10pm and in the past few years it looks more and more like a public toilet. If you step in shit on the sidewalk in SF, it likely not from a dog.
    • Zhenya 6y ago
      There are a few more cities with amazing schools on the Peninsula but this is effectively the calculus. Some people still send their kids to private schools from those cities but the home value is buoyed by access to the public schools.
    • thatfrenchguy 6y ago
      Proving my point here thank you :). It's not really great for kids either, given the crazy level of anxiety I see in my peers who attended those schools because of all the pressure from their childhood.
  • cskinner 6y ago
    With the advantage that the house can then be sold to the next set of parents after the kids have finished with school.