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08-08-2007, 01:33 PM
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No problem, I also had the added joy of getting caught in Riot Fest because I had come in from out of state and was not aware. Think of riots of the 60's.
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08-08-2007, 02:02 PM
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Red Mill area is relatively new (10yrs) and safe. The schools are reasonably new with a couple of new ones recently built. Houses are mid to pricey with little or no crime.
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08-10-2007, 11:22 PM
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Schools areas not to live in
Green Run
Landstown
Bayside
Neiborhoods that I know of not to live in
Green run
Landstown lakes/meadows area.
Some parts of oceanfront
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08-12-2007, 01:23 PM
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not necessarily the case
My friend's family lived in Cypress Point and went to Bayside. He ended up at UVA and is now an investment banker.
My family lives in Bellwood, which is also a nice neighborhood recently rezoned to go to Landstown. My sister went to Duke, and I went to UVA and we turned out just fine.
I realize Cox offers the best education in Va Beach, but it's possible to get a decent education at Landstown and Bayside.
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08-14-2007, 05:32 PM
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I agree with the people that posted the following areas:
Larkspur
Kempsville
Great Neck
Pungo
They are well-established so it is much easier to have the facts on these areas.
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08-14-2007, 09:27 PM
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My 2 cents
My family moved to Va Beach a week before I started 9th grade. My parents still live in the Kempsville area and I can definitely recommend it. Have always felt very safe there and it almost feels like a small town of it's own- after a while you start running into people you know because everyone goes to the same places in the general area.
I went to Kempsville High so I can speak from experience and say I felt I received a very good education. At least as of 2001, when I graduated, the school offered 22 AP courses, and I went into college with over a years worth of credits completed. Many of my Kville friends are doing well for themselves now- went to good colleges, and I have friends now getting Masters or Ph.d.s at Yale, Harvard, Columbia, and other top of the line institutions of higher learning. Granted, my group of friends were the overachievers, so take this with a grain of salt  .
My knowledge of Va Beach schools isn't quite current but I know when I was in HS, Princess Anne offered an IB program and had a lot of gifted students. Green Run did have a little rougher reputation. First Colonial and Cox were know as the "rich kid" schools.
Virginia Beach is a great place to live and to raise a family. The cost of buying a home is high, but as you're moving from NOVA, it shouldn't phase you at all 
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08-15-2007, 08:58 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DownSouth
Schools areas not to live in
Green Run
Landstown
Bayside
Neiborhoods that I know of not to live in
Green run
Landstown lakes/meadows area.
Some parts of oceanfront
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I have to say there's alot worse areas than Bayside & Landstown.
What about Chimney Hill, Rosemont area and around South Plaza Trail.
I think those areas are much worse.
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08-19-2007, 06:39 PM
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Does anyone have an opinion about Providence Elementary or Larkspur Elementary? Thanks!
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08-20-2007, 02:43 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SarahB
My family moved to Va Beach a week before I started 9th grade. My parents still live in the Kempsville area and I can definitely recommend it. Have always felt very safe there and it almost feels like a small town of it's own- after a while you start running into people you know because everyone goes to the same places in the general area.
I went to Kempsville High so I can speak from experience and say I felt I received a very good education. At least as of 2001, when I graduated, the school offered 22 AP courses, and I went into college with over a years worth of credits completed. Many of my Kville friends are doing well for themselves now- went to good colleges, and I have friends now getting Masters or Ph.d.s at Yale, Harvard, Columbia, and other top of the line institutions of higher learning. Granted, my group of friends were the overachievers, so take this with a grain of salt  .
My knowledge of Va Beach schools isn't quite current but I know when I was in HS, Princess Anne offered an IB program and had a lot of gifted students. Green Run did have a little rougher reputation. First Colonial and Cox were know as the "rich kid" schools.
Virginia Beach is a great place to live and to raise a family. The cost of buying a home is high, but as you're moving from NOVA, it shouldn't phase you at all 
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I graduated 2005 at Kempsville High School. They've actually expanded a bit on the amount of AP courses they offer. Also, various schools (PAHS and KHS are two I know of) offer Distant Learning. This is a nifty system that hooks up several schools to teach a single class. It's very effective in my opinion. I took AP Art History and 3 years of Japanese with it.
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08-25-2007, 11:40 AM
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We live in the Dam Neck area of VB. We like it a lot. Some of the neighborhoods are Ocean Lakes, Upton Estates, Ocean Lakes East, Red Mill Farms, Pine Meadows, Lagomar (that one is $$) and more. The schools that these neighborhoods feed into all have great reps. Red Mill Elementary, Ocean Lakes, Corporate Landing Elem.(and more), Corporate Landing Middle, Princess Anne Middle and Ocean Lakes High.
The school system of VB as a whole has plenty of enrichment programs for students. There are 4 year-round elementary schools, a gifted elementary and middle school, several "academy" programs in the high schools, a Vo-Tech school, and more! For example, Ocean Lakes High houses VB's Math and Science Academy. The school system even has a planetarium! I could go on and on. VB Schools are highly rated as a whole.
Visit Virginia Beach City Public Schools and surf around the site. You can find plenty of info in there.
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