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In your experience what are the summers and winters in the Boston area like?
Summers = hot/humid but there is rain and thunderstorms. Winter = Cold but not too bad w/ occasional snow. Definitely sunnier than the PNW in winter. Just scroll down to the clouds section for sunshine data and you will see the difference in winter (blue = sunny):
Yes, referring to the Hudson River Valley, lol. Geography is clearly not my strong point! Thank you for all this great detail about the Buffalo and Rochester areas, schools and demographics - super helpful!! This forum has already been beyond helpful, I'm so glad I posted! I will see if we can fit those areas into our itinerary when we go east this fall.
I do wish summer was a bit wetter though. I find the summers here a bit too dry and sunny. Also the lack of thunderstorms is a bummer but besides that it's great out here. Can't beat the scenery.
We are actually looking into Olympia as well...lol, man if you think the summers there are too dry, you'd go nuts in California! I believe it rained literally 2-3 times this year in the bay area, for like 1-2 days each time. The last two days it's been 100 degrees. My ancestry comes from the northern alps and I am just not cut out for this.
Summers = hot/humid but there is rain and thunderstorms. Winter = Cold but not too bad w/ occasional snow. Definitely sunnier than the PNW in winter. Just scroll down to the clouds section for sunshine data and you will see the difference in winter (blue = sunny):
Thank you for this awesome information! Looking on the map North Falmouth seems like it'd be gorgeous! We aren't looking for the best schools in the universe, just pretty damn decent. Here in California the schools are absolutely horrendous unless you fork out 1.5 mil on a mediocre house. I just checked Zillow and our current rental is worth 1.03 million...its 1400 sq feet, has no AC and the great school rating for the local elem is 2/10. Really!
I will check out the areas you mentioned, thank you so much!
I went to one of the worst school districts in Massachusetts and ended up being light years ahead of a good school district in Florida when I moved. You dont need to be in a top 20 or 30 suburb around Boston.
I went to one of the worst school districts in Massachusetts and ended up being light years ahead of a good school district in Florida when I moved. You dont need to be in a top 20 or 30 suburb around Boston.
Ha! Wow, MA must have amazing schools! I get it though...my sister lives in one of the most expensive suburbs of Los Angeles so her kids can go to top rated schools. All her kids have some academic or disciplinary issue, and don't seem any further ahead than other kids. I went to a terrible high school (I was actually bused to an all latino school for diversity reasons), and hey I have a masters from a state school and am content with that. I think community/environment is just as important as school quality.
I went to one of the worst school districts in Massachusetts and ended up being light years ahead of a good school district in Florida when I moved. You dont need to be in a top 20 or 30 suburb around Boston.
I have lived the last 5 years chasing after only 9s and 10s on great schools for my kids. No more of that.
I have lived the last 5 years chasing after only 9s and 10s on great schools for my kids. No more of that.
Granted my school was 44% African American, 26% Latino, 20% White an 18% Asian.. it was rated a 5. Super lilly white, homogenous high schools are rated in the flawed 9/10 range. I gained very valuable experiences that my fellow peers didnt when they never left their bubble.
7s and 8s are fine. 6s are too. You don't need a 9 or a 10 school district on great schools to make your decision.
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I have lived the last 5 years chasing after only 9s and 10s on great schools for my kids. No more of that.
Also, greatschools.net has tinkered with its rating scale to where even if a school is consistently good, but hasn’t improved enough for them, they have actually knocked the schools ratings down. I also think there may be an issue with location bias for say school districts that may have the main city listed as it location, but is actually outside of city limits. You can have this occur due to the location given for the zip code it is in. So, be careful with some of these ratings websites and try to look at the information of a school on the state Department of Education website as well.
Granted my school was 44% African American, 26% Latino, 20% White an 18% Asian.. it was rated a 5. Super lilly white, homogenous high schools are rated in the flawed 9/10 range. I gained very valuable experiences that my fellow peers didnt when they never left their bubble.
7s and 8s are fine. 6s are too. You don't need a 9 or a 10 school district on great schools to make your decision.
I agree with this! I actually made some great friends at my high school and learned a lot about the latino culture. I wouldn't want to send my kids to such a school, but I do think some diversity and exposure to other cultures is very valuable. Ideally we find an 8/9/10 but I wouldn't write off a 7 if the area/school are otherwise a good fit for us.
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