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"Oh, hey, looks like people think Hale is pretty decent too, that's nice" is about how much thought we put into it. Way farther down the list than "what can I walk to" and "can I get to work without a car" as two examples of higher priorities.Similarly trying to get this halfway back on track, it's weird to think about schools (in terms of buying a house in a particular neighborhood) when you don't even have kids yet. But a lot of people do!! Like the soonest I could possibly have a kid in elementary school is 6-7 years from now (incl. gestation). On average, do most people even stay in their first/starter home that long? Particularly at the lower end of the starter home market (assuming not buying a great/ideal house on the first crack)? Obviously school quality influences home prices (therefore affecting your resale in 6+ years down the line), but like in general, childless couples should not really give too much thought to schools, right? The whole damn world can change in that amount of time.
Yeah, but wouldn't that be factored into the initial purchase price?The quality of the school attendance boundary you live in can have a serious impact on the potential resale value of your starter home, regardless of whether you have kids or not.
In the general sense, I'd agree with that, but I don't know if that's true in Mpls though. We bought in SW Mpls and at the time there was no assigned community school for our neighborhood so you could basically go to one of your top three choices. We had neighbor kids at Lake Harriet, Burroughs and Hale/Field. Even though Barton is the closest, I didn't know anyone who went there. It's always been hard to get into!The quality of the school attendance boundary you live in can have a serious impact on the potential resale value of your starter home, regardless of whether you have kids or not.