Hi.
DH has been offered an opportunity to relocate to the NY office of his company. He is super keen to go, but I'm really apprehensive. We have a 6 yo and an almost 3 yo. I have no idea about schools/nurseries etc in the US. Over here, I'm a SAHM with a little online retail business (don't earn any money from it yet). DD2 attends nursery 2 days a week and will be going 3 days a week from Jan. DD1 is in the local (lovely) primary school (y2) which she loves. DH would be working in Weehawken and will be sole earner. Salary will be about $170k before tax. This is all likely to happen around Easter 2017 and will be for 36m initially. We will have to use public school as can't afford private. Can somebody give me an idea of how I even go about finding good schools? DH doesn't want a really long commute (an hour tops). Can we live somewhere family friendly with open spaces (house not apartment) within an hour of his office and with good schools on his salary? Is he being realistic? Is it horribly competitive to get into a public school (by public, I mean non fee paying), and how do we do this if we don't yet live there? Also, I really need DD2 to be at nursery for at least 2 days a week. She needs it, and for my own sanity, so do I.
I don't know whether I am so apprehensive because I'm being realistic, or because I am really risk averse and don't really like change. DH is much more open to new things and sees this as a huge adventure. We have done this once before - upped sticks and moved to Calgary, Canada with a couple of months notice for a year with his job, but in the days before we had kids and we'd both always wanted to live in Canada. I have never wanted to live in the US and have absolutely no experience of NY apart from watching TV/movies! Help!!
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Geobaby · 12/10/2016 12:22
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