DH potential job in Glendale LA. Help please

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Now you are all awake, please could you help me.

The title gives the background. I need to do the legwork to calculate how much he needs to be offered to make it worth our while.

So .....

As a small village girl with a ds (nearly 6) at the lovely village state primary (200 kids on the roll),

Where would we want to live in LA?
Which state schools in that area are good?
Which private schools in that area are good ?(I am not using the word public to try to avoid confusion)
Ideally I would also need good transport links as I do not drive.

Ignore the financial aspects for the mo, as I need to calculate what it would take for us to have a similar standard of living in the US rather than the UK, to work out whether any package offered makes financial sense.

If anyone can help with this, I would be most grateful. I have trawled around an LA forum and have a good link to CA elementary state schools, but have spent the last 2 hours just going round in circles as I really do not know the area at all.

Califrau - I'm also a kept woman - read the GH 1950's blurb and couldn't stomach the ribbons or not bothering DH with the mutinae of my day so have reinvented the kept woman scenario. No ribbons, bother him immediately on entering the door and also I do all the paperwork, tax and such like - as well as the washing !

So, 3 term schooling, but split slightly differently ?

Flights, that's why i can't get a sensible answer to filling in on line. Roughly how much in the summer, at Christmas (Iwish) and Spring break ?

Sorry I offended on the question of private schooling

Thank you so much for all your help. I really do appreciate the time and effort put in to helping us make a decision.

Cali (although I do want to type cauli when I trpe your name) Thank you again.

Alien - not sure I would like that term

DH would be over on an L1 initially, so I guess that would make me an alien as well.

How can you dislike 'alien' when there's that Sting song, indig? I was a dependent L2 for two and a half years, but I applied for and got a social security number, took my VA driving test and then got a work permit. Within 6 months I was functioning pretty independently for most purposes (although it's worth noting that the company paid a relocation consultant to help us through the paperwork, and we stuck to joint accounts for banking etc). It IS irritating to be treated like Adam's rib, though... It gave me lots of scope for nice feminist rants about joint taxation and stuff!