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DaytonBuck;1161242; said:
What part of town are you going to be working in?
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Wright Patterson AFB. There are few things that would make me really cool with moving. A Federal job would be one of those things. I likely will not be starting until the end of August because I have to finish my Master's up here first which will be in July.

Thanks for the info guys it really is a big help. Beavercreek was a place we heard was nice but it is nice to know as was poited out that the property taxes are high.

We haven't really decided yet what we are going to do about housing yet. Thanks to some mistakes by us, the fact we haven't really lived in our current house that long and the market we are not expecting to make a great deal of money off our current house.
 
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IronBuckI;1161115; said:
Not to get too far off track from the purpose of this thread but...the DDN had a story (DDN Story) a week or two ago about Springboro and it's proposed six levies over the next seven years...and they're not small levies either. A few of the engineers that I work with are super fuckin' pissed. Many of them have kids that either go to Springboro or are very close to being old enough to go to school, and they don't care for what the administration is trying to pull.

Unless there is a re-organization at the top, I would stay away from Springboro for now.
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Those levies will never pass.....the administration has no choice but to be financially responsible at this point. If they don't, my daughter will probably be going to Dayton Christian which is about 3 miles from my house. I would hate to pay property tax and tuition but am willing to do so if necessary.
 
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Lockup;1161296; said:
We keep pretty much hearing Oakwood, Centerville and Beavercreek.

Another one on the north side was Huber Heights. Any thoughts on that one?
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Huber Heights isn't ideal. That's where I moved from. Schools suck, and it's going to take a long time to fix their problems.
 
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I've been out of Dayton for quite some time, actually since I left for OSU in the fall of 61. Huber Heights was built in the mid 50s to mid 60s. Track houses, all ranch, few with basements. Kind of where all the WWII GIs spent their first housing dollar. The Levitttown of Dayton. Beavercreek used to be that way, but evidently much has changed.

Don't know what the knock is on Kettering aside from the fact that they no longer are the premier sports power in the area as they were in the 60s. It's still very close to WPAFB and with a good road net to get you there. Academically still a fine system.

My then girl friend from those days lived in Oakwood and I had several frat brothers from there also. Which side of Far Hills Blvd you live on is very important in the social circle, but it's a nice sized school system that regularly sends kids off to the Ivies.
 
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cincibuck;1161308; said:
I've been out of Dayton for quite some time, actually since I left for OSU in the fall of 61. Huber Heights was built in the mid 50s to mid 60s. Track houses, all ranch, few with basements. Kind of where all the WWII GIs spent their first housing dollar. The Levitttown of Dayton. Beavercreek used to be that way, but evidently much has changed.

Don't know what the knock is on Kettering aside from the fact that they no longer are the premier sports power in the area as they were in the 60s. It's still very close to WPAFB and with a good road net to get you there. Academically still a fine system.

My then girl friend from those days lived in Oakwood and I had several frat brothers from there also. Which side of Far Hills Blvd you live on is very important in the social circle, but it's a nice sized school system that regularly sends kids off to the Ivies.
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I would challenge the fact that Kettering's school system is fine.

Kettering west of Far Hills is nice, anything else you'd better off saving your money and living in Belmont
 
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Lockup;1161296; said:
We keep pretty much hearing Oakwood, Centerville and Beavercreek.

Another one on the north side was Huber Heights. Any thoughts on that one?
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It has the highest % of brick houses in the country. I guess it would be a good place for a tornado? :biggrin:

Just trying to help.
 
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DaytonBuck;1161318; said:
I would challenge the fact that Kettering's school system is fine.

Kettering west of Far Hills is nice, anything else you'd better off saving your money and living in Belmont
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Nope, then you'd be in Dayton Public and I know chaos when I see it.
What's happened to Kettering schools? I'm still in touch with some teachers from there and haven't heard aything negative from them, but then I haven't asked.
 
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Folanator;1161340; said:
It has the highest % of brick houses in the country. I guess it would be a good place for a tornado? :biggrin:

Just trying to help.
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:lol:

We have noticed a large amount of brick homes down there. I was wondering if that was bad or not.

I don't have to stay right on top of Wright patterson either. MY wife is not sure yet where she will work so any places a little farther away are cool too. although I prefer to stay either North of Dayton or east. A little south is cool like some of the places mentioned but I don't want to go to far south. Just makes a drive to parents house that much longer.
 
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cincibuck;1161410; said:
Nope, then you'd be in Dayton Public and I know chaos when I see it.
What's happened to Kettering schools? I'm still in touch with some teachers from there and haven't heard aything negative from them, but then I haven't asked.
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Save the money and ship them to CJ living in Belmont. Things could have changed from when I was in high school (I'm 26) I heard pretty bad reviews of Kettering from the folks that went there. I knew a couple girls, one transferred to Alter, the other to Miami Valley because they felt Fairmont was more about babby sitting students than actually learning.
 
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