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« on: December 09, 2005, 09:24:33 AM » |
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It's looking like I'll be leaving my happy home in the west for the Albany area to solve a dual career dilemma (two stable jobs in Albany versus one stable job and one bitter adjunct here). I have three kiddos ranging in age from first grade down to toddlerhood. Any suggestions on where I should be looking to buy a house in terms of good schools and daycare? I'm interested in particular in a project-based curriculum at school and a constructivist daycare.
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« Reply #1 on: December 09, 2005, 09:40:41 AM » |
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Oooh, a city I actually can comment on from experience!
S. Manning in the city is a super, divided Blvd.
Slingerlands, Delmar, Loudonville are pretty nice. Maybe Latham too. 'Course, I wouldn't know what it's like living there, b/c I was there as a poor grad student & lived just about under the underpass. really...
They had some interesting magnet schools in the city proper, when I was there in the 90's. One for science & technology my child went to; my kid went to public schools in the city.
Maybe someone else can comment more about the various quality of school districs there?
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« Reply #2 on: December 09, 2005, 09:53:00 AM » |
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Oh, on the subject of Albany, please note the thread below this one.
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« Reply #3 on: December 09, 2005, 10:02:25 AM » |
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I'm trying to put that aspect of it out of my mind. I grew up in an area where the words "lake effect snow" were enough to make grown men cry and grown women scream. I guess this is the punishment I get for hubristically declaring at conferences that I now only encounter snow when I go to visit it, and it stays on the mountains where it properly belongs . . . .
I hate, hate, hate cold weather!
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« Reply #4 on: December 09, 2005, 10:05:40 AM » |
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Friends of mine moved there last year and found a house they love, with good schools and nice neighbors, in a place called Glenmont. I don't know the area, so I don't know anything else about it -- but one of them works at SUNY-Albany and I think it's a very short commute.
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« Reply #5 on: December 09, 2005, 02:00:25 PM » |
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Glenmont is reasonably nice old-fashioned suburb with good schools and super-easy access to Albany. If you're going to the full SUNY-Albany campus, you could get a bit of traffic. If you're going to the "downtown" campus or one of the other schools, you'll be golden. Some older parts of Glenmont have sidewalks and some ability to walk to little stores or even a coffee shop, if that's important to you, but much of the area is built to be non ped-friendly.
The area downtown that people live is around Lark Street--basically a hipster area, a few blocks that aspires to be a little like a mid-90s Park Slope or something. Good brownstone housing stock. Not as safe as the burbs but safer than some of the other parts of the city. Some good restaurants/bars/coffee shops but also sometimes drunken kids stumbling around. Bombers Burritos is a popular spot there, and serves surprisingly good burritos.
Many of the people in the city who have kids and have the resources send their kids to either private or parochial schools. There are some interesting magnet schools but they may or may not be as good as you're looking for.
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« Reply #6 on: December 10, 2005, 02:20:48 AM » |
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Albany is too far east to get much lake effect snow. Now, if you were going to SUNY Buffalo or Oswego...
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« Reply #7 on: December 10, 2005, 01:20:20 PM » |
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Albany is the capital of New York. The state capitol building[/i] is located there.
To summarize, "capitol" is a building.
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« Reply #8 on: December 17, 2005, 03:17:48 AM » |
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Mover:
>>>>I hate, hate, hate cold weather!<<<<<<
I'm sorry to say that if you hate cold weather and snow, you will HATE the capital region. Be prepared: the snow starts on Nov. 1 and ends on Apr. 1 (sometimes it even snows on that day, as an April Fools joke).
As far as where to live, you may also want to look into Clifton Park and Scotia, suburbs like (the already mentioned) Glenmont. Both are good places to raise kids.
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I'm from Troy
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« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2006, 12:56:56 PM » |
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Hi Mover: I just found this thread referenced in another forum. Go to the Career forum and check out the thread on Troy, NY, for much more information about the area you are moving to. The capital district of NYS is actually a great place to live. Yes, it's cold and snowy, but NOT like central and western NY. No "lake effect" snow at all. Just the occasional Noreaster (the big wet ones that travel up the coast) and frequent much smaller Alberta Clippers that dip down from Canada.
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