Can somebody please exain why South Arlington is considered inferior to North Arlington?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So do people in S. Arlington park their cars in their front yard and have bbqs in their garage??
Or is this more of a status thing to say you live on the north side?

You say this like it's a bad thing?

Fuck the petit bourgeois in this area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Much of S. Arlington developed in response to the construction of the Pentagon. A lot of apartments along and close to Columbia Pike were constructed to house younger, often single, clerical workers, telephone operators and the like who worked at the Pentagon. Other neighborhoods such as Penrose and Arlington Heights were developed to house young officers. You will see similar styles of housing in any older military base in the Notheast. As people moved away from the outdated apartments in the 1960s and 1970s to newer housing stock (including a lot of the new apartments and townhouses built in Shirlington after the Army Corps of Engineers controlled flooding in Four Mile Run), the older rental apartments became home to the new waves of Central American emigres, Ethiopians and Eritreans. The Ethiopian Development Council which once helped only Ethiopian refugees now helps refugees including the many from the middle east now moving in the Pike corridor. Children of these emigrees and the long time African American population -- many of whom live in two original Freeman Villages near the Army Navy Country Club -- do not perform as well in school as the children of highly educated people who can afford to live in other parts of Arlington. For example, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia's grandfather probably did not attend a high performing school, but he bought into the American dream just as the South Arlington people have, and look what his progeny has done.

Did you deliberately write this wall of text so no one would see the shitty things you said? You didn't fool me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Tysons and pimmit have better schools than ms13 los south arlington

Are you kidding? MS was pushed out of Arlington like 15 years ago into Fairfax County hoods like Pimmit, Falls Church, and Merrifield/Mosaic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:http://www.arlingtonmagazine.com/March-April-2013/10-Great-Neighborhoods/index.php?cparticle=1&siarticle=0#artanc

This recent article highlights some of the various neighborhoods in North/South Arlington, as well as (inexplicably, since this magazine is called "Arlington Magazine"), some neighborhoods in Falls Church and McLean. You can see price/ neighborhood differences and features here. Also check out Washingtonian magazine - they do a "best of" neighborhoods issue every year.

The magazine covers Arlington, Falls Church, and McLean in its feature stories, columns, and ads. It's like Bethesda Magazine which also covers Potomac, Chevy Chase and Silver Spring.

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Anonymous wrote:The schools are not "better" in No Arlington, there is just a completely different demographic. One could argue that there are better opportunities in South Arlington for children to be exposed to other cultures. South Arlington has some wonderful neighborhoods and some really great people. And, housing prices are less. We live in the neighborhood near Claremont Immersion and I actually know some No Arlington families that have begged to get their kids into Claremont. Also, you can buy a turnkey house for under 800k in S Arlington. Nothing like that in No Arlington.

Lets cut the bull shit and talk reality.

The houses are cheaper because the people are poorer and the school ratings reflect that. All south arlington schools have terrible scores check out greatschools.net.

Let's cut the bullshit and talk reality. Anyone who points to school ratings as the first and last word of determining how good a school is knows nothing about education.

Ha! You can't even get in my Clarendon SFH neighborhood for under $1.1 million+ (and that's tiny). $445hhi and we are so poor

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Tysons and pimmit have better schools than ms13 los south arlington

Are you kidding? MS was pushed out of Arlington like 15 years ago into Fairfax County hoods like Pimmit, Falls Church, and Merrifield/Mosaic.

Hang out on Columbia Pike, Four Mile Run and Walter Reed Drive and say this with a straight face.

That's why Wakefield has one of the highest drop-out rates in the DC area, while the Pimmit Hills schools are all top-ranked.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The schools are not "better" in No Arlington, there is just a completely different demographic. One could argue that there are better opportunities in South Arlington for children to be exposed to other cultures. South Arlington has some wonderful neighborhoods and some really great people. And, housing prices are less. We live in the neighborhood near Claremont Immersion and I actually know some No Arlington families that have begged to get their kids into Claremont. Also, you can buy a turnkey house for under 800k in S Arlington. Nothing like that in No Arlington.

Lets cut the bull shit and talk reality.

The houses are cheaper because the people are poorer and the school ratings reflect that. All south arlington schools have terrible scores check out greatschools.net.

Let's cut the bullshit and talk reality. Anyone who points to school ratings as the first and last word of determining how good a school is knows nothing about education.

Ha! You can't even get in my Clarendon SFH neighborhood for under $1.1 million+ (and that's tiny). $445hhi and we are so poor

No thread about Arlington is complete without someone in Clarendon or Lyon Village disclosing their household income levels.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Much of S. Arlington developed in response to the construction of the Pentagon. A lot of apartments along and close to Columbia Pike were constructed to house younger, often single, clerical workers, telephone operators and the like who worked at the Pentagon. Other neighborhoods such as Penrose and Arlington Heights were developed to house young officers. You will see similar styles of housing in any older military base in the Notheast. As people moved away from the outdated apartments in the 1960s and 1970s to newer housing stock (including a lot of the new apartments and townhouses built in Shirlington after the Army Corps of Engineers controlled flooding in Four Mile Run), the older rental apartments became home to the new waves of Central American emigres, Ethiopians and Eritreans. The Ethiopian Development Council which once helped only Ethiopian refugees now helps refugees including the many from the middle east now moving in the Pike corridor. Children of these emigrees and the long time African American population -- many of whom live in two original Freeman Villages near the Army Navy Country Club -- do not perform as well in school as the children of highly educated people who can afford to live in other parts of Arlington. For example, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia's grandfather probably did not attend a high performing school, but he bought into the American dream just as the South Arlington people have, and look what his progeny has done.

Did you deliberately write this wall of text so no one would see the shitty things you said? You didn't fool me.

Not the poster, but I thought her post gave an interesting history of South Arlington What did she say that was shitty. I used to live in Arlington Village and what she said looks about right to me.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Much of S. Arlington developed in response to the construction of the Pentagon. A lot of apartments along and close to Columbia Pike were constructed to house younger, often single, clerical workers, telephone operators and the like who worked at the Pentagon. Other neighborhoods such as Penrose and Arlington Heights were developed to house young officers. You will see similar styles of housing in any older military base in the Notheast. As people moved away from the outdated apartments in the 1960s and 1970s to newer housing stock (including a lot of the new apartments and townhouses built in Shirlington after the Army Corps of Engineers controlled flooding in Four Mile Run), the older rental apartments became home to the new waves of Central American emigres, Ethiopians and Eritreans. The Ethiopian Development Council which once helped only Ethiopian refugees now helps refugees including the many from the middle east now moving in the Pike corridor. Children of these emigrees and the long time African American population -- many of whom live in two original Freeman Villages near the Army Navy Country Club -- do not perform as well in school as the children of highly educated people who can afford to live in other parts of Arlington. For example, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia's grandfather probably did not attend a high performing school, but he bought into the American dream just as the South Arlington people have, and look what his progeny has done.

Did you deliberately write this wall of text so no one would see the shitty things you said? You didn't fool me.

Not the poster, but I thought her post gave an interesting history of South Arlington What did she say that was shitty. I used to live in Arlington Village and what she said looks about right to me.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Much of S. Arlington developed in response to the construction of the Pentagon. A lot of apartments along and close to Columbia Pike were constructed to house younger, often single, clerical workers, telephone operators and the like who worked at the Pentagon. Other neighborhoods such as Penrose and Arlington Heights were developed to house young officers. You will see similar styles of housing in any older military base in the Notheast. As people moved away from the outdated apartments in the 1960s and 1970s to newer housing stock (including a lot of the new apartments and townhouses built in Shirlington after the Army Corps of Engineers controlled flooding in Four Mile Run), the older rental apartments became home to the new waves of Central American emigres, Ethiopians and Eritreans. The Ethiopian Development Council which once helped only Ethiopian refugees now helps refugees including the many from the middle east now moving in the Pike corridor. Children of these emigrees and the long time African American population -- many of whom live in two original Freeman Villages near the Army Navy Country Club -- do not perform as well in school as the children of highly educated people who can afford to live in other parts of Arlington. For example, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia's grandfather probably did not attend a high performing school, but he bought into the American dream just as the South Arlington people have, and look what his progeny has done.

Did you deliberately write this wall of text so no one would see the shitty things you said? You didn't fool me.

Not the poster, but I thought her post gave an interesting history of South Arlington What did she say that was shitty. I used to live in Arlington Village and what she said looks about right to me.

Umm, I don't think there were many Central American emigres or Eritreans moving into aging apartments on Columbia Pike in the 1960s or 1970s. More like poorer whites and blacks until the 1980s.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Much of S. Arlington developed in response to the construction of the Pentagon. A lot of apartments along and close to Columbia Pike were constructed to house younger, often single, clerical workers, telephone operators and the like who worked at the Pentagon. Other neighborhoods such as Penrose and Arlington Heights were developed to house young officers. You will see similar styles of housing in any older military base in the Notheast. As people moved away from the outdated apartments in the 1960s and 1970s to newer housing stock (including a lot of the new apartments and townhouses built in Shirlington after the Army Corps of Engineers controlled flooding in Four Mile Run), the older rental apartments became home to the new waves of Central American emigres, Ethiopians and Eritreans. The Ethiopian Development Council which once helped only Ethiopian refugees now helps refugees including the many from the middle east now moving in the Pike corridor. Children of these emigrees and the long time African American population -- many of whom live in two original Freeman Villages near the Army Navy Country Club -- do not perform as well in school as the children of highly educated people who can afford to live in other parts of Arlington. For example, Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia's grandfather probably did not attend a high performing school, but he bought into the American dream just as the South Arlington people have, and look what his progeny has done.

Did you deliberately write this wall of text so no one would see the shitty things you said? You didn't fool me.

Not the poster, but I thought her post gave an interesting history of South Arlington What did she say that was shitty. I used to live in Arlington Village and what she said looks about right to me.

Umm, I don't think there were many Central American emigres or Eritreans moving into aging apartments on Columbia Pike in the 1960s or 1970s. More like poorer whites and blacks until the 1980s.

In the 60s and 70s those apartments along Columbia Pike were not inexpensive market rate rentals. A lot of government workers lived there, and by the 80s there were many senior citizens who had retired. The apartments were restricted to whites until the 70s. There were protests in the Buckingham Apartments in N Arlington when a Black family tried to move in in the 70s. In the early 80s some Vietnamese families moved into the apartments along the Pike, and El Slavadoreans started moving into the apartments en masse in the early nineties after their civil war.

[Anonymous]

Because North Arlington has the "Mothers of North Arlington" group and S. Arlington's got nothing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The schools are not "better" in No Arlington, there is just a completely different demographic. One could argue that there are better opportunities in South Arlington for children to be exposed to other cultures. South Arlington has some wonderful neighborhoods and some really great people. And, housing prices are less. We live in the neighborhood near Claremont Immersion and I actually know some No Arlington families that have begged to get their kids into Claremont. Also, you can buy a turnkey house for under 800k in S Arlington. Nothing like that in No Arlington.

Lets cut the bull shit and talk reality.

The houses are cheaper because the people are poorer and the school ratings reflect that. All south arlington schools have terrible scores check out greatschools.net.

Let's cut the bullshit and talk reality. Anyone who points to school ratings as the first and last word of determining how good a school is knows nothing about education.

if you remove all the low scoring students (over half) the school would be great , you could say that about anything. Arlington us very liberal and welcomes illegal immigrants who sick down public resources . You can bet they don't live in north arlington and the farm ratio mimics their population in south arlington which is high.

Have you ever looked at the demographic breakdown of performance in N. and S. Arlington schools? It used to be on the APS website; I haven't looked for it in a while, I'm sure it is still there. I'll give you the bottom line: there is no meaningful difference in performance between non-FARMS kids countywide. I have no idea what you are rambling about with respect to immigrants, illegal or otherwise, but the S. Arlington Schools provide the same education as the N. Arlington schools. Period.

There's plenty of literature out there- google it. Socioeconomic demographics affect educational outcomes- for ALL students- upper middle income families sending their kids to majority FARMs schools sometimes neglect to acknowledge this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Because North Arlington has the "Mothers of North Arlington" group and S. Arlington's got nothing.

Yes. MONA is in many ways like MS-13. But I would fuck with MS-13 before MONA.