Is there modern White flight out of the suburbs happen in DC?

[Anonymous]

Where are all the minorities in my suburb? Im in Burke and my entire street is white and so is everyone else I have met from the neighborhood. I’m a minority so just wondering - newish to the area but I thought DMV was known for diversity. I do remember seeing a lot more diversity when we lived in Springfield briefly.

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Anonymous wrote:Look to major European cities as a model of what will happen here. The wealthier, the closer in you live. The poorer, the further out, until you get to the country estates. I would look at places like Prince William County, Loudoun County, Frederick and Howard Counties as places where that sort of turnover will take place. Meanwhile, DC, Hyattsville, Silver Spring, Arlington etc will prosper.

Likely areas adjacent to mass transit like Metro and Purlple Line will continue to do well.

Seems likely

Except Howard is the Fairfax of Baltimore....

No, that would be Loudoun. Fairfax is bigger than DC so you can’t paint it with one brush. It has some of the most expensive neighborhoods and best schools in the region, some crappy areas, and places in between. The nice areas won’t depend on whites to thrive (for examples, the Asian communities will be wealthier and have higher performing schools than the places where some very average white people live, whether closer or further to DC).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Look to major European cities as a model of what will happen here. The wealthier, the closer in you live. The poorer, the further out, until you get to the country estates. I would look at places like Prince William County, Loudoun County, Frederick and Howard Counties as places where that sort of turnover will take place. Meanwhile, DC, Hyattsville, Silver Spring, Arlington etc will prosper.

Likely areas adjacent to mass transit like Metro and Purlple Line will continue to do well.

Doubtful in Loudoun County. You clearly are ingnorant of business development and jobs. So many high paying high tech jobs along the Dulles corridor. This is driving prices up, incomes up and condensing the poor into smaller and smaller areas. Amazon just closed a deal for even more office space doubling their operations. I could go on and on and on about all the growth along the tech corridor. My DH is in commercial real estate and based on what he has seen happening, we've purchased 1 investment property a year in Loudoun (have 5 total) and they are all rented to high income professional singles and young families.

Louden is like Frederick. It isn't DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where are all the minorities in my suburb? Im in Burke and my entire street is white and so is everyone else I have met from the neighborhood. I’m a minority so just wondering - newish to the area but I thought DMV was known for diversity. I do remember seeing a lot more diversity when we lived in Springfield briefly.

I’m also in Burke and my street is pretty diverse. Still majority white but more diverse than my apartment building in DC or my block in N Arlington was.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where are all the minorities in my suburb? Im in Burke and my entire street is white and so is everyone else I have met from the neighborhood. I’m a minority so just wondering - newish to the area but I thought DMV was known for diversity. I do remember seeing a lot more diversity when we lived in Springfield briefly.

Burke is very white. I grew up there. Even as an adult it's remarkable how not diverse it continues to be 30 years later. I wanted more families and kids that looked like mine - because I didn't have it.

- Moco

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Where are all the minorities in my suburb? Im in Burke and my entire street is white and so is everyone else I have met from the neighborhood. I’m a minority so just wondering - newish to the area but I thought DMV was known for diversity. I do remember seeing a lot more diversity when we lived in Springfield briefly.

Burke is very white. I grew up there. Even as an adult it's remarkable how not diverse it continues to be 30 years later. I wanted more families and kids that looked like mine - because I didn't have it.

- Moco

I think part of the reason for that is that not a lot of new builds are happening in Burke like they are in Loudoun or Clarksburg.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"The system may be uneequal, but so is the competion." Great way to put it. Can I share it with my kids - could alleviate some stress. BTW good thing some readers don't understand it.

Underestimate the competition at your own peril. I'm a black lawyer. I got a 174 on my LSAT and had a 3.95 GPA. If you come at me thinking I'm some underqualified token, you're going to get your ass handed to you.

#metoo 85th percentile on the LSAT (I took it years ago under the old scoring system) and a 3.8 undergrad GPA. And I'm a black woman to boot. I love it when white male opposing counsel assume I'm the paralegal or court reporter and their jaw drops when I give my opening statement.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:"The system may be uneequal, but so is the competion." Great way to put it. Can I share it with my kids - could alleviate some stress. BTW good thing some readers don't understand it.

Underestimate the competition at your own peril. I'm a black lawyer. I got a 174 on my LSAT and had a 3.95 GPA. If you come at me thinking I'm some underqualified token, you're going to get your ass handed to you.

are you black or biracial identifying as black?

Are f-#$%%$ing kidding me? Why does bi-racial have to come into the equation? Are you trying to say that one needs non-black genes to produce these results? And this is exactly why we NEED Black History Month, etc. to educate people like you who underestimate and believe that people of African descent, i.e. African-Americans are less intelligent, resourceful or capable as whites, even when numbers such as the PP show they are.

Signed, 100% Black (both AA parents from the South) Ivy-graduate (2nd generation) with test scores and GPA that kicks White/Asian/Whomever's Butts.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Look to major European cities as a model of what will happen here. The wealthier, the closer in you live. The poorer, the further out, until you get to the country estates. I would look at places like Prince William County, Loudoun County, Frederick and Howard Counties as places where that sort of turnover will take place. Meanwhile, DC, Hyattsville, Silver Spring, Arlington etc will prosper.

Likely areas adjacent to mass transit like Metro and Purlple Line will continue to do well.

Doubtful in Loudoun County. You clearly are ingnorant of business development and jobs. So many high paying high tech jobs along the Dulles corridor. This is driving prices up, incomes up and condensing the poor into smaller and smaller areas. Amazon just closed a deal for even more office space doubling their operations. I could go on and on and on about all the growth along the tech corridor. My DH is in commercial real estate and based on what he has seen happening, we've purchased 1 investment property a year in Loudoun (have 5 total) and they are all rented to high income professional singles and young families.

Louden is like Frederick. It isn't DC.

Ignorant.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is funny how many of you think there is white flight going on in the burbs because you see brown people. White people are not flying away. Immigrants, especially asians are moving up the socioeconomic ladder (in Loudoun county they are the highest wage earners of all races) brown people like myself want good schools and dont want our kids exposed to the underbelly of America which is just like the 3rd woeld, but with more violence and more drugs.

Brown people like me go to where the best opportunity for our kids are. You Americans just see brown people and sit in your city and say "see I told you so, the whites are fleeing and the browns are taking over". You are just ignorant. I don't want to live in DC or Arlington and send my kids to your sh!t schools or fork over 40k/yr per kid for a private school when I can just live somewhere with great public schools, surrounded by families with the same values.

My parents didnt come here doe me to squander opportunity for myself and future generations. Nor for me to treat my kids like a grand social experiment and send them to a mixed SES school and hope att the major social problems our country has dont influence my kids.

This totally. I'm a brown person living in the faraway burbs of Clarksburg, MD, one reason being the schools. I hate to say it though but I do think white people, whether subconsciously or not, do tend to avoid neighborhoods that have a large number of brown people. So though they may not be moving out.. they aren't moving in.

I'm brown and my spouse is brown and we are both professionals with graduate degrees. our jobs are downtown. We would consider it a form of child abuse if we spent 2x2x90 minutes a day commuting. Our kids doing just fine in DCPS elementary and we can afford DC private when we approach middle school.

You think everybody works in DC?
Some will consider it as a form of child abuse sending your kid to DCPS. Just saying. ..

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where are all the minorities in my suburb? Im in Burke and my entire street is white and so is everyone else I have met from the neighborhood. I’m a minority so just wondering - newish to the area but I thought DMV was known for diversity. I do remember seeing a lot more diversity when we lived in Springfield briefly.

The District and Maryland (DM) part of the DMV is diverse. The Virginia (V) part, not so much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is funny how many of you think there is white flight going on in the burbs because you see brown people. White people are not flying away. Immigrants, especially asians are moving up the socioeconomic ladder (in Loudoun county they are the highest wage earners of all races) brown people like myself want good schools and dont want our kids exposed to the underbelly of America which is just like the 3rd woeld, but with more violence and more drugs.

Brown people like me go to where the best opportunity for our kids are. You Americans just see brown people and sit in your city and say "see I told you so, the whites are fleeing and the browns are taking over". You are just ignorant. I don't want to live in DC or Arlington and send my kids to your sh!t schools or fork over 40k/yr per kid for a private school when I can just live somewhere with great public schools, surrounded by families with the same values.

My parents didnt come here doe me to squander opportunity for myself and future generations. Nor for me to treat my kids like a grand social experiment and send them to a mixed SES school and hope att the major social problems our country has dont influence my kids.

This totally. I'm a brown person living in the faraway burbs of Clarksburg, MD, one reason being the schools. I hate to say it though but I do think white people, whether subconsciously or not, do tend to avoid neighborhoods that have a large number of brown people. So though they may not be moving out.. they aren't moving in.

I'm brown and my spouse is brown and we are both professionals with graduate degrees. our jobs are downtown. We would consider it a form of child abuse if we spent 2x2x90 minutes a day commuting. Our kids doing just fine in DCPS elementary and we can afford DC private when we approach middle school.

You think everybody works in DC?
Some will consider it as a form of child abuse sending your kid to DCPS. Just saying. ..

NP - you're talking about the snowflakes who think its child abuse to scold a child when they throw a tantrum as opposed to letting them writhe around on the floor screaming and crying for 20/30 minutes?
Yeah, I'd imagine they'd see just about anything and everything as a form of child abuse.

[Anonymous]

Yep, my kids school in Petworth DC is filled with white 3 and 4 year olds!

[Anonymous]

Is Loudoun the suburbs or exurbs? Lots of minorities in Ashburn and continuing to move to Ashburn, are whites moving out of there?