I will never be able to afford a house in Arlington

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Arlington sucks

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Try being a single educator making $95k! No hope of buying anything here.

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Anonymous wrote:Op can afford Arlington. I bought a house recently with a substantially lower salary, but...it’s in south Arlington. Most commercial areas in DC (Farragut Sq, Navy Yard, Metro Center etc) are a 30-45 minute door to door commute away depending on transfers.

Ok we all no south Arlington is not the Arlington people are interested in.

Which is fantastic because it’s a great place to live but not as expensive as other areas in Arlington.

But that is changing daily despite the ACB efforts to ghettoize Columbia Pike

Do you mean giving poor people a place to live?

Alexandria and PG county are much less expensive and very close. Arlington is not so big that it can support all comers. The schools are overcrowded and out of land to build on while ACB squanders open land for MORE housing with MORE kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Op can afford Arlington. I bought a house recently with a substantially lower salary, but...it’s in south Arlington. Most commercial areas in DC (Farragut Sq, Navy Yard, Metro Center etc) are a 30-45 minute door to door commute away depending on transfers.

Ok we all no south Arlington is not the Arlington people are interested in.

Which is fantastic because it’s a great place to live but not as expensive as other areas in Arlington.

But that is changing daily despite the ACB efforts to ghettoize Columbia Pike

Do you mean giving poor people a place to live?

Alexandria and PG county are much less expensive and very close. Arlington is not so big that it can support all comers. The schools are overcrowded and out of land to build on while ACB squanders open land for MORE housing with MORE kids.

Why are you complaining about the low-income kids living there? If PG County and Alexandria are less crowded, you can go move there. Low-income people don’t all have to cluster in the other areas because you feel like you own Arlington.

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Anonymous wrote:Try being a single educator making $95k! No hope of buying anything here.

I just sold a house to an Arlington teacher who makes less than you do. But then she was not a fancy educator.

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Anonymous wrote:Op can afford Arlington. I bought a house recently with a substantially lower salary, but...it’s in south Arlington. Most commercial areas in DC (Farragut Sq, Navy Yard, Metro Center etc) are a 30-45 minute door to door commute away depending on transfers.

Ok we all no south Arlington is not the Arlington people are interested in.

Which is fantastic because it’s a great place to live but not as expensive as other areas in Arlington.

But that is changing daily despite the ACB efforts to ghettoize Columbia Pike

Do you mean giving poor people a place to live?

Poor people already have plenty of places to live in Arlington and are given great access to education and services. You really need to understand what the housing policies are doing in Arlington to reduce the equality of services now provided. Recently the poor people have been rented migrants that Arlington specifically brought here because there were not enough residents to fill two buildings.

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Anonymous wrote:Arlington sucks

It depends on your philosophy of life. If you are very progressive, Arlington is good for you at every economic level.

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I have posted here before about the decentralization of law firms and posters pooh-poohed me. This is coming and will have a major effect on housing prices. They will not fall but they will stabilize.

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Anonymous wrote:Condos are rarely a good investment, but mine was! I bought around 9/11 and it more then doubled in value by 2014. Yep. With less then 50k down I walked out with hundreds of thousands of dollars. But, I timed everything right.

lol what a bitchy unhelpful comment

[Anonymous]

What's wrong with raising your kid in a condo? I am very confused by this.

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Anonymous wrote:I have posted here before about the decentralization of law firms and posters pooh-poohed me. This is coming and will have a major effect on housing prices. They will not fall but they will stabilize.

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can't believe this trend isn't more widely discussed yet

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Anonymous wrote:Try being a single educator making $95k! No hope of buying anything here.

Where do you need to commute to, PP? That’s probably the difference. Unless you have to commute to downtown DC for your teaching job, you can probably live further out and still have the same commute as OP does to get to her downtown DC job.

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This is OP. I work at DOJ. Right now my job is in NOMa. With a change in administration, it could move to Main Justice, which is near Federal Triangle or it could move to Gallery Place. If my work location stays in NOMA, I am considering moving to Silver Spring even though my family and friends are in Virginia.

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Why would you want to live in Arlington?

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Anonymous wrote:I have posted here before about the decentralization of law firms and posters pooh-poohed me. This is coming and will have a major effect on housing prices. They will not fall but they will stabilize.

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can't believe this trend isn't more widely discussed yet

Because type A alpha male lawyers won’t want to work out of their basement for the rest of their careers.