What is the market like in North Arlington?

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Anonymous wrote:Oh I read wrong. If you are selling at that price point, you will most likely have a bidding war unless you are in a Kenmore or something.

A house in our neighborhood zoned for Kenmore just sold for $2.1 M. The people have three kids and other people in our neighborhood do too. The people who are afraid of exposing their kids to other cultures and economic classes are doing a disservice to them. The Gen Alphas are going to be entering an economy where most of the employers will be second or third generation immigrants -- from construction to tech to even politics, it is not the all American employer profile of even 20 years ago.

Ashlawn is wonderful (we see the kids biking to school on the Bluemont Trail and it’s like a Disney movie). W&L is great too. Kenmore isn’t great but if you’re paying $2M+ for a house and not overextending to do so, you can probably pay for private middle school. The catholics are around $10K / kid / year and you’ve got Congressional 10 min away too.

Not necessarily. I know people who paid $1.5-2.5 million by really stretching their budget. No room left for private school or vacations.

There are many wealthy families in 22207 and 22201 who could afford the cathedral schools or boarding school who stick with public through high school. There are also plenty of wealthy famliles in those neighborhoods that go upper-tier private for middle and/or high school if not earlier. It's probably no different than the Bethesda suburbs or Upper NW DC.

I've lived in Arlington and Bethesda. A lot more go to private in Maryland but I think that's a factor of it being a very Catholic area as well. I personally don't know any very wealthy 22201 people who go to on IB W&L, but plenty who go to Yorktown.

W-L students don’t have to do the IB program—there are a fair number of wealthy 22201 families (Ashton Heights/ Lyon Park) at W-L (both IB-bound or non-IB). Lyon Village now skews private for high school after Dorothy Hamm for middle school, but there are still some W-L families there as well (in addition to H-B transfers and Yorktown or Wakefield transfers). I do personally know more wealthy families at Yorktown which has a the highest concentration of wealthy and very wealthy families—not sure how many of the wealthiest of the group transfer to W-L for IB.

Is Lyon Village not Yorktown anymore?

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Anonymous wrote:Oh I read wrong. If you are selling at that price point, you will most likely have a bidding war unless you are in a Kenmore or something.

A house in our neighborhood zoned for Kenmore just sold for $2.1 M. The people have three kids and other people in our neighborhood do too. The people who are afraid of exposing their kids to other cultures and economic classes are doing a disservice to them. The Gen Alphas are going to be entering an economy where most of the employers will be second or third generation immigrants -- from construction to tech to even politics, it is not the all American employer profile of even 20 years ago.

Ashlawn is wonderful (we see the kids biking to school on the Bluemont Trail and it’s like a Disney movie). W&L is great too. Kenmore isn’t great but if you’re paying $2M+ for a house and not overextending to do so, you can probably pay for private middle school. The catholics are around $10K / kid / year and you’ve got Congressional 10 min away too.

Not necessarily. I know people who paid $1.5-2.5 million by really stretching their budget. No room left for private school or vacations.

There are many wealthy families in 22207 and 22201 who could afford the cathedral schools or boarding school who stick with public through high school. There are also plenty of wealthy famliles in those neighborhoods that go upper-tier private for middle and/or high school if not earlier. It's probably no different than the Bethesda suburbs or Upper NW DC.

I've lived in Arlington and Bethesda. A lot more go to private in Maryland but I think that's a factor of it being a very Catholic area as well. I personally don't know any very wealthy 22201 people who go to on IB W&L, but plenty who go to Yorktown.

W-L students don’t have to do the IB program—there are a fair number of wealthy 22201 families (Ashton Heights/ Lyon Park) at W-L (both IB-bound or non-IB). Lyon Village now skews private for high school after Dorothy Hamm for middle school, but there are still some W-L families there as well (in addition to H-B transfers and Yorktown or Wakefield transfers). I do personally know more wealthy families at Yorktown which has a the highest concentration of wealthy and very wealthy families—not sure how many of the wealthiest of the group transfer to W-L for IB.

Is Lyon Village not Yorktown anymore?

LV is zoned to WL. The "Rosslyn island" still goes to Yorktown for now.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh I read wrong. If you are selling at that price point, you will most likely have a bidding war unless you are in a Kenmore or something.

A house in our neighborhood zoned for Kenmore just sold for $2.1 M. The people have three kids and other people in our neighborhood do too. The people who are afraid of exposing their kids to other cultures and economic classes are doing a disservice to them. The Gen Alphas are going to be entering an economy where most of the employers will be second or third generation immigrants -- from construction to tech to even politics, it is not the all American employer profile of even 20 years ago.

Ashlawn is wonderful (we see the kids biking to school on the Bluemont Trail and it’s like a Disney movie). W&L is great too. Kenmore isn’t great but if you’re paying $2M+ for a house and not overextending to do so, you can probably pay for private middle school. The catholics are around $10K / kid / year and you’ve got Congressional 10 min away too.

Not necessarily. I know people who paid $1.5-2.5 million by really stretching their budget. No room left for private school or vacations.

There are many wealthy families in 22207 and 22201 who could afford the cathedral schools or boarding school who stick with public through high school. There are also plenty of wealthy famliles in those neighborhoods that go upper-tier private for middle and/or high school if not earlier. It's probably no different than the Bethesda suburbs or Upper NW DC.

The problem with stretching your budget to get a $2 million house zoned for Kenmore is that your kid will go to Kenmore.

Probably a good idea. Your kid can make contacts with the Kenmore kids who will be hiring the Williamsburg kids 15 years from now. In 2024, there were 38,937 law school graduates. Law is a field that will be heavily impacted by AI. In 2024, there were 4,197 plumbers who finished an apprenticeship program in the US. The plumbing industry has a high labor shortage and projects about 43,000 job openings in the next five years. Plumbing is an industry least likely to be affect by AI.

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We have an 8th grader at kenmore.

When they were in 6th grade we would get text alerts about police on campus and there were a lot of (girl) fights. Almost always the south Arlington Latino kids.

It must have been a rough 8th grade class that year because in two years I do not think we have gotten any alerts about police and our child said it is very chill there now. It is a beautiful school compared to other old middle schools and has a bad rap for south Arlington kids. In reality the kids do not mix with north Arlington kids except a few become friends here and there.

All the kids from ashlawn that went there with our kids did fine there.
Half of their class went to Swanson and a few girls had a rough time there with the cliques and some of the ashlawn boys had a rivalry with the other feeder schools but that is typical of any middle school.

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Anonymous wrote:We have an 8th grader at kenmore.

When they were in 6th grade we would get text alerts about police on campus and there were a lot of (girl) fights. Almost always the south Arlington Latino kids.

It must have been a rough 8th grade class that year because in two years I do not think we have gotten any alerts about police and our child said it is very chill there now. It is a beautiful school compared to other old middle schools and has a bad rap for south Arlington kids. In reality the kids do not mix with north Arlington kids except a few become friends here and there.

All the kids from ashlawn that went there with our kids did fine there.
Half of their class went to Swanson and a few girls had a rough time there with the cliques and some of the ashlawn boys had a rivalry with the other feeder schools but that is typical of any middle school.

We live right near Kenmore (N side) and see the walkers after school regularly - the self-sorting racial segregation would make the KKK blush.

Lots of kids walking N of all races but everyone sticks to their own race in their walking groups.

It’s so bad we’ve had MAGA family staying with us from FL (!!!) comment on it and ask if N Arlington is a secret racist stronghold.

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Anonymous wrote:We have an 8th grader at kenmore.

When they were in 6th grade we would get text alerts about police on campus and there were a lot of (girl) fights. Almost always the south Arlington Latino kids.

It must have been a rough 8th grade class that year because in two years I do not think we have gotten any alerts about police and our child said it is very chill there now. It is a beautiful school compared to other old middle schools and has a bad rap for south Arlington kids. In reality the kids do not mix with north Arlington kids except a few become friends here and there.

All the kids from ashlawn that went there with our kids did fine there.
Half of their class went to Swanson and a few girls had a rough time there with the cliques and some of the ashlawn boys had a rivalry with the other feeder schools but that is typical of any middle school.

We live right near Kenmore (N side) and see the walkers after school regularly - the self-sorting racial segregation would make the KKK blush.

Lots of kids walking N of all races but everyone sticks to their own race in their walking groups.

It’s so bad we’ve had MAGA family staying with us from FL (!!!) comment on it and ask if N Arlington is a secret racist stronghold.

ArlDems like to talk about diversity as an abstract concept. They also like to use poor kids as a talking point to convince APS to do what they want. They don't actually want to be intermingled with poor people.

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Anonymous wrote:there's a house sitting on the market on my neighborhood not selling. 22207.

+1 OP is your house on a busy road? The ones I see languishing and not selling are on busy roads, like Military Road. A lot of houses just sitting (though I haven’t looked up their prices).

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This is a brutal list price

https://redf.in/SBdRcm

I know it’s Boulevard Manor but they feed into Yorktown and the lot is decent. Similar sized teardown lots nearby have sold for $900K+. Distressed seller?

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Anonymous wrote:This is a brutal list price

https://redf.in/SBdRcm

I know it’s Boulevard Manor but they feed into Yorktown and the lot is decent. Similar sized teardown lots nearby have sold for $900K+. Distressed seller?

Lot is bad. Significantly sloped and it's a corner so you'll be limited by setbacks.

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There is a house in 22213 that has been sitting on the market since September. It is a strange house but in a great location. It is way overpriced.