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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Because unfortunately in some people's minds, the following is true:

Apartment (or renting or townhouse) = poor = parents who don't value education = people who make their kid's school worse 
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Sadly, too many people do make this ridiculous assumption.  My son's friend told him he must be poor because our family lives in a townhouse.  It's a $700k townhouse that we chose because it was less than 10 years old, has a 2-car garage, and backs to a park.  The comment really bothered me, and I'm not proud but I did check property records and found that the friend's family paid the same as we did for their 1950s SFH with a bad kitchen and no garage.   [/quote]

Ha!  I remember when we (rented) lived in a townhouse when our kids were little.  Our son, probably around 6 at the time, had a friend over who told him that "we were part of the problem of driving down property values in the neighborhood b/c we lived in a townhouse."  Neither kid actually knew what it meant; the friend was just parroting what he'd heard his dad say.  My son asked me after the play date what property values meant and then told me what his friend said.  The next time I saw the kid's mom I let her know that her son was parroting things he'd heard his dad say.   :roll:

I remember when I was growing up that it took a ton of convincing for my mom to let me play at my friend's apartment.  She thought the stereotypical things... apartment = low income, low income = drugs, drugs = full of bad people living there.  She never would let me spend the night there.[/quote]

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