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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it's simply talking about DC, then I'd like to know where the affordable neighborhoods with the great schools are.

Also, can we please not start another suburbs vs. city debate?[/quote]

Sure.  First, head on up to Brooklyn.  Look around.  Get a nice feel for the prices.  Now show me a $700k 3BR/2.5BA townhouse that's walking distance to one of NYC's major job centers--as you can walk to the HOB/SOBs from Capitol Hill--and we'll talk about how DC is expensive.  It's even less expensive if you want to live someplace like Columbia Heights or Brookland.

DC is only expensive to those who move here from some place like Houston or Lincoln, Nebraska.[/quote]

And it's only inexpensive if you compare it to New York or San Francisco. I don't know how many U.S. cities there are, but I'm pretty sure there are more than 6.

And you didn't even address the issue of schools. Capitol Hill has great schools? I haven't heard that.
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More suburban "common sense".  Our DD goes to a neighborhood DCPS Cap Hill elementary school, and I'd say an overwhelming number of the parents are delighted with it.  Well, at least as many parents as would be happy with any school, suburban or city.

That DC schools are uniformly bad seems to be an article of faith to those who left for the 'burbs.  Some are; some aren't.  There's definitely a sunk-cost effect going on as parents sit in traffic for 2 or 3 hours a day--after all, we're doing it for the kids![/quote]

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