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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can any urban planners or amateur real estate enthusiasts explain to me something that I've long wondered about:

-How did Pimmit Hills go from undesirable location/the last trailer park of Fairfax County, to a place with million dollar houses and presumably good schools?

-Why has the Hybla Valley neighborhood of Fairfax County never improved in terms of crime/schools? [/quote]

Pimmit Hills wasn't a trailer park.  It was just a neighborhood of small, older single-family houses.

It's near Tysons, which is the largest center of commercial activity in NoVa, as well as other expensive suburbs - Vienna, McLean, and other parts of Falls Church/22043.  When builders began to tear down older houses, the fact that the Pimmit Hills houses were smaller and less expensive meant it was easier to buy and replace them.

Hybla Valley is off Route 1, which isn't a major business area and has never been a particularly expensive area.  It's near Fort Belvoir, so it has a more transient population, and it's also near a low-income area where many former slaves settled (compared to Pimmit Hills, which originally was a white blue collar area for returning vets from WWII).  There's also a larger number of low-income garden apartments in the immediate area, whereas Pimmit Hills itself is exclusively a neighborhood of single-family homes.

Other areas off Route 1 closer to Belle Haven and the City of Alexandria are likely to redevelop before the area around Hybla Valley. [/quote]
This does totally make sense as hybla valley touched Belle haven. 
One reason I think is that there is a high percentage of families at some of the elementary schools where English is a second language, they are recent immigrants, etc, so the needs at the school are different and there are not as many families pushing for change. 
That said, I grew up in the area, and even Belle view elementary was pretty terrible in the 80s. Now it’s well regarded and people love it. We have lots of friends who have sent their kids through hollin meadows, a few to mount eagle, etc, so I think things are slowly improving. Bucknell manor was pretty bad when I was growing up, and now it has improved a lot. [/quote]

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