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[quote=Anonymous][quote]this is patently ridiculous. there are huge swaths of Fairfax County and MoCo where the schools are solid-to-excellent, and the home prices are on par with a cookie-cutter rowhouse in Petworth or Eckington or Trinidad. But you would never be caught dead in Rockville or Fairfax City.

this is why a lot of us roll our eyes at the annual whining on this match day. The whiners almost always have choices, they just don't like them. [/quote]

[quote]OK, sure, you could move out to Herndon or Gaithersburg, I suppose, but are those really suburbs? The "quality" schools closer to DC that exist in lower-rent neighborhoods are in a constant state of flux and are unreliable, due to the more affordable housing that exists in those places. For example, the Rockville schools are not all that great anymore...unless you're living in a $600,000+ house neighborhood. As I stated earlier, the rule has always been wealth and/or education, nothing else.[/quote]

I'll repeat slowly for you:  Rockville.   Fairfax City.   You do not have to go as far as Herdon and Gaithersburg to find a solid-to-excellent school [i]AND the house that costs exactly as much as the house currently owned [/i][u]by the whiners in Petworth, Eckington, Trinidad.

Look, I know and you know that there are some lowish/moderate-income renters who got shut out today from free pk3 and 4 within a 10 minute stroll of their apartment.    For them, yeah, moving to Langley Park Md. or Germantown (same as their current DC rental) isn't an improvement.

But let's be frank here.  Those aren't the loudest and most vociferous whiners, certainly not on DCUM in the middle of a work day.   No, we all know it's the 34-yr-old married couple who gambled and bought a home in  __________ (fill in the blank up-and-coming neighborhood) with fingers crossed that the free preschool thing would work itself out.

It's these people ^ who are the insufferable ones when they whine.    Not the rare DCUMer who really does squeeze the family of 4 into a $1080 a month 2-bedroom in Deadwood.   She's the one w/o options, agreed, but she's rarely on these threads and you know it.[/quote]

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