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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why doesn't anyone want to go to Williamsburg?

It seems like families are doing everything possible not to go there.  Is it the teachers, drugs, gangs?  I thought it used to be a good school.  [/quote]

If families were doing everything possible not to go there, the Williamsburg area wouldn't have some of the highest home values in the area. Don't take anonymous internet posters as necessarily representative of the population as a whole.[/quote]

I suspect that it is mostly about logistics. Williamsburg is out of the way for most families where both parents work, esp if both parents are in DC. Your kid misses the bus-- WMS is a lot of backtracking. And you can easily swing by Swanson or Stratford on the way home and pick up your kid from an afterschool activity or check-in. Not so much with WMS. Also, Swanson and Stratford are accessible via public transport, while WMS is not (or at least not as easily). And with DC traffic, those extra 15-20 min can make a big difference when you are trying to make a morning meeting in DC or a 6pm pickup time. [/quote]

If anything, your argument would suggest home values should be higher near those other schools. People are paying a premium to live in those neighborhoods despite it being less convenient.[/quote]

On a square foot to square foot basis, the home values in 22205 have come up to 22207 levels over the past 10 years. There are more larger houses in 22207, which is why the home prices are higher in the aggregate. But if you look at comparably-sized homes, there actually is not much difference in price anymore between the two zip codes.

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