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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, I keep noticing posters writing about the Old Town lifestyle. As someone who does not live there, what is so special about it? That makes it somehow more special than the a walkable downtown with many small businesses and restaurants? Yes, the buildings are very pretty, but other than the aesthetics, what else makes up this "old town lifetstyle" and I am not a troll asking to be a jerk. [/quote]

Walkability and transportation in a historic neighborhood older than the District. It’s regularly on the same lists as Charleston, Savannah, (and Annapolis and Boston - because they’re all the same).

Some homes are from the 1700s. Most are from the late 1800s and early 1990s. This is same time period as most of Europe. So while Alexandria is not European (and not all Europeans live like this either), aspects are.

Relevant to Old Town, Alexandria, and schools (which do suck), there’s a reason and it is code when someone says they grew up in Alexandria (better schools) but actually lived in Fairfax County (not actually Alexandria).

You could argue Georgetown is more iconic, almost as old, and definitely more expensive, but DCPS is even worse and it is less quaint.

[b]Arlington has the same economy, access, and better (not failing) schools, but without most of the history.[/b]

So if you live in Old Town, you prioritize what it has to offer, and it’s not schools. Or rather you accept that you need to send your children to private, which most Old Town families do at some point (or move).

The ACPS apologists and hypocrites live elsewhere. Starting with Del Ray.[/quote]

That’s because Arlington was the rural county portion of Alexandria. Arlington was in fact called Alexandria County. Just like how there is a historic Fairfax City and Fairfax County.

The oldest parts of Arlington (as Alexandria County) were developed in the early 1900s along the electric trolley routes. There are some individual homes that date to the 1700s and 1800s but they were farmhouses.

Lots of Arlington families enjoy [b]proximity to Old Town[/b]. It is a beautiful part of Alexandria we can all be proud of. [/quote]

Yes proximity to, but not actually in.

Which is fine. The trade off unfortunately is ACPS (APS is only above average and only looks great compared to DCPS, ACPS and PGCPS).

The people who have literally bought into the Old Town lifestyle know this going in and either move no later than Elementary or go private from the beginning.

The curmudgeons who virtue signal about ACPS, and then complain about life not being fair and/or can’t own their choices/ideology/identity (that they aren’t really for diversity or public schools or whatever else) are the hostile ones.

Again those types don’t live in Old Town proper. Not that we have seen.[/quote]

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