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You are delusional.  It is not “true in every other developed country” any more than it is in DC. Nice, close-in areas in London and Paris are more expensive than DC, and the “affordable” close-in areas are equally undesirable. There are cheaper areas closer in to downtown DC. OP doesn’t want to live there because she wants Arlington schools.  Others on this thread have suggested less-expensive areas with good schools that are not a longer commute.[/quote]

[b]The average commute time to Finland’s capital is 26 minutes, and it’s in the 30-ish minutes in Sweden. [/b]Those countries also have significantly better education systems than the United States, and people of all income-brackets enjoy their education system there. It’s almost like, if you work to make sure all people in your society are receiving a quality education it actually works and fixes a bunch of systematic issues!! Who would have ever guessed? People in those countries don’t think in barbaric ways like the posters here do. Nobody there thinks they need to sacrifice comfortable and reasonable living to be able to access their jobs and for their kids to be able to access a quality education.

Arlington schools aren’t even that great, and they actually have very abysmal gs ratings (the tool real estate agents use), so I highly doubt the schools there are cushioning property values, nor are they worth those home prices at all. They are not W schools, not even close. They are not even on the level of many pyramids in Anne Arundel, Howard, and Frederick Counties, when looking at college readiness measures.

[quote=Anonymous]No one is “entitled” to live in a specific school district. [/quote]

Will you still endorse this view if redistricting ever becomes a possibility, or is it only something you believe when someone with less money than you wants good schools for their children?

More like, nobody is entitled to having their shitshack appraised above the roof, especially when the school district is average as hell and there are many others that put it to shame that offer more affordable housing prices and decent commute times. [/quote]

What are the populations of those cities and what % live in apartments?

And do they have scalable, efficient public transportation?

p.s. The market dictates pricing, not the shitshack owners. 
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