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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This kind of reminds me when we were house hunting recently. We were Arlington (South) residents looking for a larger house. We preferred South Arlington for a number of reasons, but larger homes are in smaller supply and so we had to expand our search. We visited an open house in North Arlington and the agent asked where we currently lived. I have the neighborhood name and the response was, “Oh, so you’re looking to move up to North Arlington.” The look I shot back made her immediately regret her statement. I got my husband and we walked out. We narrowed our search back to just South Arlington after that, and it took longer, but we finally found our house.[/quote]

A lot of people us "up" synonymously with "north" and "down" with "south". For example, I say "drive up to NY" or "drive down to Florida."

I think you need to remove the chip on your shoulder and give that poor realtor some grace. It's not intended to be a slight.

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Yeah, that would be my first thought as well. Up = north, down = south.

We used to live in the mountains and it always struck me as odd when someone said "we're going to drive up to Denver" when Denver was both a) south of us and b) at lower elevation[/quote]

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