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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The interesting thing is that no one talked about "North Arlington" and "South Arlington" until all the white yuppies started piling into Arlington.  It used to just be Arlington, with different mailing addresses depending on whether you were north or south of Route 50.

It all seems a little over-the-top, given that the real money is still mostly elsewhere.  [/quote]

Native Arlingtonian here and I agree with this assessment. There was no "North" and "South" distinction when I was growing up.

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Not exactly. It was always S and N in my lifetime. Maybe in the olden days there wasn't a dichotomy, but that's when the county was homogeneous, and there were no run down garden apartments. [/quote]

I'm sorry but I beg to differ. Growing up no one ever said they were from "North" Arlington or "South" Arlington. They might say what high school they went to or what neighborhood they lived in if asked what part, which was the logical next question. And when you did say "I went to Yorktown" or "I went to W-L" it wasn't perceived that one was better than the other, in spite of their rivalry. I also don't recall any discussion of Wakefield being a horrible school. I knew kids at all three schools and everyone was happy with their high school, kids and parents both.

When I was growing up, average working families (which, in the 70s and 80s usually meant dad was working while mom stayed home) could buy homes in nice neighborhoods in North Arlington. Back in those days you didnt need to be a two-income family of doctors and lawyers to live in a nice house in Arlington. My dad was a federal employee, as were many of my friends' dads, and my mom was a teacher who only went back to work when I was in middle school. They bought their home in the 60s and could never afford to buy in that neighborhood today. They were typical of the families that lived in all parts of Arlington in that era, before Metro, before people began to flee DC schools, before people began to live in Chantilly and South Riding and Ashburn and commute daily from those places to DC, before people decided that 4 bedroom/2 bath houses without a great room and commercial kitchen were too small for their families.

I agree with the PP who said that the influx of Yuppies, (and in my opinion also increasing wealth, competition, and snobbery), has created the "distinction" between North and South Arlington. You can decide for yourself, OP, whether you want to use standardized test scores, income statistics, and "greatschools.com" to inform your real estate decisions (or the advice of the pro-North anti-South Arlington DCUM crowd). [/quote]

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