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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"Who is it you Ward 3 people think you're threatening? If you move out of your house, the value will go up and there will be another family moving in before it's time to cut the lawn again."

[18:54] here. As I said, I hold a PhD in economics and let me tell you that your reasoning is totally wrong from an economic point of view.

If I move out of my house, and together with me other DC families unhappy of the "controlled choice" , this will INCREASE the SUPPLY on the market of houses for sale/rent and thus value will go DOWN in DC (not UP as you were saying). On the contrary, the areas which will received this inflow of families from DC (say Montgomery County) will experience an INCREASE IN DEMAND of housing , which will drive prices UP. To sum up, increase in supply in DC from fleeing families = housing prices down in DC. Increase in demand from families moving to Montgomery Ct. = housing prices up in MC.[/quote]

Just because you use CAPITAL letters doesn't mean you know what you are talking about.  If you actually did have a background in economics, you would know that the market is much more complex than that---and we are only talking in theory.

The reality is that there is no inventory in DC as it is, so the movement you are starting better be quite large to actually IMPACT housing prices.  Also, given that the DEMAND of people wanting to send their kids to private schools far exceeds the SUPPLY available, I think the housing market will do fine without you.  
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Your message sounds nasty and unpleasant.

DEMAND exceeding SUPPLY of private education in DC is a legend. It holds only if you count each single application as demand, while we all know that each kid applies to multiple schools. I have first-hand reports of parents-school meetings where parents have been recommended to "disseminate" about the school in order to keep demand by good applicants high. Of course, not talking about Sidwell, NC/St Albans.

By the way, I know well that the housing market level and fluctuations depend from many factors and will not be affected by my migration. However, it is a fact that houses on the MD side of Western Avenue cost per sq feet more than the house of the DC side (all other factors equal), and that this higher value can be reasonably attributed to families discounting/valuing public school quality and predictability.

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