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[quote=Anonymous]As a matter of fact, I do live and work in DC and have been here for years.  Yes, I understand there are commuters - and many who work in DC end up in this odd situation of having a horrible commute each day because of a combination of things, being not just schools but also affordable living.

All schools won't magically become better if people simply stay.  And, there need to be compelling reasons why people would want to stay.  The diverse and in a few cases advanced options that charters bring start to provide a compelling reason.  Now, if only DCPS would start offering more compelling options as well.

But, there are many other problems aside from it just being schools, such as affordable housing.  In DC, "affordable housing" only means subsidized low income housing, but for a middle class family with kids, even a small 2 bedroom apartment in DC is barely affordable.  A lot of federal agencies slimmed down with and after the sequester and aren't hiring at higher grades.  Good luck being able to afford something if you are just a GS-7 or GS-9 in DC.

Meanwhile, one sees the "poor" in DC enjoying units that are sometimes townhouse-sized, far bigger than what many of us in the middle class can afford.  And then one hears, "well, we need apartments for the poor in DC otherwise who would be sweeping floors and busing tables" - agreed, but it turns out that most of the people sweeping floors and busing tables aren't even the poor from places like Greenleaf Gardens - instead, it's mostly latinos commuting in from Virginia and elsewhere by metro.

There are a lot of things that are highly out of whack and distorted in DC and I'm not sure you are totally in tune with reality as opposed to just sticking to the storyline that's been told for the last 40 years.[/quote]

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