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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Arlington is the hottest area because NOVA is hot for jobs and real estate.
Arlington just seems hotter than other parts of NOVA  because it is so small.  Let’s be real here, we really mean north Arlington when people on this bored post 99% of the time.

Arlington is more expensive than places like fairfax or whatever because of its location and urban-like areas on orange line.[/quote]

I agree people usually mean north Arlington when they say only Arlington but in this instance south Arlington is just as hot or hotter, and appreciating faster (at least at certain price points). Literally the only advantage north Arlington ever had was the schools, and now it’s clear they are all crap.[/quote]

And south Arlington will be the first to have prices fall. A lot. No reason to live in high crime area with lousy schools if you don’t have to. Many upper middle class families only live in south Arlington because of the proximity to work. If they can, they move. Even for pandemic a large portion of south Arlington families leave before kids get old enough for school, or sometime in mid elementary school when they realize just how big the educational disparities are between poor south Arlington schools and north Arlington.

When I got 2/3 permanent work from home we moved to western ffx county for better schools and twice the house. And no drug dealing a couple doors down on the Pike.[/quote]

Everything you said would have been true perhaps five years ago, definitely ten years ago, but is not true today. I don’t have a dog in the fight it’s just true - South Arlington is continuing to gentrify and the prices reflect that.[/quote]

Sort of. I agree things are hot now, but people are buying in south Arlington who already live in south Arlington. They are moving from a rental or smaller place. And, they are still priced out of north Arlington. And the gentrification is focused on the mid and eastern end of the pike. The western end is slated for a huge amount of affordable housing over the next several years that will limit gentrification. As the new storefronts remain empty, things will slide back down. South Arlington can never really gentrify when it has a large cluster of schools with very high rates of student poverty.

North Arlington only has one pocket of poverty, buckingham, which is right on the border with south Arlington. That enclave doesn’t give north Arlington diversity. 
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That’s not the only “pocket”.

North Arlington is everything above Rt 50. This doesn’t include many of the lower-cost rental units along the corridor. 
https://housing.arlingtonva.us/wp-content/uploads/sites/15/2015/08/Committed-Affordable-Units-Map.pdf

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