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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No. I'm in the DC area and I am not aware that North Arlington is more or less nice than other locations in Arlington.

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+1 I live in Bethesda and gave plenty of friends in Arlington. I didn't know this was a "thing" ( N vs S) until I read DCUM.[/quote]

I live in North Arlington. I had no idea it was thing either. But DCUM is gonna DCUM. Anything to do with perceived class (hence the threads about “how to look wealthy” and “ are women who marry well smart or lucky?”). This whole area is filled with strivers and and insecure people. [/quote]

This is not a DCUM thing. This is been a thing in Arlington for quite a while! Are you aware of all of the MONA controversy? How they don’t allow any mothers from below route 50 to join? [/quote]

How is that "controversial?" It's called mothers of north arlington. It's for mothers in north Arlington. Do you go also think ifs controversial when people have block parties? You include the people on your block. It's not an open invitation to all people who live in houses. [/quote]

+1 This is so tiresome. MONA exists because there had been a MOMS Club of North Arlington and MOMS Club of South Arlington. When a club gets to a certain size the MOMS club national organization required that you split it up into separate groups, e.g. there would have to be a MOMS Club of Arlington Forest, MOMS Club of Clarendon, MOMS Club of Westover. The members of the NArl club didn't want to break up so they disaffiliated and made their own group. The MOMS Club of S. Arlington remained affiliated, although I don't know what form it exists in now. The excluding people south of 50 was because those moms had their own organizations.

FWIW, I would generally just say I live in Arlington. If someone knew the area, I'd be more specific about neighborhood or just that I'm near a particular metro stop.[/quote]

Except the Moms Club was exclusionary from the outset for only North Arlington, and it was intention. The South Arlington chapter was founded after, and the split when it got too large, because Moms in even zip codes weren’t welcome in the Moms Club of North Arlington nor its offshoot MONA. [/quote]

~13 square miles and several thousand members sounds plenty large enough for a mom's group. I can see why the group wouldn't want to expand into South Arlington (or info Falls Church, Fairfax Co, etc). I can also see why people in South Arlington would like it to expand - we bought a [I]ton[/I] of our baby/toddler stuff on MONA.[/quote]

Uh, its not just about expanding, its was designed to be exclusionary from the start. [/quote]

Well the same logic applies, right? Why not make your mom group all of Northern VA?

on the other hand, it probably [I]was[/I] exclusionary. Much more fun to have a mom group of wealthy families passing around gently used high quality stuff, right?[/quote]

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