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Same curriculum.  Schools are fine if you focus on your own kid.

Also don't like that you can see ugly apartments from backyard of this house.

For that price you can almost tear down and build new, crazy to pay $600K for a shack. 
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Don't be ridiculous. Focusing on your own kids is all very well but it can't negate the fact that the same house would sell for more in a better school district. You are trying to deny that schools affect house pricing and it just is not correct.  They do, very much so, otherwise the whole S. Arlington vs. N. Arlington would be a non-issue.  Otherwise the stroller brigade would not be deserting hip, fun areas of DC when kids inch closer to ES age.  Otherwise shacks in AU park wouldn't be selling close to a million dollars. Wake up.[/quote]

Are you seriously trying to compare Pimmit Hills to North Arlington or AU Park?  Don't be ridiculous.  They aren't even close.

Not to mention that people who really obsess about schools the way you suggest they do want Yorktown, W-L, George Mason, Langley, Madison, McLean, Woodson or Oakton, not Marshall.

Again, for those considering $600K homes there are many possibilities out there that need not involve looking at overpriced homes like this PH tear-down candidate.  Stop recommending POS properties in PH at every turn and you may find people react differently when the name comes up.[/quote]
I didn't compare PH to N. Arlington or AU Park house for house (something tells me you know that).  I referred to these neighborhoods as examples of a) house prices people would pay for the sake of decent schools, and b) reputational differences between similar neighborhoods on account of schools.

People may very well want Yorktown or Langley or George Mason, but very few properties there can be bought for under 600K.  For you to suggest that school quality should not affect housing prices is disingenuous.  I wasn't the poster who cited the link but I do live in the neighborhood and can attest to its advantages and disadvantages.  For people who have no more than 600K to spend, it's a completely legitimate option that ticks all the boxes except aesthetics.[/quote]

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