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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I personally think Wakefield's demographics are bound to shift as more [b]middle class white families continue to move in.[/b]  I know a LOT of them - mostly folks who were slightly priced out of North Arlington or who just wanted something bigger/newer/nicer than what they could afford there.  And a lot of folks don't want to move further out - they're happy with the commutes from South Arlington.  (if you're metro commuting, it is actually a quicker drive to Ballston from some South Arlington neighborhoods than it is from my North Arlington one.)  It's probably never going to become a Yorktown, but I think the odds of it looking more like Washington-Lee in the next 10-15 years are pretty good.

Some of the neighborhoods are very cute - I like Penrose, Alcova Heights, Arlington village.  Douglas Park has a lot of families with young kids.  You get the best deals right now in Columbia Forest and Nauck, I think, though I didn't want to be that far South.  I hear that Patrick Henry ES and Oakridge are the most diverse of the schools down there, i.e. the schools that aren't 70% of one race, but more like 30/30/40.  (though Oakridge's SFHs may be above your range, since they are also nearer to blue line metro.)

Good luck!![/quote]

You mean as more of the white families move in driving the minority latino black asian families out thru demand of housing. The native DC'ers vs the money  hungry transplants[/quote]

It is 2015 PP, the Asians in South Arlington are  few and fair between.  Many of the blacks are AA, but there are also many Ethiopians, Eritreans, and Nigerians who have the educational values associated with higher SES families.  Latinos are not all Salvadorean émigrés living in poverty, but many second generation people who have reasonably good jobs or have small businesses -- tile setters, landscapers, concrete companies, haulers, plumbers, electricians

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