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[quote=Anonymous]I hope you realize that your racist side is showing through.

Our cul-de-sac lifestyles are not the cause of huffing; your parenting style, however, is.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]D.C. has high crime, poor public schools and constant traffic congestion.  While it has some nice museums, I wouldn't want to raise my precious children there.

I guess we suburbanites are in an enviable position, aren't we?  We have great public schools, yet we keep on snapping up your private school spots too.  I can see that you're bitter, but you really should get over it.  Go do yoga or something...[/quote]

I always find these sorts of posts entertaining.  It's like folks are still stuck in 1985.  Crime is at a 50 year low, and rarely touches middle-class residents; in fact, my relatives in Montgomery County seem to fear crime as much or more than my neighbors on Capitol Hill.  I wouldn't know about "traffic congestion", since the only time I experience it is on one of my occasional trips out to the suburbs.  I guess that would be of particular concern to you, as a suburbanite, since all those folks stuck in the gridlock have MD and DC license plates.  In contrast, my commute consists of a 15 minute bike ride to work.  Either that or a 20 min bus ride--door to door.

And as far as public schools go, having grown up in Montgomery County, and with relatives who still live there, [b]I've seen what the growth of suburban poverty has done to MCPS.  I think it's great that you've obviously found one of the good public school options--for the time being.  But with big state budget cuts, and the well-documented demographic shift that's been taking place and acellerating, make no mistake, the suburbs are on the way down.[/b]   Hold on to those private school spots--you're going to need them!  :)

[b]Bottom line:  I don't want my kid growing up in a cul-de-sac, their sole intellectual stimulation huffing glue out behind the 7-11. [/b] [/quote][/quote]

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