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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are plenty of affordable condo options in N . Arl that feed into the good schools. It's a choice - do you get a bigger place and go to a crappy school and be the rich or a smaller place and a great school and be one of the poors?

There is always choices. No one on here is truly stuck in S Arl.[/quote]

Wow, what an over simplified, uninformed, and unwelcome opinion. You really captured the ignorance of someone who isn't familiar with our neighborhoods, with just a dash of self satisfied, elitism.

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Sorry but I am extremely familiar with the situation and yes, this is what it boils down to.  Those buying SFH in S Arl don't want to live in a condo in N Arl and be branded a "poor".  It's perception.  If it was dedication to education, there would be plenty of families in the condos.

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Did ya' hear that everyone? We've all bought SFh's in S. Arl out of fear of being branded a "poor" in North Arlington! Such insight!
I'll try and not let this fairly productive thread be hijacked by the likes of you...

It does seem there is a confluence of events that could have been foreseen here:

Young families with school age kids are moving in.
They stay due to housing availability/ short commutes
County ramps up density along western end of Columbia Pike and makes specific commitments/ promises with an emphasis on affordable housing 
County makes no real plans to address infrastructure in the wake of these decisions.

I suppose the choice schools were meant to keep the SFh's mollified, but I think the dam has broken there. A pp had mentioned a returned emphasis on neighborhood schools. I'd be interested to see how the demographics shake out, if all kids were returned to their base school.

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