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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do the super rich of dc really make decisions based on others moving?  I’m going to sell my multi million dollar home and uproot my kids because of keeping up w the Joneses?

I really can’t believe they are that thick.

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The “super rich” don’t send their kids to DCPS. [/quote]

This, but the PP is also missing the point completely if they think this is about “keeping up with the Joneses”.[/quote]

Exactly. No one lives on Capitol Hill to really keep up with the “Joneses”. Most people don’t choose narrow row houses with poor school choices in the upper grades. Or at least my parents weren’t millionaires when they raised us here. The area is more so a certain type of quirky, go against the grain idealist, city dweller type who values walkability. Many of those folks are also looking for a diverse environment for their kids.[/quote]

This is not quite accurate for current hill parents. Row homes on the eastern side are well over a million and limited prek and daycare means lots of expensive nanny or nanny shares with activities. Parents are definitely more competitive though they pretend not to be. [/quote]

It’s true, but I’d still argue, and this completely out of my azz, and it’s anonymous so who fking cares, and I know how much eye rolling this post will cause, but most parents who raise their kids on Capitol Hill, even those who raise them here but abscond for the suburbs for middle and high school care more about diversity in general than some cookie cutter folks who raised their kids in a safe little suburb like Annandale or some sht. It takes more grit to say “well there are still tons of carjackings, people openly smoke weed near the parks where my kid plays, and the city itself is using more lax on crime policies like youth rehabilitation act, or letting murderers out of jail at earlier ages in order to facilitate restorative justice, and thereby making my neighborhood more dangerous, but hey I’ll still stick this out. Not just because of the crime, the super liberal city council that may be causing crime to rise, or the poverty in the schools, ill stay because it’s a more real,diverse and equitable experience than shuttling my kids to a whiter suburban school with wealthier peers.”

Essentially, anyone raising their kids in Capitol Hill, EOTR and is of means has more balls than other folks who opt to immediately run to a safe suburb. So when these folks care about their kids learning in school and you all talk sht about how their racist or don’t care about social justice, you’re missing that they’re more [/quote]

True.[/quote]

Not true if their “concern for diversity” evaporates when they leave for Bethesda for middle school. [/quote]

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