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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A couple points:

1) Acting like your kids will be marginalized at WJ if you have enough money to afford a single family house in Rock View or Oakland Terrace is a bit much. Homes “on the other side of the tracks” are going for $550,000+ at least for a 3 br 2 bth cape cod that still needs some work. Full renos in the area are going for well over $650 and new builds fetch close to $1M. Kids in WJ are not hopping out of the suicide doors of a Tesla SUV in Ballenciaga sneakers and Moncler jackets. If you can afford some dirty vans and white tube socks for DS and a pair of white low-top Chucks and an oversized graphic t-shirt for DD you’ll fit in just fine.

2) PP mocking east Chevy Chase as “Section 8 Chevy Chase” is the kind of person that probably has a country kitchen and cuts coupons on a TV table whilst watching Hannity. Stop derailing the thread with your weird tangents.

3) There’s a reason historic Kensington commands higher prices than Oakland Terrace and Rock View. It’s objectively a nicer neighborhood with historic architecture, a great park system and its walkable to MARC, restaurants and stores. Acting like something on the south side of Plyers Mill east of Oakland Terrace is as nice as a place off of Warner Circle, but is only priced lower because of schools, is bending the truth. [b]If you’re talking about the houses in Rock View vs. Parkwood, I see you’re point, but let’s not act that all WJ neighborhoods have nothing else going for them besides schools.[/b]

4) The odds of Kensington being zoned for Woodward are slim because it’s zoned for North Bethesda Middle, one of two middle schools that feed into WJ. The other middle school, Tilden, feeds from 3 ESs and is located at the Woodward site. It would make logical sense to peel these Tilden-zoned ES clusters from WJ to Woodward first.

5) Even if Kensington gets redistricted to Einstein or Woodward this is going to happen in 6 years. Prices are going to be up in the entire area by the because of the Purple Line, Rockville Pike developments, the gentrification and development near Wheaton Metro and the Amazon effect, which will make places like Oakland Terrace an affordable option for people priced out of areas closer to Amazon HQ. If you buy now your house will appreciate by 3% a year anyway, so you barely feel the effects of any zoning change. On the other hand, if you wait until 2025 you’ll probably be priced out of even Oakland Terrace or Rock View, where homes will be close to $800,000 by then.
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That’s the comparison I’m making, same with many of the small houses on Perry, Farragut, etc., zoned for KP vs. OTES houses.  But then, if my money bought literally half the house so I could send my kids to WJ vs. Einstein, I’d probably have to convince myself it was the most amazing decision ever, too.  Of course the big, gorgeous homes on large lots are in a different category, and honestly, I’ve not heard the same kind of snobbery from those folks on this issue.[/quote]

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