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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op can afford Arlington. I bought a house recently with a substantially lower salary, but...it’s in south Arlington. Most commercial areas in DC (Farragut Sq, Navy Yard, Metro Center etc) are a 30-45 minute door to door commute away depending on transfers. [/quote]

Ok we all no south Arlington is not the Arlington people are interested in.[/quote]

Which is fantastic because it’s a great place to live but not as expensive as other areas in Arlington. [/quote]

But that is changing daily despite the ACB efforts to ghettoize Columbia Pike [/quote]

Do you mean giving poor people a place to live? [/quote]

Poor people already have plenty of places to live in Arlington and are given great access to education and services.  You really need to understand what the housing policies are doing in Arlington to reduce the equality of services now provided.  Recently the poor people have been rented migrants that Arlington specifically brought here because there were not enough residents to fill two buildings.  [/quote]

I have similar stats to the Op except I can’t even afford a condo at the moment and
am renting A small townhome that is dubbed a condo. I can’t afford a down payment yet and the mortgage plus the monthly condo fee anyway - p

- PP is correct - low income people in Arlington are well taken care of. If you add up all the benefits across the board - housing, food, medical -they would get close to 80k - that’s not money they earned, that’s benefits they receive  include rent help. Then most of these people work so now most of their basics are covered so any remaining income they make - goes to pay household expenses but a lot of times those are covered as well. So even the poor in Arlington get at least a lower middle income elsewhere life. The new apartment buildings for low income families far surpass our rentals outdated 80s appliances and decor. And then there is the short sightedness of putting poor people in high income areas with no plans or help for them to save for the future so perpetuating the cycle.

- the OP could afford a town home in South Arlington at this point that is slightly bigger than her current condo since she already said a home at the price point $765k is too much so I am assuming $150K less could be doable

- there are slighty bigger and better condo choices in South Arlington but most people in N Arl consider S Arl pretty much a hell hole

- the costs of maintaining an older single family home is more expensive than OP realizes - older sfh housing stock left in Arlington that could be considered  
More affordable

- yes lots of people were mislead by realtors during the bubble to buy overpriced condos and this still is going on now - condos won’t appreciate as fast

- truth - $170k is part of the middle class for Arlington Co - not upper middle class- just middle class. People might not believe that or like it but it doesn’t make it less true

- Arlington Co housing prices have forced out a good portion of the middle class[/quote]

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