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[b]I'm sorry, what is "racist" about buying a house in a safe neighborhood that has good schools that will appropriately challenged your children?

In your fake world do you just lottery out houses, commutes, quality of schools, crime rates, etc.[/b]?[/quote]

What's "racist" is the assumption that a high percentage of Latinos or other brown people is inevitably associated with [small] houses, [long] commutes, [low] quality of schools, and [high] crime rates.

Many houses in South Arlington (such as mine) are newer, larger, and nicer than many homes in North Arlington.

My commute is shorter than most, because I live very close to a Yellow/Blue metro stop and near I-395 (the Roosevelt and Key Bridges are not the only way into DC).

My kids' school is fine--sure, students on average don't do as well on standardized tests than in a typical North Arlington school, but it hasn't stopped my kid from scoring in the 99th percentile on those tests.  Moreover, when he participates in county-wide activities with the other little geniuses from the North side, he seems to keep up just fine.

As for crime rates, it's true that South Arlington in general has higher crime rates than the North side, but I can tell you that in the 8 years I've lived on the south side, I've not experienced any crime at all.  During the five years I lived on the north side of Route 50, I had my car broken into, a peeper at my window, and otherwise ran into many more objectionable drunks than I've ever seen down here.

But if it makes you feel better to pay twice as much as I did to live in the same kind of house, just because "greatschools.com" says it's worth it, go right on ahead.[/quote]

In this area, a high percentage (read: density) of Latinos is demonstrably correlated with poverty and poverty is clearly associated with small houses, low school quality and high crime rates.

I didn't base my purchase decision on "greatschools.net" -- I think that's a terrible Web site. Rather, I toured the schools of my targeted neighborhoods and saw for myself the relative inferiority of the ones in South Arlington.

I also didn't pay twice as much for the same amount of house. Maybe a bit more, but hardly twice as much.

I've also never had a car breakin, peeper, or objectionable drunks. I live in CC Hills though, so that may explain why.[/quote]

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