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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Without any knowledge of Milloy, I find the argument pertaining to the "urban pioneers" amusing and, somewhat on-point.

There is a whole lot of "Boring. Boring. Boring. I could never live in upper NW. B-O-R-I-N-G." But then kids come along and all of the sudden we see why forward-looking parents moved to upper NW. So now the chant becomes Unfair. Unfair. Unfair.

What these people don't realize, among countless other things, is that, perhaps, many of the parents in upper NW have a similar outlook to the parents in Bloomy and Petworth and Columbia Heights. Maybe they'd have liked to stay in a more urban setting (may not, to be fair), but they chose to look further down the line than "what's on tap this week" and chose the Boring area for exactly the reasons the urban pioneers are not decreeing Unfair. [/quote]

Real-estate prices and a desire for a more diverse community were among my reasons for not buying a home in upper NW. I didn't really prioritize "what's on tap this week." [/quote]

But did schools factor in?  I think that is the real point.  It is no big secret that many schools are challenged and people with choices took a chance when buying in a crappy DCPS neighborhood.  We bought in JKLMM 9 years ago before our children were born because I thought schools had to be a factor at that point.  Other people make other choices.  If I could not have afforded our house we would be in an area we could afford with good schools (meaning nova or moco).   [/quote]

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