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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the PP who took a gamble on an up and coming neighborhood is missing the point by making comments about how appreciation doesn't do him/her any good.  It's not the appreciation per se that most of us want.  It's [b]the ability to buy into these neighborhoods close-in with good schools and have a reasonable mortgage that we want.  [/b]But they have already appreciated past the point that they are affordable.

I also think a lot of us were sold a bag of goods that if we worked hard and got a good education, we'd be able to afford a solid middle class life.  Instead, we have student loans and housing costs that either require buying in a not-so-safe area or commuting a long distance.  I'm a lawyer and DH is a consultant with an MBA.  We didn't work this hard in life to raise our kids in a neighborhood with all the crime, drugs, and broken bottles you mention.  Sure -- that is an option for people.  But I don't think that is an option most people who want to be middle class dream of.

FWIW, I live and work in NoVa, so taking a chance on charter schools isn't an option for us (my commute would be worse if I lived in the city).  A lot of Northern VA is already crazy expensive and the "up and coming" areas are being bid up by people who can spend more on a tear down LOT (that they're going to build a 1.5 million house on) than I can pay for my entire house.[/quote]

There are still neighborhoods that are close-in where you can buy a fixer upper and have a reasonable mortgage.  (Not my neighborhood, anymore, but others just like it, with just as questionable schools and lots of poor people - just like mine ten years ago).  You just want to have it all.  You can't.[/quote]

I agree. Those of us with less make compromises because we have to.  Those with more seem to expect they should have everything. Well life doesn't necessarily work that way.  Deal with reality - not what conditions were like 30 years ago.  [/quote]

Just because you have less and have to make compromises doesn't mean it's unreasonable for educated young professionals to want to be able to work their way up to something more.  This mentality that because some people have had to settle for bad schools or crappy commutes means today's young professionals shouldn't aspire for anything more is ridiculous[/quote]

aspire to more sure.  bitch about not having it yet - tireseome.[/quote]

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