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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Come to South Arlington. Your HHI will get you a nice house. No gentrifying here because of zoning and a very pro-affordable housing board. We have blocks and blocks of committed affordable housing (not that you will qualify) and lower income market rate affordable apartments. And much more on the way. [/quote]

That is where we live :) and its HOT HOT HOT! Its been great to spend our some of our 20s and early 30s as n Arlington's scrappy neighbor. Had all the perks, commute, shopping, restaurants, bars as the north minus the air of pretension at half the price.  The area is changing rapidly though, and becoming more and more like the north. We need to move to something larger as our family expands and the housing stock that used to be in the 600s-800s is now 800- $1m+ and no longer affordable. Sadly s arlington wasn't immune to gentrification, I guess it was only a matter of time. We absolutely love Hill East and it is suffering the same fate. We will either stay in our 1200sq ft or move to PG County.

People living in a scrappy "wealth adjacent" area waiting for it to change takes away these little unicorn neighborhoods. I wish people just lived there because of how awesome it is, not because they think theyll stay for a few years and leave with a satchel of cash.[/quote]

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