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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm really puzzled by the PP who hates anyone living in a smaller older home in a neighborhood with teardowns. That's me, and I'm not sure what I ever did to you. I like some of the rebuilds in my neighborhood, and dislike some of them, on the merits - some have been done tastefully, in a way that doesn't look ridiculous, and some are literally so wacky looking that they have become the butt of jokes on this forum and elsewhere. But why would anyone who either lives in those houses or wants to bash me for living in a 2000 sqft place that could use more work? To suggest that I'm either intensely jealous of the rebuilds or that I can't afford my neighborhood is just patently false. Wrong on both counts.[/quote]

YES!! Or to assume we don't have the $.  We love old houses.  We hate clutter, unused-- wasted space, etc. we only have two children and no need for more than 2200 sq feet.

We could afford a mammoth addition, etc.  We are in 22201 and make a shitload of money and we actually own two houses in more affluent neighborhoods than this in the city.  We moved here for public schools and found great neighbors.  Surprising to now see some in the 'hood may be judging us on the size of our house :roll: ....ESP the ones that bought 10 years ago when sh*t was dirt cheap over here.  They paid $600k less than the rest of us, btw.[/quote]

It wasn't dirt cheap in 22201, 10 years ago. Even 40 years ago it wasn't dirt cheap.  Generally speaking, Arlington has always been expensive, just much less expensive than today in some neighborhoods. A large 4 bedroom colonial in 22201 or 22207 that sold for 300k in 1988 or 150k in '78 is probably close to 2 mill today.[/quote]

BS.  22201 was cheaper than where my parents live 20 min south of here now.  This particular area was crime ridden in the late 60s/early 70s.  People fled for safer suburbs, more space and brand new construction.  Traffic also wasn't the concern it is today.  The exact opposite trend exists today...young families are fleeing the places are parents grew up in for urban/city environments.[/quote]

I'm afraid you've been completely misinformed. 22201 was not crime ridden at all. Who told you that? In the late 60s and early 70s Clarendon/22201 was still Arlington's shopping downtown with JC Penny's, Hahn's Shoes, Kann's Department store, Kay Jewlers, Lerners, the Quality Shop, the Clarendon Bank and Trust., and GC Murphys and Sears which didn't close until the 1990s. The single family neighborhoods were typical upper middle class suburbia. Lyon Village in the heart of 22201 was very much a "Leave it to Beaver" suburb. The neighborhood high school, Washington-Lee High School was ranked number two in the nation by Time Magazine, right behind New Trier outside of Chicago, but ahead of Bethesda-Chevy Chase HS. Ladies Home Journal also ranked it in the top 10 throughout the 60s and 70s. Arlington was very affluent and largely homogenous, with a small Black population in the historically Black neighborhoods like Hall's Hill and Green Valley.

22201 back then was not cheaper than Woodbridge, or Lorton or whatever else is 20 minutes south of here 30 years ago. That's malarkey.

I moved here in the early 60s, raised a family, and now my grandkids are in the Arlington public schools.

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