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[quote=Anonymous]I grew up in Arlington, went to Wakefield at the tail end of the village feeling. Fair Housing drove out a lot of people in the late 60s and 70s. People and neighbors still knew each other. Now nobody does, it's all very anonymous with drifter professionals coming and going. Vietnamese settlements opened up businesses in the Clarendon area (it was called Little Saigon). Then the orange line wiped it away with higher rents and they moved further out into the sticks at Eden Center. I-66 added to the highway-fication of Arlington. Rosslyn actually was decently scaled and walkable. Now it's a corporate hellscape. Actually, much of NOVA has become a corporate hellscape. Yorktown and WL were actually pretty good schools. Wakefield was on the downward spiral. Now they are all on the downward spiral. [/quote]
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