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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]f job growth continues to be greater in the 'burbs, then moving closer to the city doesn't make much sense.[/quote]

Lot of folks have lost a lot throughout history betting that things would always remain the same:

http://streetsblog.net/2011/06/01/suburban-office-parks-are-losing-their-beige-tinted-shimmer/

Suburb-to-suburb commuting is just about dead; already you can barely get from Silver Spring to Rockville in any reasonable amount of time.  If population growth continues as predicted, suburban roads will be parking lots.  "Regional coordination of transportation policies" is mere hand-waving.  At the end of the day, at a certain point of population growth, the hub-and-spoke model is the only one that can work.  Which is why, aside from a few industries with captive workforces and politically-driven forces making decisions (ie BRAC) companies are moving back into the urban core. As far as the school question:  the "best public schools" are a function of socioeconomic class.  The poor are moving out of DC; in 10-15 years it'll be a largely upper-middle class enclave.  The regional school picture will be radically different by that time.  These trends are self-amplifying.
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LA doesn't seem to fit the hub and spoke model. It's a sprawling mass of interconnected cities with the "down town" containing a relatively small part of the commercial space.  And I agree that isolated,  soulless office parks are going out of fashion quickly, but they're being replaced by the creation of suburban downtowns with multi-use spaces that people find enjoyable as work and living spaces. See Reston Town Center and Maple Lawn in Howard County. I can't really see biotech execs paying a premium to live in DC so they can commute out 270 to their jobs when they can have more space and an easier commute living closer to where they work.  Likewise, I can't see all those defense contractor execs moving from the areas out towards Dulles to move closer in so they can have longer commutes. DC will remain the center of federal government and those that make their living being close to it - law firms, lobbyists, think tanks. media to some degree.  But I think it's unlikely that DC will ever again be the center of the wheel the way it once was.                    [/quote]

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