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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP poster here. I chose S Arlington because of the commute to work and the idea that it seems to only be getting nicer. I didn't count on the entrenched affordable housing though. I just assumed that the schools would be getting better. And some are. It's just not as even. [/quote]

Yes, I've been here for 16 years and it took me awhile to understand the politics of affordable housing, and its disparate impact on north and south Arlington. It's an article of faith for wealthy north Arlington dems; its how they can sleep at night. I'm a liberal and I believe in integrated communities not just as a nice idea but as something that broadly produces better outcomes for all. I think north of 50 it's not a tangible, and if it was, we'd see more affordable housing there and a boundary process that valued diversity. It's laughable what was spent on HB and the new high schools only to be told that we must live with school segregation because busing students around the smallest county in America costs too much.[/quote]

DP. I've been here for less time, but likewise am coming to understand the AH dynamics. I have a lot of disdain for the paper Dems with all the #resist fever, who trash "flyover" states or areas with Confederate monuments but don't notice the segregation in their own backyards. "We're not like them; we just *really* value walking." Oh, is that the explanation? Okay then.

That said, I believe we're doing the right thing for our family by living in South Arl. My children will be fine academically and may even be better off for less competitive/striverish environments with a more diverse peer group. They are young, but I have a lot of concern over the stories out of WMS and YHS, such that Gunston and Wakefield look pretty darn appealing. We can afford North Arlington, we choose not to. It's not always easy to have confidence in our choices, and these threads always seem to devolve at some point into group therapy or SALA jokes, but we're planning to stick it out.[/quote]

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