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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not buying it. Believe me, nobody who renovated a decrepit, gutted shell of a Hill row house 15 years ago, then got their own construction permits after the renovation budget didn't extend for a contractor or permit facilitator to do it for them, is overvaluing their efforts.

Things exactly weren't "going well" for most of us for 5 or 10 years after we bought.  There was far more crime on the Hill in the early 2000s than there is now.  Our house was burgled twice between 2008 and 2010.  Even the best of the DCPS Hill elementary schools were still iffy in those days.  At that time, in-bound parents of babies and toddlers would sometimes get involved in PTAs, even before the ECE years, to try to improve the schools.

What I see happening these days is parents who don't do nearly enough research, realistic thinking or back-up planning having a tendency to hit a wall on middle school if they lack lottery luck at BASIS or Latin.  We've been putting money away for a back-up parochial middle school for a decade and went to a lot of hassle and test prep to prepare to apply to half a dozen.  [b]We're not wealthy--we earn 150K between us--but we planned to stay and have.
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If this is really true, then the fact that you have no sympathy for folks who are in your exact position and couldn't possibly do what you did is even grosser. It wasn't about planning, it was about lucking in to the softest real estate market that a remotely live-able central DC locale has had since the crack epidemic. Like, it definitely sounds like you worked for what you have now, but that doesn't mean that option is open to others who "plan" well. (And for the record, we bought in Hill East in the early 2010s when 600K was a feasible budget and parlayed that into an inner Hill $1 million++ house less than a decade later... so I guess we "planned" well too. Only we didn't. We got incredibly lucky because of sky rocketing real estate prices, development-possible real estate just outside the Capitol Hill historic district suddenly being super desirable and historically low interest rates. None of which had anything to do with our planning. In fact, we planned kind of badly, because we didn't realize the vast chasm between the house we bought and one zoned for Maury a block away schools-wise.)[/quote]

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