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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lol i only call it ghetto b/c I grew up in Fairfax going to Woodson High School. Some of the houses in my neighborhood are run down. We have a man on house arrest and a sex offender living next to us. We are in the Falls Church High School pyramid where more than 1/2 the kids are on free lunches. I guess I am in the south side of Falls Church.

I also lived in the ghetto of south arlington and while I liked it as a young adult, I would not want to raise kids there. Why did South Arlington almost ruin your marriage???[/quote]

Yeah, we briefly considered those parts of Falls Church but when we saw the explosion of symbols on the Fairfax County 911 tracking database we decided that was a no-go. I'd rate Stuart above Falls Church myself, I know Stuart brings in some of the students from Lake Barcroft. Those areas are fine if you're ok with a "Yale or jail" MS/HS, which is about as bad as you'll get in Northern Virginia (well, maybe Freedom-Woodbridge is the exception.)

We lived near some of the most stereotypical neighbors possible, as if they all stepped out of a Frederick County redneck's imagination. Welfare leeches who were trying to bum money from us when their Uncle Sam money ran out, drug dealers, hostile immigrants who refused to interact with us (except to demand we move our car legally parked on the street). FWIW, the folks who bought from us ended up selling less than a year later, taking a bath despite his making $10,000s of improvements on the place (combining kitchen/dining room, making the attic a bedroom, etc.)

Throw in no walkability and you've got all the suckiness of urban living with none of the positives. My wife realized this was fail about 2-3 years into our sojourn, and I refused to move until we had been there six years.

Needless to say we didn't live in the nice neighborhoods along Arlington Ridge Rd/23rd Street South, or even some of the improving/walkable areas along Columbia Pike. [/quote]

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