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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friend's grandparents immigrated to the U.S. during the depression and purchased a (then and now) valuable lot of land, in a desirable suburban community, walkable, all the bells and whistles - on a janitor's salary. No family money.

Another friend's grandparent's literally lost their Nebraska farm in foreclosure during that same era.  Also no family money.

I know nannies that have homes here, and homes in their home country, as well, OP.  Nannies in McLean, Arlington, Chevy Chase, Bethesda, etc. do quite well.

Anything is possible, OP. [/quote]
Nannies in McLean and Arlington don’t live in those communities  :roll: I interviewed a bunch and really[b] vast majority lived in Woodbridge[/b] and places in that area. A few used to live in South Arlington but had gotten priced out.

Sure anything is possible. But that possibility is basically about the same as winning the lotto. [/quote]

The point is that, yes, Arlington is closer to downtown, but in the 70’s, Arlington was effectively Woodbridge, except even more blue collar.  For that matter, outside of a few large homes that were built as “country homes,” Cleveland Park was a blue-collar neighborhood. When I moved to Cleveland Park in the 80’s, my neighbors were retired taxi drivers and the like. Most people on the board have no idea what a small, sleepy town DC used to be. There were like 4-5 “fancy” restaurants.

FWIW, there are quite a few neighborhoods in the Fairfax County part of Alexandria that are full of nannies and house cleaners, many of whom own their own homes. It might not be in neighborhoods that you would want to live in, but, then again, you probably wouldn’t have wanted to live in Arlington in the 70’s.  [/quote]

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