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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And shake your fist all you want, APS is what drives the property values in Arlington.  [/quote]

This is absolutely wrong.  The proximity (and therefore the reduced commute times) drive property values.  I also really love my neighborhood and would live here if I did not have kids (like many of my neighbors).

As a patent of 3 kids in Arlington schools, I can tell you that there is nothing magical about the schools.  The teachers, like whole state of Virginia, focus almost exclusively on the subject matter on the SOLs and the classroom pace is based on the slowest kids, so my kids are bored a lot.  There is terrible bureaucracy and red tape for anything that costs money, such as receiving special services for a learning disability.  It is obvious that as wealthier, higher educated parents moved into Arlington and poorer families were pushed out in the last twenty years, school performance criteria (e.g., test scores) have miraculously improved as well.  [/quote]

It's not absolutely wrong.

The same property that costs $500,000 in Alexandria City costs $700,000 in North Arlington. Same proximity. Schools are the differentiator.[/quote]

Nonsense.  Real estate in Alexandria City is very expensive. [/quote]

Real estate in North Arlington is MORE expensive. My point is comparable housing stock in N. Arlington costs $150,00 to $200,000 more than in Alexandria City.[/quote]

Agreed. There is a "school discount" when you buy in Alexandria City. We live in Del Ray and cannot afford N. Arlington. If the schools were better, I think we'd have been priced out here too.[/quote]

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