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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love the diversity in Fairfax and wouldn't want to live anywhere else, at least certainly not in this region. [/quote]

What, exactly, do you love about the diversity? This just seems like something people say "Oh, I want [i]diversity[/i]. But they can't really explain what they mean by that.[/quote]

I like the fact that this is a place where people from many different parts of the globe have decided to make their home.

I like the fact that the diversity reflects the changing face of America.  It means that my multi-racial kids feel comfortable here; that my niece born in Central America won't be stared at when she visits us; that my middle-income gay sibling and her partner are accepted here; and that my spouse's half-AA cousins would fit right in on a weekend outing to Tysons.

I like the fact that the housing stock is diverse, and isn't primarily homes built in the 1990s or later in subdivisions that remain largely devoid of trees.

I like the fact that the public schools are mostly great, as much as some people want to make class sizes the only measure of educational quality, and that they aren't as economically and racially monochromatic as those in the Upper Caucasia regions of Upper NW and North Arlington.  I feel like the pressure to conform in those areas to some pre-packaged image of success ripped out of the Washingtonian Magazine would be much greater.

I like pho, injera, bulgogi, pupasas, naan qnd pancakes in equal measure, and it's all here.        [/quote]

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