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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Living options at $500k in north arlington? Not with 2 kids.[/quote]

Seriously. That poster needs to stfu. They don't have a clue... And yes - they are the reason the older generation hates all of us.[/quote]

It's called a small apartment.  You can tell me to stfu, but it's exactly what we did on a modest budget.  I'm a parent with kids in aps,  two of them, in fact.  We made huge housing compromises.  I know exactly what I'm talking about.  You may not consider that a reasonable compromise or option and that's your choice.  Not sure why the older generation would hate me for doing that.[/quote]

Everyone else hates you because you're a sanctimonious ass.[/quote]

Speak for yourself.  PP is totally right that you can make sacrifices on living space to get a better school.  Why so much hate for her because she did -- is she wrecking your story that it's not possible? [/quote]

Because people have made sacrifices to live even in south Arlington. It's shockingly out of touch and entitled to not realize that. That includes all of the single parents, and hard working immigrants that are desperately trying to make a better life for their kids. I'm sure there is a very small percentage of people living south of 50 , around the pike, that opted for new construction and square footage. it's likely smaller than the people you see on these threads gloating over "'buying into"' science focus and now discovery. 
Parents make the best choice they can wih the resources they've got. This thread has basically turned into a forum about APS and CB policy. The county as a whole has taken a bit of a laissez faire approach to planning in regards to affordable housing, density, and schools. It's a good thing that there  are more well educated, middle class voices rising up from other parts of the county. It's necessary to point out disparities in allotted  resources - from all sides. Certainly when you concentrate poverty and English language learners, you are creating an even more expensive school to educate. These decisions ( or lack there of) effect us all. 
It's wonderful that pp had the means to live in north Arlington. It's terribly out of touch to assume with just a bit of adjustment everyone else could do the same. It's astounding to hear a north Arlington apt referred to as a sacrifice. I would have loved to afford that. We rented an apt  in south arl...
Imagining you made a superior real estate decision doesn't add to this conversation. It's a distraction. There is a forum for that. Please take those remarks there. 
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Wow.  It looks like someone struck a nerve.  I think the post about making compromises assumed the ability to own a home in the $500k range.  I don't think that poster suggested that someone without some means could do it, or was so "out of touch" to think that everyone can just move to N. Arlington. She's probably assuming that someone who has the time and inclination to have this fight on DCUM probably falls into the category of someone with at least some resources.  And if she's wrong then it's just another person wrong on the internet.  And that's ok.  There are a lot of posters who complain that they bought a nice house in a nice neighborhood in S. Arlington, only to be surprised that the schools don't measure up to their N. Arlington counterparts.  Presumably that was her audience.[/quote]

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