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[quote=Anonymous]My family moved from living in the city of San Francisco to Mclean and then the Cherrydale neighborhood of Arlington and much prefer Arlington.  Our neighborhood in Mclean had larger lots and to get anywhere you had to get in your car.  We hardly ever saw our neighbors and there was absolutely no community feel or cohesiveness.  It's not that people weren't nice or friendly and we lived in a neighborhood with plenty of families - we just hardly ever saw them and it just felt sterile and way too suburban.  Cherrydale has a spaghetti dinner, neighborhood parade, 4th of July party, ice cream social, neighborhood yard sale every year, as well as other events, and we can walk to both the central and neighborhood libraries, some good restaurants, a fabulous hardware store, grocery stores, ice cream, etc. and it's a little less than a mile walk to the metro, an easy commute into DC or other parts of northern Virginia.

We have been very happy with the public schools and think W-L is a great high school despite what some people say on this board.  One of the things we like about it is that it is so diverse in every way possible that everyone finds "their group" and no one type of clique dominates the culture of the school.  A couple of my kids have been multiple sport varsity athletes and I have spent a lot of time around the other HSs mentioned on this thread; I'd pick W-L 10x over before any of the others.  I think our SB is doing a good job keeping up with a daunting capacity crunch but i agree with the other posters that HS seats in the coming years are a real concern.[/quote]

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