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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bethesda, Cleveland Park, Kensington, Falls Church, and Takoma Park are all just as walkable to parks, coffee shops, and transit and have better schools than most of Arlington.

As for schools, the same cohort ([b]white kids[/b]) at Einstein do as well as similar kids at Whitman, which is far better than Arlington’s [b]highest rated school (Yorktown[/b]). And Einstein is looked down on by people in MoCo. Yorktown wouldn’t even be a Top 5 school in Fairfax or MoCo.

Regarding crime, [b]Arlington is around a 22 crime score, whereas Bethesda is a 14[/b]. Arlington is not that safe compared to other walkable suburbs that [b]cost just as much or less[/b].[/quote]

I've bolded the parts of your post that make little to no sense.  Maybe have a little less Sunday night wine before posting?[/quote]

I don’t know what’s so hard to understand. There are sites where you can compare crime rates, like this one:

https://www.bestplaces.net/crime/?city1=52407125&city2=55103000

Arlington has around a 75% higher violent crime rate than Bethesda and double the amount of property crime.

It also has much worse schools than Bethesda. No one is arguing that Wakefield, W-L, and Yorktown are better than Walter Johnson, BCC, and Whitman. One could argue that Bethesda’s least regarded school, Walter Johnson, is better than Yorktown. PP was also arguing that Arlington schools are so bad that when you examine metrics by the same racial or socio economic group, kids are faring better in Albert Einstein HS in Wheaton than in Yorktown, which is a bad sign for Arlington considering Albert Einstein is in Wheaton and has a lot of kids who aren’t mostly privileged UMC kids like the students at Yorktown. Also Einstein is looked down upon by a lot of parents on here from MoCo.

Arlington has actual diversity- including many English language learners and students on free lunch, and that affects test scores, which you are equating with “better schools.”  You think the quality of instruction is better in Bethesda and than you’re dreaming.

Speaking of schools, Virginia’s public college system trounces Maryland’s.
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