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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My commute from Arlington to downtown DC is shorter than the commute from Woodley Park to downtown DC, and I can beat your drive/walk/metro ride to Georgetown  any day of the week.  Most of the people I know who've moved from DC to the burbs have done so because the public schools in DC suck, not because they were desperate for a bigger house.

I doubt that.  I can get downtown from WP (via metro) to Farragut North much faster than you can from Arlington.  That commute takes about 6 minutes.  I can get to Georgetown ( Rock Creek Pkwy) in 5 minutes (with no traffic lights).  I don't have much desire to venture to VA, but I can get to National Airport in 12 minutes (also via RCK) with the possibility of only that one traffic light near the Kennedy Ctr.  I can also get to Bethesda, DuPont Circle, Friendship Heights, Adams Morgan, etc. in less time than it takes you.  Now what?

Woodley Park's neighborhood public school is Oyster.  Most of the people I know w/kids moved to WP specifically for this school.  If they wanted a monolingual school, or to take their chances with a lottery for an immersion school in the burbs, they could have easily afforded to do so.  Once again, my point is that no one who owns a home in WP (please note: I'm not referring to every neighborhood in DC) is being held hostage here.  They live here because they want to, NOT because they have to.  And the quality of life is pretty darn good over here.[/quote]

Bullshit!  I used to live in Adams Morgan right off Adams Mill Road (moved out shortly after waking up to the sound of gunshots just outside my window).  I would routinely meet friends in Georgetown that lived in Rosslyn.  They would ALWAYS beat me to G-Town.  You're full of shit.  And no one claimed you're a hostage in DC---just that DC is more dangerous than burbs.  But hey, if you're willing to let your kids live in a place where there odds of getting murdered are several times higher than in the burbs just so you can think of yourself as urban, then more power to you![/quote]

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