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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the PP who lives near Yorktown and couldn't find a house near W-L.  We looked at 60+ houses in Arlington (North and South) and Falls Church.  The only houses in my range in W-L at the time we were looking were either 1- tiny townhouses with big monthly HOA fees that were walkable to metro but had no yard, or 2- the occasional single family house that was on a very busy part of Washington Blvd (which made me nervous) or 3- fixer-uppers needing $100K+ of work, which we didn't have.  It was pretty discouraging.

We lucked into a 1940's cape that needed a bit of work, not far from Yorktown.  I love the 'hood but my street definitely has cheaper houses than other streets in the neighborhood, due to a few owners who have held their houses for a long time and are currently renting them and letting them get a bit run-down.  (I think the fact that my next-door neighbor had about 6 not-that-nice cars parked at his house could have scared off some buyers, too.)  So our house was cheap for the zip code and as a single mom, my income is definitely lower than the average household income for the zip and probably the school.  So yes, we will probably be lower-income in our rich school.  This is a concern for me, but it doesn't keep me up at night.

(I think my note about how kids tend to hang with kids who are like them was kind of misconstrued.  I meant that smart, motivated kids will generally find other smart, motivated kids in their honors/AP/IB track classes and will hang with them.  those kids are at Wakefield and TC Williams, just as they are at Yorktown.)[/quote]

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