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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
I am seriously wondering if I am communicating with an adult. You changed my post to write "[b]The DMV is a huge area that provides lots of housing choices for everyone [i]who has lots of money[/i]. [/b]" So now you are excluding Hyattsville from the DMV? Hyattsville is closer to downtown Silver Spring than the vast majority of Montgomery County. These arbitrary political boundaries are unimportant if the point is whether or not people have access to affordable housing. You claim that people really just work in DC and commute anyway, so being close-in and next to Metro is important. But when given evidence that is is very much possible to meet all of these demands for someone that commutes to DC every day, you refuse to accept it. [/quote]

I'm the PP who fixed your post for you.

Arbitrary political boundaries may be unimportant, but location is very very very very very important.

If the "affordable housing" is in Hagerstown, and you work in Montgomery County, and you spend four hours a day in the car commuting (and push the state to pay for widening the highway), and you're still paying half of your income (or more) for housing plus transportation, then you really don't have access to affordable housing.

Or, if the "affordable housing" is in apartment complexes way up Georgia Avenue, and you have to take 3 buses to get to your job (and hope you don't get run over on your way to or from the bus stop), and you're doubling up with extended family or others, and you're still paying half of your income (or more) for housing plus transportation, then you really don't have access to affordable housing.

I have never said that everyone works in DC, nor would I, because obviously that's false.[/quote]

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