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Loudoun is dominated by families making a solid 100k-200k a year. Not much poverty or single-person/young couple households, comparatively speaking, to drag the averages down. Fairfax and to a greater extent Montgomery is divided more sharply between the "have a lots" and the "not having much." In DC it is much worse. 
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There's a value judgment there, it seems, that it's best to live in a county that's one giant Toll Brothers subdivision full of people commuting to places with more jobs and more diversity.  That's the essence of the exurban minsdet, as I've always understood it.  If you can't run with the "have a lots," move further out so you don't have to mix with those "not having much."[/quote]

It is not "if you can't run with the haves" ... What it's more like, the middle class has always been able to run with the haves. But, if you value SES diversity, you have to live I the exurbs bacause the city and close in burbs polarize their communities putting the poors in certain neighborhoods and keeping them away from the rich kids. It disgusts some people.[/quote]

How do you get the SES diversity when everyone is making $100-200K a year and there is "not much poverty" to "drag the averages down"?   Sounds like people in the exurbs can't agree on what they offer, or are talking out of both sides of their mouths.

Nope, the exurbs are where people run off to when they want to live in a bubble where everyone is above-average and has a shiny new house in the latest development "away from it all."  It's a terrible development model because there's always one more subdivision to be built further out and no one ever bothers to make sure there are jobs nearby or a transportation infrastructure in place to support all the new commuters.

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No. All new communities are required to have MPDUs, moderately priced dwelling units. Out neighborhood, for example, has approx 50 - 3 br houses that were govt. subsidized. They are dispersed throughout the neighborhood of 300 homes. It integrates the whole community.

We have 3 grocery stores close by, 3 elementary school, 3 high schools, NIH, MedImmune, Johns Hopkins ... Nobody has to go to DC for a job, mostly they work close by. If we need to go to DC the train is 5 min from our neighborhood.

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Thanks for sharing but you do not live in an exurb.[/quote]

Germantown, Darnestown,, Poolesville, clarksburg... Most people inside the beltway think it is the country. My community to NIH is 15 min. Same as the commute to JH, medimmune, etc.

If I mention these locations on a real estate post surely they think it is an exurb.  All these locations fit what I describe.[/quote]

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