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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm wouldn't do my shopping on Columbia Pike let alone live off of it especially that far down it. I can appreciate some brick ramblers with lake views but my couple times going around there wasn't for me. And if one kid makes it out to an ivy does that mean a school is great? What about the majority who don't?[/quote]

Stuart graduating a bunch of first-generation students who attend George Mason or VCU is probably more impressive than a school like Marshall graduating a bunch of privileged kids who go to George Mason and JMU.

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Pp here, I would buy that. I have always chalked lake barcroft up to areas like fort hunt off of GWP in Alexandria. Decent SFH neighborhoods that suffer from va's tendencies to still clump public housing together in historically minority corridors even if it sinks a few neighborhoods as long as it doesn't touch where the donor class lives.

While it might be easy to spot why the areas are in decline it doesn't make them any less in decline or desirable in the new market's rush towards precieved quality.[/quote]

I'm not sure why you'd say the areas are in decline when the housing prices have been appreciating over the past decade (22% in 22044 and 10% in 22041).  Another thing that tells you the area is holding its own is the fact that the number of white students at Stuart has  been increasing in recent years (which is relevant in this context since whites in Fairfax County usually are at least middle-class).

The recent experience in both eastern Falls Church and South Arlington shows that, at some point, [b]higher-income people are prepared to set aside some of their prejudices against brown and black people when the alternative is living in an outer suburb or exurb with a miserable commute. [/b]

Ah, I wouldn't go that far.
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