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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Without charter schools, one would be able to buy a rowhouse for $250K in Petworth, Brightwood Park, etc. [/quote]
But nobody would.[/quote]

Sure they would. People without kids. [/quote]
Why do people without kids need a house? I would stay in an apartment.[/quote]

To have space for stuff people like. Like hobbies, which are a thing that childless adults often use to fill their free time. I have heard tales of craft rooms, and libraries, and gyms, and guest bedrooms.[/quote]

So, is there some narrative here, or is this purely a tangent?

DC shouldn't have good schools so that the childless can have hobby rooms?[/quote]

People without children are not a sub-species of individuals undeserving of full, examined lives. They are not "filling their time" anymore than parents of children are "filling time." If they want to have a guest bedroom, and can afford a mortgage, it's none of your business. We could also look at the HGTV-esque millennial materialism - where each child "needs" their own room and parents "need" an en suite bathroom. Many parents who insist on these features magically survived a childhood where they shared bedrooms and bathrooms. It's not charter schools driving up the prices of neighborhoods - it's people not wanting to spend hours commuting, the fact that people are single longer (or divorced) - this is why you see PG country experiencing mass growth even though the schools are not great, or Wheaton experiencing a "renaissance."[/quote]

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