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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Dude, there's really nothing in this thread that is putting down childless people.  That seems to be weirdly manufactured.  Someone just spoke about their own preference for an apartment over a house.

This thread, though, is about schools, which teach children, so it's odd to be focusing on the people without children, particularly when that link to the present dialogue seems to be non-existent.

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