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[quote=Anonymous]I hope and would like to think that these fears - of poorer students and higher percentages of minorities being factors to avoid when looking at schools - will diminish as my generation (30 yo) and younger buy houses, raise children, and send them to school. We live in an increasingly mixed race, multicultural, economically stratified (between rich and everyone else) society, I think racism is lessening among younger people, people perhaps want to live more modestly than years past and not be saddled with large debt - all of which could add up to firmly middle class people being more accepting of living amongst those who are less well off financially. I and many of my friends are comfortable with moving into "transitional" areas, which are much cheaper than say bethesda, because of the things i mentioned, and slso because there are a lot of these types of areas within pretty good commuting distance to our jobs in DC. Anyway, because the DC metro area is very urbanized, you'd have to go pretty far out to get to affordable middle class white suburban enclaves if that was what you wanted. Metropolitan areas are about diversity, and trying to avoid that diversity is a costly and perhaps isolating endeavor. [/quote]

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