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I lived in that neighborhood (Tara-Leeway) for several years and I think Westover is super cute and charming (we spent a lot of time at the beer garden and Lost Dog) but the Lee-Harrison area is kind of depressing (although I did love District Taco and Taqueria Pablano, LOL). That said, we are an inter-racial couple and I couldn't help but notice I was frequently one of the, if not THE, only minorities pretty much everywhere we went (except for people working in restaurants). I grew up being one of two minority children in my grade K-12 and I didn't want my children to be subjected to that life, so we moved a little further out to Fairfax County and the difference in amount of diversity is unreal! My kids go to a highly rated ES that is minority white and it makes me really happy!! I understand that this may not be your concern if you are not a minority or married to a minority, but it was really important for us for our child to not be surrounded by one homogenous group of people, so we moved out of north arlington when we had kids. Arlington is really nice, and very convenient if you work in DC, but definitely not diverse.*

*Note that south arlington is far more diverse than the northern half of the county but it's mostly hispanic, whereas fairfax county ALSO has really large asian, south asian, african, and middle eastern communities.[/quote]

Fairfax is also a much larger county.

Arlington North of 66 is definitely not diverse but the middle of the county provides a good balance of diversity+good performing schools. There's a reason parents fight to not be zoned away from W-L. My kids have attended Long Branch, TJ, W-L , all schools where White students are <50%. DD is now looking at colleges and prefers a LAC but is finding it really bizarre how White they all are. When DS was younger we were watching some HS-based movie and he asked why they made all the kids white? Diversity is their normal.[/quote]

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