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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Patrick Henry is an 8 on great schools for those that live and die by Great Schools.

We make over 200k, chose S Arlington and LOVE it. We used to live in N Arlington.  Most people denigrating it have never lived here.[/quote]

I lived there for 6 years and hated it. Granted it was between 2002 and 2008 ...[/quote]

Wait - let me guess... Your neighbor's asked you for money.[/quote]

Yes, indeed. Let me guess, your neighbors in South Arlington are just FANTASTIC and it's somehow my fault I got terrible neighbors.[/quote]

My south Arlington neighbors are in fact wonderful. I don't know you, so I can't presume to know why you had such a rough time living below 50. I have noticed that you pipe in with this particular tale of woe pretty often. I certainly wouldn't paint an entire neighborhood ( although I don't know which particular hood you lived in) in a certain light just because of one family. It's such a specific instance of dysfunction - I don't know why you persist on concluding the issue is south Arlington.[/quote]

I lived in Parkway, which is between Glebe, I-395, and Four Mile Run.

If that family shares a duplex with you, hits you up for money every week for months, and has drunken fights between 11pm and 1am, then yeah, it's going to affect your life.

It wasn't just the immediate neighbors. There was a drug dealer complete with pit bulls across the street, two boarding houses within 6 houses on either side, and an extended family buying up every house on the block they could, whose only interaction with us was to yell at us to move our (legally parked on the street) cars whenever we parked in "their" parking spaces. I'm surprised you didn't remember those aspects of my story because I do mention them quite a bit.

I post my tale as a caution -- it's not always peaches and cream in (fill in emerging DC or close-in neighborhood here).

With that said, I'm honestly glad you won the neighbor lottery. [/quote]

I think I kinda know where this is. I'm assuming it's the brick duplexes on the rightha daily side as you drive up Glebe approaching 395? Or very close to there.
I think that area has improved. I generally find the those sorts of arlingnton duplexes to be incredibly ugly, but I feel like that little section has gotten spruced up and is looking cute.
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