Anonymous wrote:

they don't want to move up the Red line to Ward 3 because it takes longer to get to work, could only buy a crappy tiny house (see Real Estate threads on AU Park/Ch Ch DC etc)

Just a quibble, but, I'm not sure you're actually familiar with the housing stock in Ward 3 in 2013? When compared with the housing stock in neighborhoods actually discussed just on this thread -- Brookland, Petworth, Michigan Park -- the housing stock in Ward 3 can no way be described as "crappy." Small, you bet. Crappy, no.

I will allow there are some amazing restored Victorian rowhouses in Logan, far fewer in Shaw and Bloomingdale. The Hill.

But you guys aren't talking about those $2 million, 4-story grand dames on 13th and Q, right?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I can't help but to feel your "troll-ish" question is really just a judgemental vent about your "friend" in Brooklyn.

OP here. It's not a trollish vent about my Brooklyn friend (her choices are her choices, and don't affect me at all, so no need to vent). But they are thoughts I've had about her situation (which I see echoed on these boards) that I have not said to her face because it would be rude. But on an annoymous forum, I can ask it because I am curious not just for the life choices issue, but where these neighborhoods even are. It's interesting to me that with all the gentrification that's gone on in DC over the last decade (with tons of families in Mt. Pleasant and the Hill and other areas) that the elementary schools are still not good enough to attend.

I just wanted to chime in that this last part is true. You can spend over $1 million on a home in many of the closer in neighborhoods and parts of Capitol Hill and not get a good IB school. We did it because we value the short commute and living in a mixed use neighborhood and honestly didnt really think about schools (which in hindsight was dumb). If we hadn't gotten a spot at a good charter, we would have moved (still trying to meet those obejctives as best we could) and paid a lot more attention to the school boundaries (probably shooting for Ross or Brent).

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Anonymous wrote:
OMG! Claire, you're so conceited!

THIS THREAD IS NOT ABOUT YOU. STFU & GO AWAY ALREADY!

Signed,
Another SAHM with HHI of $60k who lives in one of DC's less-than-desirable school districts

Claire! You have a name.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP is trolling.

She started this thread because the other thread were she was antagonizing me, a mom who makes 60K a year, and others like me, who couldn't afford to rent a one bedroom in her neighborhood, was winding down and she wanted to throw her own poo around some more on another thread. I dared to suggest it's hard on some families having to enter the lottery at 3 or 4 if families weren't ready yet and she slammed everyone having the conversation as entitled. I thought she was raging because she worried I might be trying to change the system to her childrens' detriment, but it turns out she just wanted to take pot shots at people less fortunate than her. How nice. What a big girl you must feel like, OP.

We live in ward 5 in a small home, under 1200 s, in a minority neighborhood with poor IB schools because that is what our family could afford. You know, they let us poors have computers and a wifi connection these days. Shocking, I know!

I could not afford to move to ANY communities in the DC area with good in bound schools. Not even loudoun county, OP, as you slammed me with on the first thread. What is wrong with you, OP, that you are going this far out of your way to make me and others like me feel like shit?

We get that you're rich (or are pretending to me - something doesn't feel right about your post and I think you are a pretender). I also think you're way insecure about everyone else's choices. Even for these boards, your investment in your "brooklyn" friends choices, as well as all of ours, comes across as majorly pathetic. You got so pissed, OP, on the other thread when folks called you a troll. Way to confirm.

Also, the supportive PP is a sock puppet. Probably the OP posting from her phone on her errands. Because she posted the "biggest house in the hippest community" post on the other thread, too, the language and style is identical. What a shitty person.

OMG, PP-- you have serious rage issues, which were clear from the prior thread. If where you live causes you this much angst, you should really consider moving.

Also, I posted maybe once on your thread; last I checked, most of the PPs disagreed with you. Apparently you find it hard to believe that anyone would actually disagree with you??

I like where I live, a lot. People like you cause my angst because, fundamentally, you're just not a decent human being, are you? Just trying to make people feel bad about their choices, mocking your "friends" who chose differently. You really, really need to feel you're better than others, which just makes you seem really desperate. I'll take my ward 5 life for yours any day, actually, crappy schools or not. I'd rather my kids grow up and know how to be decent than to have a perfect school down the street.

OMG! Claire, you're so conceited!

THIS THREAD IS NOT ABOUT YOU. STFU & GO AWAY ALREADY!

Signed,
Another SAHM with HHI of $60k who lives in one of DC's less-than-desirable school districts

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, I can't help but to feel your "troll-ish" question is really just a judgemental vent about your "friend" in Brooklyn.

OP here. It's not a trollish vent about my Brooklyn friend (her choices are her choices, and don't affect me at all, so no need to vent). But they are thoughts I've had about her situation (which I see echoed on these boards) that I have not said to her face because it would be rude. But on an annoymous forum, I can ask it because I am curious not just for the life choices issue, but where these neighborhoods even are. It's interesting to me that with all the gentrification that's gone on in DC over the last decade (with tons of families in Mt. Pleasant and the Hill and other areas) that the elementary schools are still not good enough to attend.

I just wanted to chime in that this last part is true. You can spend over $1 million on a home in many of the closer in neighborhoods and parts of Capitol Hill and not get a good IB school. We did it because we value the short commute and living in a mixed use neighborhood and honestly didnt really think about schools (which in hindsight was dumb). If we hadn't gotten a spot at a good charter, we would have moved (still trying to meet those obejctives as best we could) and paid a lot more attention to the school boundaries (probably shooting for Ross or Brent).

Sorry, but what are you talking about?

Have you looked at Real Estate listings, recently? There is some ugly junk in 20015, 20016, etc. and it's pretending to be desirable (despite looking like a hamster-cage).

No matter how "special" you believe your elementary school to be, when there are more than 25 students per classroom? The "special" DCPS isn't so special. & any attempt to suggest that it is, is either about propping-up your mortgage, or trying to maintain your job at an over-valued elementary school that doesn't even offer foreign languages.

Anonymous wrote:

they don't want to move up the Red line to Ward 3 because it takes longer to get to work, could only buy a crappy tiny house (see Real Estate threads on AU Park/Ch Ch DC etc)

Just a quibble, but, I'm not sure you're actually familiar with the housing stock in Ward 3 in 2013? When compared with the housing stock in neighborhoods actually discussed just on this thread -- Brookland, Petworth, Michigan Park -- the housing stock in Ward 3 can no way be described as "crappy." Small, you bet. Crappy, no.

I will allow there are some amazing restored Victorian rowhouses in Logan, far fewer in Shaw and Bloomingdale. The Hill.

But you guys aren't talking about those $2 million, 4-story grand dames on 13th and Q, right?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP is trolling.

She started this thread because the other thread were she was antagonizing me, a mom who makes 60K a year, and others like me, who couldn't afford to rent a one bedroom in her neighborhood, was winding down and she wanted to throw her own poo around some more on another thread. I dared to suggest it's hard on some families having to enter the lottery at 3 or 4 if families weren't ready yet and she slammed everyone having the conversation as entitled. I thought she was raging because she worried I might be trying to change the system to her childrens' detriment, but it turns out she just wanted to take pot shots at people less fortunate than her. How nice. What a big girl you must feel like, OP.

We live in ward 5 in a small home, under 1200 s, in a minority neighborhood with poor IB schools because that is what our family could afford. You know, they let us poors have computers and a wifi connection these days. Shocking, I know!

I could not afford to move to ANY communities in the DC area with good in bound schools. Not even loudoun county, OP, as you slammed me with on the first thread. What is wrong with you, OP, that you are going this far out of your way to make me and others like me feel like shit?

We get that you're rich (or are pretending to me - something doesn't feel right about your post and I think you are a pretender). I also think you're way insecure about everyone else's choices. Even for these boards, your investment in your "brooklyn" friends choices, as well as all of ours, comes across as majorly pathetic. You got so pissed, OP, on the other thread when folks called you a troll. Way to confirm.

Also, the supportive PP is a sock puppet. Probably the OP posting from her phone on her errands. Because she posted the "biggest house in the hippest community" post on the other thread, too, the language and style is identical. What a shitty person.

OMG, PP-- you have serious rage issues, which were clear from the prior thread. If where you live causes you this much angst, you should really consider moving.

Also, I posted maybe once on your thread; last I checked, most of the PPs disagreed with you. Apparently you find it hard to believe that anyone would actually disagree with you??

I like where I live, a lot. People like you cause my angst because, fundamentally, you're just not a decent human being, are you? Just trying to make people feel bad about their choices, mocking your "friends" who chose differently. You really, really need to feel you're better than others, which just makes you seem really desperate. I'll take my ward 5 life for yours any day, actually, crappy schools or not. I'd rather my kids grow up and know how to be decent than to have a perfect school down the street.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP is trolling.

She started this thread because the other thread were she was antagonizing me, a mom who makes 60K a year, and others like me, who couldn't afford to rent a one bedroom in her neighborhood, was winding down and she wanted to throw her own poo around some more on another thread. I dared to suggest it's hard on some families having to enter the lottery at 3 or 4 if families weren't ready yet and she slammed everyone having the conversation as entitled. I thought she was raging because she worried I might be trying to change the system to her childrens' detriment, but it turns out she just wanted to take pot shots at people less fortunate than her. How nice. What a big girl you must feel like, OP.

We live in ward 5 in a small home, under 1200 s, in a minority neighborhood with poor IB schools because that is what our family could afford. You know, they let us poors have computers and a wifi connection these days. Shocking, I know!

I could not afford to move to ANY communities in the DC area with good in bound schools. Not even loudoun county, OP, as you slammed me with on the first thread. What is wrong with you, OP, that you are going this far out of your way to make me and others like me feel like shit?

We get that you're rich (or are pretending to me - something doesn't feel right about your post and I think you are a pretender). I also think you're way insecure about everyone else's choices. Even for these boards, your investment in your "brooklyn" friends choices, as well as all of ours, comes across as majorly pathetic. You got so pissed, OP, on the other thread when folks called you a troll. Way to confirm.

Also, the supportive PP is a sock puppet. Probably the OP posting from her phone on her errands. Because she posted the "biggest house in the hippest community" post on the other thread, too, the language and style is identical. What a shitty person.

OMG, PP-- you have serious rage issues, which were clear from the prior thread. If where you live causes you this much angst, you should really consider moving.

Also, I posted maybe once on your thread; last I checked, most of the PPs disagreed with you. Apparently you find it hard to believe that anyone would actually disagree with you??

I like where I live, a lot. People like you cause my angst because, fundamentally, you're just not a decent human being, are you? Just trying to make people feel bad about their choices, mocking your "friends" who chose differently. You really, really need to feel you're better than others, which just makes you seem really desperate. I'll take my ward 5 life for yours any day, actually, crappy schools or not. I'd rather my kids grow up and know how to be decent than to have a perfect school down the street.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP is trolling.

She started this thread because the other thread were she was antagonizing me, a mom who makes 60K a year, and others like me, who couldn't afford to rent a one bedroom in her neighborhood, was winding down and she wanted to throw her own poo around some more on another thread. I dared to suggest it's hard on some families having to enter the lottery at 3 or 4 if families weren't ready yet and she slammed everyone having the conversation as entitled. I thought she was raging because she worried I might be trying to change the system to her childrens' detriment, but it turns out she just wanted to take pot shots at people less fortunate than her. How nice. What a big girl you must feel like, OP.

We live in ward 5 in a small home, under 1200 s, in a minority neighborhood with poor IB schools because that is what our family could afford. You know, they let us poors have computers and a wifi connection these days. Shocking, I know!

I could not afford to move to ANY communities in the DC area with good in bound schools. Not even loudoun county, OP, as you slammed me with on the first thread. What is wrong with you, OP, that you are going this far out of your way to make me and others like me feel like shit?

We get that you're rich (or are pretending to me - something doesn't feel right about your post and I think you are a pretender). I also think you're way insecure about everyone else's choices. Even for these boards, your investment in your "brooklyn" friends choices, as well as all of ours, comes across as majorly pathetic. You got so pissed, OP, on the other thread when folks called you a troll. Way to confirm.

Also, the supportive PP is a sock puppet. Probably the OP posting from her phone on her errands. Because she posted the "biggest house in the hippest community" post on the other thread, too, the language and style is identical. What a shitty person.

OMG, PP-- you have serious rage issues, which were clear from the prior thread. If where you live causes you this much angst, you should really consider moving.

Also, I posted maybe once on your thread; last I checked, most of the PPs disagreed with you. Apparently you find it hard to believe that anyone would actually disagree with you??

they don't want to move up the Red line to Ward 3 because it takes longer to get to work, could only buy a crappy tiny house (see Real Estate threads on AU Park/Ch Ch DC etc)

Anonymous wrote:OP is trolling.

She started this thread because the other thread were she was antagonizing me, a mom who makes 60K a year, and others like me, who couldn't afford to rent a one bedroom in her neighborhood, was winding down and she wanted to throw her own poo around some more on another thread. I dared to suggest it's hard on some families having to enter the lottery at 3 or 4 if families weren't ready yet and she slammed everyone having the conversation as entitled. I thought she was raging because she worried I might be trying to change the system to her childrens' detriment, but it turns out she just wanted to take pot shots at people less fortunate than her. How nice. What a big girl you must feel like, OP.

We live in ward 5 in a small home, under 1200 s, in a minority neighborhood with poor IB schools because that is what our family could afford. You know, they let us poors have computers and a wifi connection these days. Shocking, I know!

I could not afford to move to ANY communities in the DC area with good in bound schools. Not even loudoun county, OP, as you slammed me with on the first thread. What is wrong with you, OP, that you are going this far out of your way to make me and others like me feel like shit?

We get that you're rich (or are pretending to me - something doesn't feel right about your post and I think you are a pretender). I also think you're way insecure about everyone else's choices. Even for these boards, your investment in your "brooklyn" friends choices, as well as all of ours, comes across as majorly pathetic. You got so pissed, OP, on the other thread when folks called you a troll. Way to confirm.

Also, the supportive PP is a sock puppet. Probably the OP posting from her phone on her errands. Because she posted the "biggest house in the hippest community" post on the other thread, too, the language and style is identical. What a shitty person.

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand the posts that say "we bought a house 10 years ago and didn't think we could have kids." You can't put your house on the market in the 4 years (at least) that you knew that you had one?

Why don't we just get honest with each other and say we love our bigger homes that we would never be able to afford in a neighborhood with a great IB school. I think all of you who keep harping on the OP even asking the question are full of shit. You want a big house, close to work and you want your kid to go to a good school. Nothing wrong with that right? Not so much in DC. See, you start crowding out my kids who live in a tiny space because I made a choice that my kids' education is more important and moved accordingly. You preach diversity and gentrification as long you don't have to send your kids to the same schools. Puhhleeaseee

In other words, I hope none of you get in my kids' school.