Re:Glasgow is trying to make urban living less miserable
by matchbok on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @07:15PM
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That may have been true 10 years ago. In DC, the nicer neighborhoods have some of the best (top 400) elementary schools in the country. This is driven primarily by wealthy younger couples choosing to stay in the city rather than leave for the boring burbs.
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Re:Glasgow is trying to make urban living less miserable
by crispyambulance on Thursday October 17, 2019 @08:37AM
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That's certainly possible. People have been trying to figure out what threshold of gentrification is required to keep families with means from leaving. I expect it's very high in DC and hard to replicate elsewhere.
That said DC is a small place surrounded by some significantly urbanized parts of Maryland and Virginia (eg Silver Spring, Alexandria, and many of the communities with metro stops).