Differences Amongst NW DC Neighborhoods

[Anonymous]

We have all of this in Tenleytown. Tons of kids, block parties, and great community feel. Plus it’s very walkable in a way some of those other neighborhoods are not, if that is something you value. My kids go to Janney and we are very happy there.

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DP, but also interested in NW communities. We have a 10 yo and 12 yo. Are there others the OP hasn't mentioned that we should consider?

[Anonymous]

At 3-3.5 mil, you won’t find a lot of hanging out in the neighborhood. Your kids will be in private and you will spend a lot of time driving them around. Just find a house you like.

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Anonymous wrote:DP, but also interested in NW communities. We have a 10 yo and 12 yo. Are there others the OP hasn't mentioned that we should consider?

Budget and do you actually mean WOTP?

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Anonymous wrote:DP, but also interested in NW communities. We have a 10 yo and 12 yo. Are there others the OP hasn't mentioned that we should consider?

Budget and do you actually mean WOTP?

I'll start a new thread - don't want to hijack OP's!

[Anonymous]

For other neighborhoods --

If you go on redfin and type in "deal middle school" basically all of those neighborhoods (give or take) are going to give young family vibes.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why anyone chooses to live in any of these neighborhoods in Upper Caucasia, to be honest. You’re basically paying top dollar to live in what are essentially suburbs - except you’re stuck with city services and city schools and can’t walk anywhere. Why bother? It’s the worst of both worlds.

Gimme a break. I live EOTP but if you think people who live in Kent and Wesley Heights are "stuck with city schools" you're thick in the head. Nobody with a $3.5M budget is worrying about neighborhood schools.

But they’re still stuck with city services. And most of them don’t have school aged kids anyway.

I just don’t get it. Those neighborhoods are BORING.

I live in WH and don't care about schools or "city services" - bluntly, we can pay for better services privately.

You can’t pay for a different mayor, different police department, different water company, etc. Nice try.

I’m not impressed with your money.

And you’re neighborhood is BORING.

DP. Your'e right, my neighborhood in upper NW is boring, but it's not as boring as the neighborhood in the actual Maryland suburbs I grew up in — it's a lot easier to walk to the store, to restaurants, to friends' houses (because the lots are smaller), to school (my high school was not walkable from my childhood house, and my intermediate school was much farther than Deal is from my house now). It takes me less than 35 minutes door to door to get to my office. I have absolutely no complaints with the water company (you think WSSC is vastly better than D.C. Water?) and crime is rising in most of the nearby suburbs, too, so why do I want a different police department? And my house was cheaper and has a lower tax rate than similar houses in Chevy Chase, Md., were when we bought it. It's smaller, sure, but it's a little obtuse to pretend there's just NO POSSIBLE REASON anyone would rather live in upper NW than in the suburbs.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why anyone chooses to live in any of these neighborhoods in Upper Caucasia, to be honest. You’re basically paying top dollar to live in what are essentially suburbs - except you’re stuck with city services and city schools and can’t walk anywhere. Why bother? It’s the worst of both worlds.

Please let us know where you live. Must be an edgy neighborhood based on the not-at-all-tired "Upper Caucasia" mention.

I live near Logan Circle. In the actual city. If I wanted to live in the suburbs I’d actually live in the suburbs.

Someone who lives in Logan Circle -- majority white and getting whiter every day -- mocking the whiteness of Upper NW is hilarious.

My long-term neighbors on both sides (both owners, both rowhomes) are black. How often are you seeing that in any of the neighborhoods being discussed on this thread?

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Anonymous wrote:We are considering a few different DC neighborhoods but I am curious from folks who live there what the vibe is. I'd really love my kids (5 and 7) to make friends with other kids on the street and have a community feeling (think street parties for big holidays, neighbors helping each other, kids trick or treating, etc.)

-Palisades
-AU Park
-Kent
-Wesley Heights
-Berkley

Thank you!

They are all pretty much car-dependent "suburban" neighborhoods. Parts of Palisades and AU Park very much have a community feeling. The others are a little more patrician.

[Anonymous]

You should add Cleveland Park and Chevy Chase to your list--much tighter sense of community than WH.

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Anonymous wrote:OP given the ones you like, you might also want to look at Forest Hills.

Solid suggestion. I’d add that Forest Hills has a really wide range of homes and is traditionally the most diverse of the $$$ neighborhoods.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why anyone chooses to live in any of these neighborhoods in Upper Caucasia, to be honest. You’re basically paying top dollar to live in what are essentially suburbs - except you’re stuck with city services and city schools and can’t walk anywhere. Why bother? It’s the worst of both worlds.

Please let us know where you live. Must be an edgy neighborhood based on the not-at-all-tired "Upper Caucasia" mention.

I live near Logan Circle. In the actual city. If I wanted to live in the suburbs I’d actually live in the suburbs.

Someone who lives in Logan Circle -- majority white and getting whiter every day -- mocking the whiteness of Upper NW is hilarious.

My long-term neighbors on both sides (both owners, both rowhomes) are black. How often are you seeing that in any of the neighborhoods being discussed on this thread?

Lol keep it coming, PP

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Anonymous wrote:We are considering a few different DC neighborhoods but I am curious from folks who live there what the vibe is. I'd really love my kids (5 and 7) to make friends with other kids on the street and have a community feeling (think street parties for big holidays, neighbors helping each other, kids trick or treating, etc.)

-Palisades
-AU Park
-Kent
-Wesley Heights
-Berkley

Thank you!

You want either of the first two. The last three are full of the ultra-wealthy who isolate themselves in mansions.

+1 Only 14% of the 20007 zip code, which is everything you list except Palisades and AU Park, is families with children under 18. In the 20016 zip code the population is 26% families with children under 18.

OP here. This is really interesting data. Thanks.

There’s an airplane noise thread; check it out don’t buy in the Palisades, Kent, Berkeley, Foxhall. It’s not worth the aggravation, pollution and worrying about the property values.

AU Park isn’t super popular. It could be that parts of it are in the formerly used defense site (Spring Valley FUDS), directly under humongous transmission towers or just meh.

Wesley Heights. If you can afford it, Woodley Park. You’ll be spending millions so don’t buy a lemon location

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Anonymous wrote:We are considering a few different DC neighborhoods but I am curious from folks who live there what the vibe is. I'd really love my kids (5 and 7) to make friends with other kids on the street and have a community feeling (think street parties for big holidays, neighbors helping each other, kids trick or treating, etc.)

-Palisades
-AU Park
-Kent
-Wesley Heights
-Berkley

Thank you!

They are all pretty much car-dependent "suburban" neighborhoods. Parts of Palisades and AU Park very much have a community feeling. The others are a little more patrician.

Give me patrician any day. Every child on Halloween asked how many, please and thank you. And that’s how you know.

[Anonymous]

The neighborhood around the Turtle Park near AU was always teeming with families and the vibe that OP is looking for. The majority of kids walk/bike/scooter to Janey. Fun!

However, my understanding is that there has been an increase in homeless people and crime in Tenleytown which is immediately adjacent. I would look into that more. It’s the only potential negative that I can think of, but it could be a serious one.