DC Area Rankings

[Anonymous]

Here is a little project, if you may. Please rank these areas according to best deal for safety, walkability, metro access, prestige, shopping and dinning.

Kalorama, Columbia Heights, Capitol Hill, Logan Circle, Shaw

[Anonymous]

1. Kal
2. Cap Hl
3. Lo Cir
4. Shaw
5. Col Hts

[Anonymous]

Kalorama
Logan circle
Cap Hill
Shaw
Co Hi


Why not Adams Morgan and Mt Pleasant? And Meridian Park area?

[Anonymous]

Logan circle
Kalorama
Shaw
Cap Hill
Co Hi

[Anonymous]

Prestige, sure. But what dining, shopping, walkability and metro access is in Kalorama?

1. Logan

[Anonymous]

Kalorama is walking distance from Dupont Circle metro, restaurants and shopping, and part of it also walkable from Woodley Park metro and restaurants.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. Kal
2. Cap Hl
3. Lo Cir
4. Shaw
5. Col Hts

I agree with this ranking. Though Cap Hill is pretty large and some areas are safer than others.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Kalorama is walking distance from Dupont Circle metro, restaurants and shopping, and part of it also walkable from Woodley Park metro and restaurants.

If you're a gazelle, maybe. It's not like Logan, where it's all right out your front door.

[Anonymous]

Walk scores:

1. Logan Circle / Shaw 97
3. Columbia Heights 96
4. Kalorama 90
5. Cap Hill 88

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here is a little project, if you may. Please rank these areas according to best deal for safety, walkability, metro access, prestige, shopping and dinning.

Kalorama, Columbia Heights, Capitol Hill, Logan Circle, Shaw

I think the rankings would change for most people based on how you weight your factors, but in any case I don't see how Capitol Hill wouldn't come out #1, then maybe Kalorama, then the others in no particular order... From Capitol Hill you can walk to multiple metros, shopping/dining all over the place, and walk anywhere from H St., Navy Yard, and Union Market. It's an odd subset for comparison, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Here is a little project, if you may. Please rank these areas according to best deal for safety, walkability, metro access, prestige, shopping and dinning.

Kalorama, Columbia Heights, Capitol Hill, Logan Circle, Shaw

I think the rankings would change for most people based on how you weight your factors, but in any case I don't see how Capitol Hill wouldn't come out #1, then maybe Kalorama, then the others in no particular order... From Capitol Hill you can walk to multiple metros, shopping/dining all over the place, and walk anywhere from H St., Navy Yard, and Union Market. It's an odd subset for comparison, though.

Capitol Hill is the only one of these neighborhoods that doesn't have a walk score that qualifies as "walker's paradise." Kalorama just barely makes the cut.

Is there anywhere in Capitol Hill where literally everything you could possibly need -- bars/restaurants, pharmacies, hardware stores, banks, post office, hair salons, grocery stores, etc. -- is within a five minute walk of your front door?

Nope. That's Logan.

Maybe this thread should be changed to best neighborhoods when you have kids. Because that's clearly the bias being shown.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kalorama is walking distance from Dupont Circle metro, restaurants and shopping, and part of it also walkable from Woodley Park metro and restaurants.

If you're a gazelle, maybe. It's not like Logan, where it's all right out your front door.

Well, okay, I guess it depends on how you define walkable.The Spanish Steps are 8 minutes from the Dupont metro and even closer to the restaurants on Connecticut. The super exclusive Kalorama enclave where the Obamas and Kushners live/d is about the furthest out from Dupont, maybe 15 minutes walking. The Normandy Hotel and the apartment buildings on Connecticut are maybe 5 minutes to the upper Dupont restaurants and even walkable (maybe 15 minutes) to Adams Morgan. No, not doorstep close, but not gazelle distant, either.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kalorama is walking distance from Dupont Circle metro, restaurants and shopping, and part of it also walkable from Woodley Park metro and restaurants.

If you're a gazelle, maybe. It's not like Logan, where it's all right out your front door.

Well, okay, I guess it depends on how you define walkable.The Spanish Steps are 8 minutes from the Dupont metro and even closer to the restaurants on Connecticut. The super exclusive Kalorama enclave where the Obamas and Kushners live/d is about the furthest out from Dupont, maybe 15 minutes walking. The Normandy Hotel and the apartment buildings on Connecticut are maybe 5 minutes to the upper Dupont restaurants and even walkable (maybe 15 minutes) to Adams Morgan. No, not doorstep close, but not gazelle distant, either.

Here's a ranking of DC neighborhoods by walk score. Kalorama is 12th. Not impressive.

https://www.walkscore.com/DC/Washington_D.C.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kalorama is walking distance from Dupont Circle metro, restaurants and shopping, and part of it also walkable from Woodley Park metro and restaurants.

If you're a gazelle, maybe. It's not like Logan, where it's all right out your front door.

Well, okay, I guess it depends on how you define walkable.The Spanish Steps are 8 minutes from the Dupont metro and even closer to the restaurants on Connecticut. The super exclusive Kalorama enclave where the Obamas and Kushners live/d is about the furthest out from Dupont, maybe 15 minutes walking. The Normandy Hotel and the apartment buildings on Connecticut are maybe 5 minutes to the upper Dupont restaurants and even walkable (maybe 15 minutes) to Adams Morgan. No, not doorstep close, but not gazelle distant, either.

I see. You define walkable by excluding the heart of the neighborhood and looking only at how close the neighborhood fringes are to other neighborhoods that are, in fact, walkable.

Got it.

[Anonymous]

Kalorama
Logan Circle
Capitol Hill (hugely overrated but has a name)
Shaw (underrated)
Union Station Homeless Encampment
Columbia Heights