When did Georgetown die?

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So what are the upscale/ritzy neighborhoods of DC now if any?? My husband and I just moved here from Dallas and it seems like there isn't any perfectly maintained, chic, upscale neighborhoods like what we're used to. Lots of newly gentrified hoods that are still kinda sketchy that appeal to young people. I had thought it was Georgetown and some of the streets are very quaint but commercial areas are disgusting-empty storefronts, homeless people pissing on the street...
Kalorama seems okay but it's pretty small

cleveland park, true Capitol Hill, Kent, Palisades, Colonial Village, parts of Shepard Park and Crestview. New money-the Wharf.

Also Spring Valley and Massachusetts Heights. Anything off of Foxhall.

I've lived in both Highland Park in Dallas, and Cleveland and Woodley Park (and have friends in the other neighborhoods you mention), and I get pp's point. The neighborhoods are really not comparable. For whatever reason, people in DC don't spend as much time and $$ on maintaining and decorating their homes. If you look at Park Cities real estate listings, the photos almost all look like they're from a high-end home decor magazine.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone shops online now + pain in the neck parking + sky high rents.

+increase in crime, +airplane noise, + rat problem. Overpriced Gtown rents and real estate prices need to come back to reality.

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And now, J. Paul's is closing!

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Perhaps I am an outlier but we lived in Georgetown from 2013-17 with our two young kids and LOVED it. Went to Hyde Addison, played at Volta and Guy Mason, shopped and ate on Wisconsin. No complaints! Really great for young families. Liked it better than Dupont/Adams Morgan where we had lived for more than a decade.

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Anonymous wrote:Was just there tonight and it was completely hopping, totally busy. There are great light displays everywhere and more coming. Streets were packed. Perhaps few of you have been there recently?

We just went shopping in Georgetown today for Black Friday. Tons of people, long lines in shops, and we bought a lot. I like shopping in Georgetown. I will admit I dont like the RH being replaced with Wawa though.

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Anonymous wrote:And now, J. Paul's is closing!

That’s really too bad.

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So what are the upscale/ritzy neighborhoods of DC now if any?? My husband and I just moved here from Dallas and it seems like there isn't any perfectly maintained, chic, upscale neighborhoods like what we're used to. Lots of newly gentrified hoods that are still kinda sketchy that appeal to young people. I had thought it was Georgetown and some of the streets are very quaint but commercial areas are disgusting-empty storefronts, homeless people pissing on the street...
Kalorama seems okay but it's pretty small

Good lord, I’m happy we aren’t Dallas, then. Perfectly maintained usually means snobby, WASPy, and dull as shit.

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So what are the upscale/ritzy neighborhoods of DC now if any?? My husband and I just moved here from Dallas and it seems like there isn't any perfectly maintained, chic, upscale neighborhoods like what we're used to. Lots of newly gentrified hoods that are still kinda sketchy that appeal to young people. I had thought it was Georgetown and some of the streets are very quaint but commercial areas are disgusting-empty storefronts, homeless people pissing on the street...
Kalorama seems okay but it's pretty small

cleveland park, true Capitol Hill, Kent, Palisades, Colonial Village, parts of Shepard Park and Crestview. New money-the Wharf.

Also Spring Valley and Massachusetts Heights. Anything off of Foxhall.

I've lived in both Highland Park in Dallas, and Cleveland and Woodley Park (and have friends in the other neighborhoods you mention), and I get pp's point. The neighborhoods are really not comparable. For whatever reason, people in DC don't spend as much time and $$ on maintaining and decorating their homes. If you look at Park Cities real estate listings, the photos almost all look like they're from a high-end home decor magazine.

To the extent such thing exists in dc, it’s in Kent or Wesley Heights or Mass Ave Heights. Or spring valley if you are ok with mustard gas, etc.

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We had dinner at Tony and Joe's a couple of weeks ago. It was packed and the food was really good. I did hear that J.Pauls is closing and the absence of all the old school watering holes probably contributes to the lack of energy.

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Anonymous wrote:We had dinner at Tony and Joe's a couple of weeks ago. It was packed and the food was really good. I did hear that J.Pauls is closing and the absence of all the old school watering holes probably contributes to the lack of energy.

All of the new happening restaurants are opening everywhere other than Georgetown: Wharf, Nats Stadium, H & U street, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:I recall seeing seriously sun-faded items of clothing and shoes in several store window displays a few years ago--as if the merchants had had the same items in the window for ages and paid zero attention to the awful fading and dustiness of their display. Little details like that turned me off long ago. OP's term "run down" is right. Combine that with pain in the neck parking and you've got an area that's just not appealing.

That sounds like a block on Wisconsin where the clothing and shoe stores are assumed to be money laundering businessses. For some reason, they don’t seem to be a law enforcement target.

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A lot of what you observe is just the business cycle and the fact that some brick and mortar retailers are facing challenges. A couple of years ago there was sky-is-falling blogging that Cleveland Park was dying. Turned out it was an orchestrated social media campaign by development interests to generate enough hysteria to bust zoning and historic restrictions to build big and tall. Turned out that CP was not dying at all.

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Anonymous wrote:
So what are the upscale/ritzy neighborhoods of DC now if any?? My husband and I just moved here from Dallas and it seems like there isn't any perfectly maintained, chic, upscale neighborhoods like what we're used to. Lots of newly gentrified hoods that are still kinda sketchy that appeal to young people. I had thought it was Georgetown and some of the streets are very quaint but commercial areas are disgusting-empty storefronts, homeless people pissing on the street...
Kalorama seems okay but it's pretty small

cleveland park, true Capitol Hill, Kent, Palisades, Colonial Village, parts of Shepard Park and Crestview. New money-the Wharf.

Also Spring Valley and Massachusetts Heights. Anything off of Foxhall.

I've lived in both Highland Park in Dallas, and Cleveland and Woodley Park (and have friends in the other neighborhoods you mention), and I get pp's point. The neighborhoods are really not comparable. For whatever reason, people in DC don't spend as much time and $$ on maintaining and decorating their homes. If you look at Park Cities real estate listings, the photos almost all look like they're from a high-end home decor magazine.

Yeah, no.

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Say what you will about Georgetown but it’s so much better than the Navy Yard.
I know it has this and that and blah blah blah, but there’s something so creepy about it. It’s like a great-on-paper boyfriend but you keep having dreams that he’s an axe murderer. And yesterday he brought home an axe so he could “chop wood.”

Or like you got adopted and you told your new parents you like Disney and they got an Ariel to come for your birthday but now she’s just sitting in your living room not leaving and she seems afraid and you’re not sure if she’s a slave or what.

Anyway I have a lot of feelings about the Navy Yard.

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Anonymous wrote:Say what you will about Georgetown but it’s so much better than the Navy Yard.
I know it has this and that and blah blah blah, but there’s something so creepy about it. It’s like a great-on-paper boyfriend but you keep having dreams that he’s an axe murderer. And yesterday he brought home an axe so he could “chop wood.”

Or like you got adopted and you told your new parents you like Disney and they got an Ariel to come for your birthday but now she’s just sitting in your living room not leaving and she seems afraid and you’re not sure if she’s a slave or what.

Anyway I have a lot of feelings about the Navy Yard.

Eh, I've lived in Navy Yard for over 3 years and it really isn't creepy- it feels safe, somewhat clean, a FEW local smaller establishments (RIP Justin's cafe) in addition to the annoying fast casual chain places. It certainly has a very high rate of turnover as far as residents go, but that's expected when it's basically all apartment buildings. with DOT, Barracks Row, Nats Park, and Navy Yard in such close proximity, it's a nice crowd year round. I dunno I grew up in this area and I prefer it to a lot of other DC neighborhoods