If a high profile murder took place in your neighborhood , are you staying or are you moving?

[Anonymous]

Interested in hearing both sides.

What drives people to stay and what drives people to move? Which would be your/your family?

[Anonymous]

Unless it happened to my next door neighbor, no. I love my neighborhood and my kids love their school.

[Anonymous]

Potomac had one not many people moved.

North Potomac had more than one no one moved.

[Anonymous]

Give an example. Are you talking like the OJ or Karen Read trials?

I think I would only move if I was so close that the media attention and looky loos became unbearable. Otherwise I’d stay.

[Anonymous]

One of my neighbors had PPP and a mental break too terrible to talk about. I still cry every time I pass the house, but I never thought about moving.

[Anonymous]

What do you mean by "high profile" murder? Someone "famous"?

A murder is a murder, if the person murdered was famous or not doesn't matter.

Also, murders can happen anywhere, anytime. Rich, poor, here, there, doesn't matter. Of course they occur more often in certain situations or places, but no place is immune from them, so no I wouldn't move because of something silly like that. Now if they occurred regularly like weekly, yeah, probably would.

[Anonymous]

High profile murders are high profile because they’re sensational and unexpected.

It’s ROUTINE murders that make you want to leave a neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:High profile murders are high profile because they’re sensational and unexpected.

It’s ROUTINE murders that make you want to leave a neighborhood.

Take your sensible attitude somewhere else.

[Anonymous]

I have had two family members die in their homes and lived near other in-home deaths.
Everyone I know considers moving. It’s part of the grieving / healing process. Some went on to move.
(None of these were related to local crime, just individual deaths.)

[Anonymous]

Op here. High profile not necessarily celebrity but, examples would be Mildred Horn, Bishop family, Goff family, Silver Spring Murder House, Savopoulos Family. Terribly sad tragedies that made the headlines and made them higher profile than sadly, common neighborhood violence and crime like you would’ve found in Shaw or Trinidad in the 80s-90s. I lived in DC proper during the murder capital days. Questions like this come to my mind and are what makes me curious who stays and who moves and in what circumstance.

[Anonymous]

What does high profile mean?

There have been a number of shootings in our NE DC neighborhood in the past few years - an increase from when we bought our home, but also a change in the pattern - more widespread and more during the day instead of concentrated in a few areas late at night.

We’ve thought a lot about moving. Some of our neighbors have moved.

We stay because we love our kids school, the neighborhood, and our home. The crime is scary, but targeted and we are not unsafe. We like our jobs, and our interest rate is low. We don’t know where we’d move to.

If it was random violence, or I felt unsafe walking the kids to school, we’d leave.

[Anonymous]

We had a regular drug related murder on the next block over and it didn’t really change too much.

[Anonymous]

I always wonder about whether I would buy a house where someone died.

My grandpa died at home (heart attack) in the master suite. I wonder if anyone who purchased knew.

[Anonymous]

I lived in the same neighborhood in Farmville when the “horrorcore murders” took place. It was definitely “high profile” locally, but not nationally as they found the teenager fairly quickly. He’d bludgeoned to death 4 people in their home.

I figured out afterwards, that I’d jogged by the house before the bodies were discovered. Freaked me out, but we never considered moving. We lived a couple of streets away, but the street the home was on was on our way out of the neighborhood so we passed it often.

[Anonymous]

If it's not me being murdered and the murderer gets caught and there's nothing inherent about the neighborhood (like it's next to the poorly guarded insane asylum for murderers, one of whom committed the terrible murder)... why would I leave?