DC area prestige rankings

[Anonymous]

Woodland, Foxhall, Wesley Heights, Kalorama, Cleveland Park, Georgetown, Forest Hills, Spring Valley (really just Indian Lane), Colonial Village, Chevy Chase DC, Capitol Hill.

[Anonymous]

DC is a mix of urban multifamily and SFH highly residential areas that don’t look any different from the suburbs. It’s silly to do “prestige” rankings when talking about the city proper and comparing apples and oranges. Also because unlike suburbia some areas of DC are known to people living outside of DC metro area, so there is this external prestige factor too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Woodland, Foxhall, Wesley Heights, Kalorama, Cleveland Park, Georgetown, Forest Hills, Spring Valley (really just Indian Lane), Colonial Village, Chevy Chase DC, Capitol Hill.

Kalorama,
Cleveland Park,
Georgetown,
Woodley
Foxhall
Wesley Heights
Forest Hills,
Spring Valley (really just Indian Lane),
Colonial Village,
Chevy Chase DC,
Capitol Hill

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Woodland, Foxhall, Wesley Heights, Kalorama, Cleveland Park, Georgetown, Forest Hills, Spring Valley (really just Indian Lane), Colonial Village, Chevy Chase DC, Capitol Hill.

Kalorama,
Cleveland Park,
Georgetown,
Woodley
Foxhall
Wesley Heights
Forest Hills,
Spring Valley (really just Indian Lane),
Colonial Village,
Chevy Chase DC,
Capitol Hill

Spot the Cleveland park resident

[Anonymous]

The definitive DC prestige list from DC insiders:

Tier 1
- Kalorama (Big billionaire energy w/ Jeff Bezos and others there)
- Trinidad (cultural hub, booming with big developments)
- Georgetown (RFK, old money, powerful people live there, walkable, high end retail, educated ppl from university)

Tier 2
- Dupont (nice homes, central location, lots of weed though)
- Cleveland Park (Big SFHs filled with repectable UMC, walkable next to best retail in NWDC)
- NoMA (booming cultural hub)
- Foxhall (nice homes but terrible airplane noise and traffic)

Tier 3
- AU Park (nice schools, brick homes that are nice but not particularly prestigious though)
- Chevy Chase DC (nice schools and peaceful, but in the boondocks, full of large Karens, probably from lack of exercise options)
- Capital Hill (lawmakers live there, but lots of crime)
- Palisades (worse version of Foxhall, even worse airplane noise)
- Glover Park (poor man's Georgetown)
- Kent (big homes but not nice, lots of noveau riche)

Tier 4
- Spring Valley (nice homes but built on toxic waste dump
- Takoma (nice stores but surrounding area is a dumpster)
- Wesley heights (nice homes but next to the woods which becomes a mosquito swamp in the summer)
- Friendship heights (once thriving but now dead as my great grandma)

Dumpster
- Navy yard (enjoy your carjackings and stadium noise)
- Everything else

[Anonymous]

Tier 1
-Kalorama Heights
-Woodland
-Kent
-Wesley Heights
-Georgetown’s East Village

Tier 2
-Spring Valley (***cancer cluster ☠️ ☠️ 🧪 🧪 💨 💨 )
-Cleveland Park
-Forest Hills (historically very Jewish because Jews weren’t allowed other places)
-Rest of Georgetown

Tier 3
-Woodley Park
-Chevy Chase DC
-Wakefield
-AU Park
-Cathedral Heights

Tier 4
-Logan Circle
-DuPont Circle
-Foggy Bottom
-Capitol Hill

Tier 5
-Glover Park
-Mt Pleasant
-Adams Morgan
-Crestwood
-Shaw

Tier 6
-Takoma DC
-16th Street Heights
-Kingman Park
-Navy Yard
-Shepherd Park
-Colonial Village
-Bloomingdale


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💩 💩 💩 🚨 🚨 🚨 SH*T TIER DEMARCATION LINE 🚨 🚨 🚨 💩 💩 💩
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Sh*t tier 1 💩
-Brookland
-Petworth
-Park View

Sh*t tier 2 💩
-Columbia Heights
-Eckington
-Trinidad

Sh*t tier 3 💩
-Historic Anacostia
-deanwood

Sh*t tier 4 💩 / the trenches
-everything else

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Woodland, Foxhall, Wesley Heights, Kalorama, Cleveland Park, Georgetown, Forest Hills, Spring Valley (really just Indian Lane), Colonial Village, Chevy Chase DC, Capitol Hill.

Kalorama,
Cleveland Park,
Georgetown,
Woodley
Foxhall
Wesley Heights
Forest Hills,
Spring Valley (really just Indian Lane),
Colonial Village,
Chevy Chase DC,
Capitol Hill

Spot the Cleveland park resident

Who doesn’t even know that Woodland/Normanstone is either 1 or 2, not left out altogether.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The definitive DC prestige list from DC insiders:

Tier 1
- Kalorama (Big billionaire energy w/ Jeff Bezos and others there)
- Trinidad (cultural hub, booming with big developments)
- Georgetown (RFK, old money, powerful people live there, walkable, high end retail, educated ppl from university)

Tier 2
- Dupont (nice homes, central location, lots of weed though)
- Cleveland Park (Big SFHs filled with repectable UMC, walkable next to best retail in NWDC)
- NoMA (booming cultural hub)
- Foxhall (nice homes but terrible airplane noise and traffic)

Tier 3
- AU Park (nice schools, brick homes that are nice but not particularly prestigious though)
- Chevy Chase DC (nice schools and peaceful, but in the boondocks, full of large Karens, probably from lack of exercise options)
- Capital Hill (lawmakers live there, but lots of crime)
- Palisades (worse version of Foxhall, even worse airplane noise)
- Glover Park (poor man's Georgetown)
- Kent (big homes but not nice, lots of noveau riche)

Tier 4
- Spring Valley (nice homes but built on toxic waste dump
- Takoma (nice stores but surrounding area is a dumpster)
- Wesley heights (nice homes but next to the woods which becomes a mosquito swamp in the summer)
- Friendship heights (once thriving but now dead as my great grandma)

Dumpster
- Navy yard (enjoy your carjackings and stadium noise)
- Everything else

This list is so full of holes that I will assume this “insider” had some hooch at lunch.

[Anonymous]

Although I’m amused you listed my neighborhood in there (Capitol Hill) this is loserish behavior OP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The definitive DC prestige list from DC insiders:

Tier 1
- Kalorama (Big billionaire energy w/ Jeff Bezos and others there)
- Trinidad (cultural hub, booming with big developments)
- Georgetown (RFK, old money, powerful people live there, walkable, high end retail, educated ppl from university)

Tier 2
- Dupont (nice homes, central location, lots of weed though)
- Cleveland Park (Big SFHs filled with repectable UMC, walkable next to best retail in NWDC)
- NoMA (booming cultural hub)
- Foxhall (nice homes but terrible airplane noise and traffic)

Tier 3
- AU Park (nice schools, brick homes that are nice but not particularly prestigious though)
- Chevy Chase DC (nice schools and peaceful, but in the boondocks, full of large Karens, probably from lack of exercise options)
- Capital Hill (lawmakers live there, but lots of crime)
- Palisades (worse version of Foxhall, even worse airplane noise)
- Glover Park (poor man's Georgetown)
- Kent (big homes but not nice, lots of noveau riche)

Tier 4
- Spring Valley (nice homes but built on toxic waste dump
- Takoma (nice stores but surrounding area is a dumpster)
- Wesley heights (nice homes but next to the woods which becomes a mosquito swamp in the summer)
- Friendship heights (once thriving but now dead as my great grandma)

Dumpster
- Navy yard (enjoy your carjackings and stadium noise)
- Everything else

I spot the outsider!!

[Anonymous]

DCUM is just a bunch of rich white mommies who equate prestige with whether they’d even consider sending their kids to the in boundary public schools. That may work in the burbs but it doesn’t work in the city. Not everybody cares about schools and not everybody is an old lady fuddy duddy.

Prestige is more accurately reflected in price per square foot. Georgetown, Dupont, Logan etc are all first-rate DC addresses. Most of the neighborhoods being listed here might as well be suburbs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCUM is just a bunch of rich white mommies who equate prestige with whether they’d even consider sending their kids to the in boundary public schools. That may work in the burbs but it doesn’t work in the city. Not everybody cares about schools and not everybody is an old lady fuddy duddy.

Prestige is more accurately reflected in price per square foot. Georgetown, Dupont, Logan etc are all first-rate DC addresses. Most of the neighborhoods being listed here might as well be suburbs.

DCUM is profoundly suburban or suburban adjacent. If It's not a SFH with 2+ cars it's for losers, hence places like Dupont/Logan/Georgetown getting crap ratings, though I'd guess if you asked an outside observer of top DC addresses they'd feel differently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCUM is just a bunch of rich white mommies who equate prestige with whether they’d even consider sending their kids to the in boundary public schools. That may work in the burbs but it doesn’t work in the city. Not everybody cares about schools and not everybody is an old lady fuddy duddy.

Prestige is more accurately reflected in price per square foot. Georgetown, Dupont, Logan etc are all first-rate DC addresses. Most of the neighborhoods being listed here might as well be suburbs.

And yet, here you are.

Signed,
Potomac Master Race

[Anonymous]

There was an app that was briefly popular when I was in college. Anonymous posts and they were constantly about prestige tiers of Greek life.

Some things never change.

[Anonymous]

YikYak is GOATed. Not unlike Georgetown and Dupont.

No one outside of DMV knows WOTP. They are more likely to respect Foggy Bottom.