Petworth

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Anonymous wrote:I've lived in Petworth since 2001. Raised my children here (lotteried into WOTP schools, although I see more and more neighborhood folks walking their kids to local schools each morning). Crime, while not great, is not the hellscape some try to describe. It's a great neighborhood that is accessible to other parts of the city and it's easy to get into Maryland

You’re likely just used to the crime. ANY shootings in a residential neighborhood is unacceptable and not a place to raise a family. There is notably higher crime in Petworth and anyone choosing to live there has either low standards or is delusional.

I agree that shootings in any residential neighborhood are unacceptable, but mostly for the people getting shot. I lived in Petworth for 10 years, but wound up moving to Ward 3 because we didn't love our school options and our house in Petworth had appreciated to an absurd amount. Someone was shot in the alley behind our house in Petworth years before we moved out. Obviously very upsetting, but it also wasn't the reason we moved out. (And anyway, someone was shot a few blocks from our new house in Ward 3 a year ago.)

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Anonymous wrote:white people on here

Not surprised, they’re a majority in DC

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Anonymous wrote:So for the heck of it, I have been googling “best neighborhoods in DC“ and not once, in any article, anywhere, anyhow, have I seen Cleveland Park. Not once. You may disagree with the various lists that pop up, but it’s interesting that Cleveland Park never pops up even once in any article! I guess that’s because it is, well, boring.

Obviously, both Logan Circle and Petworth pop up frequently.

Really? Wow, good to know.

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I’ve been super confused by this thread. And I finally got it. All these ads landed in my account for this condo thing in Petworth. And another in Logan.

People, just don’t

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry you can’t afford Cleveland park.

As I said in an earlier post, I live in Logan. I can afford Cleveland Park easily. That’s not what this is about.

Logan is a lot cheaper per sqft. Also many smaller places in Logan

CP >> Logan >> Pet.

I own a rowhome in the heart of Logan. It’s not cheaper than Cleveland Park per square foot. Prove me wrong.

So to recap, you’re a 54 yr old relative newcomer * to DC who owns a $4-5 million rowhome. Who takes really long walks in the middle of the workday with some frequency


And then you come home and post your “impressions” on neighborhoods on a parenting website


* newcomer because you don’t know what Cleveland Park actually entails. So you shelled out millions of dollars on a residence without at least driving by $4-5 million comps in the all of few neighborhoods that actually have $4-5 million comps (such as CP).

Not a newcomer. I’ve lived in the DMV my entire adult life, and in the city itself for two decades.

You’ve lives in the 10 sq mile District of Columbia for 20 years, and today you discover Cleveland Park for the first time? Bananas!

It can’t be more than what, a mile or two from your residence?

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Anonymous wrote:Sorry you can’t afford Cleveland park.

As I said in an earlier post, I live in Logan. I can afford Cleveland Park easily. That’s not what this is about.

Logan is a lot cheaper per sqft. Also many smaller places in Logan

CP >> Logan >> Pet.

I own a rowhome in the heart of Logan. It’s not cheaper than Cleveland Park per square foot. Prove me wrong.

So to recap, you’re a 54 yr old relative newcomer * to DC who owns a $4-5 million rowhome. Who takes really long walks in the middle of the workday with some frequency


And then you come home and post your “impressions” on neighborhoods on a parenting website


* newcomer because you don’t know what Cleveland Park actually entails. So you shelled out millions of dollars on a residence without at least driving by $4-5 million comps in the all of few neighborhoods that actually have $4-5 million comps (such as CP).

Not a newcomer. I’ve lived in the DMV my entire adult life, and in the city itself for two decades.

You’ve lives in the 10 sq mile District of Columbia for 20 years, and today you discover Cleveland Park for the first time? Bananas!

It can’t be more than what, a mile or two from your residence?

Why would anyone living in Logan have any reason to go to Cleveland Park except to go to the zoo? Especially just to walk around it?

Not surprising at all.

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Zoo and CP?

We are talking very different CPs here.

I think people in CP very much hope people have not reason to come to CP from Logan

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I have no dog in this fight but this heat map of gun violence in the US would suggest that not only does gun violence in large parts of Petworth not look worse than other east of the park neighborhoods, it has gone down or at least stayed the same since 2016-2019.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/14/us/gun-homicides-map.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Note I’m counting north of Princeton as Petworth. We could quibble on that definition. But there’s definitely a difference between petworth/ Park View / Columbia Heights.

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I am not trying to make this a flex, I promise, but most of our shootings in Petworth aren’t fatal.

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Op move to Chinatown or Brooklyn. Columbia heights is sketch

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This is an uncommon opinion but given the price disparity between the neighborhoods this works out really well for you.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s a matter of time isn’t it before someone eats a bullet, if they’re flying around so liberally. There was just a shooting on the metro there, again!

The father who built the basketball hoop for the neighborhood kids to use was almost killed by those same kids. I think he’s having some lifelong consequences from the beating on his porch.

So, no, I don’t think I’d move there now. But it shouldn’t stay like that. No one wants to live like that. The gang thing is real.

This.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not trying to make this a flex, I promise, but most of our shootings in Petworth aren’t fatal.

I literally fell on the floor reading this.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not trying to make this a flex, I promise, but most of our shootings in Petworth aren’t fatal.

Maybe a new subtitle for prince of petworth? “Most of our shootings aren’t fatal”

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Is Petworth still trendy? And still worth their prices? I see a lot of homes from $900k plums and wondering for that kind of money, is living here justifiable?

I just saw two homes listed for $1.7mil and thought wow!