Cleveland Park?

[Anonymous]

I've lived in Cleveland Park for more than 10 years. We know virtually all of our neighbors on the street and a number throughout the neighborhood. The best thing is the mixture of families with kids and older people who raised their families (some even having grown up themselves) there. It tends to be a very involved community. While some may decry what they call "NIMBY activisim", conservancies like Rosedale and Tregaron were not preserved as community resources by accident. Both were slated for intensive development in their time, and it took work, time, activism and contributions to make them the "urban land conservancies" that exist today.

[Anonymous]

My family and I have lived in CP for almost two years. One kid is at Eaton, the other will attend soon. We know our neighbors on both sides and across the street, and about 75% of the people on our block. We have a mix of older retirees (some really interesting folks), families with both middle school and elementary aged kids and quite a few babies, couples without kids, One group party house, and a widow. Seems like a real cross section to me. People bring us cookies on the holidays, we all shovel snow for the older folks, and everyone seemed ok buying 50 cent lemonade from my kids a few days ago. To me CP has life and soul and good people, and it seems to work well, in different ways, for everyone on our block. Great restaurants, close to metro, easy commutes, green, good places to run or walk your dog, good public and private schools. Of course there are compromises because we're living in the city - like some streets have more traffic and others have tough on street parking - but overall this is a wonderful, urban neighborhood.