Glover Park (DC)--love it? Hate it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hate it. Moved from a large city. Undwhelmed with the shitty food, lack of diversity and lack of amenities. Only plus is cheap rent for a ton of space.

So you are young, with modest income, and no children. How is this relevant to the OP?

Early 30s here with a child. 300k per yr. Live in a GP rowhome. I think im pretty relevent.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hate it. Moved from a large city. Undwhelmed with the shitty food, lack of diversity and lack of amenities. Only plus is cheap rent for a ton of space.

So you are young, with modest income, and no children. How is this relevant to the OP?

Early 30s here with a child. 300k per yr. Live in a GP rowhome. I think im pretty relevent.

Relevant*

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hate it. Moved from a large city. Undwhelmed with the shitty food, lack of diversity and lack of amenities. Only plus is cheap rent for a ton of space.

So you are young, with modest income, and no children. How is this relevant to the OP?

Early 30s here with a child. 300k per yr. Live in a GP rowhome. I think im pretty relevent.

Relevant*

Sounds like you could really improve the neighborhood by packing up your kid and your terrible attitude and moving back to Brooklyn. If you can even afford anything there on just $300K/yr.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Love it here. Wouldn't move anywhere if we could afford 3 bedrooms.
I drive everywhere.So don't really care for not having a metro. No metro means less people.
If needed, we park near Woodley/American and take the metro from there.

Don't count on this in the long term. DC is looking at smaller RPP zones or sub-zones. This is because residents in places like Woodley, Tenleytown and Cleveland Park can't find street parking anymore because of parking commuters with Ward 3 stickers. There's a lot of pressure to do something about it.

What Glover needs is frequent and better bus service, including to the Metro. It's appalling to see long lines of residents waiting for a 30s series bus along the narrow sidewalk opposite Guy Mason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hate it. Moved from a large city. Undwhelmed with the shitty food, lack of diversity and lack of amenities. Only plus is cheap rent for a ton of space.

There is Good Guys.

[Anonymous]

Clearly the market is hot in Glover Park. They seem to have no difficulties in renting the new high-end apartments on the east side of Wisconsin, with a direct view into the Whole Foods garage.

[Anonymous]

Okay, can we take a vote? Do you folks who live in GP call it "Glow-ver" (rhymes with "rover") or "Glove-er" (rhymes with "lover")? This has been confusing me for years because some people say the old-timers say "Glove-er" and some old-timers say it's "Glow-ver." What do you and your neighbors say?

[Anonymous]

I lived in row house there pre kids right on Benton Street with the bus, which was convenient, but could be loud. We had a parking space behind the house in the alley. I liked it. Very walkable. I even walked to my job in Dupont Circle sometimes for the exercise (under an hour walk).

We always pronounced it Glow-ver.

[Anonymous]

Ok so long as you don't pretend that you love in "Georgetown." Also check out Burlieth and Foxhall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hate it. Moved from a large city. Undwhelmed with the shitty food, lack of diversity and lack of amenities. Only plus is cheap rent for a ton of space.

So you are young, with modest income, and no children. How is this relevant to the OP?

Early 30s here with a child. 300k per yr. Live in a GP rowhome. I think im pretty relevent.

Relevant*

Sounds like you could really improve the neighborhood by packing up your kid and your terrible attitude and moving back to Brooklyn. If you can even afford anything there on just $300K/yr.

You're funny! I am obviously not the PP.

[Anonymous]

OP here...thanks for the insights! I don't think I realized how racially homogenous the area is. For some reason I thought the school at least was more diverse than the JKLMM set?? We're not white and a lack of diversity does concern me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Live here, and love it.

There is no better or more close-knit community in DC.

Have you lived in every neighborhood in DC, so you can say this definitively? I can accept the possibility to some extent - having a fairly homogeneous population in term of race and SES will lend itself to it..as long as the SES isn't so high that everyone goes to private school and lives behind a giant fence. So I can see Glover Park as the mostly white, wealthy-ish populace who is cohesive. I'm willing to bet that there are some predominantly black neighborhoods that can say the same thing about being very close knit (though they're probably east of the river, out of the current reach of gentrification).

I am AA and live in Colonial Village. Our first house was in Glover Park. I loved it. I love Colonial Village more. It's on Rock Creek Park with is great. It just depends on what you want. I never felt out of place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hate it. Moved from a large city. Undwhelmed with the shitty food, lack of diversity and lack of amenities. Only plus is cheap rent for a ton of space.

So you are young, with modest income, and no children. How is this relevant to the OP?

Early 30s here with a child. 300k per yr. Live in a GP rowhome. I think I'm pretty relevent.

Which amenities do not exist in the Glover Park commercial area?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP here...thanks for the insights! I don't think I realized how racially homogenous the area is. For some reason I thought the school at least was more diverse than the JKLMM set?? We're not white and a lack of diversity does concern me.

The school is more diverse than JKLMM (perhaps similar to Murch). We love it and love GP.

- A non-white Glover Parker.

[Anonymous]

I'm also African American and lived in Glover Park for a year when I was in school. The neighborhood was very homogenous but I never got strange stares or cold shoulders. I wouldn't choose to live there again for a number of reasons, but lack of diversity wouldn't be near the top of my list.