Top public elementary with neighborhood feel?

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Anonymous wrote:I'm the "too white" poster, and for the record I never said Maury was 20003. I don't know the CH zips codes at all. Another poster responded to my saying that I ended up in 20009 by comparing it to 20003.

All I'm saying, again, is that the first place we looked after deciding to move into the city was CH, including specifically the neighborhood around Lincoln Park, and all I saw was white couples in their 30s and 40s pushing expensive strollers while accompanied by designer dogs. I was like, nope! But maybe that's what OP wants. We wanted more.

Makes sense - did you end up in a neighborhood that is Too Black? Or Too Latino?

It seems likely they chose a neighborhood they like, right?

We ended up right in the middle of it all: 14th/Logan/U Street. We literally can walk to absolutely everything you need in 5 minutes or less (well, everything but a doctor’s office), and we’re within 15 minutes walk of Dupont, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights and Shaw. Then of course there’s the metro, again five minutes walk, where the yellow and green lines take you directly to just about anywhere else worth going to—Nats, Wizards, Caps, Navy Yard, National Airport. It’s exciting and, yes, very diverse in terms of race, age, income, occupations, Spanish speaking, etc etc.

Like others have said, it ain’t New York—not even close—but it’s the closest thing we’ve got regardless. We’re very happy with our choice.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm the "too white" poster, and for the record I never said Maury was 20003. I don't know the CH zips codes at all. Another poster responded to my saying that I ended up in 20009 by comparing it to 20003.

All I'm saying, again, is that the first place we looked after deciding to move into the city was CH, including specifically the neighborhood around Lincoln Park, and all I saw was white couples in their 30s and 40s pushing expensive strollers while accompanied by designer dogs. I was like, nope! But maybe that's what OP wants. We wanted more.

Makes sense - did you end up in a neighborhood that is Too Black? Or Too Latino?

It seems likely they chose a neighborhood they like, right?

We ended up right in the middle of it all: 14th/Logan/U Street. We literally can walk to absolutely everything you need in 5 minutes or less (well, everything but a doctor’s office), and we’re within 15 minutes walk of Dupont, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights and Shaw. Then of course there’s the metro, again five minutes walk, where the yellow and green lines take you directly to just about anywhere else worth going to—Nats, Wizards, Caps, Navy Yard, National Airport. It’s exciting and, yes, very diverse in terms of race, age, income, occupations, Spanish speaking, etc etc.

Like others have said, it ain’t New York—not even close—but it’s the closest thing we’ve got regardless. We’re very happy with our choice.

Glad you found diverse people meandering in your periphery to fill our your cosplay experience bro.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm the "too white" poster, and for the record I never said Maury was 20003. I don't know the CH zips codes at all. Another poster responded to my saying that I ended up in 20009 by comparing it to 20003.

All I'm saying, again, is that the first place we looked after deciding to move into the city was CH, including specifically the neighborhood around Lincoln Park, and all I saw was white couples in their 30s and 40s pushing expensive strollers while accompanied by designer dogs. I was like, nope! But maybe that's what OP wants. We wanted more.

Makes sense - did you end up in a neighborhood that is Too Black? Or Too Latino?

It seems likely they chose a neighborhood they like, right?

We ended up right in the middle of it all: 14th/Logan/U Street. We literally can walk to absolutely everything you need in 5 minutes or less (well, everything but a doctor’s office), and we’re within 15 minutes walk of Dupont, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights and Shaw. Then of course there’s the metro, again five minutes walk, where the yellow and green lines take you directly to just about anywhere else worth going to—Nats, Wizards, Caps, Navy Yard, National Airport. It’s exciting and, yes, very diverse in terms of race, age, income, occupations, Spanish speaking, etc etc.

Like others have said, it ain’t New York—not even close—but it’s the closest thing we’ve got regardless. We’re very happy with our choice.

Glad you found diverse people meandering in your periphery to fill our your cosplay experience bro.

Diversity actually does change the neighborhood feel and some people's closest friends are their neighbors. Cosplay experience or life?
I picked the richness of diversity in my relationships over a comfortable culturally uniform neighborhood experience, but you do you.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm the "too white" poster, and for the record I never said Maury was 20003. I don't know the CH zips codes at all. Another poster responded to my saying that I ended up in 20009 by comparing it to 20003.

All I'm saying, again, is that the first place we looked after deciding to move into the city was CH, including specifically the neighborhood around Lincoln Park, and all I saw was white couples in their 30s and 40s pushing expensive strollers while accompanied by designer dogs. I was like, nope! But maybe that's what OP wants. We wanted more.

Makes sense - did you end up in a neighborhood that is Too Black? Or Too Latino?

It seems likely they chose a neighborhood they like, right?

We ended up right in the middle of it all: 14th/Logan/U Street. We literally can walk to absolutely everything you need in 5 minutes or less (well, everything but a doctor’s office), and we’re within 15 minutes walk of Dupont, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights and Shaw. Then of course there’s the metro, again five minutes walk, where the yellow and green lines take you directly to just about anywhere else worth going to—Nats, Wizards, Caps, Navy Yard, National Airport. It’s exciting and, yes, very diverse in terms of race, age, income, occupations, Spanish speaking, etc etc.

Like others have said, it ain’t New York—not even close—but it’s the closest thing we’ve got regardless. We’re very happy with our choice.

Glad you found diverse people meandering in your periphery to fill our your cosplay experience bro.

Diversity actually does change the neighborhood feel and some people's closest friends are their neighbors. Cosplay experience or life?
I picked the richness of diversity in my relationships over a comfortable culturally uniform neighborhood experience, but you do you.

Your surface-level approach to the human experience (someone's race) is laughable and totally unserious. But yeah, keep patting yourself on the back champ. You get a gold star because you dislike large groups of white people. Great work!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm the "too white" poster, and for the record I never said Maury was 20003. I don't know the CH zips codes at all. Another poster responded to my saying that I ended up in 20009 by comparing it to 20003.

All I'm saying, again, is that the first place we looked after deciding to move into the city was CH, including specifically the neighborhood around Lincoln Park, and all I saw was white couples in their 30s and 40s pushing expensive strollers while accompanied by designer dogs. I was like, nope! But maybe that's what OP wants. We wanted more.

Makes sense - did you end up in a neighborhood that is Too Black? Or Too Latino?

It seems likely they chose a neighborhood they like, right?

We ended up right in the middle of it all: 14th/Logan/U Street. We literally can walk to absolutely everything you need in 5 minutes or less (well, everything but a doctor’s office), and we’re within 15 minutes walk of Dupont, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights and Shaw. Then of course there’s the metro, again five minutes walk, where the yellow and green lines take you directly to just about anywhere else worth going to—Nats, Wizards, Caps, Navy Yard, National Airport. It’s exciting and, yes, very diverse in terms of race, age, income, occupations, Spanish speaking, etc etc.

Like others have said, it ain’t New York—not even close—but it’s the closest thing we’ve got regardless. We’re very happy with our choice.

Glad you found diverse people meandering in your periphery to fill our your cosplay experience bro.

Diversity actually does change the neighborhood feel and some people's closest friends are their neighbors. Cosplay experience or life?
I picked the richness of diversity in my relationships over a comfortable culturally uniform neighborhood experience, but you do you.

Jesus christ this is like a parody. There is no way this person is serious lol.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm the "too white" poster, and for the record I never said Maury was 20003. I don't know the CH zips codes at all. Another poster responded to my saying that I ended up in 20009 by comparing it to 20003.

All I'm saying, again, is that the first place we looked after deciding to move into the city was CH, including specifically the neighborhood around Lincoln Park, and all I saw was white couples in their 30s and 40s pushing expensive strollers while accompanied by designer dogs. I was like, nope! But maybe that's what OP wants. We wanted more.

Makes sense - did you end up in a neighborhood that is Too Black? Or Too Latino?

It seems likely they chose a neighborhood they like, right?

We ended up right in the middle of it all: 14th/Logan/U Street. We literally can walk to absolutely everything you need in 5 minutes or less (well, everything but a doctor’s office), and we’re within 15 minutes walk of Dupont, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights and Shaw. Then of course there’s the metro, again five minutes walk, where the yellow and green lines take you directly to just about anywhere else worth going to—Nats, Wizards, Caps, Navy Yard, National Airport. It’s exciting and, yes, very diverse in terms of race, age, income, occupations, Spanish speaking, etc etc.

Like others have said, it ain’t New York—not even close—but it’s the closest thing we’ve got regardless. We’re very happy with our choice.

Glad you found diverse people meandering in your periphery to fill our your cosplay experience bro.

Diversity actually does change the neighborhood feel and some people's closest friends are their neighbors. Cosplay experience or life?
I picked the richness of diversity in my relationships over a comfortable culturally uniform neighborhood experience, but you do you.

Your surface-level approach to the human experience (someone's race) is laughable and totally unserious. But yeah, keep patting yourself on the back champ. You get a gold star because you dislike large groups of white people. Great work!

Actually, it's more like I like to live in a diverse neighborhood. The fact that you think that's meaningless says something about you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm the "too white" poster, and for the record I never said Maury was 20003. I don't know the CH zips codes at all. Another poster responded to my saying that I ended up in 20009 by comparing it to 20003.

All I'm saying, again, is that the first place we looked after deciding to move into the city was CH, including specifically the neighborhood around Lincoln Park, and all I saw was white couples in their 30s and 40s pushing expensive strollers while accompanied by designer dogs. I was like, nope! But maybe that's what OP wants. We wanted more.

Makes sense - did you end up in a neighborhood that is Too Black? Or Too Latino?

It seems likely they chose a neighborhood they like, right?

Sure and since they dislike it when there are too many white faces around I was curious if their upper limits for a particular race also applies to Blacks and Latinos? I’d hate for them to run screaming from the Too White neighborhood only to land in a place that was Too Black. Or Too Latino.

Or would that be acceptable?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm the "too white" poster, and for the record I never said Maury was 20003. I don't know the CH zips codes at all. Another poster responded to my saying that I ended up in 20009 by comparing it to 20003.

All I'm saying, again, is that the first place we looked after deciding to move into the city was CH, including specifically the neighborhood around Lincoln Park, and all I saw was white couples in their 30s and 40s pushing expensive strollers while accompanied by designer dogs. I was like, nope! But maybe that's what OP wants. We wanted more.

Makes sense - did you end up in a neighborhood that is Too Black? Or Too Latino?

It seems likely they chose a neighborhood they like, right?

We ended up right in the middle of it all: 14th/Logan/U Street. We literally can walk to absolutely everything you need in 5 minutes or less (well, everything but a doctor’s office), and we’re within 15 minutes walk of Dupont, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights and Shaw. Then of course there’s the metro, again five minutes walk, where the yellow and green lines take you directly to just about anywhere else worth going to—Nats, Wizards, Caps, Navy Yard, National Airport. It’s exciting and, yes, very diverse in terms of race, age, income, occupations, Spanish speaking, etc etc.

Like others have said, it ain’t New York—not even close—but it’s the closest thing we’ve got regardless. We’re very happy with our choice.

Glad you found diverse people meandering in your periphery to fill our your cosplay experience bro.

🩷 you. You nailed it

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm the "too white" poster, and for the record I never said Maury was 20003. I don't know the CH zips codes at all. Another poster responded to my saying that I ended up in 20009 by comparing it to 20003.

All I'm saying, again, is that the first place we looked after deciding to move into the city was CH, including specifically the neighborhood around Lincoln Park, and all I saw was white couples in their 30s and 40s pushing expensive strollers while accompanied by designer dogs. I was like, nope! But maybe that's what OP wants. We wanted more.

Makes sense - did you end up in a neighborhood that is Too Black? Or Too Latino?

It seems likely they chose a neighborhood they like, right?

We ended up right in the middle of it all: 14th/Logan/U Street. We literally can walk to absolutely everything you need in 5 minutes or less (well, everything but a doctor’s office), and we’re within 15 minutes walk of Dupont, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights and Shaw. Then of course there’s the metro, again five minutes walk, where the yellow and green lines take you directly to just about anywhere else worth going to—Nats, Wizards, Caps, Navy Yard, National Airport. It’s exciting and, yes, very diverse in terms of race, age, income, occupations, Spanish speaking, etc etc.

Like others have said, it ain’t New York—not even close—but it’s the closest thing we’ve got regardless. We’re very happy with our choice.

Glad you found diverse people meandering in your periphery to fill our your cosplay experience bro.

Diversity actually does change the neighborhood feel and some people's closest friends are their neighbors. Cosplay experience or life?
I picked the richness of diversity in my relationships over a comfortable culturally uniform neighborhood experience, but you do you.

Your surface-level approach to the human experience (someone's race) is laughable and totally unserious. But yeah, keep patting yourself on the back champ. You get a gold star because you dislike large groups of white people. Great work!

Actually, it's more like I like to live in a diverse neighborhood. The fact that you think that's meaningless says something about you.

You don't want "diverse", you want a certain percentage of non-white people to alleviate some sort of inner guilt or heighten your righteousness.

I guarantee you don't talk to non-white people in this way. "I wish my neighborhood had more people like you!".

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm the "too white" poster, and for the record I never said Maury was 20003. I don't know the CH zips codes at all. Another poster responded to my saying that I ended up in 20009 by comparing it to 20003.

All I'm saying, again, is that the first place we looked after deciding to move into the city was CH, including specifically the neighborhood around Lincoln Park, and all I saw was white couples in their 30s and 40s pushing expensive strollers while accompanied by designer dogs. I was like, nope! But maybe that's what OP wants. We wanted more.

Makes sense - did you end up in a neighborhood that is Too Black? Or Too Latino?

It seems likely they chose a neighborhood they like, right?

We ended up right in the middle of it all: 14th/Logan/U Street. We literally can walk to absolutely everything you need in 5 minutes or less (well, everything but a doctor’s office), and we’re within 15 minutes walk of Dupont, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights and Shaw. Then of course there’s the metro, again five minutes walk, where the yellow and green lines take you directly to just about anywhere else worth going to—Nats, Wizards, Caps, Navy Yard, National Airport. It’s exciting and, yes, very diverse in terms of race, age, income, occupations, Spanish speaking, etc etc.

Like others have said, it ain’t New York—not even close—but it’s the closest thing we’ve got regardless. We’re very happy with our choice.

Glad you found diverse people meandering in your periphery to fill our your cosplay experience bro.

Diversity actually does change the neighborhood feel and some people's closest friends are their neighbors. Cosplay experience or life?
I picked the richness of diversity in my relationships over a comfortable culturally uniform neighborhood experience, but you do you.

Your surface-level approach to the human experience (someone's race) is laughable and totally unserious. But yeah, keep patting yourself on the back champ. You get a gold star because you dislike large groups of white people. Great work!

Actually, it's more like I like to live in a diverse neighborhood. The fact that you think that's meaningless says something about you.

You don't seem to understand that you are proving my point. For you, this is all about elevating your status and proving you are more virtuous than me. lol.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm the "too white" poster, and for the record I never said Maury was 20003. I don't know the CH zips codes at all. Another poster responded to my saying that I ended up in 20009 by comparing it to 20003.

All I'm saying, again, is that the first place we looked after deciding to move into the city was CH, including specifically the neighborhood around Lincoln Park, and all I saw was white couples in their 30s and 40s pushing expensive strollers while accompanied by designer dogs. I was like, nope! But maybe that's what OP wants. We wanted more.

Makes sense - did you end up in a neighborhood that is Too Black? Or Too Latino?

It seems likely they chose a neighborhood they like, right?

We ended up right in the middle of it all: 14th/Logan/U Street. We literally can walk to absolutely everything you need in 5 minutes or less (well, everything but a doctor’s office), and we’re within 15 minutes walk of Dupont, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights and Shaw. Then of course there’s the metro, again five minutes walk, where the yellow and green lines take you directly to just about anywhere else worth going to—Nats, Wizards, Caps, Navy Yard, National Airport. It’s exciting and, yes, very diverse in terms of race, age, income, occupations, Spanish speaking, etc etc.

Like others have said, it ain’t New York—not even close—but it’s the closest thing we’ve got regardless. We’re very happy with our choice.

It sounds like what you actually wanted was more density and mixed use development. The primary difference between those two neighborhoods is not demographics but the amount of commercial activity and, as you point out, proximity to transit and businesses.

So you could have said that you checked out the Lincoln Park area but decided it was too residential and quiet, compared to 14th street which is more lively. Which no one would have argued with. Lincoln Park has proximity to Eastern Market, Barracks Row, and H Street, but none are as develop and busy as 14th, and it's true that it's not as convenient in terms of public transit.

Instead you fixated on white people pushing strollers and walking "designer dogs." Which is weird because I lived in Logan Circle until very recently and there are TONS of white people pushing strollers and walking fancy-looking dogs there. Arguably a lot more than on CH. And East Capitol in particular is a very diverse neighborhood, arguably more diverse than 14th street. It's just, again, more residential with less to do. A lot of the diversity you are seeing on 14th is coming from people traveling to that neighborhood from other parts of the city to go shopping, go out to dinner, go to a play. People don't travel to East Capitol like that so the people you see in the neighborhood mostly live there. If the only people you saw on 14th were people who lived nearby, it would be like 90% wealthy DINKS living in all the condos around there, mixed in with some high income families. There are very few low income families and immigrants in that neighborhood because of the cost of housing and how gentrified it is. Whereas East Capitol still has a lot of lower income families, plenty of black families who have been there multiple generations.

But whatever, clearly you are looking for a vibe, not facts. It's just too bad that you (1) don't seem to understand your own preferences that well, and think it's about "diversity" when it really seems to be about convenience and density, and (2) still don't really understand the demographics of either of these neighborhoods, yet feel comfortable lecturing longtime DC residents on it as though you are some kind of expert simply because you have spent time in OTHER big cities.

I hope you or your spouse gets a job offer in NY sometimes soon and you can ditch DC altogether.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm the "too white" poster, and for the record I never said Maury was 20003. I don't know the CH zips codes at all. Another poster responded to my saying that I ended up in 20009 by comparing it to 20003.

All I'm saying, again, is that the first place we looked after deciding to move into the city was CH, including specifically the neighborhood around Lincoln Park, and all I saw was white couples in their 30s and 40s pushing expensive strollers while accompanied by designer dogs. I was like, nope! But maybe that's what OP wants. We wanted more.

Makes sense - did you end up in a neighborhood that is Too Black? Or Too Latino?

It seems likely they chose a neighborhood they like, right?

We ended up right in the middle of it all: 14th/Logan/U Street. We literally can walk to absolutely everything you need in 5 minutes or less (well, everything but a doctor’s office), and we’re within 15 minutes walk of Dupont, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights and Shaw. Then of course there’s the metro, again five minutes walk, where the yellow and green lines take you directly to just about anywhere else worth going to—Nats, Wizards, Caps, Navy Yard, National Airport. It’s exciting and, yes, very diverse in terms of race, age, income, occupations, Spanish speaking, etc etc.

Like others have said, it ain’t New York—not even close—but it’s the closest thing we’ve got regardless. We’re very happy with our choice.

Glad you found diverse people meandering in your periphery to fill our your cosplay experience bro.

Diversity actually does change the neighborhood feel and some people's closest friends are their neighbors. Cosplay experience or life?
I picked the richness of diversity in my relationships over a comfortable culturally uniform neighborhood experience, but you do you.

Your surface-level approach to the human experience (someone's race) is laughable and totally unserious. But yeah, keep patting yourself on the back champ. You get a gold star because you dislike large groups of white people. Great work!

Actually, it's more like I like to live in a diverse neighborhood. The fact that you think that's meaningless says something about you.

You don't seem to understand that you are proving my point. For you, this is all about elevating your status and proving you are more virtuous than me. lol.

It's not about status. Why on earth would it be?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm the "too white" poster, and for the record I never said Maury was 20003. I don't know the CH zips codes at all. Another poster responded to my saying that I ended up in 20009 by comparing it to 20003.

All I'm saying, again, is that the first place we looked after deciding to move into the city was CH, including specifically the neighborhood around Lincoln Park, and all I saw was white couples in their 30s and 40s pushing expensive strollers while accompanied by designer dogs. I was like, nope! But maybe that's what OP wants. We wanted more.

Makes sense - did you end up in a neighborhood that is Too Black? Or Too Latino?

It seems likely they chose a neighborhood they like, right?

We ended up right in the middle of it all: 14th/Logan/U Street. We literally can walk to absolutely everything you need in 5 minutes or less (well, everything but a doctor’s office), and we’re within 15 minutes walk of Dupont, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights and Shaw. Then of course there’s the metro, again five minutes walk, where the yellow and green lines take you directly to just about anywhere else worth going to—Nats, Wizards, Caps, Navy Yard, National Airport. It’s exciting and, yes, very diverse in terms of race, age, income, occupations, Spanish speaking, etc etc.

Like others have said, it ain’t New York—not even close—but it’s the closest thing we’ve got regardless. We’re very happy with our choice.

Glad you found diverse people meandering in your periphery to fill our your cosplay experience bro.

Diversity actually does change the neighborhood feel and some people's closest friends are their neighbors. Cosplay experience or life?
I picked the richness of diversity in my relationships over a comfortable culturally uniform neighborhood experience, but you do you.

Your surface-level approach to the human experience (someone's race) is laughable and totally unserious. But yeah, keep patting yourself on the back champ. You get a gold star because you dislike large groups of white people. Great work!

Actually, it's more like I like to live in a diverse neighborhood. The fact that you think that's meaningless says something about you.

You don't seem to understand that you are proving my point. For you, this is all about elevating your status and proving you are more virtuous than me. lol.

It's not about status. Why on earth would it be?

DP but they are saying that you think there is status in saying you prefer a more diverse neighborhood, or trying to find the neighborhood in DC that is most like NY. And I agree with them because of the way you are framing the issue. DC is not NY, if you want to live in NY, go there. But the idea that you are somehow more cosmopolitan because you prefer to live in Logan Circle versus Lincoln Park is hilarious and lacking in self awareness.

[Anonymous]

We often assume that others care about our choices more than they actually do.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'm the "too white" poster, and for the record I never said Maury was 20003. I don't know the CH zips codes at all. Another poster responded to my saying that I ended up in 20009 by comparing it to 20003.

All I'm saying, again, is that the first place we looked after deciding to move into the city was CH, including specifically the neighborhood around Lincoln Park, and all I saw was white couples in their 30s and 40s pushing expensive strollers while accompanied by designer dogs. I was like, nope! But maybe that's what OP wants. We wanted more.

Makes sense - did you end up in a neighborhood that is Too Black? Or Too Latino?

It seems likely they chose a neighborhood they like, right?

We ended up right in the middle of it all: 14th/Logan/U Street. We literally can walk to absolutely everything you need in 5 minutes or less (well, everything but a doctor’s office), and we’re within 15 minutes walk of Dupont, Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights and Shaw. Then of course there’s the metro, again five minutes walk, where the yellow and green lines take you directly to just about anywhere else worth going to—Nats, Wizards, Caps, Navy Yard, National Airport. It’s exciting and, yes, very diverse in terms of race, age, income, occupations, Spanish speaking, etc etc.

Like others have said, it ain’t New York—not even close—but it’s the closest thing we’ve got regardless. We’re very happy with our choice.

It sounds like what you actually wanted was more density and mixed use development. The primary difference between those two neighborhoods is not demographics but the amount of commercial activity and, as you point out, proximity to transit and businesses.

So you could have said that you checked out the Lincoln Park area but decided it was too residential and quiet, compared to 14th street which is more lively. Which no one would have argued with. Lincoln Park has proximity to Eastern Market, Barracks Row, and H Street, but none are as develop and busy as 14th, and it's true that it's not as convenient in terms of public transit.

Instead you fixated on white people pushing strollers and walking "designer dogs." Which is weird because I lived in Logan Circle until very recently and there are TONS of white people pushing strollers and walking fancy-looking dogs there. Arguably a lot more than on CH. And East Capitol in particular is a very diverse neighborhood, arguably more diverse than 14th street. It's just, again, more residential with less to do. A lot of the diversity you are seeing on 14th is coming from people traveling to that neighborhood from other parts of the city to go shopping, go out to dinner, go to a play. People don't travel to East Capitol like that so the people you see in the neighborhood mostly live there. If the only people you saw on 14th were people who lived nearby, it would be like 90% wealthy DINKS living in all the condos around there, mixed in with some high income families. There are very few low income families and immigrants in that neighborhood because of the cost of housing and how gentrified it is. Whereas East Capitol still has a lot of lower income families, plenty of black families who have been there multiple generations.

But whatever, clearly you are looking for a vibe, not facts. It's just too bad that you (1) don't seem to understand your own preferences that well, and think it's about "diversity" when it really seems to be about convenience and density, and (2) still don't really understand the demographics of either of these neighborhoods, yet feel comfortable lecturing longtime DC residents on it as though you are some kind of expert simply because you have spent time in OTHER big cities.

I hope you or your spouse gets a job offer in NY sometimes soon and you can ditch DC altogether.

Thank you for this! Hope that PP reads it.

Also... i'm a longtime resident and have had several jobs and lived in lots of neighborhoods and send me kids to schools where they have friends from other neighborhoods. And these experiences have given me friends in all these different neighborhoods, and friends who have moved to the burbs, and the idea of someone sitting in 20009 and looking down on everyone else just feels so embarrassing. Please stop. There is no inherent "best" neighborhood.