If you could live anywhere in the DC area...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
I grew up having to walk everywhere and don't miss it. A walk on a nice day? A walk out for dinner and drinks? Great! Lugging groceries around? is it freezing? Is it humid? is it pouring rain? Do I have to wear sensible shoes all the time? Are my good shoes getting ruined? Am I sick, feverish, and walking to pick up a prescription? Don't miss that at all.

Where you grew up you may not have been in a truly walkable neighborhood, by that I mean corner grocery store, pharmacy and maybe a butcher shop or liquor store all within a four-block radius: that is walkable any time, in any shoe, at any body temperature. The neighbors stop and chat while you're out walking the dog. And THAT, my friends, is why homes in walkable neighborhoods fly off the market.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I grew up having to walk everywhere and don't miss it. A walk on a nice day? A walk out for dinner and drinks? Great! Lugging groceries around? is it freezing? Is it humid? is it pouring rain? Do I have to wear sensible shoes all the time? Are my good shoes getting ruined? Am I sick, feverish, and walking to pick up a prescription? Don't miss that at all.

Where you grew up you may not have been in a truly walkable neighborhood, by that I mean corner grocery store, pharmacy and maybe a butcher shop or liquor store all within a four-block radius: that is walkable any time, in any shoe, at any body temperature. The neighbors stop and chat while you're out walking the dog. And THAT, my friends, is why homes in walkable neighborhoods fly off the market.

[Anonymous]

great falls, mclean or potomac.

[Anonymous]

hate it here. my answer is ANYWHERE but the DC area. FWIW- born and raised here and this place has changed a lot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I grew up having to walk everywhere and don't miss it. A walk on a nice day? A walk out for dinner and drinks? Great! Lugging groceries around? is it freezing? Is it humid? is it pouring rain? Do I have to wear sensible shoes all the time? Are my good shoes getting ruined? Am I sick, feverish, and walking to pick up a prescription? Don't miss that at all.

Where you grew up you may not have been in a truly walkable neighborhood, by that I mean corner grocery store, pharmacy and maybe a butcher shop or liquor store all within a four-block radius: that is walkable any time, in any shoe, at any body temperature. The neighbors stop and chat while you're out walking the dog. And THAT, my friends, is why homes in walkable neighborhoods fly off the market.

Believe it or not, outside the car-suburbs there are many places that are walkable that are NOT the South Side.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I grew up having to walk everywhere and don't miss it. A walk on a nice day? A walk out for dinner and drinks? Great! Lugging groceries around? is it freezing? Is it humid? is it pouring rain? Do I have to wear sensible shoes all the time? Are my good shoes getting ruined? Am I sick, feverish, and walking to pick up a prescription? Don't miss that at all.

Where you grew up you may not have been in a truly walkable neighborhood, by that I mean corner grocery store, pharmacy and maybe a butcher shop or liquor store all within a four-block radius: that is walkable any time, in any shoe, at any body temperature. The neighbors stop and chat while you're out walking the dog. And THAT, my friends, is why homes in walkable neighborhoods fly off the market.

It was walkable in exactly what you describe. Not sure why you are attempting to diminish my experience.

No, it sucks walking in shitty weather IMO. If you like it, I am happy for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I grew up having to walk everywhere and don't miss it. A walk on a nice day? A walk out for dinner and drinks? Great! Lugging groceries around? is it freezing? Is it humid? is it pouring rain? Do I have to wear sensible shoes all the time? Are my good shoes getting ruined? Am I sick, feverish, and walking to pick up a prescription? Don't miss that at all.

Where you grew up you may not have been in a truly walkable neighborhood, by that I mean corner grocery store, pharmacy and maybe a butcher shop or liquor store all within a four-block radius: that is walkable any time, in any shoe, at any body temperature. The neighbors stop and chat while you're out walking the dog. And THAT, my friends, is why homes in walkable neighborhoods fly off the market.

It was walkable in exactly what you describe. Not sure why you are attempting to diminish my experience.

No, it sucks walking in shitty weather IMO. If you like it, I am happy for you.

"Walkability" is the only stock that some posters own, so of course they want to inflate its value.

[Anonymous]

I walk from my house to the stores in fewer steps than I walk from the car to the stores in the suburbs. I just skip the getting in the car and parking part. I don't know how that can be any more annoying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I grew up having to walk everywhere and don't miss it. A walk on a nice day? A walk out for dinner and drinks? Great! Lugging groceries around? is it freezing? Is it humid? is it pouring rain? Do I have to wear sensible shoes all the time? Are my good shoes getting ruined? Am I sick, feverish, and walking to pick up a prescription? Don't miss that at all.

Where you grew up you may not have been in a truly walkable neighborhood, by that I mean corner grocery store, pharmacy and maybe a butcher shop or liquor store all within a four-block radius: that is walkable any time, in any shoe, at any body temperature. The neighbors stop and chat while you're out walking the dog. And THAT, my friends, is why homes in walkable neighborhoods fly off the market.

Believe it or not, outside the car-suburbs there are many places that are walkable that are NOT the South Side.

I took the picture to be an effective debunking of PP's haughty post that true live ability is having a liquor/grocery/butcher/pharmacy nearby, not that all places that are walkable are unpleasant.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I tend to agree that Arlington is like purgatory. It's trying to be like dc and McLean at the same time without the benefit of being in the city and without the larger lots. The only benefit is being close to DC but if you are rich and have your pick to "live anywhere you could" you won't commute and don't really care about proximity to DC.

If I were rich and didn't care about commuting, I'd be on a pineapple plantation in Hawaii, not in some overpriced suburb of any of overpriced city. For those of us poor enough to need an actual income, most of us care about commute times into the big city. Hence, higher prices for close-in 'burbs of DC, New York, Philly, Chicago, et al. Your ignorance on this point takes away any credibility you have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I grew up having to walk everywhere and don't miss it. A walk on a nice day? A walk out for dinner and drinks? Great! Lugging groceries around? is it freezing? Is it humid? is it pouring rain? Do I have to wear sensible shoes all the time? Are my good shoes getting ruined? Am I sick, feverish, and walking to pick up a prescription? Don't miss that at all.

Where you grew up you may not have been in a truly walkable neighborhood, by that I mean corner grocery store, pharmacy and maybe a butcher shop or liquor store all within a four-block radius: that is walkable any time, in any shoe, at any body temperature. The neighbors stop and chat while you're out walking the dog. And THAT, my friends, is why homes in walkable neighborhoods fly off the market.

Let me define your neighborhood: corner grocery store - the bodega where the illegals who cut your grass buy their IncaCola and Corona; the pharmacy - the drug market near the high school; a butcher shop - the halal meat market where goat and lamb brains are sold to furtive Muslims; liquor store - in Virginia it is the state liquor store with lots of Caddie Escalades in the parking lot. Whatever you say.

[Anonymous]

Glover Park

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I grew up having to walk everywhere and don't miss it. A walk on a nice day? A walk out for dinner and drinks? Great! Lugging groceries around? is it freezing? Is it humid? is it pouring rain? Do I have to wear sensible shoes all the time? Are my good shoes getting ruined? Am I sick, feverish, and walking to pick up a prescription? Don't miss that at all.

Where you grew up you may not have been in a truly walkable neighborhood, by that I mean corner grocery store, pharmacy and maybe a butcher shop or liquor store all within a four-block radius: that is walkable any time, in any shoe, at any body temperature. The neighbors stop and chat while you're out walking the dog. And THAT, my friends, is why homes in walkable neighborhoods fly off the market.

Let me define your neighborhood: corner grocery store - the bodega where the illegals who cut your grass buy their IncaCola and Corona; the pharmacy - the drug market near the high school; a butcher shop - the halal meat market where goat and lamb brains are sold to furtive Muslims; liquor store - in Virginia it is the state liquor store with lots of Caddie Escalades in the parking lot. Whatever you say.

Why have you chosen to give yourself away in such manner. You are indeed provincial, the limitations of your thought process is evident by your statements. Your mind has not been cultured to the level of your pretenses. You gave yourself away, no one have told you, you simple have not arrived yet. Your constructs are not in-line - watch you not get it.

[Anonymous]

Without kids, young: Capitol Hill

With small and/or few kids (i.e., not too much space needed: AU park

With larger and/or numerous kids: Chevy Chase

Without kids, not young: Kalorama

[Anonymous]

Foggy bottom, so that I could walk to work in <5 minutes