DC neighborhood recommendations? Where do the artisanal-jerky-making hipsters live?

[Anonymous]

For those of you that love your DCPS and charter, can we ask what you're SES is? I think you CAN get a very good public school education in DC, but it takes a lot of effort and upper grade quality is not a given when others start moving out or going private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For those of you that love your DCPS and charter, can we ask what you're SES is? I think you CAN get a very good public school education in DC, but it takes a lot of effort and upper grade quality is not a given when others start moving out or going private.

Please can you rephrase? I didn't go to DCPS, but I have no idea what your question means, even if I assume that you're is meant to be your.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'd highly recommend Columbia Heights around the 11th street corridor. there are a lot of people with young kids, great places to eat, and better walkability than bloomingdate, petworth, or takoma park (other places mentioned here).

am surprised to see all the bloomingdale posts (sock puppeting?!). It just doesn't seem like a great place to live, given the proximity to north capital street, crime, and general sketchiness. i sure wouldn't move there just for big bear and a couple other places to go drink.

Bloomingdale is in a much better location than Columbia Heights - closer to downtown, closer to 395, closer to 50, easy to get virtually anywhere in the region, plus walking distance to NY Ave/NOMA metro and Shaw/Howard. It also has really beautiful housing stock. As for general sketchiness, that's relative, but personally I feel that Columbia Heights has more issues and feels less safe than Bloomingdale. I've lived there since 2002 and would have said the same thing then. Columbia Heights has a lot more section 8 housing than Bloomingdale and all the issues that brings. Bloomingdale is very diverse and also a very friendly, welcoming part of the city.

someone is having delusions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:I'd highly recommend Columbia Heights around the 11th street corridor. there are a lot of people with young kids, great places to eat, and better walkability than bloomingdate, petworth, or takoma park (other places mentioned here).

am surprised to see all the bloomingdale posts (sock puppeting?!). It just doesn't seem like a great place to live, given the proximity to north capital street, crime, and general sketchiness. i sure wouldn't move there just for big bear and a couple other places to go drink.

Bloomingdale is in a much better location than Columbia Heights - closer to downtown, closer to 395, closer to 50, easy to get virtually anywhere in the region, plus walking distance to NY Ave/NOMA metro and Shaw/Howard. It also has really beautiful housing stock. As for general sketchiness, that's relative, but personally I feel that Columbia Heights has more issues and feels less safe than Bloomingdale. I've lived there since 2002 and would have said the same thing then. Columbia Heights has a lot more section 8 housing than Bloomingdale and all the issues that brings. Bloomingdale is very diverse and also a very friendly, welcoming part of the city.

someone is having delusions

No, someone has a different view than you. What specifically do you disagree with?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'd highly recommend Columbia Heights around the 11th street corridor. there are a lot of people with young kids, great places to eat, and better walkability than bloomingdate, petworth, or takoma park (other places mentioned here).

am surprised to see all the bloomingdale posts (sock puppeting?!). It just doesn't seem like a great place to live, given the proximity to north capital street, crime, and general sketchiness. i sure wouldn't move there just for big bear and a couple other places to go drink.

Bloomingdale is in a much better location than Columbia Heights - closer to downtown, closer to 395, closer to 50, easy to get virtually anywhere in the region, plus walking distance to NY Ave/NOMA metro and Shaw/Howard. It also has really beautiful housing stock. As for general sketchiness, that's relative, but personally I feel that Columbia Heights has more issues and feels less safe than Bloomingdale. I've lived there since 2002 and would have said the same thing then. Columbia Heights has a lot more section 8 housing than Bloomingdale and all the issues that brings. Bloomingdale is very diverse and also a very friendly, welcoming part of the city.

someone is having delusions

No, someone has a different view than you. What specifically do you disagree with?

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the bolded part of the PP.

[Anonymous]

I live in U street and also agree that Bloomingdale/ledroit is a better location than columbia heights. Columbia Heights seems to have more gang activity and less of a neighborhood feel. Also the restaurants in Bloomingdale (for now at least) are less crowded and less of a scene. we have friends who have Crispus Attucks park as their back yard and it makes me so jealous!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'd highly recommend Columbia Heights around the 11th street corridor. there are a lot of people with young kids, great places to eat, and better walkability than bloomingdate, petworth, or takoma park (other places mentioned here).

am surprised to see all the bloomingdale posts (sock puppeting?!). It just doesn't seem like a great place to live, given the proximity to north capital street, crime, and general sketchiness. i sure wouldn't move there just for big bear and a couple other places to go drink.

Bloomingdale is in a much better location than Columbia Heights - closer to downtown, closer to 395, closer to 50, easy to get virtually anywhere in the region, plus walking distance to NY Ave/NOMA metro and Shaw/Howard. It also has really beautiful housing stock. As for general sketchiness, that's relative, but personally I feel that Columbia Heights has more issues and feels less safe than Bloomingdale. I've lived there since 2002 and would have said the same thing then. Columbia Heights has a lot more section 8 housing than Bloomingdale and all the issues that brings. Bloomingdale is very diverse and also a very friendly, welcoming part of the city.

someone is having delusions

No, someone has a different view than you. What specifically do you disagree with?

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the bolded part of the PP.

So, you think there is more section 8 in Bloomingdale, that its more sketchy than CH? That Columbia Heights is closer to downtown? That the green line is better than the red? That one metro is better than two? That CH is closer to 395? What exactly?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Everyone: please write back when your kids are about 9 or so. I mean it. If your kids' school day still includes a nap or mandatory rest period, lovely. I mean it, you're probably a lovely person. I have no doubt your school does a solid job with center time and the plastic groceries.

But you're not equipped to talk about how well charter X or dcps school Y does with, say, national math benchmarks. Or prep for a middle school STEM program.

We'll see how I feel when my kid is nine. But right now I can tell you that my late birthday three year old who could barely hold a crayon in August when he started school can now WRITE. He is on the cusp of READING (and can read and spell out simple words). He can add and subtract. He could do none of those things before he started school. He amazes me every day telling me what he has learned at school in four short months.

He's not four until next September and his teachers have taught him to read and write, already. I am stunned. It's not all "center time and plastic groceries". With education like this we'll definitely be staying in DC.

what school does he go to?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'd highly recommend Columbia Heights around the 11th street corridor. there are a lot of people with young kids, great places to eat, and better walkability than bloomingdate, petworth, or takoma park (other places mentioned here).

am surprised to see all the bloomingdale posts (sock puppeting?!). It just doesn't seem like a great place to live, given the proximity to north capital street, crime, and general sketchiness. i sure wouldn't move there just for big bear and a couple other places to go drink.

Bloomingdale is in a much better location than Columbia Heights - closer to downtown, closer to 395, closer to 50, easy to get virtually anywhere in the region, plus walking distance to NY Ave/NOMA metro and Shaw/Howard. It also has really beautiful housing stock. As for general sketchiness, that's relative, but personally I feel that Columbia Heights has more issues and feels less safe than Bloomingdale. I've lived there since 2002 and would have said the same thing then. Columbia Heights has a lot more section 8 housing than Bloomingdale and all the issues that brings. Bloomingdale is very diverse and also a very friendly, welcoming part of the city.

someone is having delusions

No, someone has a different view than you. What specifically do you disagree with?

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the bolded part of the PP.

So, you think there is more section 8 in Bloomingdale, that its more sketchy than CH? That Columbia Heights is closer to downtown? That the green line is better than the red? That one metro is better than two? That CH is closer to 395? What exactly?

Why so many dcum discussions have to end into bitter feuding.
Chill out people !

[Anonymous]

Takoma Park sounds like a great suggestion. It has a hippy reputation, but the hippies are aging and the young families are liberal but not really hippies, in my opinion. As a PP said, it has great community spirit, its own metro station, good schools on the Maryland side, farmers market, a quirky "main" street with at least two bike shops. It does lack a bit in terms of a restaurant scene right now, but my sense is that it is actually becoming a sought-after place for restaurants and will only continue to improve down the road. In addition to the many fantastic ethnic restaurants right by TP, the downtown recently saw the addition of a great pizza place (Roscoes), Soupergirl--homemade, vegan, organic soups, and Takoma Bistro (by the same owners as Bread and Chocolate). The coffee shop in Politics and Prose is expanding and opening a cafe in TP, and the owner of BlackSalt is said to be opening a restaurant with a seafood bar there within the year. Add to that the ever-cool store Trohv, which opened recently, and maybe TP is even becoming sort of hip!

[Anonymous]

PP above re: Takoma Park--I almost forgot to mention "Food Truck Fridays" in downtown TP as another good (and fun) food option.

[Anonymous]

8th st on Capitol hill is pretty cool.

[Anonymous]

I don't live in any of these hipster neighborhoods, but I work at a large international firm downtown and a lot of the parents I meet live in Columbia Heights and Petworth. Columbia Heights seems to be more expensive and "trendy", and you may be able to get better value for your money in Petworth, though it's not as centrally located as CH.

[Anonymous]

Petworth.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Takoma Park sounds like a great suggestion. It has a hippy reputation, but the hippies are aging and the young families are liberal but not really hippies, in my opinion. As a PP said, it has great community spirit, its own metro station, good schools on the Maryland side, farmers market, a quirky "main" street with at least two bike shops. It does lack a bit in terms of a restaurant scene right now, but my sense is that it is actually becoming a sought-after place for restaurants and will only continue to improve down the road. In addition to the many fantastic ethnic restaurants right by TP, the downtown recently saw the addition of a great pizza place (Roscoes), Soupergirl--homemade, vegan, organic soups, and Takoma Bistro (by the same owners as Bread and Chocolate). The coffee shop in Politics and Prose is expanding and opening a cafe in TP, and the owner of BlackSalt is said to be opening a restaurant with a seafood bar there within the year. Add to that the ever-cool store Trohv, which opened recently, and maybe TP is even becoming sort of hip!

i totally agree... Takoma is awesome. Busboys and Poets coming soon too next to trovh.
Check out the DC side (20012) since the houses are just as cute but taxes are way lower than across the line in Takoma MD.