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

[Anonymous]

Do you think people in Potomac start there conversations with " I could afford silver spring but I chose to live here instead".

[Anonymous]

SHAW!

[Anonymous]

To all the non-believers:

In real life I do not start my conversations 'I could live in Bethesda but choose to live in Silver Spring" I am defending the argument "all people who live in Silver Spring only do so because they can't afford anywhere else"

You have no proof of this so you attack me. Just because you can't believe it doesn't make it not so. I bet there are people who live in SS but want to move to Bethesda but I'm not one of them. I don't care if you don't believe me. This is the last comment I am making because you aren't answering any questions that I gave you...like WHERE IS YOUR PROOF!

[Anonymous]

this thread makes me hungry for my cousins artisanal indian pickles... ripped off of my mom's recipes. Yum:

http://brooklyndelhi.com

[Anonymous]

Hyattsville is trying to be hip. It hasn't quite succeeded yet, but maybe it will get there someday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hyattsville is trying to be hip. It hasn't quite succeeded yet, but maybe it will get there someday.

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I'd say Hyattsville is pretty hip.

[Anonymous]

Petworth is right on. Our block is full of families with young kids, and for $3000-3500/mo you could likely rent a renovated 3-4BR rowhouse. I would focus on the southern part near the metro - you can walk to a farmers market, renovated library, 2 new grocery stores, a great coffee shop and tons of small shops and restaurants. You are likely priced out of Shaw, but it also has more crime and way fewer kids. Petworth also has a terrific neighborly vibe and a strong sense of community. Powell Elementary has a sought after dual language program and there are also many great charter schools, including several excellent ones in the neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Silver spring is a sad place to these eyes, you can basically fit 99% ofthe residents into a few simple buckets:

Black people happy they don't live PG
Latino people who made it out of Langley Park
White people who couldn't afford Bethesda and pretend they didn't want to anyway
DC residents who lost the lottery

The few hipsters are the white kids who grew up there and couldn't pass as hood but never pulled it together to graduate college and get a haircut but are afraid to actually move into the city.

Count me as category 1. According to your description, SS sounds like a diverse, middle class community. A great place to live for this down to earth person. DC people can be so full of themselves that it actually makes me sick and worry about my children who have to grow up here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To all the non-believers:

In real life I do not start my conversations 'I could live in Bethesda but choose to live in Silver Spring" I am defending the argument "all people who live in Silver Spring only do so because they can't afford anywhere else"

You have no proof of this so you attack me. Just because you can't believe it doesn't make it not so. I bet there are people who live in SS but want to move to Bethesda but I'm not one of them. I don't care if you don't believe me. This is the last comment I am making because you aren't answering any questions that I gave you...like WHERE IS YOUR PROOF!

Me thinks she protests a bit too much

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Silver spring is a sad place to these eyes, you can basically fit 99% ofthe residents into a few simple buckets:

Black people happy they don't live PG
Latino people who made it out of Langley Park
White people who couldn't afford Bethesda and pretend they didn't want to anyway
DC residents who lost the lottery

The few hipsters are the white kids who grew up there and couldn't pass as hood but never pulled it together to graduate college and get a haircut but are afraid to actually move into the city.

Count me as category 1. According to your description, SS sounds like a diverse, middle class community. A great place to live for this down to earth person. DC people can be so full of themselves that it actually makes me sick and worry about my children who have to grow up here.

Same. DC is a second tier city with fourth tier assholes, will probably move back to the promised land of CA to raise my kids right.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I agree with downtown silver spring! We fall into the "tattooed parents" category, but there's overlap with the hipster jerky makers. Love it here.

We're tattooed parents in the East Silver Spring neighborhood and there are tons of folks like us here. Urban Winery and Urban Butchery, both a few blocks away, probably fall into the artisanal jerky making category. Lots of artists, journalists, nonprofit types, plus they are putting in a new ArtSpace in the old police station on Sligo. You are also walking distance to CREATE Arts Studio, Maryland Ballet Theatre, and Roundhouse Theatre.

You've never lived in LA or SF then. Silver spring is nothing like silverlake. It's bland, depressing and void of anything interesting. I'm positive you are cooler than most of DC and definitely Montgomery county but silver spring is not what op is looking for.

And you've obviously never been to silver spring.

Sadly, I have.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Silver spring is a sad place to these eyes, you can basically fit 99% ofthe residents into a few simple buckets:

Black people happy they don't live PG
Latino people who made it out of Langley Park
White people who couldn't afford Bethesda and pretend they didn't want to anyway
DC residents who lost the lottery

The few hipsters are the white kids who grew up there and couldn't pass as hood but never pulled it together to graduate college and get a haircut but are afraid to actually move into the city.

Dear pp,

Why do you feel the need to put people down who don't make the same choice as you do? After all if we all wanted to live in Bethesda or Potomac or wherever you claim is 'the best' there might not have been room for you! I live in DSS and love it. But, I recognize the fact that not everyone likes Silver Spring and that's okay. Yes, we *could* afford to live in Bethesda but we choose not to do so! Why is this so hard to believe?

+1 always found Bethesda kind of boring even white bread

[Anonymous]

DT Silver Spring has a thriving diverse community, but if you’re a raging bigot it probably want to look elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

Although I wouldn’t classify SS as especially hip, I agree with the PP that SS is thriving and diverse place. It also has an amazing farmer’s market on Saturdays that is more extensive than the one's either Takoma or Dupont. It’s located on that pedestrian only street not far from the AFI or the outdoor ice rink next to the Whole Foods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you think people in Potomac start there conversations with " I could afford silver spring but I chose to live here instead".

Not quite the same thing, but when we moved from silver spring to Potomac 2.5 years ago, it was because we couldn't afford silver spring! We wanted to move from our shoebox sized house that we bought pre-kids to a slightly larger house, and we couldn't find anything affordable in inside-the-beltway silver spring. So, it does work in reverse, sort of.