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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Dupont Circle

Hahahhaha WHAT?! no.

Takoma Park (MD) is my suggestion.

Others have suggested Columbia heights, Logan, shaw. There are aspects that you might like but these places also have crap school, are increasingly expensive & have enough random street violence that it makes me nervous. We live in one of these areas and our street regularly (like daily / weekly) has cars broken into (& 2 stolen off our street), mail packages stolen off doorsteps (a street of row houses), and robberies/muggings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

gaithersburg is not Potomac despite what your real estate agent told you

[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.

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?

Dear silver spring personality type number 3

I don't believe you.

The many families who pay $700k and up for houses in Silver Spring prove that PP is wrong. There are many people who choose SS over Bethesda at those prices.

[Anonymous]

H Street Corridor, Shaw, or Bloomingdale are closest to what you're looking for. These are "up and coming" ish neighborhoods with some funky aspects and rowhomes that may have parking and outdoor space. They all have metro or bus->metro access.

You could also look at Hyattesville/Mt Rainier in MD which will be a bit less pricey.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I recommend Petworth and Bloomingdale (in addition to Columbia Heights). There is no great indie coffee shop or restaurant scene like in LA but there are decent options. Chinatown Coffee, Peregrine Espresso (Shaw and Eastern Market), Filter (Dupont Circle). Adams Morgan is great for ethnic food (Ethiopian, falafel shops), but it is nothing like Echo Park or Highland Park in LA. Check out the DC eater blog for all the latest on food.

In the Shaw neighborhood a two way cycle track runs along 15th street all the way downtown.

You might even look at apartments/row houses near Eastern Market. You'll love the market hall which has been around since the mid 1800s. There are about 20 merchants inside (bakeries, meat purveyors [chorizo, ground chuck etc], vegetable and flower shops). And there are decent restaurants nearby. Eastern Market is on the Blue/Orange lines so there are no transfers to Foggy Bottom.

Public transportation is great in DC, and you will not miss driving.

Ha ha ha! When it works, which is not often, and isn't on fire, which is happening more and more.

[Anonymous]

People, this thread is from 2013. I'm sure OP has found somewhere to live by now.

[Anonymous]

H Street sounds like what you are looking for. You will find great coffee shops, restaurant. You can rent a row house with parking and outdoor space at around $3000/month.
Biker's paradise!

[Anonymous]

My rainier

[Anonymous]

Whoops... Mt rainier

[Anonymous]

Cathedral Commons in DC definitely has a modern, hip vibe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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?

Dear silver spring personality type number 3

I don't believe you.

The many families who pay $700k and up for houses in Silver Spring prove that PP is wrong. There are many people who choose SS over Bethesda at those prices.

You're delusional, yes a small handful of homes sell for 700k in silver spring in the like 2 best neighborhoods which is the entry point for the more modest Bethesda homes but if you think SS is close to that level your just crazy, there is about a 450k difference (over double) price difference in the median value indexs. Yes the home prices are a little higher closer to DTSS but the prices are a lot higher closer to Downrown Bethesda too.

Even conceding your point that there is a small handful in silver spring that could afford it they boil down to a very small group that decided that they didn't want to spend all of their money on an entry level home when they could top of the pile in a lesser area. Doesn't sound noble to me.

http://www.zillow.com/bethesda-md/home-values/
http://www.zillow.com/silver-spring-md/home-values/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Atlas area/H St NE

+1 we live in this neighborhood and the hipsters drive me nuts. come on over. you will love it. plus, it way more diverse than most of the other areas suggested.

[Anonymous]

The neighborhoods you are looking for are:
- Petworth
- H Street
- Brookland
- Mt. Rainier
- Hyattsville

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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?

Dear silver spring personality type number 3

I don't believe you.

The many families who pay $700k and up for houses in Silver Spring prove that PP is wrong. There are many people who choose SS over Bethesda at those prices.

You're delusional, yes a small handful of homes sell for 700k in silver spring in the like 2 best neighborhoods which is the entry point for the more modest Bethesda homes but if you think SS is close to that level your just crazy, there is about a 450k difference (over double) price difference in the median value indexs. Yes the home prices are a little higher closer to DTSS but the prices are a lot higher closer to Downrown Bethesda too.

Even conceding your point that there is a small handful in silver spring that could afford it they boil down to a very small group that decided that they didn't want to spend all of their money on an entry level home when they could top of the pile in a lesser area. Doesn't sound noble to me.

http://www.zillow.com/bethesda-md/home-values/
http://www.zillow.com/silver-spring-md/home-values/

I'm not the PP, but your snide reply nicely illustrates why we didn't want to live in Bethesda. We did look, at a few houses, but it just felt crazy to spend nearly a million on places that were depressingly small and out of date. We're a family of three and will likely go private for middle and high school so it makes no sense for us to spend excessively on housing, especially if it means living near people like you. Who gives a shit about meeting your definition of noble?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well, PP I beg to differ!

First of all. You insult all Silver Spring residents by saying that people only live here because they can't afford living anywhere else. Where is your proof? Is it true because you say it is? Exactly how am I "proving the pp's point by defending our decision?"

We obviously aren't going to be besties and show you our bank accounts. Trust me, we could afford to live in Bethesda, but we don't choose to do so. It's just not our style. Shocking, I know! You will just have to take my word and deal with it.

We get it. You don't like Silver Spring and wouldn't live here. I don't bash Bethesda but maybe it is because I am secure in our decision and still happy to live in Silver Spring!

Yeah sorry I just don't believe people like you. That's like someone saying they could afford Georgetown but choose to live in Trinidad. Sure there are 10 nice houses on Sligo, but the rest of SS is bland and ugly, plain and simple. I've lived in this are for 15 years and I've frequented neighborhoods in Wheaton, Beltsville, and Takoma park for good food. Silver spring has no redeeming qualities. And DTSS is pretty ghetto, like Chinatown.

Oh and ps I don't live in Bethesda. I'm not bashing SS for the sake of bashing it. I just think it sucks.