DC area prestige rankings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The definitive DC prestige list from DC insiders:

Tier 1
- Kalorama (Big billionaire energy w/ Jeff Bezos and others there)
- Trinidad (cultural hub, booming with big developments)
- Georgetown (RFK, old money, powerful people live there, walkable, high end retail, educated ppl from university)

Tier 2
- Dupont (nice homes, central location, lots of weed though)
- Cleveland Park (Big SFHs filled with repectable UMC, walkable next to best retail in NWDC)
- NoMA (booming cultural hub)
- Foxhall (nice homes but terrible airplane noise and traffic)

Tier 3
- AU Park (nice schools, brick homes that are nice but not particularly prestigious though)
- Chevy Chase DC (nice schools and peaceful, but in the boondocks, full of large Karens, probably from lack of exercise options)
- Capital Hill (lawmakers live there, but lots of crime)
- Palisades (worse version of Foxhall, even worse airplane noise)
- Glover Park (poor man's Georgetown)
- Kent (big homes but not nice, lots of noveau riche)

Tier 4
- Spring Valley (nice homes but built on toxic waste dump
- Takoma (nice stores but surrounding area is a dumpster)
- Wesley heights (nice homes but next to the woods which becomes a mosquito swamp in the summer)
- Friendship heights (once thriving but now dead as my great grandma)

Dumpster
- Navy yard (enjoy your carjackings and stadium noise)
- Everything else

Trinidad..

[Anonymous]

You have to split into urban/suburban feel areas. Can’t compare NWDC to DuPont, sorry.

Residential area rankings:
Woodley, Cleveland, Foxhall, some parts of CC
AU Park, Tenleytown
EOTP near rock creek park
The rest

Urban area rankings:
Gtown, Kalorama, DuPont,West End/foggy bottom
Logan, Capitol Hill, U-street, midtown
Shaw, Mount Vernon triangle, DT
Newer areas I don’t personally know well as I visit very rarely, but are attractions: wharf, navy yard

“Prestige” in DC meant North West parts and I’d say this is still the case.. Most of the other has been up and coming not long ago. Flame away

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have to split into urban/suburban feel areas. Can’t compare NWDC to DuPont, sorry.

Residential area rankings:
Woodley, Cleveland, Foxhall, some parts of CC
AU Park, Tenleytown
EOTP near rock creek park
The rest

Urban area rankings:
Gtown, Kalorama, DuPont,West End/foggy bottom
Logan, Capitol Hill, U-street, midtown
Shaw, Mount Vernon triangle, DT
Newer areas I don’t personally know well as I visit very rarely, but are attractions: wharf, navy yard

“Prestige” in DC meant North West parts and I’d say this is still the case.. Most of the other has been up and coming not long ago. Flame away

Forgot to mention Adams Morgan, which would rank around U street corridor. Columbia Heights would be towards the bottom

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have to split into urban/suburban feel areas. Can’t compare NWDC to DuPont, sorry.

Residential area rankings:
Woodley, Cleveland, Foxhall, some parts of CC
AU Park, Tenleytown
EOTP near rock creek park
The rest

Urban area rankings:
Gtown, Kalorama, DuPont,West End/foggy bottom
Logan, Capitol Hill, U-street, midtown
Shaw, Mount Vernon triangle, DT
Newer areas I don’t personally know well as I visit very rarely, but are attractions: wharf, navy yard

“Prestige” in DC meant North West parts and I’d say this is still the case.. Most of the other has been up and coming not long ago. Flame away

AU Park and Tenleytown are mid as mid can be.