Best neighborhoods in DC/MD?

[Anonymous]

What about that commute time that you’ll never get back? Or commute times also correlated w divorce -

if one spouse commutes longer than 45 minutes, a couple is 40 percent more likely to get divorced

[Anonymous]

Don’t be crazy and spend $2.5M unless you have $10M net worth which includes fully funded retirement, special medical fees and possible schooling for IEP child, fully funded private college for both kids (today’s cost would be close to $700k at $80k per year), and incredibly secure job with sound bill of health. Why not slum it at $1.8 and put the rest into investments?

[Anonymous]

I lived in Forest Hills it was awesome but UDC crowd has made it nearly criminal neighborhood closer to Van Ness metro. I had my car broken into, my nanny was robbed at gun point and pushed to the ground; active sniper situation by Burke only couple months ago. I would look at Woodley Park, Kalorama, Mt Pleasant streets that are closest to the Zoo, even Capitol Hills select streets. Chevy Chase if you don’t mind commute

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Anonymous wrote:I lived in Forest Hills it was awesome but UDC crowd has made it nearly criminal neighborhood closer to Van Ness metro. I had my car broken into, my nanny was robbed at gun point and pushed to the ground; active sniper situation by Burke only couple months ago. I would look at Woodley Park, Kalorama, Mt Pleasant streets that are closest to the Zoo, even Capitol Hills select streets. Chevy Chase if you don’t mind commute

LOL @ suggesting Mt Pleasant or Cap Hill to get away from crime in Van Ness.

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Anonymous wrote:I lived in Forest Hills it was awesome but UDC crowd has made it nearly criminal neighborhood closer to Van Ness metro. I had my car broken into, my nanny was robbed at gun point and pushed to the ground; active sniper situation by Burke only couple months ago. I would look at Woodley Park, Kalorama, Mt Pleasant streets that are closest to the Zoo, even Capitol Hills select streets. Chevy Chase if you don’t mind commute

LOL @ suggesting Mt Pleasant or Cap Hill to get away from crime in Van Ness.

This lol. I was in agreement with them because of what is happening on Connecticut Ave until I read Mt Pleasant to get away from crime in van ness. Like what?

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Anonymous wrote:I lived in Forest Hills it was awesome but UDC crowd has made it nearly criminal neighborhood closer to Van Ness metro. I had my car broken into, my nanny was robbed at gun point and pushed to the ground; active sniper situation by Burke only couple months ago. I would look at Woodley Park, Kalorama, Mt Pleasant streets that are closest to the Zoo, even Capitol Hills select streets. Chevy Chase if you don’t mind commute

LOL @ suggesting Mt Pleasant or Cap Hill to get away from crime in Van Ness.

This lol. I was in agreement with them because of what is happening on Connecticut Ave until I read Mt Pleasant to get away from crime in van ness. Like what?

NP. there are some very quiet, safe pockets in Mt Pleasant. But def agree on staying away from Van Ness and the interior of Mt Pleasant.

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Anonymous wrote:I lived in Forest Hills it was awesome but UDC crowd has made it nearly criminal neighborhood closer to Van Ness metro. I had my car broken into, my nanny was robbed at gun point and pushed to the ground; active sniper situation by Burke only couple months ago. I would look at Woodley Park, Kalorama, Mt Pleasant streets that are closest to the Zoo, even Capitol Hills select streets. Chevy Chase if you don’t mind commute

LOL @ suggesting Mt Pleasant or Cap Hill to get away from crime in Van Ness.

This lol. I was in agreement with them because of what is happening on Connecticut Ave until I read Mt Pleasant to get away from crime in van ness. Like what?

Another lol here.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:AU Park is awsome!

No, it isn’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you like the burbs but want to brag to your friends that you live in DC and love city life, then AU Park is the place to go!

Yes. It probably is. So many tools in AU Park you could open a hardware store.

Still. None of DC is urban. Even the urban parts are not really all that.

[Anonymous]

$1.5-$2M will get you an amazing waterfront house in Severna Park/Arnold. There are great public and private schools. Plenty of people commute to DC but personally I wouldn’t want that commute more than 1-2 times per week. But it would be a magnificent lifestyle upgrade. If you don’t need to be waterfront you can find a great house for $800-1.2M and still be close to the water.

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Anonymous wrote:$1.5-$2M will get you an amazing waterfront house in Severna Park/Arnold. There are great public and private schools. Plenty of people commute to DC but personally I wouldn’t want that commute more than 1-2 times per week. But it would be a magnificent lifestyle upgrade. If you don’t need to be waterfront you can find a great house for $800-1.2M and still be close to the water.

WAY too Trumpy. Pass.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Don’t be crazy and spend $2.5M unless you have $10M net worth which includes fully funded retirement, special medical fees and possible schooling for IEP child, fully funded private college for both kids (today’s cost would be close to $700k at $80k per year), and incredibly secure job with sound bill of health. Why not slum it at $1.8 and put the rest into investments?

+100

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I lived in Forest Hills it was awesome but UDC crowd has made it nearly criminal neighborhood closer to Van Ness metro. I had my car broken into, my nanny was robbed at gun point and pushed to the ground; active sniper situation by Burke only couple months ago. I would look at Woodley Park, Kalorama, Mt Pleasant streets that are closest to the Zoo, even Capitol Hills select streets. Chevy Chase if you don’t mind commute

LOL @ suggesting Mt Pleasant or Cap Hill to get away from crime in Van Ness.

This lol. I was in agreement with them because of what is happening on Connecticut Ave until I read Mt Pleasant to get away from crime in van ness. Like what?

NP. there are some very quiet, safe pockets in Mt Pleasant. But def agree on staying away from Van Ness and the interior of Mt Pleasant.

I think all of those neighborhoods are nice and I would live in any of them. I have lived in both Van Ness and Capitol Hill, and I have good friends in Mount Pleasant and spend a lot of time there. Of all of them, Van Ness feels by far the safest/least gritty to me so it is funny to hear a suggestion to avoid it for crime reasons.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t be crazy and spend $2.5M unless you have $10M net worth which includes fully funded retirement, special medical fees and possible schooling for IEP child, fully funded private college for both kids (today’s cost would be close to $700k at $80k per year), and incredibly secure job with sound bill of health. Why not slum it at $1.8 and put the rest into investments?

This is depressing. By this standard, pretty much no one should be spending as much as they're currently spending on their mortgage (except if you bought long, long ago).

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t be crazy and spend $2.5M unless you have $10M net worth which includes fully funded retirement, special medical fees and possible schooling for IEP child, fully funded private college for both kids (today’s cost would be close to $700k at $80k per year), and incredibly secure job with sound bill of health. Why not slum it at $1.8 and put the rest into investments?

This is depressing. By this standard, pretty much no one should be spending as much as they're currently spending on their mortgage (except if you bought long, long ago).

NP. Yes, PP. This is the horrible truth. Your windfalls should be used to cushion future uncertainty. Instead, most use their windfalls to increase their expectations. Bad!