Tell me about your neighborhood that you love!

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Anonymous wrote:Southwest DC. I live in a townhouse that doesn't face a street, so my view is trees, grass, and people walking their dogs. The neighborhood itself is extremely economically diverse and my complex has people of different ages/races/backgrounds, with an increasing number of little kids. It's fantastic at Halloween with all the trick or treaters. Randall Pool is nice (and free, since it's public) and I like floating around and catching a glimpse of the Capitol dome while I swim! It's a good place to be active: bike paths, tennis and pickleball and basketball courts, fitness classes, golf at East Potomac Park, kayaking, and more. Everything I need day-to-day (grocery store, library, gym) is walkable. I can walk to 3 metro stations and it's easy to get downtown and to all the airports (I even walked to DCA once when I had the time and was only bringing a backpack!). Being between Navy Yard and the Wharf, and very close to the Mall, means lots of restaurants and things to do--it's cool to walk to fireworks, baseball and soccer games, museums, shows at Arena Stage, etc. The elementary and middle schools seem to be getting more neighborhood buy-in.

I am concerned about crime, there is a lot of traffic, condo and co-op fees are high, and I wish there were a bus to Union Station, but overall it's pretty great!

Also in SW and I love it here. Can’t afford to buy so I’m going to have to move but I wish I could stay. It’s a great place to live.

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This thread is so wholesome. Moar cute neighborhoods!

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Woodmor Silver Spring. Looks really nice at Christmas.

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Minnesota Ave baby 💯

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Capitol View Park/Homewood, which is 20910 or 20895, depending on where you live. Close to so much - it’s easy to get to downtown Bethesda or Silver Spring, two 495 exits, Rock Creek, walking distance to the elementary school, a reasonable walk to Forest Glen metro and also to downtown Kensington. There’s the various parades in Town of Kensington that are fun, Babycat Brewery, Old Town Market, some great independent shops interspersed with all the antiques. There are two great swim clubs nearby, Kenmont and Glenwood. Best of all, most of our neighbors are very down to earth and not overly competitive. Lots of trees. It’s a great place!

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Anonymous wrote:North Springfield 22151

I love living here. It's so close to 495, 95, and 395. My biggest pet peeve when I lived in West Springfield was getting off the interstate and still having another 20mins to get home. It's close to VRE, commuter bus lot, and metro (a little further away, but still in decent driving distance).

The people are so nice and helpful. I've never lived in a neighborhood where so many neighbors help you when you need it. Everyone is down to earth. The mom's are so supportive of each other and we don't have any mean girls. (In fact a new mom moved into the neighborhood and, I guess, in her misguided attempt to bond, she started sh!t talking other moms and kids. She was shut down immediately!)

It's filled with people that have lived here for decades. I have 2 neighbors who have lived here since the house was built in the early 60's. Another neighbor bought the house from his grandparents. It's a mix of blue-collar and white-collar. Because of that, you might one day be speaking to someone who briefs a cabinet member and the next using the plumber who lives a few streets over.

The elementary school is AMAZING. In talking to other moms with kids in other schools (even ones that are higher ranking), ours is very communicative, caring, and invested in every kid. They bend over backwards to help.

The MS and HS are "low rated" and have a reputation of being bad and filled with crime. But every person I've talked to that has kids there or graduated from there have nothing but high praise for them.

I have a friend who had kids at Holmes MS and Annandale HS (the MS/HS for North Springfield ES) and she complained incessantly about the lack of parental involvement compared to other schools. She also felt that the principal at Holmes was rigid and not responsive to concerns.

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Anonymous wrote:We’re really liking our part of Silver Spring near downtown and just outside TKPK. Very walkable but we also have a spacious SFH. Great friendly neighbors. Most neighbors are using the public schools. The neighborhood is very diverse especially since we’re very near a lot of apartment complexes. Personally I’m feeling optimistic about property values as well, although we bought the house because we liked it. I know crime can be an issue in DTSS but we are close but not that close, so I don’t have concerns about this.

We’re in a slightly different part of Silver Spring (McKenney Hills/Carroll Knolls neighborhood) and we also love it. Just outside the beltway, walkable to the Forest Glen metro which is clean and quiet, as well as the local elementary schools (Flora Singer and Oakland Terrace) which most people really like. Diverse housing stock, which makes for a great mix of people in all stages of life with all types of jobs (although super kid friendly area so young families are very well represented), and diverse retail (one direction is Wheaton/the mall, or you can walk to Town of Kensington by cutting through Homewood Park). Friendly neighbors who are happy to help you out, very active community association. And affordable for this non-profit family: we live in a large house that’s less than half a mile from a metro! I will say one con is the majority of the diverse housing stock is quite small so it can be hard to find a larger house, but plenty of neighbors have bought or are buying small and adding on.

This is where we are too. Moved here a year ago without really knowing much about the area and have had a great experience. Excited for OTES later this year.

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Anonymous wrote:Glover Park!
Moved to Wesley Heights 10 years ago, then McLean Gardens 2 years ago, and finally back to Glover Park at the end of this month.
I'm going Home!

So interesting! We lived in GP from 2004-2015, now in AU park. We still think of GP as our neighborhood. Why did you move back?

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Anonymous wrote:Capitol View Park/Homewood, which is 20910 or 20895, depending on where you live. Close to so much - it’s easy to get to downtown Bethesda or Silver Spring, two 495 exits, Rock Creek, walking distance to the elementary school, a reasonable walk to Forest Glen metro and also to downtown Kensington. There’s the various parades in Town of Kensington that are fun, Babycat Brewery, Old Town Market, some great independent shops interspersed with all the antiques. There are two great swim clubs nearby, Kenmont and Glenwood. Best of all, most of our neighbors are very down to earth and not overly competitive. Lots of trees. It’s a great place!

Hey neighbor! You’re so right. We’ve been here almost 20 years, and it’s only gotten better.

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Anonymous wrote:For folks who really love their neighborhood, where do you live? What is it like there? What are the people like? What do you love about it?

Vienna!

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Anonymous wrote:I am loving this wholesome thread! Keep it comin!

+1000 so nice to see so much positivity and joy in where people live

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Love South Four Corners. Very neighborly and down to earth. We can honestly say we are friends with the neighbors on all sides of our house including catercorner. Can walk to Sligo Creek Park and some shops, while others are a very short drive away. Plus the AFI and the Fillmore.

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So many great neighborhoods! This is such a great thread. We love our neighborhood, westover, for many similar reasons. Feels like a small town in many ways but with the ease of being close to everything. Walkable to shops, farmers market on Sundays, library, hardware store. Great access to trails, biking, parks. Kind and friendly neighbors and people are out and about a ton walking places so you get to know each other.

It’s a good spot and I loved reading about all the other great spots, this area sometimes doesn’t get enough credit. If you can find a good neighborhood and try to keep your world “small” (vs activities for kids in far flung places) you don’t experience some of the negatives like traffic etc. as much.

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Anonymous wrote:We love living in Mount Rainier, MD. It’s genuinely diverse, relatively inexpensive and full of young families. People are friendly and present. We have great local amenities and it’s also pretty easy to get downtown.

Second Mount Rainier. Safe. Nice Neighbors. Diverse. Great community. The city infrastructure is practically be rebuilt right now too.

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Another shout out for Lyon park/Aston heights. We bought 10+ years ago. Nice parks, nice neighbors, and we really liked long branch