Capitol Hill families - If you moved to NW or burbs for school, do you have any regrets?

[Anonymous]

Well put, same, though I hadn't thought the appeal of CH as a jumping-off point for fun through as well as you have, PP. I just knew that I wasn't prepared to move. Living in Glover Park would be far too much hassle for us. We walk 10 mins to Union Station from our place, 15 mins to Eastern Market, easily taking Metro in any direction along with city buses and inter-city buses. We have security cameras and good locks and don't walk around carrying cash.

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Anonymous wrote:The answer to this question is: move to Glover Park. You get the walkability (or close to it) of Capitol Hill, without the downsides of crime. You avoid long commutes from the boring suburbs. And you don't have to worry about school quality.

"Walkability" is doing a whole lot of heavy lifting here. Yeah, you can walk to Sroddert, but the western half of the neighborhood is not a fun walk to the commercial area. And the public transportation options in CP are pretty lacking.

Yep. I am the Hill poster who seriously considered Glover Park. It’s a residential neighborhood with one strip of retail on one edge (and with some very steep walks). Nothing like the Hill. It’s also shockingly retrograde in terms of bike facilities, so it’s not like the Hill where I can grab a citibike and easily get to Trader Joes or whatever.

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Anonymous wrote:The answer to this question is: move to Glover Park. You get the walkability (or close to it) of Capitol Hill, without the downsides of crime. You avoid long commutes from the boring suburbs. And you don't have to worry about school quality.

"Walkability" is doing a whole lot of heavy lifting here. Yeah, you can walk to Sroddert, but the western half of the neighborhood is not a fun walk to the commercial area. And the public transportation options in CP are pretty lacking.

Yep. I am the Hill poster who seriously considered Glover Park. It’s a residential neighborhood with one strip of retail on one edge (and with some very steep walks). Nothing like the Hill. It’s also shockingly retrograde in terms of bike facilities, so it’s not like the Hill where I can grab a citibike and easily get to Trader Joes or whatever.

Found the New Yorker 🗽

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The answer to this question is: move to Glover Park. You get the walkability (or close to it) of Capitol Hill, without the downsides of crime. You avoid long commutes from the boring suburbs. And you don't have to worry about school quality.

"Walkability" is doing a whole lot of heavy lifting here. Yeah, you can walk to Sroddert, but the western half of the neighborhood is not a fun walk to the commercial area. And the public transportation options in CP are pretty lacking.

Yep. I am the Hill poster who seriously considered Glover Park. It’s a residential neighborhood with one strip of retail on one edge (and with some very steep walks). Nothing like the Hill. It’s also shockingly retrograde in terms of bike facilities, so it’s not like the Hill where I can grab a citibike and easily get to Trader Joes or whatever.

Found the New Yorker 🗽

lol how did you know 😂

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The answer to this question is: move to Glover Park. You get the walkability (or close to it) of Capitol Hill, without the downsides of crime. You avoid long commutes from the boring suburbs. And you don't have to worry about school quality.

I'm not buying any of this. Last time I checked, Glover Park isn't short on crime because DC isn't. We have friends there whose house was broken into a few months ago. Don't have to worry about school qualify for Hardy or MacArthur? Ridiculous. I'm told that the seriously incompetent Hardy principal was pushed out a month before the end of this past school year, by....furious parents.

PP, if you don't want to live in the city, you don't have to live in the city. I gather you don't, and it sounds like you wouldn't want to. That's OK - this post is not for you.

But if you want to live in the city, but not worry as much about crime and schools as you would on Capitol Hill, and don't want to live in a suburb, then Glover Park is a nice option for you.

It does not have zero crime (nowhere does!) Its schools aren't perfect (nowhere does! just check out the complaints on this board about the MoCo schools!). But Glover Park is a pretty great place to live. It does not have all of the upsides of Capitol Hill - but it also does not have the two big downsides (crime and bad schools) either.

Bizarre response. We've lived on CH Hill for almost 30 years and don't worry about crime day to day.

Same.

Who are these people posting?

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The answer to this question is: move to Glover Park. You get the walkability (or close to it) of Capitol Hill, without the downsides of crime. You avoid long commutes from the boring suburbs. And you don't have to worry about school quality.

"Walkability" is doing a whole lot of heavy lifting here. Yeah, you can walk to Sroddert, but the western half of the neighborhood is not a fun walk to the commercial area. And the public transportation options in CP are pretty lacking.

Yep. I am the Hill poster who seriously considered Glover Park. It’s a residential neighborhood with one strip of retail on one edge (and with some very steep walks). Nothing like the Hill. It’s also shockingly retrograde in terms of bike facilities, so it’s not like the Hill where I can grab a citibike and easily get to Trader Joes or whatever.

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[Anonymous]

Obviously crime is low where people don't want to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Obviously crime is low where people don't want to be.

It’s low where there isn’t any poverty.

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Anonymous wrote:Obviously crime is low where people don't want to be.

It’s low where there isn’t any poverty.

Poor people aren't criminals by default, poor criminal are criminals. Majority of poor people are hard working and upright.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The answer to this question is: move to Glover Park. You get the walkability (or close to it) of Capitol Hill, without the downsides of crime. You avoid long commutes from the boring suburbs. And you don't have to worry about school quality.

"Walkability" is doing a whole lot of heavy lifting here. Yeah, you can walk to Sroddert, but the western half of the neighborhood is not a fun walk to the commercial area. And the public transportation options in CP are pretty lacking.

Yep. I am the Hill poster who seriously considered Glover Park. It’s a residential neighborhood with one strip of retail on one edge (and with some very steep walks). Nothing like the Hill. It’s also shockingly retrograde in terms of bike facilities, so it’s not like the Hill where I can grab a citibike and easily get to Trader Joes or whatever.

Found the New Yorker 🗽

lol how did you know 😂

Too funny - both partners are on here? Did you know before this?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The answer to this question is: move to Glover Park. You get the walkability (or close to it) of Capitol Hill, without the downsides of crime. You avoid long commutes from the boring suburbs. And you don't have to worry about school quality.

"Walkability" is doing a whole lot of heavy lifting here. Yeah, you can walk to Sroddert, but the western half of the neighborhood is not a fun walk to the commercial area. And the public transportation options in CP are pretty lacking.

Yep. I am the Hill poster who seriously considered Glover Park. It’s a residential neighborhood with one strip of retail on one edge (and with some very steep walks). Nothing like the Hill. It’s also shockingly retrograde in terms of bike facilities, so it’s not like the Hill where I can grab a citibike and easily get to Trader Joes or whatever.

Found the New Yorker 🗽

lol how did you know 😂

Not PP, but I assume it was the reference to Citibike? I occasionally have a similar issue where I keep falling back into saying “subway” and have to correct myself to “Metro.”