Best neighborhoods in DC/MD?

[Anonymous]

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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.

I know things have changed so much in DC these days...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Town of Somerset or Chevy Chase West (the area of Chevy Chase adjacent to Norwood Park and closer to the Bethesda Metro)

Will that have easy access to the purple line?

Chevy chase fought the purple line tooth and nail to keep the riff raff away. The final maps should be easy to track down on the web.

[Anonymous]

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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!

Lol, this is true on so many levels. Basically all of upper NW is like this.

All of DC is like this. It is what it is but urban it ain’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Town of Somerset or Chevy Chase West (the area of Chevy Chase adjacent to Norwood Park and closer to the Bethesda Metro)

Will that have easy access to the purple line?

Chevy chase fought the purple line tooth and nail to keep the riff raff away. The final maps should be easy to track down on the web.

Chevy Chase will be like Georgetown in 20 years, a has-been neighborhood that nobody goes to anymore because it's not conveneinet.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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!

Lol, this is true on so many levels. Basically all of upper NW is like this.

All of DC is like this. It is what it is but urban it ain’t.

Why is this a bad thing? In upper NW you get some of the benefits of suburban life (quiet, family-friendly, SFHs, green space) and you're still close to DC offices, museums, restaurants, etc. Lots of people actually want something between a Manhattan high-rise and an exurban McMansion

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Town of Somerset or Chevy Chase West (the area of Chevy Chase adjacent to Norwood Park and closer to the Bethesda Metro)

Will that have easy access to the purple line?

Is the purple line real? I thought that was hypothetical

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Town of Somerset or Chevy Chase West (the area of Chevy Chase adjacent to Norwood Park and closer to the Bethesda Metro)

Will that have easy access to the purple line?

Chevy chase fought the purple line tooth and nail to keep the riff raff away. The final maps should be easy to track down on the web.

Chevy Chase will be like Georgetown in 20 years, a has-been neighborhood that nobody goes to anymore because it's not conveneinet.

I hear you, but “has-been” is a bit unfair given prices in Georgetown are at all time highs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Town of Somerset or Chevy Chase West (the area of Chevy Chase adjacent to Norwood Park and closer to the Bethesda Metro)

Will that have easy access to the purple line?

Is the purple line real? I thought that was hypothetical

Sadly, it is real. They have done tons of destruction already where the purple line will be. I don't live in CC, but I think the entire thing is stupid. They should have done a proper metro line or nothing. This will be a super-slow light rail that will take forever to go anywhere. Why would I wait for a purple line train that will take 25 minutes to travel from Silver Spring to Bethesda (not to mention the waiting time until a train comes), when even during the worst of rush hour, I can get there faster.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Town of Somerset or Chevy Chase West (the area of Chevy Chase adjacent to Norwood Park and closer to the Bethesda Metro)

Will that have easy access to the purple line?

Is the purple line real? I thought that was hypothetical

Sadly, it is real. They have done tons of destruction already where the purple line will be. I don't live in CC, but I think the entire thing is stupid. They should have done a proper metro line or nothing. This will be a super-slow light rail that will take forever to go anywhere. Why would I wait for a purple line train that will take 25 minutes to travel from Silver Spring to Bethesda (not to mention the waiting time until a train comes), when even during the worst of rush hour, I can get there faster.

So glad we tracked down the maps online when we were house hunting last year--many house for sale would be severely impacted by the new line. Two will soon have the tracks literally in their backyards. We moved to NoVa instead. Very happy.

[Anonymous]

The purple line doesn’t even go through ccdc. I don’t see the point of the purple line. Why do you need to spend all that $ to get from Bethesda/CC to SS when technically they can take the red line

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The purple line doesn’t even go through ccdc. I don’t see the point of the purple line. Why do you need to spend all that $ to get from Bethesda/CC to SS when technically they can take the red line

Well, that would be a really, really long metro ride. But you can take a bus, and it would take maybe 15-20 minutes. It would still be faster than the glacial purple line, which will travel at a whopping average speed of 15 mph.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Town of Somerset or Chevy Chase West (the area of Chevy Chase adjacent to Norwood Park and closer to the Bethesda Metro)

Will that have easy access to the purple line?

Is the purple line real? I thought that was hypothetical

Sadly, it is real. They have done tons of destruction already where the purple line will be. I don't live in CC, but I think the entire thing is stupid. They should have done a proper metro line or nothing. This will be a super-slow light rail that will take forever to go anywhere. Why would I wait for a purple line train that will take 25 minutes to travel from Silver Spring to Bethesda (not to mention the waiting time until a train comes), when even during the worst of rush hour, I can get there faster.

+1. A colossal waste of money. Another example of how Maryland can’t do anything right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The purple line doesn’t even go through ccdc. I don’t see the point of the purple line. Why do you need to spend all that $ to get from Bethesda/CC to SS when technically they can take the red line

Bethesda to SS is only one piece of the line. It's supposed to go all the way to New Carrollton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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!

Lol, this is true on so many levels. Basically all of upper NW is like this.

All of DC is like this. It is what it is but urban it ain’t.

Why is this a bad thing? In upper NW you get some of the benefits of suburban life (quiet, family-friendly, SFHs, green space) and you're still close to DC offices, museums, restaurants, etc. Lots of people actually want something between a Manhattan high-rise and an exurban McMansion

I wrote the previous post and completely agree with you. However, there seems to be a bunch of urban warrior wantabees here who try to make a big deal about how NW is not really urban. I think they look silly and think they pursue distinctions where differences are not really there. DC is what it is and I am ok with that as well.

[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!

You sound insecure. I guess it depends what you call bragging. If someone asks you where you live and how you like it, are you able to answer positively without it being bragging?