Differences Amongst NW DC Neighborhoods

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why anyone chooses to live in any of these neighborhoods in Upper Caucasia, to be honest. You’re basically paying top dollar to live in what are essentially suburbs - except you’re stuck with city services and city schools and can’t walk anywhere. Why bother? It’s the worst of both worlds.

Please let us know where you live. Must be an edgy neighborhood based on the not-at-all-tired "Upper Caucasia" mention.

I live near Logan Circle. In the actual city. If I wanted to live in the suburbs I’d actually live in the suburbs.

I’ve lived in both places and they’re not that different? Logan circle is more walkable to more restaurants and bars, thats the main difference.

I lived in Logan for years. Crime is why we moved away. We can still walk there, but feel much safer where we are. Especially when DH is out of town and I have to walk our dog at night.

Clutch those pearls, Karen!

And Gertie, get your GUN!

Statistically speaking, your need to be in a motor vehicle much more often than I do exposes you to a greater risk of personal injury on a daily basis than crime in my neighborhood does to me.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why anyone chooses to live in any of these neighborhoods in Upper Caucasia, to be honest. You’re basically paying top dollar to live in what are essentially suburbs - except you’re stuck with city services and city schools and can’t walk anywhere. Why bother? It’s the worst of both worlds.

Please let us know where you live. Must be an edgy neighborhood based on the not-at-all-tired "Upper Caucasia" mention.

I live near Logan Circle. In the actual city. If I wanted to live in the suburbs I’d actually live in the suburbs.

I’ve lived in both places and they’re not that different? Logan circle is more walkable to more restaurants and bars, thats the main difference.

I lived in Logan for years. Crime is why we moved away. We can still walk there, but feel much safer where we are. Especially when DH is out of town and I have to walk our dog at night.

Clutch those pearls, Karen!

And Gertie, get your GUN!

Statistically speaking, your need to be in a motor vehicle much more often than I do exposes you to a greater risk of personal injury on a daily basis than crime in my neighborhood does to me.

Not really, if you are on a bike, scooter or e-bike! But do go on and enjoy the new bike lanes!

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Have you found a house yet? Where did you decide?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why anyone chooses to live in any of these neighborhoods in Upper Caucasia, to be honest. You’re basically paying top dollar to live in what are essentially suburbs - except you’re stuck with city services and city schools and can’t walk anywhere. Why bother? It’s the worst of both worlds.

Please let us know where you live. Must be an edgy neighborhood based on the not-at-all-tired "Upper Caucasia" mention.

I live near Logan Circle. In the actual city. If I wanted to live in the suburbs I’d actually live in the suburbs.

What makes Logan Circle the “actual city” but AU park not?

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I think Chevy Chase DC is a fantastic neighborhood where kids can have some freedom and run around. If I could do it all again, that’s where I would have moved for my kids. Access to the park at Lafayette elementary, , Broad Branch Market and the farmers market in summer.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Chevy Chase DC is a fantastic neighborhood where kids can have some freedom and run around. If I could do it all again, that’s where I would have moved for my kids. Access to the park at Lafayette elementary, , Broad Branch Market and the farmers market in summer.

But doesn’t that area get old after elementary school? It’s so isolated

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CC is nice but I prefer AU Park.

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CC is nice but I prefer AU Park.

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Will these areas ever change? Not CC DC, but Upper NW neighborhoods are filled with old people who have raised kids and need to move on.

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Anonymous wrote:Will these areas ever change? Not CC DC, but Upper NW neighborhoods are filled with old people who have raised kids and need to move on.

Move on to where? There should be more multifamily/ apartments for them to downsize to, and the NIMBY activity is self-defeating, but this comment is just spiteful.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why anyone chooses to live in any of these neighborhoods in Upper Caucasia, to be honest. You’re basically paying top dollar to live in what are essentially suburbs - except you’re stuck with city services and city schools and can’t walk anywhere. Why bother? It’s the worst of both worlds.

Gimme a break. I live EOTP but if you think people who live in Kent and Wesley Heights are "stuck with city schools" you're thick in the head. Nobody with a $3.5M budget is worrying about neighborhood schools.

But they’re still stuck with city services. And most of them don’t have school aged kids anyway.

I just don’t get it. Those neighborhoods are BORING.

I live in WH and don't care about schools or "city services" - bluntly, we can pay for better services privately.

PP is just throwing around buzzwords. Once you can afford private school, the “city services” that you care about dwindle pretty quickly. Heck I’m EOTP and I can’t even figure out what “city services” I’m supposed to be disappointed in…

Trash collection, both regular, and bulk, are the jewel in the DC city services crown. That’s basically all you need from the city if you don’t go to public school and live in Upper NW.

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Anonymous wrote:We are considering a few different DC neighborhoods but I am curious from folks who live there what the vibe is. I'd really love my kids (5 and 7) to make friends with other kids on the street and have a community feeling (think street parties for big holidays, neighbors helping each other, kids trick or treating, etc.)

-Palisades
-AU Park
-Kent
-Wesley Heights
-Berkley

Thank you!

You want either of the first two. The last three are full of the ultra-wealthy who isolate themselves in mansions.

+1 Only 14% of the 20007 zip code, which is everything you list except Palisades and AU Park, is families with children under 18. In the 20016 zip code the population is 26% families with children under 18.

OP here. This is really interesting data. Thanks.

There’s an airplane noise thread; check it out don’t buy in the Palisades, Kent, Berkeley, Foxhall. It’s not worth the aggravation, pollution and worrying about the property values.

AU Park isn’t super popular. It could be that parts of it are in the formerly used defense site (Spring Valley FUDS), directly under humongous transmission towers or just meh.

Wesley Heights. If you can afford it, Woodley Park. You’ll be spending millions so don’t buy a lemon location

AU Park isn’t’t super popular? Among what slice of demographics? It is not as high end as WH, but everything else OP is asking for is there and last I checked (my kids are late teens now) Janney is still a thriving elementary school. There are lots of reasons I may want to leave our house someday, but the biggest factor for me in wanting to stay is my neighbors. A good number of them are like chosen family.

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AU Park is awesome. We just moved here and we really love it. Schools, restaurants, parks, metro, we walk everywhere and feel very safe.

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Anonymous wrote:AU Park is awesome. We just moved here and we really love it. Schools, restaurants, parks, metro, we walk everywhere and feel very safe.

As someone new to the area, when you say walkable you mean you walk to the metro (Tenleytown Red stop) and also walk to shops around the metro stop?

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t understand why anyone chooses to live in any of these neighborhoods in Upper Caucasia, to be honest. You’re basically paying top dollar to live in what are essentially suburbs - except you’re stuck with city services and city schools and can’t walk anywhere. Why bother? It’s the worst of both worlds.

Because my kids can walk to their private school. Oh, and it's also relatively safe.