Any funky little neighborhoods in DC area? With Northern California-type vibe?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The People's Republic of Takoma Park, MD

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Ugh talk about the most over rated suburb only behind Del Ray

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or a Pacific Northwest vibe or Vermonty type vibe? Del Ray maybe? Is that as good as it gets? Takoma park?

At a superficial level, you have a number of options.

At a deeper level, people here in DC are obsessed with politics and skin color, so...

OP here. That's ok, I'm only looking for superficial similarities. I'm a right-winger but I like living in trendy areas.

[Anonymous]

Do you mean like Berkeley CA?
Somewhere progressive & liberal??

[Anonymous]

Does NOT exist in DC area. Closest thing would be in Annapolis or Baltimore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Del Rey in Alexandria

You either don't live in Del Rey or are really boring. Lived in Del Rey up until this year. There is nothing funky about it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Or a Pacific Northwest vibe or Vermonty type vibe? Del Ray maybe? Is that as good as it gets? Takoma park?

At a superficial level, you have a number of options.

At a deeper level, people here in DC are obsessed with politics and skin color, so...

OP here. That's ok, I'm only looking for superficial similarities. I'm a right-winger but I like living in trendy areas.

you should have said "trendy" not "funky." funky neighborhoods will have *gasp* brown people and poor people around here.

I suggest Friendship Heights or CityVista, where you can be around overpriced trendy stores and restaurants

whatever you do please stay away from capitol hill. we don't want you. and you definitely won't fit in takoma park.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you mean like Berkeley CA?
Somewhere progressive & liberal??

lol no. she wants rich and trendy; not progressive and funky.

[Anonymous]

Surest way to be unhappy in DC is to expect it to be like wherever you came from. That said if no one mentioned Garrett Park yet that would tick some your boxes.

[Anonymous]

Yes

[Anonymous]

Falls Church City.

Liberal feel, high earners, progressive, high taxes, a little funky but family friendly.

[singledadmclean]

There are parts of Riverdale Park that look and feel just like East LA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What would you say to a Houstonian asking to recreate their lives when they move to NYC?

That's easy. Live in some sprawly part of Long Island. Enjoy July and August. That way you get the suburban sprawl, and the heat and humidity. If not the big hats and the accents.

Seriously, not everyone WANTS to go native. Some people move because they have to and want and need stuff that is more who they were.

I moved to medium sized sunbelt metro in my 20s. A yankee city kid. After 6 miserable months in a 2 story garden apt complex walkable to nothing, with lots of shallow Florida singles, I moved to a 3 story garden apt complex with enclosed entries that felt just a tad more urban and less Florida, that was at least walkable to a drug store where I could buy the Sunday NY Times (one of the few places in the metro area it could be found) that was closer to downtown, and that had a more yankee, more educated clientele.

It wasn't Beacon Hill, but I felt a bit less like a fish out of water. I probably missed some cultural immersion experiences, but I preserved my sanity till I could move out of the metro area.

There is nothing wrong with that, IMO. You may like experiencing the culture where ever you are, but not everyone can do that. Its not like we are talking a 3 week vacation or even a year long internship - for some people, depending on their career, we are talking a long term change. Its scary to think you have completely lost the way of life you like.

Houston is hot and humid and sprawling, but it's also the most diverse city in the United States. Tom Sietsema named it one of the top 10 US cities for restaurants. The population skews highly educated and politically quite liberal (Hillary won Harris County). Don't know about the big hats.

Well maybe the apocryphal family looking for Houston needs a part of LI that has diversity and restaurants. Or maybe they need to tradeoff restaurants for sprawl, because those are the choices in NY (humidity is available in the summer throughout greater NY though, so that should be okay). I am sorry, did you read me as attacking Houston? I was not (though I imagine HRC won Harris County mostly with votes of POCs and that as in much of the south, the white vote was much more conservative, far more so than in NYC or DC). I was simply trying to respond to someone about how trying to find some place like where you are moving from is not necessarily a hopeless cause, and not everyone can or needs to focus on what is distinctive about the new place.

[Anonymous]

singledadmclean wrote:There are parts of Riverdale Park that look and feel just like East LA.

That's not good.

[Anonymous]

Cabin John , Glen Echo and Brookmont.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Probably Takoma Park. It's not flashy, but it's definitely populated with upper middle class/middle class people in the downtown/historic area.

We moved to Takoma Park from the Bay Area a few years ago in part because it reminded us of Berkeley.