Anonymous wrote:OP, you seem cool and I'd like you to be our neighbor.

I live RIGHT by where you work. Put another way, if you lived in my house, you could walk to work in <10 minutes. (Microsoft?)

Anyway, I strongly urge you to look for a rowhouse in Friendship Hts. DC. There aren't tons, but there a few that come on the market every month and they range from $700 to $800K. Your child can attend Janney (search DCUM for "janney") and have an excellent facility and peer group.

Your stay at home? spouse can walk to 4 grocery stores ranging from cheapo to pleasantly strange to Whole Foods. Several drugs stores within a couple of blocks. A big park (google "Livingston Park" and DPR). Multiple gyms, between 2 public libraries. Banks, way too many banks. Doctors offices. Basically, all the conveniences you can name are within 3-4 blocks if you score one of these townhouses on either side of Wisconsin Ave.

This is not an artistic community, at all. But there are tons of public interest lawyers, journalists, non-profit types. Some professors. More journalists. That is, if you stay on the DC side.

Your child will be set for school for the next 6 years at least, and maybe 3 more if you like the middle school (many do). If not, and you want to move, I'd personally guarantee your rowhouse within this small area will appreciate. You can sell and decamp to a suburb then and pride yourself on avoiding a commute 100% for 6 years.

Anonymous wrote:"Anonymous wrote:
After a while the quirkier neighbours thing started to get a little old for us so we moved to CCDC. Both areas great schools and neighbours. Super walkable.

22:20, define quirky. Vegan? Or phobic about airline contrails containing poison from the government? We've lived next to both and the latter is too quirky now that I am a mother."

No quirky as in "I have a crazy overgrown garden that looks like a maze created by mentally ill people and I also have a broken chair collection on my front porch and newspaper in my windows but I'm totally nice to talk to" or "I carry my 'water bottle' to walk my dog every night and am completely unaware that all the other dog walkers can smell the vodka on my breath. Please swerve to avoid me as I lurch drunkenly into the street to prove a point that we need sidewalks"

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you seem cool and I'd like you to be our neighbor.

I live RIGHT by where you work. Put another way, if you lived in my house, you could walk to work in <10 minutes. (Microsoft?)

Anyway, I strongly urge you to look for a rowhouse in Friendship Hts. DC. There aren't tons, but there a few that come on the market every month and they range from $700 to $800K. Your child can attend Janney (search DCUM for "janney") and have an excellent facility and peer group.

Your stay at home? spouse can walk to 4 grocery stores ranging from cheapo to pleasantly strange to Whole Foods. Several drugs stores within a couple of blocks. A big park (google "Livingston Park" and DPR). Multiple gyms, between 2 public libraries. Banks, way too many banks. Doctors offices. Basically, all the conveniences you can name are within 3-4 blocks if you score one of these townhouses on either side of Wisconsin Ave.

This is not an artistic community, at all. But there are tons of public interest lawyers, journalists, non-profit types. Some professors. More journalists. That is, if you stay on the DC side.

Your child will be set for school for the next 6 years at least, and maybe 3 more if you like the middle school (many do). If not, and you want to move, I'd personally guarantee your rowhouse within this small area will appreciate. You can sell and decamp to a suburb then and pride yourself on avoiding a commute 100% for 6 years.

+1 Couldn't agree more.

Signed fellow potential neighbor

jlbr wrote:OP here, you all seem cool and lovely neighbors, I must say.
Janney keeps coming up on our list of schools to attend. And I love the sound of Friendship Heights though the SFH are on the wee side for me. We live in a huge house just now and you may have to pull my walk-in pantry from my cold dead hands.

jlbr wrote:OP here, you all seem cool and lovely neighbors, I must say.
Janney keeps coming up on our list of schools to attend. And I love the sound of Friendship Heights though the SFH are on the wee side for me. We live in a huge house just now and you may have to pull my walk-in pantry from my cold dead hands.