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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's great - I've lived just west of TC for almost 10 years and have a couple of kids. Traffic has gotten a lot more congested in the area, especially with the opening/growth of new schools. There's a huge new residential development coming to the unit block of N St NW in the next year or so. I'd prioritize having a parking space.

And grittiness is in the eye of the beholder - a lot depends on where you're coming from and what your expectations are. It's great to be an easy walk to Bloomingdale/NOMA/Mt. Vernon Triangle/Shaw/downtown.[/quote]

Agreed. I think a lot of people who say some of these neighborhoods are gritty haven't been to DC in 15 years. [/quote]

I wrote the PP here and the neighborhoods ARE gritty. There are gunshots sometimes, people have been murdered within a couple of blocks of my house. The same is true in parts of Logan Circle, Shaw, Bloomingdale, Eckington, etc. South of NY Ave is really a world of difference compared to north of NY Ave, though the closer you get to North Capitol and NY from Truxton, the more likely you are to see some of the spillover from Tyler House and Sursum Corda. There is also public housing in the northern part of Truxton - there are occasionally gunshots there as well. Again, it's up to you to decide if that meets your comfort level. Walk around at night, see what you think.

I love that my kids are growing up in an economically and racially and culturally diverse neighborhood. I really like living here. I have not experienced any crime to myself or my property (other than a couple of package thefts) in 10 years. We walk A LOT.[/quote]

Thanks. We'll take a walk around the neighborhood and see what we think. We lived on U and 13th a couple of years ago and loved it; unfortunately that's not in our price range right now, but we never felt unsafe there. My other impression of DC is being here for college in '05 ... obviously things have changed a ton since then, so I'm trying to take stock of how things are now.

In any case, it looks like the redevelopment of some of the housing projects should make a big difference. [/quote]

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