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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't live in any of them, but parts of Springfield, Annandale and Woodbridge.

Also agree on some neighborhoods  EOTR, which might as well be a foreign country to much of DCUM.[/quote]

Agree on Annandale, which has some really beautiful housing stock, especially if you like MCM. I think the schools get a bad rap because it's close to some districts with intensely competitive families with extremely high expectations, but for instance as a family coming from DC, we find Annandale schools look pretty good to us.

And agree on EOTR but I think it will change pretty quickly. It was the same with neighborhoods like Edgewood, Kingman Park, Trinidad. White people were unfamiliar with them and they had bad reputations regarding crime, but slowly some white people started buying there because it was a way to get proximity at a lower price and then that made it feel more comfortable for other white people and then gentrification happens. I don't think it will be long before this starts happening more across the river, if it isn't already.

The one sticking point is that the neighborhoods I just mentioned had the advantage of being near some commercial areas (H Street, Brookland) that gave people a reason to go there.  There have been more developments going in EOTR, but basically nothing large enough to be a draw for people who live further west. That keeps people from starting to imagine living in a place. We'll see if some of the current planned developments can change this.[/quote]

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