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[quote=Anonymous]My honest opinion!

I have lived in Georgetown and now live in CC. My kids went to school in NW DC and then up here. I would FAR rather live in Georgetown. No comparison. Georgetown is more than cute and walkable. It's an amazing community, filled with interesting people and culture and restaurants and events, where you walk a block off Wisconsin and find yourself on quiet and gorgeous streets of private historical homes, all lit up, with people gathered in the backyards socializing. You never know who you will meet in Georgetown! You'll find a real sense of community there. Also, your kids in a Bethesda school will definitely have friends who live in Gtown! And their school friends will love to come and visit them there.

Bethesda is suburban and sterile. The "city" of Bethesda is depressing, centered around an Anthropologie store, with restaurants that come and go, with nothing great or original at all. Everything is a chain, and parking is the worst, in horrid old-fashioned tower garages. It's the same to suburban communities in every city fro Rockville to St. Louis.

Georgetown is beautiful and historic. Not sure what PP means about the riff-raff, but please be sure to check crime reports - like BCC HS violence and car thefts and store robberies -before thinking that Georgetown is less safe than Bethesda.

Lastly I would say that CC is prettier and less crass/commercial/ugly than Bethesda, but it all depends on the neighborhood. CC has a rotten reputation of being nasty and racist and a bit backwards - and it is not undeserved, unfortunately, though the young people moving in are awesome and refreshing.

We have a few friends like us who have left Gtown for the burbs, and we all can't wait to move back to the city. Maybe most importantly to you, our kids miss Georgetown too - very much, ten years later. 
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