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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In no world is Fort Totten nicer or safer than Brookland!

[quote=Anonymous]Consider heading up a stop to Fort Totten.

I recommend one of the larger, older town houses / duplexes.  You'll get a bigger back yard and fee simple ownership.  Plus they are very well built.  The first one is my favorite.  Hamilton is a very nice street to live on, and this particular home is near the Metro as well.

https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/714-Hamilton-St-NE-20011/home/10082388

https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/421-Jefferson-St-NE-20011/home/10082528

https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/1004-Galloway-St-NE-20011/home/10082925

But we do have new townhouse communities as well.  These are sold out but there are more being constructed, if your timeline is flexible, or you could buy a used townhome.

https://www.eya.com/townhomes/washington-dc/riggs-park-place-fort-totten-metro
It's quite a bit safer than Brookland (if you look at crime statistics, and also it feels safer.)[/quote][/quote]

Says someone who's never lived here.  The big roads through it are not representative of the areas inside the neighborhoods which are are quite calm, quiet, leafy and lovely.  If you lived here you'd know that the porches being close to each other in Fort Totten makes it very pleasant and easy to talk to neighbors.

Brookland, meanwhile, has a ton of traffic cutting through.  Lots of liquor stores within the neighborhood, which means lots of drunks and petty crime.  People come to 12th street to rob the CVS.  Brookland's lovely restaurants can't be sustained by the meager population and are failing left and right.  Brookland is an area that's tried, time and time again, to become something prosperous and thriving.  And it's certainly nicer now than it was twenty years ago.  But he wandering vagrants always make it a bit chaotic.

Fort Totten, on the other hand is growing and the new businesses have been thriving.  With more on the way.  The dense housing means we can sustain new businesses and we can see what's happening and watch out for one another.  It means Fort Totten isn't the kind of place where this could happen:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/03/dc-handyman-remains-brookland-yard/

Are Fort Totten (or actually Riggs Park or North Michigan Park) homes as large or as frequently detached single family homes?  No.  And that's the main reason people move to Brookland.  Aside from it being whiter, and having better zoned schools.  But it's also a more peaceful place with lower crime.  Which, if you cared about statistics as much as perception, you would know.

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Anyone with options would avoid both neighborhoods.[/quote]

Are you salty cause you got priced out?[/quote]

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