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[quote=Anonymous]we live in brightwood park, on 14th st, north of Colorado.  There are some beautiful, large houses in our quiet, nice,family oriented neighborhood. Ours is probably middle of the pack for our immediate neighborhood and valued at 655k. There's a house across the street that sold for +- 800k , but it is HUGE, and beautifully renovated, top to bottom.

In general, you can get a lot of house for your money, as compared to west of the park, and the overall housing stock and neighborhood where we are is much nicer and safer than petworth. Our neighbors are middle and upper middle class professionals, a few older african americans who have lived in their houses for a long time. a few multigenerational families; not far are some apartments with dominant latino population. Its very diverse. The drawbacks are not very close to metro--if you work downtown, the S9 bus on 16th gets you to macpherson in about 25 minutes, and I take the bus to columbia heights metro (or sometimes walk). If you drive, you are close to rock creek park. There is not a lot of 'nicer' commerce: Georgia avenue has little of interest, and there is very little on 14th street, although a few restaurants and other stores could turn the neighborhood. The loss of Colorado kitchen was too bad--if a few restaurants, coffee shops and useful commerce went there, it would be fantastic. There's already an upscale crossfit gym and a private art studio. Finally, schools are not particularly good, so its not drawing a ton of middle class families who plan for public- although I can definitely see moving to brightwood if you got your kid into a good charter school. Its close to a lot of the charters....Or, if you were definitely doing private, and wanted to spend 800k rather than 1.5 million for a large, beautiful house in central-ish DC and didn't care about being WOTP. Neaby Crestwood has many million dollar plus houses--attracting childless gay couples, and has traditionally been the upper class AA neighborhood. Some to die for beautiful houses nestled in the park there. [/quote]

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