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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I posted this inquiry in Real Estate, but thought I'd cross-post here to get the families-with-children traffic:

Hi all,

My family and I are moving to DC this summer from out-of-state for a 2-3 year temporary assignment.  Our 3 year old has lotteried into CM, which will be moving to Old Soldiers Home, which is kind of sandwiched between Columbia Heights and Brookland -- as such, we're looking to [b]rent[/b] (remember, only here a few years) from the following 4 neighborhoods, in rough order of our initial perceived desirability:

1) Mr. Pleasant
2) Capitol Hill
3) Columbia Heights
4) Petworth

We chose those areas for proximity to the school. We're looking for a 2 BR, in the $2500 - $3000 price range, something walkable with retail options (e.g. Brooklyn/Prospect Heights is our ideal neighborhood), and safe and appropriate for families with young children. From what we read, Capitol Hill would likely be our first choice, but it's probably out of our price range, and is not as close to the other options for the CM school commute.  (Please correct me if I'm wrong).

We're doing a real apartment hunting trip in July, but I'll be in the DC area next week for work and will have about 2 free days to check out the above neighborhoods.  Not being familiar with DC, I just want to get an idea of what these neighborhoods are like, where the ideal streets/areas are to try find housing, where to avoid, etc.  I hear some of these neighborhoods go from safe to somewhat sketchy very quickly, so if you can just give me parameters of which streets/areas I should visit to get a sense of the neighborhood in the short time I have, I would very much appreciate it.  I suppose we'd consider Brookland too, though from what I hear it may be too suburban for us....we really like walkable.  And again, we're not too familiar with DC so if there's other neighborhoods I should be considering, please let us know.  We're set on CM though so living in MD or VA is not an option.

Thanks very much in advance![/quote]

You might add LeDroit Park/Bloomingdale/Shaw to your list.  They're walkable, with lots of young families (you could bus or carpool pretty easily).  They're more downtown flavored than Petworth or Mt. Pleasant, but that's because like the Hill you can actually walk downtown from there.[/quote]

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