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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am in my late 50s and have lived in DC since I graduated college in the early 1980s, so I have longer perspective on this. DC has been considered an expensive city all this time,with articles on how COL here was higher than most other US cities even back in the '80s and '90s.
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I remember that time too.  In DC you could walk around 14th Street and see the gentrification proceeding block by block, even house by house from Dupont into Logan Circle (with a gap on still beaten down 14th street itself).  As people responded to high prices by gentrifying the next block over. Similar things were happening in the Hill, and in newly gentrified parts of Adams Morgan, and in Mount Pleasant.

In closer in suburbs, the start of gentrication in Del Ray had happened, and in parts of North Arlington (but not Clarendon yet, I guess?)

And development was happening what were for then outer suburbs, as people who didnt feel a need to be close in pursued cheaper housing.

But now there are not many places left to gentrify in DC, or in the inner suburbs (other than PG).  And to go to the suburban edge for new housing means going REALLY far out. [/quote]

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