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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]By chance I was walking along H from union station to about 8th in 2008 and it was truly scary. Went up until that shoe store and turned back; can’t imagine going further to 13th.
Has it really changed so much?
I was a tourist then and thought I had experienced the ghetto. [/quote]

I first spend time on H street around 2005-2006.  While it definitely has improved a lot, it still feels very patchy to me.  You have expensive condo developments on the whole strip, but lots of vacant store fronts in between.  The blocks closer to Union Station have a more uniform feel (because they're more completely condo-ified) but also a kind of deserted feeling that would make me not want to always be there at night.  There's no question there's a lot more $$ on H street, but it's definitely not a place you can ignore the rest of DC.

Anyway, the true way you're going to get hurt on H street is getting hit by a car.  I can think of 4 traffic fatalities in the past few years -- but nobody (who is not dealing with drugs/gangs) is going to get shot to death.  [/quote]

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