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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We really like Maury, near Lincoln Park. Ticks all the boxes you mention and easy commute to Pentagon via 695/395. We also wanted small classes and a tight knit feel and it’s been great. Only downside is the feeder pattern - middle school is fine (people vary on this but the number of people from Maury sending kids there is increasingly significantly each year, so would be even better by the time your kid gets there) but high school is a no for almost everyone.[/quote]

+1. Neighborhood is wonderful too— feels like a small town but is minutes away from H Street, Union Market, etc. I bike to work downtown in 10 min. Highly recommend! [/quote]

When we decided to move into the city from the 'burbs this was one of the first neighborhoods we looked at.  Our impression was that it may be nice for a short and specific slice of your life but that's IT.  Nothing but 30-something white folks pushing expensive strollers while their designer dog tagged along.  We were horrified.  If we wanted that, we'd stayed in NOVA.  We quickly looked elsewhere.[/quote]

Please take your racism elsewhere. Comment reported. It's 2025, that stuff isn't appreciated anymore loser.[/quote]

+1/2

The casual use of “white” as a pejorative doesn’t help anyone. It often shuts down conversations by sparking knee-jerk offense without offering much insight. One thing I’ve noticed is that it’s usually white people who describe a place as “too white.” By contrast, Black folks and other people of color are more likely to express concern about the absence of Black people or other POC — in other words, to point out a lack of diversity, not to characterize whiteness itself as a problem.

This difference in framing really matters. When white people casually label something as “too white,” they can unintentionally come off as flippant or antagonistic — and that can trigger backlash from [i]other[/i] white people. But here’s the thing: it’s not usually those white folks who bear the brunt of that backlash. It’s people like me — Black people, people of color, our kids — who end up paying the price.

In today’s political climate, a lot of people are just waiting for an excuse to come after us. So when well-meaning white folks casually toss around anti-white framing, it gives those bad-faith actors ammunition. I really need you to not do that.

Don’t make it harder for my sons, for me, for families like ours. Just… stop.

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I know plenty of black folks who tell me that certain neighborhoods are "too white."  [/quote]

Racist?[/quote]

Probably not, because they are likely using “white” as shorthand for a deficit of “cultural” amenities they’d prefer, not a castigation of white people as “bad.”

This of course isn’t a big deal to all black folks. I’m black and don’t care, but have extended family that prefer easy access to culturally black spaces at the neighborhood level.

But it’s still problematic phraseology if used casually in public, because it allows folks (often disingenuously) to scream reverse racism. So, for purely practical reasons, I’d prefer people not use descriptors that suggest a certain modicum of whiteness is “too” much.

But most people (including my wife) don’t really care what I think on this score. [/quote]

I'm the poster who first said that CH is too "white," and I agree with you.  And yes, I'm white.  I guess I don't really consider saying a neighborhood is "too white" on a forum such as this is saying it "in public."  And when I said it other posters knew exactly what I was talking about.  The only disagreement was whether I was being racist in point out the obvious.

Note that I didn't say the neighborhood was just "white."  I also said it was largely white women in their 30s pushing expensive strollers with designer dogs at their side.  And it IS, at least from my perspective.  I don't consider it "racist" to not want to live in a neighborhood that's too much of anything.  We didn't want that when we moved into the city.  We wanted more diversity in terms of age, race, wealth, dogs -- everything.

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The women pushing strollers around the SFHs in 20009 are significantly more wealthy than the ones in 20003. I can understand why someone would pick the neighborhoods in 20009 over the relatively sleepier 20003, [b]but doing so on the basis of diversity is laughable[/b].[/quote]

Really? I'm a different poster but am sitting in 20009 right now. There are extremely wealthy people living in 5 million dollar townhouses, families squeezed into apartments, used book stores, lots of Latino restaurants and people in Adams Morgan, gay men who have lived here for 30+ years, and etc etc. it's a significantly denser and more "city like" area that 20003, which is less dense and more uniform. I completely understand what that poster means.

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The most obvious thing to point out is that neither Maury nor its IB are in the 20003 zip code, so I'm not sure if this is just a bad troll attempt people have jumped on or what. Maury and its neighborhood are actually in 20002, which is among the most diverse zip codes in DC... well ahead of 20009. See, e.g., here: https://www.niche.com/places-to-live/search/most-diverse-zip-codes/s/district-of-columbia/.[/quote]

Brent, Chisolm, Payne, and Watkins are all in 20003. I think 20003 is a better proxy for Capitol Hill than 20002.[/quote]

I mean, first, the poster literally recommended the Maury neighborhood and talked about H Street, so it's unclear why a different part of the neighborhood being a better proxy for "Capitol Hill" is relevant. Also, not really. Ludlow, SWS, Maury and CHML are all in 20002. [/quote]

If you read the thread, many posts have been about Capitol Hill generally, not just Maury.

[b]CHML and SWS are citywide schools only accessible via lottery; not so relevant to a neighborhood discussion.
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The PP who hates CH oddly only offered up a zip code for the neighborhood they chose, not a school boundary. But I agree it would be much more interesting and valuable to talk about on a school level. In 20009 they could be zoned for Oyster-Adams, Ross, Marie-Reed, HD Cooke, Tubman, Garrison, John-Francis, or Seaton.[/quote]

No. When people talk about schools on Capitol Hill, they always include these two in the discussion. How you get in doesn't have anything to do with whether 20003 is a better proxy for "Capitol Hill" than 20002 is. I mean CHML stands for something... just can't think what it is... Oh, wait.[/quote]

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