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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those suggesting Logan Circle and Adams Morgan, these are great neighborhoods, of course, but OP says she wants something "[i]ideally[/i] (emphasis mine) walkable, not too 'urban', not too 'suburban'" . . . with "little town areas to stroll to".  That says to me something more like Cleveland Park or Edgemoor.  [/quote]

The concern here is that her notion of urban is shaped by Manhattan. By that standard there is virtually nothing urban in the whole DC area.[/quote]

Yes, of course, but I'm guessing she's lived in or visited other metropolitan areas and is aware that NYC -- or at least Manhattan is, if not sui generis, then certainly much more dense and urban than any other place in the United States.  Thus, I think she probably views this move as an opportunity to experience a somewhat more suburban lifestyle -- I'm not saying she's going to move to Potomac or Reston -- with the pleasures that urban dwellers associate with the suburbs -- even if only in those rare moments when they are not ecstatic about their own little slice of paradise.

Having made the reverse temporary move -- we spent one year in NYC -- I can say that at least some New Yorkers do sometimes think "it might be nice just to be able to have a cookout in the backyard, or drive the car over to a shopping center where you can go to the hardware store for picture hooks and pick up a loaf of bread and maybe some little gift for your tiny nieces whom you'll be visiting in flyover country next weekend."  In fact, this is exactly what our visiting former neighbors from our NYC sojourn loved about their recent weekend with us -- driving 5 minutes (if that) to the strip shopping center on Arlington Road in Bethesda.  Then walking, yes -- on our own 2 feet -- to get fro yo in beautiful downtown Bethesda -- an ersatz city, but a city nonetheless.  So convenient, they mused.  Would they want to move here?  Not in a million years, but if they had to move, they'd make the best of it.  I know because that's what we did -- in reverse.       [/quote]

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