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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]AU Park.

Great schools, and Deal is a great middle school, the PP that said otherwise does not have recent information.  Over 90% of the kids going to the sought after elementary feeder schools move on to Deal now.  That was always the problem for many parents, whether the middle school cohort was equally prepared.  There are good high school options in DC and they are only getting better.

I commute to SW DC and it is 20 minutes (I go early like OP), DH commutes to the same area after school drop off and it takes him 30 minutes in the middle of rush hour.

While there are families with more, a $200K income is not poor by AU Park standards, plenty of older hybrids in the hood.  And we have 3, count em 3, whole foods within a 5 minute drive from almost anywhere in the neighborhood so plenty of neighbors getting their organic fix.

Most houses are walking distance to a metro (Friendship Heights or Tenleytown), and most families are there for the good commute and schools, not the housing stock.
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+1. Its an "affordable" neighborhood where you can still get a SFH home for under a million (in some cases quite a bit under). I want the PP to tell me where the other whole foods are - I only know of one - but between the spring valley shopping center, fresh and green, and the whole foods on Wisconsin we are well covered. The metro is nearby. Its quiet but not overly suburban (you can walk to at least a handful of restaurants and bars). There's a great park for the kids (Turtle Park), the bus runs down Yuma, the neighborhood is full of kids who play in their front yards, there's at least three of four block parties a year, the proximity to delacarlia means you have a fast route to bridges if you need them, the palisades sunday farmers thing is 5 minutes drive, AU is not a throughfare for traffic for the most part (yuma an exception), its a big mix of middle class folks, lots of school teachers/administrators, mid level government employees, etc. HHI of $150K here is probably just about the average. You'll see more hondas, nissans, toyotas and subarus than you will audis, bmws, and teslas. Birthday parties are in backyards, not at the Harvard club. Critter pants are not mandatory sunday attire. Theres a good mix of private pre-k's as well.

What you loose is your carerra marble countertop with the miele dishwasher. What you gain is all of the above. 
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