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- Flowers my daughter planted chopped down from our garden
- Gun shots heard 2-3 weekends per month
- Mailing packages and furniture to work so they won't be stolen
- Neighbor tween threatening me with a brick in front of my toddler
- Six year olds playing in the street until 11pm on school nights
- Flash mob fights in the alley behind my house
- Stolen Xmas decorations and porch furniture
- Crappy local schools and nail-biting charter lotteries
- Rats, dog crap and litter everywhere

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Okay seriously where did you live?  This sucks but it's not the city, it's the neighborhood you picked.  My experience:

- I know everyone on the block and we watch out for each other
- Eight bus lines and metro within a 20 minute walk.
- Corner stores where shopkeepers know my name.
- Son went to our sweet neighborhood elementary and now goes to a fabulous charter
- 3 parks to choose from, and doggie play-groups
- When I see dog crap and litter, I pick it up and toss it in the trash.
- Yes, I have packages mailed to work, and had a skeleton snagged on Halloween.  Oh well.[/quote]

Columbia Heights, OP's old neighborhood. It's not that big. We made it 19 years before moving across the line. Five years ago, I never would have put together this list. I was too immersed in my hip city lifestyle and a rapidly changing Columbia Heights (new metro, new Target, new coffee shops and restaurants on 11th Street). I also experienced the good parts you describe and I'd closed my eyes to the rest. Sometimes you get so used to things you don't even notice them anymore. My daughter opened my eyes when she started noticing the vomit on our park slide, the blood stains on our sidewalk from a neighbor who was stabbed, and the "Wanted" posters at our corner grocery. And of course, her beheaded flowers and missing Xmas presents. I do miss some parts of city life, but not all. Now I'll take the Santa decorations. And I don't drive nearly as much as I did in the city cruising for play dates.

I guess the point of my rambling is that city life isn't all glamorous, just like suburban life isn't all strip malls. There can be a time and place for both. And neither defines you, only reflects your choices and priorities at the time. OP, if you are miserable, go back. Now, or in a few years, or after your kids are grown. The city is just over the line. But in the meantime, try to remember why you made the choice you did and embrace that. Nothing is permanent.[/quote]

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