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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Cap Hill and Bethesda/NoVa are SO different from one another, it has to depend on more than whether or not you're willing/able to pay for public school. Do you want to be down the street from cafes and able to walk everywhere (Cap Hill) or are you OK with having to drive everywhere ('burbs)? Do you want to live in a very safe neighborhood ('burbs) or are you OK with the possibility that your car/home will get broken into, and you could get mugged (Cap Hill)? Do you want an urban environment where your kid will see lots of different types of people on the street, including homeless people (Cap Hill), or do you want to live in a bubble of wealth ('burbs)? There are so many huge differences between the lifestyles here that I can't believe that a person who would want to live on the Hill would EVER want to move to the 'burbs, and vice versa! Public v. private would certainly be a concern, but not the biggest.[/quote]

I'm not sure why it's so hard to fathom that people could move back and forth from urban to suburban neighborhoods.

You've tilted the playing field in favor of Capitol Hill, of course, by suggesting that you have to "drive everywhere" in the suburbs and that they are a "bubble of wealth."  But most people are not so biased, and they realize that suburbs often have some walkability and at least as much diversity (particularly in the schools) as many DC urban neighborhoods.  So they may decide that they want to live in the suburbs for a while to raise their families and that they'll move back to the city when they are empty-nesters.  Or they may decide to stay put in the city or never leave the suburbs.  But the choices are not quite as stark or permanent as you've implied.    [/quote]

It's ironic that you've reached the conclusion that I tilted the field in favor of Cap Hill because I live in the suburbs. In making my own choice, I put my value on safety and living in more of a "bubble" above walkability and having lots of cafes around. I think it's a pretty fair comparison. I know many people who are very happy living on the Hill, but do live with daily threat of crime (property crime, mostly, but in recent months, violent crime as well) and, of course, greater socio-economic diversity.[/quote]

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