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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You'll all missing my point.  [b]As I said, you can disagree with my view that he might as well have moved to N. Arlington/Bethesda[/b].  But to delete the post?  Really?  Lame as fuck.[/quote]

Right, and that's what we are doing, disagreeing with your view.  Are we not allowed to do that?

I don't care what he chooses to delete from his own website.  I do care when people spread biased and inaccurate views about my neighborhood just to prove your own hipness.[/quote]

I totally care that he deletes posts that merely disagree with his opinion. For the casual reader, it gives a completely skewed sense of "the community"'s feelings and point of view.

He tries to pretend he's a "journalist," but he relies a whole hell of a lot on just posting press releases--and skewing the comments to be in line with his point of view is selling false pretenses.

I wish more people would see behind the curtain on him. But I am guessing that, despite his efforts, his move to the Van Ness area--[b]one of the most soulless parts of the city[/b], even for upper NW--is the beginning of the end of PoPville, even if it takes a while. (Two little kids will eventually get in the way, too.)

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You clearly know nothing about the neighborhood.  If by "soulless" you mean lack of trendy restaurants, OK, but there is a lot of community spirit.  Just spend some time walking around and you'll run into kids, families, older people, dogs, etc.  Just this week we were eating dinner on the patio of Guapo's (yes, I know you think Guapo's is horrible) and we chatted with two neighbors walking by, then ran into a family from school walking to Blue Moo, then got home and met our new neighbors who just moved in with kids.  It took us an extra hour to get home just because we kept running into people we knew.

Trendy coffee shops and hipster bars is not what gives a community a "soul."  It is the people who live there, and we are more concerned with hanging out and being friendly then with agonizing over the lack of new sushi joints.  Meanwhile, my friend who lives in Columbia Heights and actually sends his kids to the local school barely knows anyone on his block and never interacts with schoolmates outside of school.

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I'm laughing that you think I know nothing about that neighborhood.

And "Van Ness" does tend to refer to a very specific stretch of Connecticut Avenue, right by the--gasp!--Van Ness Metro station. That area has been *soulless* for 40 years now.

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