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[quote=Anonymous]When we moved here from Brooklyn, where we'd ived as gentrifying hothouse flowers for about two decades in Williamsburg, Bed Study and Clinton Hill... DTSS was the only neighborhood in the entire DMV that even seemed close to what we were looking for: decent, affordable housing stock, small businesses, a variety of restaurants, ethnic diversity, decent schools, something that seemed like an art scene.

Sadly, we had underestimated how miserable the entire DMV truly is, but my assessment still stands: if one is forced to live in this miserable place full of type-A strivers, DTSS isn't so bad. It's not all quinoa bowl fast casual like Bethesda. (Seriously, I have to go there a lot for work and every miserable restaurant there just serves some version of a protein "bowl" for $15. That's what you all consider a thriving downtown? Lol.)

I wish I had lived in dtss when there was a borders bookstore. I wish a major bookstore would return.

On the upside, I love the music, I love the pedestrian traffic (all two blocks of it), I love the old stores on GA and Fenton, I love the comic book store, I love all the Ethiopian coffee options, I love the irish pub, I love parking is free on weekends, I love the hardware store, I love Denizens, I love the dated office buildings, and Info see a great deal of potential.

I've been predicting the next big thing in urban neighborhoods since the early 90s so I don't think I'm wrong: as far as it goes in the DMV, Silver Spring has the 'it' factor. This area is still a miserable place full of joyless, humorless, didactic and whiny people... But DTSS is so much better than Bethesda or Del Ray or Capitol Hill.

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