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[quote=Anonymous]And I see a great deal of upside in DTSS that I don't see elsewhere in the DMV. It's an easy affordable place to live with good housing stock and decent food and bars. Unless you adore chain restaurants, Bethesda, Pike and Rose, etc? Don't have that. DTSS still has its spirit. Places like Kaldi's or McGinty's are genuinely unique. The addition of a few beer gardens hasn't hurt. Having an actual theater, levine music, potter violin, createarts, kaizen karate... There are a lot of homegrown businesses that thrive in SS, as opposed to bethesda... where they have quinoa bowls and corporate brew pubs.

We used to try and visit bethesda looking for things to do? Then they closed the barnes and noble. That was it. When we first moved here we almost bought in tenleytown? Aside from proximity to the 24 hour vet (and real estate appreciation) I have no regrets.

I am not thrilled, I admit, with some of the choices Peterson et al have made recently with DTSS. Astroturfing elsworth is dumb. A lot of the dining options are fast casual. There seems to be an almost condescending effort of late to bring in more mattress stores and other C-list retail. In general, I think people here get confused. They understand what lulelemon is, and they understand what marshall's is, but they don't seem capable of envisioning anything between those extremes. DTSS could go a lot farther if they encouraged more retail incubation. Set up their half empty mall as a arts emporium. Stopped encouraging more pizza restaurants that dont even have decent pizza.

Then again, since we've lived here I've seen a lot of hipster SS wither and die. Maybe it needs to become a place of mattress stores and teeth whitening clinics before it can become something else? Maybe it is more Fulton Street than Bedford Ave. And that's not bad.

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