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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've been following this thread with interest.

Not one poster so far has recommended that you move into the heart of the city and put your elementary school aged children in one of the downtown schools and give you and them any exposure to real city living and diversity.  For $1.8 million you could buy a very nice rowhome in Logan Circle or Shaw or Dupont.  You could walk to absolutely everything.  You could stoop on your front porch and meet your neighbors.  You could put your kids in schools where there's real socioeconomic and racial diversity.  In short, you could have a real DC experience.

The NW neighborhoods that other posters are recommending are for all practical purposes suburbs -- and rich ones at that.  There was a firestorm on this website a few months ago after a couple of researchers at Brookings studied DCUM postings and concluded that it perpetuated segregation in the DC public school system by steering parents towards the richest and whitest schools in the city.  What I'm seeing here is Exhibit A.

Take a chance, OP.  You're smart, educated, and being a SAHM have time to watch over things and get involved.  Your kids would thrive in a more diverse environment than what these folks have been pushing on you and be so much better off for it.  Don't move to DC just to wall your kids off into the vanilla experience that DCUM is pushing on you.    [/quote]

Yes, living in a $1.8 million Logan Circle townhouse is the “real DC experience.” [/quote]

Certainly more than living in a $1.8 million McLean SFH.

Do you have to live in a basement apartment in Petworth to have a real DC experience?[/quote]

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