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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can't help but wonder about this SW / SE divide. I have lived for 20 years in Ward 6. In NE, SE, and SW. They have all changed. Look at the multi-million $ townhomes in the old HUD parking lot (remember our old police chief lived there). All of the new condos in SW. The new Warf development. If anything, SW has more potential than SE at this point. And - don't forget all of you in the EYA townhomes - just a few short years ago your houses were located on one of the worst sections of crack dens and whorehouses in all of DC. 
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I think both neighborhoods have a lot of potential and it doesn't make sense for anyone (on here or in the Van Ness Parents Group) to try and assert superiority or try to be exclusive.  There are lots of pregnant ladies and little kids in both neighborhoods and there is certainly the potential for schools that have a pretty good economic mix (though maybe not the under 25% FARMs that a PP wished for, and I don't think that's at all essential).

With that said, I think a lot of folks in the EYA townhomes are in for rude awakening when CSX digs an open trench across the street from their million-dollar homes.  There have been plans for expanding the tunnel since at least 2009, so it's hard to say nobody warned them.  It may be that families from SE feel safer crossing into SW for Amidon than Capitol Hill families feel heading south to Van Ness.[/quote]

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