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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]+2 I grew up in ward 3 but would never live there now. We'll inherit my parents' house someday, Lord
willing, but we certainly won't move back.[/quote]

So, no one wants to live there, but everyone wants to send their kids to school there.

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I'm the pp who's lived in w3 since 1994.  I love many many things about my address and I am pretty sure i could not recreate this coveted PACKAGE of features anywhere else in the city. One of these features is lack of crime, so no one needs to respond to this particular post and try to refute this --our district has lower overall crime than anywhere else.  Then there are all the other factors in this package which I'll spare you.

That said, I stay here DESPITE the growing share of unfortunate people.  The trade off is currently worth it

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The value of the package is relative and individual.  I moved out in 1999 because it was so homogeneous and boring, it didn't even feel like living in the city.  [/quote]

Again, it is about trade offs.  I love going out in Columbia Heights, Shaw, Petworth, etc.  It takes me 10-15 to drive there.  I do it often, maybe 5 or so times/month.  However, my kids go to school 5 days/week.  They walk to a great school and will continue to do so through high school.  It is more important to me to have the school convenience 200 (or whatever) days/year for 18 years than it is to have convenience to cool restaurants a couple times a month.[/quote]

This is a good point.  I wonder how many parents have thought of it this way when making their home and school choices.  I wish more people who live in cool neighborhoods could also have cool schools.[/quote]

I am the PP you quoted, and believe me, I wish cool neighborhoods had good schools too.  I really do.  In my case, I work in Virginia so most of the cool neighborhoods were not ideal for my commute either, but if I had a different work situation I would love to live in an area that offered more interesting commerce (I mean, I love Guapo's but how many times a month can we go there??), a more diverse population, etc.  But school walkability was really my #1 criteria and since my kids are in school now, I had to go with a good option today.  On the plus side, my kids happen to go to a very diverse Ward 3 school so I was at least intentional on where I would live and the type of school they would attend.  But I truly wish everyone had the option of a strong neighborhood school. The intent of my post was just to point out that not everyone who lives in Ward 3 does so because we are rich, snobby, and only want to live near white people.  [/quote]

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