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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I did have to chuckle a bit. The "real" DC experience is a modest townhouse in the suburbs because that's what most people's lives are like. Patting yourself on the back because your kid knows a few token minorities in his class while the rest of his friends are rich kids. Don't kid yourself into thinking there's serious socio-economic diversity in people's lives outside the superficial. It's starting to reminds me of New York or even London, with multi-million dollar terraces right around the corner of grimy council estates. You really think the kids in the fancy houses are going to be good friends with the kids in the subsidized housing? Maybe in a politically correct version of a Hallmark movie.

OP is affluent. She knows her tribe. The move to DC is really to be part of her tribe, affluent urban people. And that is totally fine. Just be honest when talking about wanting diversity and all that. Dupont, Kalorama, Georgetown all tick the boxes. She won't get that much for 1.8M but she'll get something. But I do wonder - if they don't *have* to be in DC, why not just go straight to New York? Brooklyn, Park Slope, Cobble Hill?

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LOL.  You're all so defensive in your whiteness.  When I referenced "1.8 million" it was only because OP said that that was what her budget is.  My point was simply that she can afford to buy anywhere in the city.  [/quote]

Logan Circle is one of the whitest and most gentrified parts of the city. I think it's time for you to retire this "defensive in your whiteness" trope. [/quote]

Not from the view from my front porch.  Or the kids' public elementary school.  Clearly you don't live here.  How's Upper Caucasia treating you?  [/quote]

Not PP, but you are demonstrating that you are new here, relatively speaking.[/quote]

New where?  I grew up in DC.[/quote]

I don't know how anyone who grew up in DC can tout Logan Circle in 2021 as "diverse."[/quote]

Where do you live?[/quote]

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