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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Takoma Park sounds like a great suggestion.  It has a hippy reputation, but the hippies are aging and the young families are liberal but not really hippies, in my opinion.  As a PP said, it has great community spirit, its own metro station, good schools on the Maryland side, farmers market, a quirky "main" street with at least two bike shops.  It does lack a bit in terms of a restaurant scene right now, but [b]my sense is that it is actually becoming a sought-after place for restaurants and will only continue to improve down the road. [/b] In addition to the many fantastic ethnic restaurants right by TP, the downtown recently saw the addition of a great pizza place (Roscoes), Soupergirl--homemade, vegan, organic soups, and Takoma Bistro (by the same owners as Bread and Chocolate).  The coffee shop in Politics and Prose is expanding and opening a cafe in TP, and the owner of BlackSalt is said to be opening a restaurant with a seafood bar there within the year.  Add to that the ever-cool store Trohv, which opened recently, and maybe TP is even becoming sort of hip!   [/quote]

Be careful what you wish for.  By the time Takoma Park becomes a "sought-after place" for restaurants, its quirky charater and neighborhood-orientation will be a thing of the past.  Once neighborhoods evolve into restaurant and retail destinations, rents rise, developers with their "smart growth" projects come in and the retail and restaurant options become pretty similar to the "upscale generica" that you see in Bethesda and Clarendon, etc.

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