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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Where does Brookland or NE DC fit in to this? I guess Dense urban poor or urban crunchy? 
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Shhhh, don't let the secret out. [/quote]

May I propose a new catagory?  "freakishly inner suburbian"?  (OTOH, I peg Takoma Park as flat out suburban, so I may have a skewed perspective.  I live on capitol hill.  Love it, but that probably wouldn't have happened if I had known about Brookland.  sigh-- realtors . . . what are you going to do, right? )[/quote]

Capitol Hill? Georgetown? - the triumph of hype over reason. Why anyone would want to pay NYC prices to live in a cramped little house in DC just to be on the Hill or G-town is beyond me. Maybe as a single person, but not with kids. I grew up in a nice neighborhood in upper Northwest, but I always felt depressed coming back into the city from the spacious 'burbs. Now I live in western Howard County and have an hour long commute downtown. But my kids have plenty of room to play, it's very safe and we have sane neighbors (except the ones that stopped speaking to us because we planted arborvitae bushes in our yard. Whatever!) We're close to DC and Baltimore for resturants and days out, close to WV for mountain weekends away and there's a lot less of the "what do you do?" sensibility endemic to DC.  It works well. The benefit of DC is that you don't have to move far beyond the beltway to find sanity, reasonably spacious houses and lots of green open spaces.  [/quote]

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