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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Hill is pretty good damn overrated. Too many olds and strollers to dodge every day and not enough high rise housing stock for singles. Shitty transit access, too, as compared to the "mid-city" area.[/quote]

Not enough high rise access is exactly why so many people like it. It wouldn't be nearly as pretty if it had new apartment buildings everywhere. But, if you are a young single person, I can see why it might not appeal. It's expensive and definitely geared more for families these days.

Shitty transit access seems like a crazy complaint. You can walk to H Street, the Capitol, the Mall, Nationals Park, there are several Metro stops, a million Capitol Bikeshare locations, plenty of bus stops and Circulator stops, and incredibly easy access to 295 and 395. I don't think you know what you're talking about there. ("Mid-city"? What is that?)[/quote]

The Hill is at the end of the city.  Most people don't go east of the river (Wards 7 and 8) and with the expansive Capitol grounds and the Mall taking up so much real estate, the neighborhood feels cut off from the rest of town.[/quote]

LOL! You're living in a very weird, very limited bubble, and your perspective on what is "expansive" and "cut off" is bizarre. [/quote]

Other than Eastern Market, there's nothing to do on the Hill.  The Capitol and all the office buildings are closed on the weekends there's simply no one around and nothing going on.  It doesn't have the same feel or vibrancy of DuPont, Georgetown, U street, etc.  It's boring, dangerous, overpriced and in winter, a depressing place to live.  [/quote]

Are you writing from 1988? [/quote]

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