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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=lizziewhit]Why would someone say "Yuck" to Cleveland Park? I don't want to spin my wheels there if its truly that bad.[/quote]

Cleveland Park is fine. People on this site can be terrible. You just need to tune out the nonsense and focus on people offering useful advice.

Re: Georgetown, [b]the reason why there is no Metro there is that residents rallied to oppose public transportation in the neighborhood. Just...that's the kind of place Georgetown is. It's not anywhere I'd want to live -- too insular and too caught up in remaining insular. [/b][/quote]

That's a myth. I wouldn't consider opinions on neighborhoods from someone who believes in fairy tales.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-metro/2015/11/20/a1849734-8e6b-11e5-acff-673ae92ddd2b_story.html?utm_term=.d3627c70a027
[b][i]"Georgetown could have had a Metro stop, the oft-told tale goes, but residents fought the plan out of fear that it would bring “undesirable” elements into their neighborhood. It’s the whack-a-mole of Metro myths — despite numerous debunkings, this one keeps popping up. Robert Pohl, author of “Urban Legends & Historic Lore of Washington, D.C.,” suggests that the story endures because it mirrors many locals’ views of Georgetown, the insular nature of that neighborhood and “the fact that they look down their noses at others in D.C.”

Some Georgetown residents did oppose the rail line — just as some Van Ness, Cleveland Park and Bethesda dwellers did. But resident opposition did not halt Metro’s plans for a Georgetown stop. Metro historian and George Mason University professor Zachary Schrag addressed this in his book “The Great Society Subway,” writing that it was a combination of geography and population that ultimately doomed the Georgetown station. The likely location at M and Wisconsin was too close to the Potomac River, posing significant engineering challenges. The construction wasn’t impossible, but the Metro was designed as a means to connect workers with jobs, and planners concluded that Georgetown lacked both the workers and the jobs to justify a stop.

It’s possible that Georgetown residents could at long last put this myth to rest. An ambitious $26 billion plan unveiled by Metro in 2013 calls for a stop in the neighborhood. And officials in Georgetown? Already on board."[/b][/i][/quote]

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