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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You might  like Mt. Pleasant--not too far from the Columbia Heights metro, some Latino grocery stores but also a safeway and harris teeter nearby, and the area zoned for Bancroft elementary feeds into the highest-scoring middle and high school in DC. It's an easy walk to Rock Creek Park and pretty diverse (yesterday I rode the 16th Street bus through there and there were black, white, latino, asian people including folks speaking spanish, tibetan monks in robes, African immigrants, etc. also on the bus).

Southwest and Navy Yard are also nice. SW is one metro stop closer to HUH but Navy Yard has a better-scoring elementary school (the school in SW guarantees preK spots to in-bounds students, while the one in Navy Yard has a waitlist). Both are close to the Anacostia Riverwalk trail, with SW a bit closer to the Mall and East Potomac Park/Hains Point. Safeway, Harris Teeter, and soon Whole Foods are close by; it's a little futher to Union Market, Eastern Market, or the ethnic grocery stores in the Virginia suburbs but it's doable by transit or car. [/quote]

I live in Mt Pleasant and while our walkable grocery options are not the greatest, there are enough options we can walk to that if we ran out of an ingredient, we can probably walk to get it at one of the markets on Mt Pleasant Street.  Other than that, we have pretty much everything else you are looking for -- diversity, good schools, green space nearby (Rock Creek Park is our backyard), walkable to restaurants, bars, and other stuff on Mt P St, in Columbia Heights, and Adams Morgan, and it would be an easy commute to your work if it's near Howard.  I would get an AirBnB in Mt Pleasant or stay at The Line in Adams Morgan, which is an easy walk to Mt Pleasant.[/quote]

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