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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Been in CCDC almost 5 years, no british colony vibes. Then again, my DC's nanny who was an African immigrant, so maybe I was one of the "colonizers". LOL.

Seriously though, it is a wonderful place for kids to grow up. Tons of families, dogs. I like that we can walk 3 blocks to school and it is very safe. Neighbors are kind. People take care of their homes and yards. [/quote]

Yeah that’s what I meant, especially if you also have a Hispanic yard crew. There’s obviously nothing wrong with having an immigrant nanny or a Hispanic yard crew but it’s hard not to notice and think about all the stuff in play. [/quote]

Is this just an internet trope or does it exist in real life - people who make decisions like housing based on the optics of racial equity and virtue signaling? No one I have ever met in real life thinks and acts like this : hmm I can afford to live in a beautiful safe neighborhood with good schools, but gosh because of the underlying structural issues that led to this neighborhood being so nice (and thereby frequently not very diverse), let me prioritize feeling virtuous over the needs of my family and instead buy or live in a more diverse neighborhood!

Does anyone know a real person from real life, not an internet poster, who behaved this way? [/quote]

Sure--anyone who picked mt pleasant could live in Barnaby woods and chose not to.[/quote]

Yeah I wouldn't call it virtue signaling, but there are lots of relatively more expensive neighborhoods that people choose to live in over CCDC or Palisades or whatever - Cap Hill and Mount Pleasant are top examples. Denser parts of Ward 3 are also generally more expensive than CC (Woodley Park, Cleveland Park, Tenley, etc).  People make housing decisions based on a lot of factors beyond "safe neighborhood with good schools" or square footage.[/quote]

We’re probably going to use private school since the grandparents have offered to pay tuition so I see the neighborhood we pick as kind of a balancing force, maybe?[/quote]

Do you know which private?  I would look at ease of getting to school as a factor.  Certainly, it is much quicker and easier to get to GDS or Sidwell (or even STA/NCS/Beauvoir) from AU Park.

I know parents appreciate their kids able to walk on their own by 5th/6th grade.[/quote]

No and this is a factor in not being sure where to move (I’m not the op). One of us went to GDS but doesn’t want our kid to go there. I have no evidence that our kid is so extraordinary that they need a really elite school for academic reasons and I think the social climate in those schools is problematic. [/quote]

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