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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If wealth and lowest crime are the yardsticks, then NoVA is BY FAR the best place to live.  You cannot argue this.  It's just a fact.  Sure, you may not like the "walkability" score, or maybe you don't like the architecture.  But that's all tertiary to me when considering the best neighborhood for my children.[/quote]

+1. That walkability doesn't mean squat[b] if you find a drug needle in your front yard, your kid gets jumped, your car is broken into more than once, etc.[/b]

You can find a walk score in the 80s in Fairfax/Loudoun if you really want to. And I have to walk further to get to the chain restaurants in my neck of the woods. [/quote]

The fallacy is that these are no longer facts of life in most longer-gentrified (and, in the case of UpperNW, practically ossified) neighborhoods in the District.[/quote]

PP has noted upper NW is about as (un-)walkable as Fairfax County.

If you don't find any of that stuff, well you're living the DCUM Dream Life (tm).

Not all of us get to afford that.

Some of us try and achieve that in the still-gentrifying neighborhoods of DC. Others try and achieve that in (gasp!) the older suburbs.

But, not being the Northeast, we don't have a string of towns that've been around 200+ years which are walkable and have great schools. [/quote]

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