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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unless kids are in Private school you are not going to many people with kids over 3. [/quote]

Says the person who has never been to Columbia Heights.  :roll:

OP, we're a professional family with school-aged kids, and we can walk to the homes of dozens of friends. I know several other families who bemoan being priced out of CH, because it's where they really want to live. [/quote]

[b]Says the idiot who hasn't contemplated school or simply doesn't give a darn.... OP, I'm in Columbia Heights now and looking for a way out. The neighborhood is lovely for young couples, those with infants, twenty-somethings fresh out of college, gay couples with no kids, etc... but it loses it's charm once your kid hits pre-school age. Tubman is awful, so most area parents scramble in the lottery shuffle for a decent OOB DCPS or charter. Some luck out. Most don't. We're in private right now, but can't afford it forever, so we'll continue to play the lottery while we try to move away. Already been to a bejesus number of open houses in VA and MD and all of the house hoppers have DC license plates. In just a few short convos, we've discovered we're all DC expat wannabes. Sad, but true. Don't stage the house with children in mind. Better to keep it neutral[/b].[/quote]

You know, for every one of you in Columbia Heights, there are also families who are perfectly happy to stay there, with kids of school age. I'm one of them, and I know at least 4-5 other families personally who are not leaving any time soon.

I do agree about neutral staging, though. [/quote] The bold above really is the crux of the issue.  PP who wants to stay - where do your kids go to school?  I'll wager it isn't Tubman.  Families who have good school options (charter, OOB or private) love CH.  We moved there pre-kids, with no intention of staying.  We were actively looking at houses in Arlington and MoCo when we got lucky in the charter school lottery.  I freely admit to being a CH cheerleader, but it's silly to to pretend the realities of the situation do not exist.  [/quote]

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