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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what now?

Move to Frederick and get 70% of the DCUM Dream (albeit with an 90-minute commute)?

Stay put? I'm guessing you have little in common with your neighbors. That can't be fixed, but surely there's a MOMS club or something you can do (church, social club, etc.)

Move back to Columbia Heights and find the limitations of city living (terrible schools, cramped space, petty crime that might suddenly become more annoying, etc.)?

16:15, I think you've got two conflicting desires here in OP, and -- let's face it -- in most DCUM regulars.

"Pretend to be 23 the rest of your life" vs. "Doing the 'mature' thing and moving out to the burbs."

The "moving to the burbs is mature" thing has been drilled into us by parents/relatives/suburbanites who're still stuck in Barry-era stereotypes.

I suspect the ones who slink off to Urbana/Ashburn/Stafford/Crofton (or live 70% of the DCUM Dream in Frederick/Leesburg/Fredericksburg/Annapolis) go away, never to return. [/quote]

She could move to Upper Caucasia, join DCUM Team Smug, and still get the satisfaction of telling everyone who will listen that she lives in "DC proper," but it too would be heavy on the old white people for her taste. That said, it's a way to live in DC with none of the "undesirable" elements, such as schoolchildren who aren't, ahem, "motivated." Isn't that the euphemism they're using these days?

I guess she can't afford that though.[/quote]

That is the ideal. Those bastards have easy 20 minute commutes (25 in traffic; 10 without). They have yards, space and many urban amenities. (Have you been to the Palisades Spray Park? It's like DC Disneyworld.) Plenty of restaurants nearby and greenery. Oh the greenery. So many trees and parks in Upper Caucasia. (The city, for it's part, picks up leaves three times each year and they lay down a preventative layer of salt on the streets weeks before the first snowfall.) The mailmen leave your packages out front, on your doorstep, without any concern for theft. [/quote]

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