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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Capitol Hill is the BOMB!  We love, love, love our [b]relatively spacious open-plan 3 bed rowhouse [/b]with a nice-sized backyard, commute (25 minutes walking door to door) to interesting jobs, our stumbling distance neighborhood park, and the many restaurants and shops within walking distance.  And, two GS 15s make plenty of money to send our one child to private school if we decide we're unhappy with our well-regarded (walking distance) public elementary.

Okay, we're very lucky - I admit it!  And, a big negative for us is the lack of any family nearer than a lengthy plane ride away . . .

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Uh  . . yeah. Sure. Except there is no such thing as a spacious rowhouse on Capitol Hill. If you mean spacious relative to a one bedroom apartment, then OK. 
A couple of friends of ours sold their modest sized, but comfortable SF home in Silver Spring to buy a townhouse on Capital Hill. I admit that I was shocked at how little space they had relative to their other house. After about a year, they adopted and moved out to 'burbs for the public schools.

Like an earlier poster said, it all depends on what makes you happy. I'm not sure I could ever be truly happy in a house of less than 3,000 sq. ft. Those smaller houses are just too suffocating. [/quote]

What's amusing about this post is, I'm sure you think you're needling the city-dwellers who are reading this.  But there's certainly no jealousy here.   I learned a long time ago that [b]the more spiritually impoverished and aesthetically degraded the neighborhood,[/b] the bigger you want your house to be.   If you're living in a suburban cul-de-sac, it makes sense you'd want a massive house.  [/quote]
Do you realize that this description fits quite a few neighborhoods in the District proper?[/quote]

I think that point is arguable; I'm assuming you're referring to some housing project like Barry Farm or Potomac Gardens, but even these places have a real sense of community, unlike the vast majority of places we've thrown up since the mid-sixties.  But at least you're only a five minute CaBi ride away from somewhere nice.  Plus you *can* ride your bike from Point A to Point B without being mowed down by an endless torrent of streaming car traffic.[/quote]
City dwellers do not have a monopoly on a sense of community.  I'd wager that most suburban cul-de-sacs would actually know their neighbors to the right and to the left, and their kids can ride bikes around that block without being mowed down by the traffic. Out of the window of my Falls Church home I see joggers and bikers and walking kids. Huge rental buildings downtown can have almost no sense of togetherness, and to me at least there is no argument that aesthetically most suburban blocks have it in spades over Anacostia and many nondescript blocks in DC.  Yes, DC has absolutely lovely architecture, especially in townhouses, but let's not pretend that the entire District consists of nothing but. There's plenty of ugliness there. [/quote]

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