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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Capitol Hill. Lots of kids walking home from Union Station or Eastern Market in the afternoons, stopping for drinks/snacks, playing pickup baseball/basketball at the parks. I know because that's what my kids do. (They're middle schoolers.)[/quote]

Capitol Hill resident here. Given the crime on the hill and the Union Station scene, I am unsure that I'd let an 11 year old walk home alone.  Maybe a 14-15 year old. Love the hill up until now with a 7 year old, but it does not permit a lot of freedom for kids. [/quote]

My kids are 11 and 13 and walk around the Hill all the time. From US every day; to parks or their friends’ houses almost daily. They’re always in groups at Union Station. I bet my kids and their friends have more freedom than most suburban kids. [/quote]

NP here. My kid is 11 and he walks home from school and around the neighborhood by himself and with his friends. It’s one of the things we love most about Capitol Hill. We are near Eastern Market.[/quote]

I love raising kids on the Hill! DS started walked to the grocery store on the Hill by himself at age 8 and was taking Metro and Metro bus alone around age 12. DD was a little more timid, but at age 15 is now teaching kids at her suburban private school how to take the bus/Metro from school to the Hill and other teenage hot spots (downtown, Pentagon City). She loves her independence and neither kid plans to learn to drive anytime soon. I feel much safer having them walk around the Hill than driving on a highway.  [/quote]

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