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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We lived in a leafy neighborhood in Arlington in a Yorktown pyramid for many years.  When our kids graduated high school we looked at Clarendon as a reasonable substitute for walkable urban living, but the housing stock sucked and was overpriced and the neighborhood too lily white.  We ended up moving to Logan Circle and are glad we did.  [/quote]

[b]Yorktown pyramid wasn’t lily white?[/b][/quote]

It sure was, and we were ready for something different.  Clarendon wash't it.[/quote]

So, if I understand, You only looked for something that wasn’t lily white after school was completed, no?  Why not earlier?[/quote]

[b]Logan circle has been gentrified for 20 years, they are hardly striking out to a real urban neighborhood.[/b] [/quote]

Wow.  So many haters out there.  Why all the anger/jealousy?

Here's our story.  We moved to North Arlington from outside of the DC area many years ago, before our oldest started first grade.  We didn't choose where we lived for the lily white schools.  In fact, we didn't do a whole lot of research on schools.  Our oldest went to kindergarten at a majority minority school and we didn't think anything of it.  We chose North Arlington because there was a nice (enough) house available for rent in the area  that was very close to metro and I was going to be commuting into DC for work.

Then we just settled into Arlington, buying a larger house on a cul de sac further from the metro and I started to have to drive.  Twenty or so lily white years later, our youngest left for college and we decided we wanted to downside into walkable living and public transportation.  Because we were so used to Arlington, the obvious place we looked at first was Clarendon.  It didn't do it for us at all.  Expensive for what you get, and yes, too white.  So we starting looking in town and saw lots of options in the Logan/U Street area.  This was over ten years ago, and the block we settled on wasn't nearly as gentrified as it is today.  And, yes, even today the Logan Circle area is way, way more diverse than Clarendon in every conceivable way, including race.  Our neighbors on both sides of us (we're all in rowhomes) are black.  How often do you see that in Clarendon?

If the Logan Circle neighborhood isn't "urban," then nowhere in the entire DC area is.  It's the most densely population neighborhood in the city.  Unless your definition of "urban" means poor?  [/quote]
[b]I doubt many people are jealous of living in Logan Circle, dear.[/b] [/quote]

I'm sure you're right.  It's the most densely populated part of DC with higher per square foot real estate prices than anywhere else because nobody wants to live here.[/quote]
[b]If you even bothered to read this thread, most people don’t even want to live in DC. [/b]

But sure, sweetie, keep thinking we’re jealous of you. [/quote]

Really?  Because all I'm reading on this thread is that nobody wants to live in Clarendon![/quote]

Lol you got me there! I got my threads mixed up. My bad.

See the DC suburb thread. [/quote]

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