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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I don't really get this pervasive idea. If you liked living in a more urban place when you didn't have kids, why wouldn't you with kids? We love being urban even more now that we have kids, and so do the kids![/quote]

Totally NP here.  Lived in Kalorama Triangle-meets-Dupont for a few years pre-kids.  Now live in Ward 3.

Here are some of the reasons I personally would choose my current block over my previous block, again, with kids:

- it's zoned for one of the 3 best elementary schools in the city.  
- it's zoned for the best middle school in the city.
- most of the neighbor kids do go to these 2 schools, rather than being dispersed among 30 solid charters/private/parochial schools, so we have a true "neighborhood school" existence.  
- I have parking right in front of my house for those times I feel like driving and buying a case of water or a 35-lb bag of dog food
- speaking of dogs, mine have a large flat fenced yard [i]in addition to[/i] the sanctioned DPR dog park down the street.
- my kids also use that large flat grassy yard attached to my house [i]in addition to[/i] the public parks around here.  
- my kids learned to ride their bikes in the street in front of my house because there's not much traffic, unlike Kalorama Rd or Corcoran St.
- there is a gigantic DPR swimming pool .75 miles from my door that offers basically free lessons to DC residents.  
- a far, far bigger cohort of SCHOOL-age kids here than the trendy areas of Wards 1 and 2 like Logan, Penn Quarter, Dupont, etc.  Not stroller babies/toddlers, but real, live 10 year olds to play with.
- fewer men (and women) piss on my front fence or leave their single-sale beer cans in my front yard.
- I am still a 16 minute Red line ride to those museums that are the huge selling point for living "downtown."  Previously it was a 9 minute ride, so.
- somehow, by dint of miracle, we live on an incredibly diverse block by every single measure except income and educational attainment.

I do love so-call Old City DC and know it well; I just prefer living up here for now with school-age kids.  
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When will you move to the burbs.? [/quote]

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