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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If wealth and lowest crime are the yardsticks, then NoVA is BY FAR the best place to live.  You cannot argue this.  It's just a fact.  Sure, you may not like the "walkability" score, or maybe you don't like the architecture.  But that's all tertiary to me when considering the best neighborhood for my children.[/quote]

+1. That walkability doesn't mean squat[b] if you find a drug needle in your front yard, your kid gets jumped, your car is broken into more than once, etc.[/b]

You can find a walk score in the 80s in Fairfax/Loudoun if you really want to. And I have to walk further to get to the chain restaurants in my neck of the woods. [/quote]

The fallacy is that these are no longer facts of life in most longer-gentrified (and, i[b]n the case of UpperNW[/b], practically ossified) neighborhoods in the District.

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Let's also point out that the longest-gentrified, whitebread-est, wealthiest Upper NW locations are as walkable as Fairfax County. Or as non-walkable as Fairfax County. Phrase it any way you like it.[/quote]

I was thinking more in terms of Dupont or Kalorama Triangle for longer-gentrified neighborhoods. No needles, very few assaults during the daytime or pre-bar-hopping evening hours, and my car was broken into once in the 9 years I've lived here... and frankly, that time I was an idiot for leaving stuff in plain view.

No one could describe UpperNW as "gentrified" at all, since it's always been pretty comfortable. I'll stick with "ossified".

Small space living is the real trade-off, not the more fundamental quality of life problems PP mentioned.[/quote]

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