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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think most people's issue with the Hill isn't the elementary schools, it is the middle and high school options.  Of course this can change in the next several years, but if you are looking at the situation right now, WOTP is that way to go for 14 years of security.[/quote]

I guess it depends on whether OP is willing to move again if (a) she doesn't get a good middle/HS option through the charter/OOB public lotteries in 12 years or b) the schools don't improve. I live in the city because I really like the urban feel--I'm in Adams-Morgan so I can walk to everything, including two large supermarkets that are less than two blocks from my house. I easily live without a car. Given that choice, if I felt I needed to get a place inbounds for a good school, then I would much rather be on the Hill for more than a decade and then move if I had to for schools. But between Basis, Latin, Cap City, and some other schools that tend to take a lot of kids in the middle school years, I think OP would be okay.[/quote]

I live in North Cleveland Park and am also within walking distance of two large supermarkets, two metro stops, a library, post office, some restaurants (granted not the best in the city), and several parks.  Not saying there is anything wrong with AdMo (I used to live there myself) or Capitol Hill, but I do object to the notion that once you move WOTP you give up all urban conveniences.[/quote]

Cleveland Park is MUCH less dense than Adams-Morgan. And much less mixed-use. If I lived WOTP, I'd probably want to live in CP--but it nowhere near compares with the urban living you get in Adams-Morgan. And more broadly: Cleveland Park itself--though less dense than Adams-Morgan--is MUCH more dense than most other areas WOTP. For example, the people I know who live in AU Park and are IB for Janney have to drive everywhere. And that works for them--would not work for me, especially at the prices they pay for the homes. [/quote]

I think this is not correct, or at least it is not as simple as you put it. I have lived in CCDC for a decade, two parents working FT and two kids. although it is less dense than AM, there is a good mix of apt and more dense housing and more relaxed, suburban type of living. a lot of areas are close to transportation. we spent years without a car, now we have only one (DH works in MD not on metro line). we are less than 2 blocks for a large supermarket, two smaller ones,  and an array of stores, a library, community center, a movie theater and two playgrounds. a few blocks away is Friendship Heights. we walk everywhere, including to drop off and pick up our kids at their elementary school. even if I am east of CT avenue, this morning I left my home  at 6.59  and got to my office at Farragut Square at 7.20. from April to September I use my bicycle to commute.  and we are not the exception, a classmate of one of my kid has two working parents and they do not own a car, walk and use public transportation (they live in our area too). there are areas in CCDC, and AU, that are far from transportation, but it is not necessarily the norm[/quote]

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