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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP you are one of only a relatively few people that want to raise a family in the district. Everyone else prefers good schools and low crime.[/quote]

That's not true anymore. My DCPS is full to bursting with kids from families who have the means to move elsewhere but chose to stay in the city. DC is a great place and I'm happy to be raising my kids here instead of MoCo where I grew up.[/quote]

Yes--DC has a lot of areas that are more suburban than the suburbs!!  A lot of the those far-reaching NW suburbs are less urban than close-in with nothing to walk to.

I think, perhaps, OP is talking more along the lines of the urban center.[/quote]
Most DCPS schools that are bursting at the seams happen to draw from neighborhoods that are quite suburban in nature.[/quote]

Trying to stay out of this argument because it happens weekly, but: not in our neighborhood. We live on Capitol Hill and many of the schools are full to capacity or even over-full. And we are definitely not suburban.[/quote]
I agree with you and that's why I said "most" - I was thinking more of the JKLM cohort.  I think you would agree that areas of DC that people consider integral to the fabulous urban core *generally* do not have covetable schools. [/quote]

JKLM cohort here. my kids go to Murch, I bike to work donwtown, walk to transportation, stores, playgrounds, library, movie theaters. if I need mik, I just walk one block to buy it. we are a family of 4 and have only 1 car (bought because DH works in MOCO not close to metro). other people we know are in the same situation.  a classmate of my oldest kid has a two working parents and no car at all. we could have bought in MOCO but did not like the suburban lifestyle.  there are areas of upper NW that are far from transportation and stores and are more suburban, but this is not the rule.  [/quote]

VEry same lifestyle as a lot of close-in neighborhoods.  3 out of my 4 mieighbors bike to work.  I don't use a car at all. We have the same amenities within blocks.  We are in VA--just 1 mile to the border.[/quote]

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