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[quote=Anonymous]I'm biased but I think the commute from Capitol Hill to the Old Soldier's Home would be miserable on a daily basis.

We live in Columbia Heights, the north part that a PP mentioned--blocks from the Coupe and the trolley playground at 11th and Monroe.  We've been in the neighborhood for about 8 years and the walkability is one of the things that makes it really, really hard for us to think about moving anywhere else.  We're very spoiled being able to walk to so many playgrounds, restaurants, grocery stores, Target, etc. The one thing that we haven't really found is a good sense of community with other parents in the neighborhood.  We live on a busier street that has a lot of renters, and our oldest kid (5) seems to be at least a year or two older than the majority of kids in the neighborhood.  But we're also guilty of not making the effort with families who live nearby, although  now that that kid is in PK we've started making friend with some of the families at his school who live in the area.

Also, I don't know the status of CM's location change, but if there's any chance it'll stay at the current location for another year (or more), then I definitely wouldn't recommend the Hill or even Bloomingdale.  The part of our daily commute that takes the longest is getting from Columbia Heights to the other side of Mt. Pleasant--everyone else in the city seems to be trying to go the same direction at the same time each morning.[/quote]

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