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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Then after Family housing is created they should lease to places like Jiffy Lube, dollar store, and gyms, karate studios, yoga studios. Starbucks with drive through coffee. Make it a place people can actually live.

People in this DC bubble love to hate their life. [/quote]

I’d love to have these shops at friendship heights but they would not be able to afford the astronomical rents [/quote]

Jiffy Lube and drive throughs and dollar stores in Friendship Heights?  No thanks - I live in DC because I hate the suburbs but if I need to slum it can still go there.

Luckily DC has made new drive thrus illegal.

And otherwise your comment is weird - FH has 2 Starbucks and TT another and there are numerous Karate and Yoga studios.

Also the only type of housing that is available now on the DC side is "family housing" whatever that even means.[/quote]

You live in DC because you hate the suburbs, but you choose to live in one of the most suburban parts of DC that is quite literally a stone's throw from the suburbs you profess to hate.[/quote]

Sigh.

Friendship Heights is not suburban at all by most definitions nor is much of Ward 3.

It is a walkable neighborhood well served by multiple public transportation options and has an urban street grid and is within walking distance of multiple retail nodes.

While the DC side of the line is not very dense the MD side is actually quite dense though interestingly the opposite of urban in its design and layout and there are in fact parts of Ward 3 that are among the densest parts of the District.

So in fact FH is not Rockville or any number of other suburban hellscapes where it in fact is difficult to walk anywhere or take public transportation or where there is no density of any kind.

But nice try.

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You prove some of my point by acknowledging that the Maryland side is denser in many ways.  And Bethesda, although in the "suburbs" is far more urban than FH.  Even your info on Rockville is mistaken, at least for parts of Rockville, as there are plenty of areas that are walkable to Downtown Rockville and other areas that have more retail/restaurants than the relative paucity in FH.

I know you really want to feel urban and cool for staying in the "city," but you aren't on U Street, H Street, Cap Hill, or many other parts of the city that have an actual ability to distinguish themselves from the suburbs.[/quote]

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