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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whoa--calm down little firecracker before you give yourself a stroke!  I don't live in Adams Morgan off of AMR, but trust me, it takes 5 minutes OR LESS to get from my home in WP to Georgetown via RCP (exit on P St.).  I really don't give a damn if you believe me, but you must drive like my grandmother if your friends from Rosslyn (ugh!) routinely beat you to Georgetown.  I never hear gun shots in my neighborhood, so I can't comment on that (I guess RCP really provides a nice buffer).  And whatever the odds, I bet your kids get murdered in your neighborhood (or die from meth or boredom) before mine.  The fact that you think I live in DC so that I can think of myself as urban is stupid and laughable.  Whether you like it or not, my commute to every desirable location is waaaaaay better than yours; I can walk to my DCPS and my kids will be bilingual (for free); and my neighborhood is wonderful and interesting.  If you want to pick a fight over a DC neighborhood vs.e wherever you live in the hinterlands, you need to pick another one.  You have nothing on Woodley Park.[/quote]

Hinterlands?  Really?  Woodley Park isn't exactly Manhattan. And many areas in NoVA and MD have a lot more to do than than that hub of fun, Cathedral Ave. Crime notwithstanding, there's not a lot going on there outside of the zoo.   It's obvious to most people why we choose to live across the City limits.  The question should be, if you have kids, why on earth would you live in DC?    The only possible edge DC would have for parents with kids in DC schools is proximity.  But as several posters have pointed out, even that edge is not decisive.  And BTW Rosslyn is a lot closer than 5 mins to DC.  Check a map.[/quote]

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