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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ward 3 (where AU is located) is part of Washington DC. It’s not a separate suburb, which some seem to be suggesting. It’s a residential area in the city. Suburbs by definition are districts outside of a city.[/quote]You sure? I've always understood a suburb to be a residential area on the outskirts of a city, regardless of which side of some arbitrary municipal boundary it falls on. Many (such as Friendship Heights, right next to AU Park, or Chevy Chase, right next to that) fall on both sides of such boundaries. Does Chevy Chase cease to be a suburb when you cross Western Avenue? If so, your formalistic definition is totally divorced from the practical reality of the people living there (on both sides of the municipal line).[/quote]Yes, I’m sure. If you live inside Washington DC, then you’re not in a suburb. Those areas certainly have a more residential feel but are still in the city by definition.[/quote]You sound like an army of one with a house in the 'burbs (but a DC zip code) roaring that you live in THE CITY[/quote]

I’m in Alexandria, a suburb of Washington DC. My friends and colleagues who live in DC proper would never refer to their neighborhoods as suburbs.[/quote]

Right.  They pretend to live in the city.  But they don’t.  [/quote]

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