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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just to counter - we moved from intown DC to upper NW.  If you can afford it - it's great.  Feels like the suburbs up here with lots of trees and open space.  Schools are good and it is great to have your kids be able to walk to school.  Plus, no school buses which means your kids will go to school roughly the same time from elementary school through high school.

There are other areas like this across DC - the intense urban areas can be so much fun and yet so exhausting.   [/quote]

We basically did this.  It's been great -- pretty quiet, feels safe, walk to school, etc.  Which kind of just goes to prove that there is actually kind of a spectrum from &quot;inner city dangerous&quot; to &quot;boring, bland, car-dependent suburbs.&quot;  It's not a binary choice. [/quote]

Yeah, I live in Glover Park and my DC is not filled with crime at all. My street is super quiet 24/7, and I hear the birds and wind.  We walk in the trails and the kids in GP play outside together.  Parking is a bitch but we have a Metrobus that runs through the neighborhood.  There's a new TJ's within walking distance.   I can be to Dupont in 15 minutes.  So it's kind of the best of both worlds.  It's funny... here on DCUM you either hear that DC's not a &quot;real city&quot; and it's so &quot;suburban,&quot; but then others are saying it's a concrete jungle rampant with crime.  Neither are true.[/quote]

Glover Park is great, which I didn't realize until I moved away.  The last 2-3 years have been rough (lots of businesses closing on Wisconsin), but I think with TJ's and the planned re-opening of WF, plus the Fannie Mae redevelopment, the tide looks like it's slated to turn.

I do wonder about that broader area (GP to, say, Tenleytown and Cleveland Park) in general and would love to get your opinion on it, DCUM.  The mayor/her administration seems to want to stick a middle finger to ward 3 (Cathedral Commons' joke of a homeless shelter, the completely random and unsanitary COVID hotel on Connecticut, the story with Sedgewick Gardens) and I wonder if this will negatively affect the quality of life in the area if this continues.  [/quote]

We moved to GP with 2 kids (stoddert/hardy). Honestly, the area is the best place we've ever lived. Locally, our Wisconsin ave stretch was coming back (pre-covid) and the schools are fantastic. The broader Wisconsin ave area is only increasing in density (which I think is a good thing). Only crime seems to be occasional car break-ins. 3/4 bd row houses under 1M sell in &lt;48 hours.  Now in terms of politics, I think the bigger issue will be school over-crowding. Looking at the schools, too many people with kids are moving here. The city doesn't seem proactive about this. They need to either expand or build new schools soon. [/quote]

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