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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not a real estate professional.

But I have been wondering about this as friends of mine -- two different couples with preschool aged kids -- have sold their homes and left DC in the past year (one couple sold a row house in Kingman Park and went to Richmond, and another sold a condo in Capitol Hill and moved to Alexandria). Both cited safety concerns (I think something happened to the DW in the Kingman Park couple that made her feel unsafe and want to up and leave, but I'm not sure because they aren't talking about it). [/quote]

We lived in KP and the last straw for me was bringing our kids inside from watching a movie on our back deck during the pandemic years, and hearing the "pop pop pop" as we came inside followed by seeing the car speeding off. It was a murder right at the end of the street, and that was the end for me, I just couldn't take it anymore and my blood pressure rises with every further "pop pop pop" I've heard randomly laying in my bed at night. We could hear gunshots from as far away as across the river to Hill East which could sound very loud. We simply didn't used to hear as many of those "pop pop pops" the first ten years we lived there and it's just gotten far worse in the past couple of years.

There was a teen who went for a run on Kingman Island last year and ended up coming upon a gunman who stalked him while he hid with another passerby in the woods. We frequently would to go to Kingman Island and loved it, and it was another nail in the coffin of "I just can't take this anymore"

Logically, I know it's still a low risk for my kid to be shot or murdered, but yes, it's a higher risk in the city vs. the burbs. That's a fact. And even if it's still a low risk, there is still a trauma that comes from living in a high crime area, that if it doesn't happen to you, it inevitably happens to someone you know, you love, you care about, you work with.  Over the years of living in the city, I personally was groped, a neighbor mugged, a different neighbor randomly attacked on a metro bus, someone from my workplace was carjacked and murdered.

When the PP rolls their eyes at the supposed "fragility" I have to wonder where they actually live. How often are they hearing gunshots while sitting on their couch to "Netflix and chill"? How often are people in their "bubble" being impacted? [/quote]

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