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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not live close to work? You could find something nice for $1 million on Capitol hill and SFH on the Hill hold value extremely well.

I live a few blocks from Eastern Market metro and would not want to live anywhere else in the world.  Seriously.  My whole family feels the same way.

You could walk to work-- or bicycle.  Imagine how nice that would be!

and it is a great place to age in, too.  Lots of empty nesters move from suburbs into Captiol Hill.  why not just skip the suburbs entirely?[/quote]

what about this place?

http://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/613-A-St-SE-20003/home/9899937

Off street parking, Brent elementary gets a 9 out of 10 on Great schools (and it is a really great school!), lots of public parks near by.  Its unusual for SFH on Capitol Hill to have a backyard, so no one will blink a the lack of one at this house. instead, kids go to parks: Yards, Garfield, Lincoln, Marion etc.  You could walk to work.  your family could walk to the Mall.  Am I missing something?[/quote]

Wow, this would be sublime. And I like the diversity in school demographics.  What about middle/high school, as we can't afford private?  [/quote]

Stuart-hobkins is considered a good middle school by DCPS standards.  And it is only a handful of blocks from this house.  The house is not inbounrdary, but there's a good chance you'd get in since the IB is so much farther away.  In fact, since boundrys are in the process of being redrawn, I would bank that you would get S-H at some point pretty soon for this house.  
My don't live so close to S-H so a couple of charter middle schools is in our sights: Washington Latin and or BASIS bound.  Brent lost many of it's 45h grader population to those schools, so that is a bit bitter-sweet.  Latin and BASIS do seem like very good middle schools.  Also take a look at Jefferson that SW neighborhood is pretty exciting (marina, Arena stage, crazy close to Smithsonian museums, etc.).  Jefferson used to be considered on of the very best middle schools in DC, but that was a decade or so back when the principal had a very tight tracking program.

How old are your kids?  the landscape for middle schools could be totally different by the time they are of age.  If you don't get into any charter that you like and DCPS is not an option, you could easily rent out this house and rent in a dreamy middle school area for a few years.  When the renters leave and you are ready to move back into the city, voila! -- Easy retrurn to city living!

YMMV! [/quote]

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