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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is an interesting threat for me, a long time Capitol Hill dweller, with a kid about to start high school at Walls.  If we hadn't had lottery luck, we were definitely thinking through the options contained in this thread - move to the burbs, suck up a commute to a private, rent inbounds for JW . . . .  Fortunately, it did not come to that.  Capitol Hill is just an incredibly charming "village" to live in.  I absolutely love being walking distance to so much - shops, restaurants, riverfront at Navy Yard, the Mall, my work.  Many, many kid's activities within a mile.  And the walk is always lovely - on brick sidewalks, past varied and attractive hundred plus year old rowhomes, old churches, the Supreme Court, and the Capitol Building, the Mall (on the way to work)) - you never feel like you are walking alongside a freeway, or next to a strip mall, as can happen so frequently in the burbs.  We have friends who live in Bethesda, around 1.5 miles from the metro - but I can't imagine that being a pleasant walk.  And most of the streets in their particular neighborhood don't even have sidewalks.  I think what it comes down to is you either really, really enjoy this kind of dense, walkable and historical neighborhood (Capitol Hill), or it is just not that important to you (and you don't really like it).  No doubt the uptick in crimei has me worried - but I think that a lot of places are struggling to right the ship, post-pandemic, and enough people are invested in the neighborhood that the pendulum will swing back soon enough.  [/quote]

If you hadn’t gotten lucky in the lottery (where did your Walls kid go for MS?), would you have moved, despite loving your neighborhood?

That’s the question.

People who got lucky in the lottery don’t get it. 
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This this this. All of our friends had great lottery luck. We have our own luck, but it's not without sacrifice (money and commute). They don't understand why we want to move.[/quote]

+2, it's frustrating when we talk about moving and all our friends are like "but whyyyyyy? the suburbs suck" but refuse to acknowledge that we're in a much more difficult situation due to bad lottery numbers. That's it. A random algorithm assigned them better numbers than it assigned us, and now they can stay in on the Hill and enjoy the amenities without dealing with the one major glaring problem, and we have to move to address that one major glaring problem.

I'm past the point of explaining. Now when people tell me the suburbs suck, I just say "well I guess we suck too, because that's where we are headed."

I actually think they'll enjoy visiting our yard and community pool once we're there, even if it's only a few times a year.[/quote]

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