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[quote=Anonymous][quote]I would definitely take a couple weekends to check out the city. When people say "great and walkable downtown" they literally mean one sad Starbucks and a bad deli. That is it. Dont rely too much on what people here say. They don't understand.

OMG, yes, PP, you described it PERFECTLY! I'm the PP who referred to a friend who said Connecticut avenue was the greatest thing since sliced bread. There are verrrrry different concepts of urban/walkable here than in NYC. I wish I'd moved to Capitol Hill when I first came to DC. I started out in Adams Morgan b/c I came here to go to georgetown for grad school and it was the farthest I could get from georgetown and still be able to walk to campus (in theory) and I hated it. Ugh. A very sorry excuse for an east village/brooklyn-type neighborhood. Anyway, congratulations to you on your move! [/quote]

OK, native New Yorker, been down the same path.  But the CT Ave. side of Cleveland Park is workable for a New Yorker used to walkability.  It's all relative.  And there used to be a deli there, Vace, that was really pretty good.  They even had the only edible pizza in the DC Metro area.  I hope it's still there.  I wound up on Capitol Hill, too, FWIW.

There used to be an informal social club, forgot what it was called, comprised of transplanted New Yorkers.  They'd get together once a month to piss and moan about the pizza, etc.  I still can't get over you buy a newspaper here, they charge you sales tax, give you a writeen receipt and put the paper in a bag!  WTF?[/quote]

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