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What exactly is "70% of the DCUM dream"?
Just curious.[/quote]

Well look at downtown Frederick.

Shops? Yes, the usual assortment of cute places you might really go once a year if that, a few practical stores, and a store or two that'll end up becoming your favorite. 
Dining? Yes. There's a few dozen restaurants within a mile. 
Entertainment? Yes. Weinberg Center + Grove Stadium + Baker Park + Hood College
Parks? Yes. Baker Park, 3rd Street Park, Mullinix Park, etc. 
Good schools? By DCPS standards, yes -- especially Parkway and Spring Ridge. Lincoln is more along the lines of Brent in terms of demographics.

But it's only near a MARC train and not near a Metro line of any sort (at least until 2100).

Can you go car-free? Not really, but you can't go car-free in Woodridge, Hillcrest, Shepherd Park, or any of the other DC neighborhoods that are safe and get you something other than a walk-in closet for $600k (which, by the way, gets you a 4-5BR townhouse with 2000+ SF in Frederick, or entry into the Baker Park neighborhood west of downtown and south of Hood College.

Those making over $300k a year really don't have to make hard choices the way someone with a housing budget of $500k has to make.

I'd certainly rank Frederick up there with the "village" spots of upper NW (Cleveland Park, Woodley Park, etc.) It's just that it's not near other cool/hip/fun areas -- to the N/W/E are "rednecks" and to the S are "Urbana suburbanites" who probably talk horrible stories of Frederick the way folks in Fairfax talk of DC. [/quote]

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