Kalorama
Logan Circle
Capitol Hill (hugely overrated but has a name)
Shaw (underrated)
Union Station Homeless Encampment
Columbia Heights

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Anonymous wrote:Kalorama is walking distance from Dupont Circle metro, restaurants and shopping, and part of it also walkable from Woodley Park metro and restaurants.

If you're a gazelle, maybe. It's not like Logan, where it's all right out your front door.

Well, okay, I guess it depends on how you define walkable.The Spanish Steps are 8 minutes from the Dupont metro and even closer to the restaurants on Connecticut. The super exclusive Kalorama enclave where the Obamas and Kushners live/d is about the furthest out from Dupont, maybe 15 minutes walking. The Normandy Hotel and the apartment buildings on Connecticut are maybe 5 minutes to the upper Dupont restaurants and even walkable (maybe 15 minutes) to Adams Morgan. No, not doorstep close, but not gazelle distant, either.

I see. You define walkable by excluding the heart of the neighborhood and looking only at how close the neighborhood fringes are to other neighborhoods that are, in fact, walkable.

Got it.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kalorama is walking distance from Dupont Circle metro, restaurants and shopping, and part of it also walkable from Woodley Park metro and restaurants.

If you're a gazelle, maybe. It's not like Logan, where it's all right out your front door.

Well, okay, I guess it depends on how you define walkable.The Spanish Steps are 8 minutes from the Dupont metro and even closer to the restaurants on Connecticut. The super exclusive Kalorama enclave where the Obamas and Kushners live/d is about the furthest out from Dupont, maybe 15 minutes walking. The Normandy Hotel and the apartment buildings on Connecticut are maybe 5 minutes to the upper Dupont restaurants and even walkable (maybe 15 minutes) to Adams Morgan. No, not doorstep close, but not gazelle distant, either.

Here's a ranking of DC neighborhoods by walk score. Kalorama is 12th. Not impressive.

https://www.walkscore.com/DC/Washington_D.C.

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Anonymous wrote:Kalorama is walking distance from Dupont Circle metro, restaurants and shopping, and part of it also walkable from Woodley Park metro and restaurants.

If you're a gazelle, maybe. It's not like Logan, where it's all right out your front door.

Well, okay, I guess it depends on how you define walkable.The Spanish Steps are 8 minutes from the Dupont metro and even closer to the restaurants on Connecticut. The super exclusive Kalorama enclave where the Obamas and Kushners live/d is about the furthest out from Dupont, maybe 15 minutes walking. The Normandy Hotel and the apartment buildings on Connecticut are maybe 5 minutes to the upper Dupont restaurants and even walkable (maybe 15 minutes) to Adams Morgan. No, not doorstep close, but not gazelle distant, either.

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Anonymous wrote:Here is a little project, if you may. Please rank these areas according to best deal for safety, walkability, metro access, prestige, shopping and dinning.

Kalorama, Columbia Heights, Capitol Hill, Logan Circle, Shaw

I think the rankings would change for most people based on how you weight your factors, but in any case I don't see how Capitol Hill wouldn't come out #1, then maybe Kalorama, then the others in no particular order... From Capitol Hill you can walk to multiple metros, shopping/dining all over the place, and walk anywhere from H St., Navy Yard, and Union Market. It's an odd subset for comparison, though.

Capitol Hill is the only one of these neighborhoods that doesn't have a walk score that qualifies as "walker's paradise." Kalorama just barely makes the cut.

Is there anywhere in Capitol Hill where literally everything you could possibly need -- bars/restaurants, pharmacies, hardware stores, banks, post office, hair salons, grocery stores, etc. -- is within a five minute walk of your front door?

Nope. That's Logan.

Maybe this thread should be changed to best neighborhoods when you have kids. Because that's clearly the bias being shown.

Anonymous wrote:Here is a little project, if you may. Please rank these areas according to best deal for safety, walkability, metro access, prestige, shopping and dinning.

Kalorama, Columbia Heights, Capitol Hill, Logan Circle, Shaw

I think the rankings would change for most people based on how you weight your factors, but in any case I don't see how Capitol Hill wouldn't come out #1, then maybe Kalorama, then the others in no particular order... From Capitol Hill you can walk to multiple metros, shopping/dining all over the place, and walk anywhere from H St., Navy Yard, and Union Market. It's an odd subset for comparison, though.

Walk scores:

1. Logan Circle / Shaw 97
3. Columbia Heights 96
4. Kalorama 90
5. Cap Hill 88

Anonymous wrote:Kalorama is walking distance from Dupont Circle metro, restaurants and shopping, and part of it also walkable from Woodley Park metro and restaurants.

If you're a gazelle, maybe. It's not like Logan, where it's all right out your front door.

Anonymous wrote:1. Kal
2. Cap Hl
3. Lo Cir
4. Shaw
5. Col Hts

I agree with this ranking. Though Cap Hill is pretty large and some areas are safer than others.

Kalorama is walking distance from Dupont Circle metro, restaurants and shopping, and part of it also walkable from Woodley Park metro and restaurants.

Prestige, sure. But what dining, shopping, walkability and metro access is in Kalorama?

1. Logan

Logan circle
Kalorama
Shaw
Cap Hill
Co Hi

Kalorama
Logan circle
Cap Hill
Shaw
Co Hi


Why not Adams Morgan and Mt Pleasant? And Meridian Park area?

1. Kal
2. Cap Hl
3. Lo Cir
4. Shaw
5. Col Hts

Here is a little project, if you may. Please rank these areas according to best deal for safety, walkability, metro access, prestige, shopping and dinning.

Kalorama, Columbia Heights, Capitol Hill, Logan Circle, Shaw