Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CH resident for 15 years, mom of 2 kids in ES.

I love it here. It's not perfect, but it's perfectly fine for us. Why?
--I can walk 3 blocks and have a choice about where to eat or get a cup of coffee. Among the choices are chain restaurants AND a whole slew of locally owned restaurants all along 11th Street. I have never been to IHOP or Panda Express. I love Cava, The Coupe. Room 11 on Sundays and Red Rocks with my kids. I stop at Starbucks sometimes in the morning after the gym.
--I can walk to my gym.
--Target has saved us many times when we need a gift, a prescription, something for school, food, you name it.
--I'm a block from the metro.
--My kids have friends they play with in the alley. We watch out for each other's houses.
--There's a farmer's market on Saturdays.
--If I need to go downtown, I can jump on a bus and get there pretty quickly.
--My kids have a yard to play in.
--No one in my family has ever been mugged. Our cars have never been broken into except for one time when we forgot to lock it and someone took some change. My son's bike was stolen off our porch a few years ago.
--I know and like my neighbors.
--My kids are know how to move around in the city. It's nothing for us to jump on the metro or bus or walk to hear music or attend a festival.

What I don't like:
--The traffic when I'm driving home. Sometimes the last 10 minutes are a pain. But then it's over, and I'm home.

What kind of idiot would spurn an IHOP?

CH is a good neighborhood if you are the type of self-absorbed yuppie who is good at pretending that your poor, resentful neighbors don't exist or as excited about an overpriced restaurant as you are. Otherwise it's just a very awkward, odd, somewhat dangerous place to co-inhabit.

There was a murder at that IHOP shortly after it opened. That would turn me off for a while.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CH resident for 15 years, mom of 2 kids in ES.

I love it here. It's not perfect, but it's perfectly fine for us. Why?
--I can walk 3 blocks and have a choice about where to eat or get a cup of coffee. Among the choices are chain restaurants AND a whole slew of locally owned restaurants all along 11th Street. I have never been to IHOP or Panda Express. I love Cava, The Coupe. Room 11 on Sundays and Red Rocks with my kids. I stop at Starbucks sometimes in the morning after the gym.
--I can walk to my gym.
--Target has saved us many times when we need a gift, a prescription, something for school, food, you name it.
--I'm a block from the metro.
--My kids have friends they play with in the alley. We watch out for each other's houses.
--There's a farmer's market on Saturdays.
--If I need to go downtown, I can jump on a bus and get there pretty quickly.
--My kids have a yard to play in.
--No one in my family has ever been mugged. Our cars have never been broken into except for one time when we forgot to lock it and someone took some change. My son's bike was stolen off our porch a few years ago.
--I know and like my neighbors.
--My kids are know how to move around in the city. It's nothing for us to jump on the metro or bus or walk to hear music or attend a festival.

What I don't like:
--The traffic when I'm driving home. Sometimes the last 10 minutes are a pain. But then it's over, and I'm home.

What kind of idiot would spurn an IHOP?

CH is a good neighborhood if you are the type of self-absorbed yuppie who is good at pretending that your poor, resentful neighbors don't exist or as excited about an overpriced restaurant as you are. Otherwise it's just a very awkward, odd, somewhat dangerous place to co-inhabit.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CH resident for 15 years, mom of 2 kids in ES.

I love it here. It's not perfect, but it's perfectly fine for us. Why?
--I can walk 3 blocks and have a choice about where to eat or get a cup of coffee. Among the choices are chain restaurants AND a whole slew of locally owned restaurants all along 11th Street. I have never been to IHOP or Panda Express. I love Cava, The Coupe. Room 11 on Sundays and Red Rocks with my kids. I stop at Starbucks sometimes in the morning after the gym.
--I can walk to my gym.
--Target has saved us many times when we need a gift, a prescription, something for school, food, you name it.
--I'm a block from the metro.
--My kids have friends they play with in the alley. We watch out for each other's houses.
--There's a farmer's market on Saturdays.
--If I need to go downtown, I can jump on a bus and get there pretty quickly.
--My kids have a yard to play in.
--No one in my family has ever been mugged. Our cars have never been broken into except for one time when we forgot to lock it and someone took some change. My son's bike was stolen off our porch a few years ago.
--I know and like my neighbors.
--My kids are know how to move around in the city. It's nothing for us to jump on the metro or bus or walk to hear music or attend a festival.

What I don't like:
--The traffic when I'm driving home. Sometimes the last 10 minutes are a pain. But then it's over, and I'm home.

What kind of idiot would spurn an IHOP?

CH is a good neighborhood if you are the type of self-absorbed yuppie who is good at pretending that your poor, resentful neighbors don't exist or as excited about an overpriced restaurant as you are. Otherwise it's just a very awkward, odd, somewhat dangerous place to co-inhabit.

Anonymous wrote:CH resident for 15 years, mom of 2 kids in ES.

I love it here. It's not perfect, but it's perfectly fine for us. Why?
--I can walk 3 blocks and have a choice about where to eat or get a cup of coffee. Among the choices are chain restaurants AND a whole slew of locally owned restaurants all along 11th Street. I have never been to IHOP or Panda Express. I love Cava, The Coupe. Room 11 on Sundays and Red Rocks with my kids. I stop at Starbucks sometimes in the morning after the gym.
--I can walk to my gym.
--Target has saved us many times when we need a gift, a prescription, something for school, food, you name it.
--I'm a block from the metro.
--My kids have friends they play with in the alley. We watch out for each other's houses.
--There's a farmer's market on Saturdays.
--If I need to go downtown, I can jump on a bus and get there pretty quickly.
--My kids have a yard to play in.
--No one in my family has ever been mugged. Our cars have never been broken into except for one time when we forgot to lock it and someone took some change. My son's bike was stolen off our porch a few years ago.
--I know and like my neighbors.
--My kids are know how to move around in the city. It's nothing for us to jump on the metro or bus or walk to hear music or attend a festival.

What I don't like:
--The traffic when I'm driving home. Sometimes the last 10 minutes are a pain. But then it's over, and I'm home.

Anonymous wrote:Columbia Heights used to be a very poor neighborhood with very high crime and basically no white people. In the 80s and 90s it was primarily a Latino neighborhood. In the 2000s, white people started moving in gentrify. But some of the old-timers are still around.

Anonymous wrote:Why are there both high real estate prices and poverty so concentrated together in this area?

Anonymous wrote:I lived in Columbia Heights before I got married. (Harvard Street, right near All Souls.) Absolutely loved the area. But it was dangerous. My now husband's tires were slashed outside my house.

I wish I had bought back then. I would live there in a heartbeat if I could afford private for kids.