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Anonymous wrote:Was just there tonight and it was completely hopping, totally busy. There are great light displays everywhere and more coming. Streets were packed. Perhaps few of you have been there recently?

Even if this is true and you’re not trolling—it was tourists who don’t know any better

Anonymous wrote:Was just there tonight and it was completely hopping, totally busy. There are great light displays everywhere and more coming. Streets were packed. Perhaps few of you have been there recently?

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Anonymous wrote:What about that mall? Was it ever nice?

Back when it first opened and people liked indoor malls but that was literally 40+ years ago.

It wasn't 40 years ago. It was nice into the early 1990s.

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Anonymous wrote:This.

It’s like a ghost town’: lights go out as foreign owners desert London homes
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/25/its-like-a-ghost-town-lights-go-out-as-foreign-owners-desert-london-homes


London mayor targets ‘ghost mansions’ and ‘zombie flats’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/london-struggles-with-ghost-mansions-and-zombie-flats-the-empty-units-in-city-bereft-of-affordable-housing/2017/09/18/253d67fa-97c4-11e7-af6a-6555caaeb8dc_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1943d321d065

Here Are The Canadian Cities With The Most Empty Homes
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/02/11/empty-homes-canada-vancouver-toronto_n_14691034.html

I agree. Lots of Chinese money, because they do not get penalized if they buy foreign real estate.

Anonymous wrote:On top of the others comments, Georgetown used to be THE place for high-end commerce and dining. Really the only place in D.C. Now that's changed with the upmarket growth EOTP in places like Dupont, Logan Circle, Shaw, CityCenter, and SW Waterfront.

I think Apple is one of the few things that draws crowds there and there will be a new store opening in Mt. Vernon Square in 2019. Georgetown needs to revitalize with better community amenities, more fast casual or quirky dining, and better transit access - that scuttled gondola would have been a great start to completely tearing out and rebuilding the waterfront there.

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Anonymous wrote:At least they don’t have the big bad metro there because you don’t want the wrong element dropping by.

Georgetown metro station would have been the deepest and most expensive station in the system, if they had built it. The soil is incredibly unstable in Georgetown; they would need to go deep into the bedrock. It would have caused a host of engineering issues with the tunnel beneath the river.

They need to just build the damn street car.

A street car without a dedicated lane is just a bus, only worse. If they want it to actually work they need dedicated transit lanes.

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Anonymous wrote:What about that mall? Was it ever nice?

Back when it first opened and people liked indoor malls but that was literally 40+ years ago.

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So what are the upscale/ritzy neighborhoods of DC now if any?? My husband and I just moved here from Dallas and it seems like there isn't any perfectly maintained, chic, upscale neighborhoods like what we're used to. Lots of newly gentrified hoods that are still kinda sketchy that appeal to young people. I had thought it was Georgetown and some of the streets are very quaint but commercial areas are disgusting-empty storefronts, homeless people pissing on the street...
Kalorama seems okay but it's pretty small

cleveland park, true Capitol Hill, Kent, Palisades, Colonial Village, parts of Shepard Park and Crestview. New money-the Wharf.

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Anonymous wrote:to me, it died when all the bars closed down. third edition, garrets, Charring cross, nathans, the guards, chadwicks, mr. smiths. even old glory is gone and they were late to the party. i have no idea what is there now

For me it began to die when the independent theaters (the Biograph and the Key) left and then some years later Olsson's Books and Records.

I actually just miss the whole DMV back in the day. It was such a great place to live and everyone was so friendly and seemed happier. Now it's like a concrete jungle with tons of traffic and a lot of bitter competitive people.

Anonymous wrote:This.

It’s like a ghost town’: lights go out as foreign owners desert London homes
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jan/25/its-like-a-ghost-town-lights-go-out-as-foreign-owners-desert-london-homes


London mayor targets ‘ghost mansions’ and ‘zombie flats’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/london-struggles-with-ghost-mansions-and-zombie-flats-the-empty-units-in-city-bereft-of-affordable-housing/2017/09/18/253d67fa-97c4-11e7-af6a-6555caaeb8dc_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1943d321d065

Here Are The Canadian Cities With The Most Empty Homes
https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2017/02/11/empty-homes-canada-vancouver-toronto_n_14691034.html

Anonymous wrote:No parking , no metro , no bars.

Bars were made unwelcome by residents. Georgetown would be smart to have microbrew bars all over and be a destination .

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So what are the upscale/ritzy neighborhoods of DC now if any?? My husband and I just moved here from Dallas and it seems like there isn't any perfectly maintained, chic, upscale neighborhoods like what we're used to. Lots of newly gentrified hoods that are still kinda sketchy that appeal to young people. I had thought it was Georgetown and some of the streets are very quaint but commercial areas are disgusting-empty storefronts, homeless people pissing on the street...
Kalorama seems okay but it's pretty small

Anonymous wrote:What about that mall? Was it ever nice?