Anonymous wrote:You are all so paranoid and sheltered. My daughters love the national harbor this time of year! It’s wonderful to see them experience a vibrant and diverse crowd of friends.

With 800 (not a typo) teenagers stealing from people and stores, meeting up flor various pre-arranged “fight clubs” and having fights, going berserk? That kind of vibrant crowd? WITW.

I don’t go to NH that often but when I do it seems like a perfectly regular crowd. Not any more rowdy teens than anywhere else in the DMV.

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Anonymous wrote:When you build a place in the middle of the hood the people who live in the hood will be happy to have a place to go. Some of those people are criminals who rob, assault, and attack others. They have instituted a curfew for teens under 16.

Except National Harbor tried really, really, really hard to keep the hood out. It essentially barricaded itself from its PG neighbors while offering easy access to the Beltway, Virginia, and DC.

Oh, well. Looks like those efforts failed.

The area south of NH isn’t the hood and the area north of it is. They built it right on the borderlands and expected to be able to keep the bad elements out.

Anonymous wrote:South of national harbor is a nice neighborhood. Just north is oxon hill, one of those places you always hear about on the news and never for good things.

We love oxon hill farm, and just had a nice dinner at national harbor last month. I didn’t see rowdy teens there at the time. Maybe we just missed them?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s so funny how everyone is too scared to identify the real problem, even though we all know what it is.

Hhhmmmmm.

What, exactly, are you inferring? What is the “real problem”?

South of national harbor is a nice neighborhood. Just north is oxon hill, one of those places you always hear about on the news and never for good things.

Anonymous wrote:It’s so funny how everyone is too scared to identify the real problem, even though we all know what it is.

Hhhmmmmm.

You are all so paranoid and sheltered. My daughters love the national harbor this time of year! It’s wonderful to see them experience a vibrant and diverse crowd of friends.

I was there a few months back and there were a large group of rowdy teens fighting. They all smelled like marijuana. The ones who weren’t fighting were running around knocking into people, shouting, swearing and had no regard for those around them.

They need to ban teens from this area or at least enforce some rules.

Anonymous wrote:Some of those kids 2 weekends ago were in hotel rooms their parents had rented for them and then left them there to party (I guess the parents went back home after checking in and handing over the keys to their kids). Part of that curfew is that no underage minors may be left alone in hotel rooms.

These parents should be prosecuted. What idiots.

It’s always had crime, is it actually higher now?

It’s so funny how everyone is too scared to identify the real problem, even though we all know what it is.

NH is a rather dumpy area, IMO. I never go there.

They put a very expensive casino IN the ghetto. I mean what did they expect to happen? Now they have 800 kids commiting crimes.

I'm not sure what sane people are still going there to gamble and get robbed and car jacked when leaving.

Anonymous wrote:When you build a place in the middle of the hood the people who live in the hood will be happy to have a place to go. Some of those people are criminals who rob, assault, and attack others. They have instituted a curfew for teens under 16.

Tell me you've never stepped foot in PG county without telling me you've never stepped foot in PG county. The neighborhoods directly surrounding National Harbor are quite nice. There are some lower-income pockets of PG inside the beltway and then further away, but right by NH, is a fine and safe community. Those neighbors were miffed that all access to national harbor was cut off for them (you used to be able to walk to the river from these neighborhoods).