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Anonymous wrote:Thanks all -- I was asking the question because I didn't for sure know the answer. It's making more sense now...

Let me guess, OP. You bought a house in Brightwood? Michigan Park? But you don't want to send your kid to the local school because it's "not an option" so you're looking at charters?

You're off, but what does that have to do with my original question anyway?

Many people who are concerned about the sketchy areas where the charters end up buy in areas of town where the housing stock is relatively affordable but the IB schools are not good.

So then why move to a sketchy area? I'm sorry, but Columbia Heights, Petworth, Brightwood and surrounding immediately environs have some of the worst crime rates in the city. They see just as much criminal activity as EoTR, sometimes worse. It boggles my mind to hear friends plunking down $700K on a row house and then kvetch about how the local schools "are not an option," how crime is so bad, why the MPD can't stop shootings before they happen, etc etc etc. You moved your young child into a crappy neighborhood - face the music.

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Anonymous wrote:Charters are designed to be alternatives to poorly performing public schools. The poorly performing schools happen to be in low-income areas. It has nothing to do with real estate costs. You just don't get it.

If that was true, charters would extend preferences to children slated for poorly performing public schools, and they don't.

Anonymous wrote:Charters are designed to be alternatives to poorly performing public schools. The poorly performing schools happen to be in low-income areas. It has nothing to do with real estate costs. You just don't get it.

Anonymous wrote:Because people of color and low-income people lack the political clout to keep these for-profit schools out of their neighborhoods. Charter schools are about making money off the backs of the poor.

There's very little in the way of shops and restaurants that I actually want to go to.

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Anonymous wrote:You obviously aren't familiar with these neighborhoods. Petworth's crime is not comparable to Trinidad or Truxton Circle.

It's a close second.

Seriously. These people are grasping at straws. I'm the past few days alone a 2 year old child was shot by a stray bullet, a group of girls face stomped and attacked with a meat cleaver another girl outside the Petworh Metro, and cops had the entire neighborhood on lock down as they chased a group of guys robbing people at gunpoint.

But yeah, your real estate agent thinks prices will only go up and the neighborhood is "really turning the corner!"

You sound angsty and jealous that Petworth housing investments have skyrocketed compared to yours! Aw, have a latte at the Starbucks in Friendship Heights and stare longingly at Bethesda.

(Nope, I don't live in Petworth. I'm just calling you out because you sound like a jealous hag.)

Anonymous wrote:You obviously aren't familiar with these neighborhoods. Petworth's crime is not comparable to Trinidad or Truxton Circle.

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Anonymous wrote:You obviously aren't familiar with these neighborhoods. Petworth's crime is not comparable to Trinidad or Truxton Circle.

It's a close second.

Seriously. These people are grasping at straws. I'm the past few days alone a 2 year old child was shot by a stray bullet, a group of girls face stomped and attacked with a meat cleaver another girl outside the Petworh Metro, and cops had the entire neighborhood on lock down as they chased a group of guys robbing people at gunpoint.

But yeah, your real estate agent thinks prices will only go up and the neighborhood is "really turning the corner!"

You sound angsty and jealous that Petworth housing investments have skyrocketed compared to yours! Aw, have a latte at the Starbucks in Friendship Heights and stare longingly at Bethesda.

(Nope, I don't live in Petworth. I'm just calling you out because you sound like a jealous hag.)

NP here. That's funny because I bet I'm the only one on all of dcum who owns a home in chevy chase dc near the FH metro AND I own a home in petworth on 7th st. So there's no chance I am envious of,those with equity in blechworth, if you think it through. Right? I've got the investment working for me in both 20015 and 20011.

Petworth is comparatively gross. It's physically ugly, dirty, and the streetscape is boring and monotonous. 90% of the homes look exactly like each other. There's only one street with any commerce and you know what? Save for a handful of restaurants, blechworth can't even carry the water of the FH commerce. You mock Starbucks but you know what? AutoZone. For every crane and turtle, there are 9 shitty chicken carry outs. Cheap cell phone stores. More garbage stuck to the curb.

And, child? Those of us who bought in the DC that you mock, (while you were still wearing My Little Pony pull-ups in Ohio) made a killing before you ever got to DC. That's why I own and rent out the ugly rowhouse at the end of your block today.

You've really touched on some of the things that bother me about living EoTP. It's dirty. There's very little in the way of shops and restaurants that I actually want to go to. I don't always feel totally safe. But the tone of your post epitomizes what I hate about you WoTP folks. You think that you're better because you live WoTP. You may not like it, but the growth in DC is downtown and East of the Park. I am constantly surprised by the number of families with young children in my neighborhood. We have a long way to go, but I hope that when we get there, we don't look down our noses at the people coming up behind us.

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Anonymous wrote:You obviously aren't familiar with these neighborhoods. Petworth's crime is not comparable to Trinidad or Truxton Circle.

It's a close second.

Seriously. These people are grasping at straws. I'm the past few days alone a 2 year old child was shot by a stray bullet, a group of girls face stomped and attacked with a meat cleaver another girl outside the Petworh Metro, and cops had the entire neighborhood on lock down as they chased a group of guys robbing people at gunpoint.

But yeah, your real estate agent thinks prices will only go up and the neighborhood is "really turning the corner!"

You sound angsty and jealous that Petworth housing investments have skyrocketed compared to yours! Aw, have a latte at the Starbucks in Friendship Heights and stare longingly at Bethesda.

(Nope, I don't live in Petworth. I'm just calling you out because you sound like a jealous hag.)

NP here. That's funny because I bet I'm the only one on all of dcum who owns a home in chevy chase dc near the FH metro AND I own a home in petworth on 7th st. So there's no chance I am envious of,those with equity in blechworth, if you think it through. Right? I've got the investment working for me in both 20015 and 20011.

Petworth is comparatively gross. It's physically ugly, dirty, and the streetscape is boring and monotonous. 90% of the homes look exactly like each other. There's only one street with any commerce and you know what? Save for a handful of restaurants, blechworth can't even carry the water of the FH commerce. You mock Starbucks but you know what? AutoZone. For every crane and turtle, there are 9 shitty chicken carry outs. Cheap cell phone stores. More garbage stuck to the curb.

And, child? Those of us who bought in the DC that you mock, (while you were still wearing My Little Pony pull-ups in Ohio) made a killing before you ever got to DC. That's why I own and rent out the ugly rowhouse at the end of your block today.

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Anonymous wrote:You obviously aren't familiar with these neighborhoods. Petworth's crime is not comparable to Trinidad or Truxton Circle.

It's a close second.

Seriously. These people are grasping at straws. I'm the past few days alone a 2 year old child was shot by a stray bullet, a group of girls face stomped and attacked with a meat cleaver another girl outside the Petworh Metro, and cops had the entire neighborhood on lock down as they chased a group of guys robbing people at gunpoint.

But yeah, your real estate agent thinks prices will only go up and the neighborhood is "really turning the corner!"

You sound angsty and jealous that Petworth housing investments have skyrocketed compared to yours! Aw, have a latte at the Starbucks in Friendship Heights and stare longingly at Bethesda.

(Nope, I don't live in Petworth. I'm just calling you out because you sound like a jealous hag.)

NP here. That's funny because I bet I'm the only one on all of dcum who owns a home in chevy chase dc near the FH metro AND I own a home in petworth on 7th st. So there's no chance I am envious of,those with equity in blechworth, if you think it through. Right? I've got the investment working for me in both 20015 and 20011.

Petworth is comparatively gross. It's physically ugly, dirty, and the streetscape is boring and monotonous. 90% of the homes look exactly like each other. There's only one street with any commerce and you know what? Save for a handful of restaurants, blechworth can't even carry the water of the FH commerce. You mock Starbucks but you know what? AutoZone. For every crane and turtle, there are 9 shitty chicken carry outs. Cheap cell phone stores. More garbage stuck to the curb.

And, child? Those of us who bought in the DC that you mock, (while you were still wearing My Little Pony pull-ups in Ohio) made a killing before you ever got to DC. That's why I own and rent out the ugly rowhouse at the end of your block today.

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Anonymous wrote:Thanks all -- I was asking the question because I didn't for sure know the answer. It's making more sense now...

Let me guess, OP. You bought a house in Brightwood? Michigan Park? But you don't want to send your kid to the local school because it's "not an option" so you're looking at charters?

You're off, but what does that have to do with my original question anyway?

Many people who are concerned about the sketchy areas where the charters end up buy in areas of town where the housing stock is relatively affordable but the IB schools are not good.

So then why move to a sketchy area? I'm sorry, but Columbia Heights, Petworth, Brightwood and surrounding immediately environs have some of the worst crime rates in the city. They see just as much criminal activity as EoTR, sometimes worse. It boggles my mind to hear friends plunking down $700K on a row house and then kvetch about how the local schools "are not an option," how crime is so bad, why the MPD can't stop shootings before they happen, etc etc etc. You moved your young child into a crappy neighborhood - face the music.

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Anonymous wrote:You obviously aren't familiar with these neighborhoods. Petworth's crime is not comparable to Trinidad or Truxton Circle.

It's a close second.

Seriously. These people are grasping at straws. I'm the past few days alone a 2 year old child was shot by a stray bullet, a group of girls face stomped and attacked with a meat cleaver another girl outside the Petworh Metro, and cops had the entire neighborhood on lock down as they chased a group of guys robbing people at gunpoint.

But yeah, your real estate agent thinks prices will only go up and the neighborhood is "really turning the corner!"

You sound angsty and jealous that Petworth housing investments have skyrocketed compared to yours! Aw, have a latte at the Starbucks in Friendship Heights and stare longingly at Bethesda.

(Nope, I don't live in Petworth. I'm just calling you out because you sound like a jealous hag.)