Anonymous wrote:Bloomingdale! Something about the size of it means you see your friends and neighbors over and over again and it feels like a bubble of neighborliness. IMHO

Um, do you even read the news?

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Anonymous wrote:Town of Somerset in Chevy Chase, MD has this. In neighborhood elementary MCPS, pool, swim team, tennis courts. 1/2 mile from Friendship Heights metro

+1 - the best.

Does Somerset include Brookdale? They seem to share the same zipcode.

No they are two distinct neighborhoods. Both awesome.

Anonymous wrote:Wakefield, the triangle formed by Connecticut, Nebraska, and Albemarle. Always kids walking to and from Murch/Deal/JR. Single-family homes and apartment buildings, so a range of housing options. Murch playground serves as a community meeting place. Lovely neighborhood.

Have you lived there awhile? We walk through here to go to the Sheridan School farmer’s market or Politics and Prose, and the people seems super unfriendly. Won’t even give the standard nod.

Wakefield, the triangle formed by Connecticut, Nebraska, and Albemarle. Always kids walking to and from Murch/Deal/JR. Single-family homes and apartment buildings, so a range of housing options. Murch playground serves as a community meeting place. Lovely neighborhood.

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Anonymous wrote:Town of Somerset in Chevy Chase, MD has this. In neighborhood elementary MCPS, pool, swim team, tennis courts. 1/2 mile from Friendship Heights metro

+1 - the best.

Does Somerset include Brookdale? They seem to share the same zipcode.

I've lived in 9 different neighborhoods in DC and the immediate area in the last 30 years.

Chevy Chase DC and Westmoreland Hills (Bethesda) have felt the most like community to me. Westmoreland Hills has the edge over CCDC because there isn't any pass-through traffic, so kids ride their bikes and walk in the streets. And it feels safer. There are blocks parties, 4th of July in the park, garden club, lots of trick or treating, ice cream man driving around. And a good multi-generational mix of families.

But it's a little easier to walk to shops from CCDC. Both are obviously expensive, but were wonderful places to raise our children (now in college).

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Anonymous wrote:Brookdale CCMD right over the line from DC

Does it actually feel neighborhoody though? Or is it full of boomers and empty nesters.

Why do you think Boomers and Empty Nesters aren't neighborly? Where I live, the Gen Z and Millennials are the ones who don't acknowledge the neighbors or take part in activities.

Maybe, but OP with two toddlers means kid-centric and family friendly. Our older neighbors are lovely, but there’s nothing like neighborhood friends for kids to run around with.

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Anonymous wrote:Brookdale CCMD right over the line from DC

Does it actually feel neighborhoody though? Or is it full of boomers and empty nesters.

Why do you think Boomers and Empty Nesters aren't neighborly? Where I live, the Gen Z and Millennials are the ones who don't acknowledge the neighbors or take part in activities.

Anonymous wrote:Town of Somerset in Chevy Chase, MD has this. In neighborhood elementary MCPS, pool, swim team, tennis courts. 1/2 mile from Friendship Heights metro

+1 - the best.

If we could do it again, we would have bought in Glover Park. Love the vibe in the neighborhood (not college rentals!), schools, access to the park and highways out of the city.

Anonymous wrote:Glover Park!

Nah. It’s for college kids throwing keggers.

Glover Park!

Anonymous wrote:Bloomingdale! Something about the size of it means you see your friends and neighbors over and over again and it feels like a bubble of neighborliness. IMHO

Not Op, but I never feel safe when I visit friends in Bloomingdale or go to the restaurants there. There is so much aggressive pan handling and I know several people who have been mugged. And the attack on the preschool teachers this week doesn’t help, although I understand that an individual like that could be anywhere in the district.

Anonymous wrote:Cap Hill has more singles and empty nesters than families. Same with Adams Morgan and Mt. Pleasant.

I’d look at AU Park and Chevy Chase.

LOL. Are you 85 years old?

Wesley Heights!