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Anonymous wrote:DC, particularly the walkable core of the city.

joke of the day

? Why? I live in Dupont and it's wonderful. Want to live here for the foreseeable future.

How many people do you know well on our block? Your actual block.

plenty - neighborhood elementary school + older neighbors who love kids

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Anonymous wrote:DC, particularly the walkable core of the city.

joke of the day

? Why? I live in Dupont and it's wonderful. Want to live here for the foreseeable future.

How many people do you know well on our block? Your actual block.

I live in Shaw/Logan in a condo, and we know about 75% of our hundred unit building. We hang out with at least half of them once a year and several many times a week. We know lots of other people on our block and all of the people who run the local businesses. We are also active in the community, going to community meetings at least once a week, so we know a lot of others who live around here. This is our home day and night, and we love it.

Wow, you guys must have a lot of free time, to be hanging out with several people many times a week.

I have maybe a close circle of 2-3 friends that I would hang out with at that frequency if I was so inclined. But at most we met one to two friends/families for lunch/dinner on the weekends.

I guess things would be different if I was single, but with work, family obligations, and school nights, I just don't envision having any free time to spend with non-family members multiple times a week.

I work at a law firm, have a kid, and my family hangs out with several people a few times a week. You just have different priorities with your time than us, apparently. You don't need to act like pp is bizarre or a naive singe person of something.

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Anonymous wrote:DC, particularly the walkable core of the city.

joke of the day

? Why? I live in Dupont and it's wonderful. Want to live here for the foreseeable future.

How many people do you know well on our block? Your actual block.

I live in Shaw/Logan in a condo, and we know about 75% of our hundred unit building. We hang out with at least half of them once a year and several many times a week. We know lots of other people on our block and all of the people who run the local businesses. We are also active in the community, going to community meetings at least once a week, so we know a lot of others who live around here. This is our home day and night, and we love it.

Wow, you guys must have a lot of free time, to be hanging out with several people many times a week.

I have maybe a close circle of 2-3 friends that I would hang out with at that frequency if I was so inclined. But at most we met one to two friends/families for lunch/dinner on the weekends.

I guess things would be different if I was single, but with work, family obligations, and school nights, I just don't envision having any free time to spend with non-family members multiple times a week.

We don't commute, so we have all that time. Plus we can hang out with people in our building for short periods of time and after our child is asleep. But overall, we are very active, social people, as are many of those that choose to live in such a dense area.

For example, today I worked at home, went to a school meeting before I started (I head a committee and am a room mother), ran home for exercise, worked, did a background investigation for a neighbor at lunch, had a 15 minute conversation with our concierge about some building issues at some point, my husband picked up my daughter and fed her the dinner I had made, I'm currently at a community meeting while he puts her to bed, and when I get home at around 9, a few neighbors will stop by for a glass of wine to gossip about the background investigation and update from Thanksgiving vacation. Everyday is different but the socializing fits in pretty easily. We only meet once or twice a week with people from outside the building, but even still the central location makes it easy for people to just stop by when out elsewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC, particularly the walkable core of the city.

joke of the day

? Why? I live in Dupont and it's wonderful. Want to live here for the foreseeable future.

How many people do you know well on our block? Your actual block.

I live in Shaw/Logan in a condo, and we know about 75% of our hundred unit building. We hang out with at least half of them once a year and several many times a week. We know lots of other people on our block and all of the people who run the local businesses. We are also active in the community, going to community meetings at least once a week, so we know a lot of others who live around here. This is our home day and night, and we love it.

Wow, you guys must have a lot of free time, to be hanging out with several people many times a week.

I have maybe a close circle of 2-3 friends that I would hang out with at that frequency if I was so inclined. But at most we met one to two friends/families for lunch/dinner on the weekends.

I guess things would be different if I was single, but with work, family obligations, and school nights, I just don't envision having any free time to spend with non-family members multiple times a week.

Georgetown.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC, particularly the walkable core of the city.

joke of the day

? Why? I live in Dupont and it's wonderful. Want to live here for the foreseeable future.

How many people do you know well on our block? Your actual block.

I live in Shaw/Logan in a condo, and we know about 75% of our hundred unit building. We hang out with at least half of them once a year and several many times a week. We know lots of other people on our block and all of the people who run the local businesses. We are also active in the community, going to community meetings at least once a week, so we know a lot of others who live around here. This is our home day and night, and we love it.

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Anonymous wrote:DC, particularly the walkable core of the city.

joke of the day

Not at all. We have amazing community here.

Another vote for McLean. Convenient to the city, but also with space and privacy.

remove budget constraints

I really like Ashburn because of the kids playing with the neighbors, the sense of community, middle class values and the new houses combined with walking to stores and schools, but I'd have to work within 25 minutes to make it ideal.

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Anonymous wrote:DC, particularly the walkable core of the city.

joke of the day

? Why? I live in Dupont and it's wonderful. Want to live here for the foreseeable future.

How many people do you know well on our block? Your actual block.

I live on Capitol Hill, not in Dupont--still central DC, though. And I know every one of my neighbors (and even like most of them). And there's nothing like rats, property crime, and school insecurity to create a bond between neighbors.

It really is a great place to live, though. I thank my lucky stars every day that we stumbled onto our house. (Mostly because it was all we could afford.)

Capitol Hill is not Dupont, though.

Just like, Brookland is not Cleveland park, even though many of the kit bungalows were built in the same 1920s era.

Well, I don't have any best friends on my block, but I am incredibly friendly with 3 or 4 neighbors in my building, most of the workers at the coffee shop downstairs, the owners of the dry cleaners on the corner, and I meet new parents at Stead Park all the time. I have 4 good friends that live a few blocks away in Dupont. Not really sure what PP was getting at. I grew up in Gaithersburg and Falls Church and we were not friendly with our neighbors.

AU Park.

I think you will find all kinds of people in all kinds of neighborhoods.

I just think this area makes it hard to equate high-priced areas that are said to be desirable because of location with "filled with great people."

Yeah, I don't know whether the language was intended as tongue-in-cheek or the PP is in fact pompous, but I think its a fairly reasonable point that property value is a decent proxy for public opinion on where is a nice neighborhood to live in (which is all the OP can get out of this thread anyhow; an assemblage of individual, anonymous opinions).

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Anonymous wrote:Mclean, Potomac or Chevy Chase are the correct answers and the high housing costs reflect that. Look for where tear downs are over 700k

"Correct answers" - hilarious. You must be the poster who thinks everyone secretly really wants to live in a large, new house.

Haha, because Chevy Chase is known for large, new construction? I agree with these neighborhood recommendations though.

No, because that PP in unable to imagine that not everybody shares his opinions and tastes. And thinks that Chevy Chase is a tear down neighborhood.