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Anonymous wrote:Hey OP - you should ask this question on PoPville too (local blog). The community there usually has better insight into hyper-local DC.

https://www.popville.com/

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA no it doesn't. It's a place for scared white gentrifiers to feed their casual racism and general cluelessness about urban life, goaded along by the Pied Piper of shoddy reporting and dog-whistling, Dan Silverman.

OP, whatever you do, never ever go to that awful site, unless you want to be misinformed about everything in DC.

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Anonymous wrote:Hey OP - you should ask this question on PoPville too (local blog). The community there usually has better insight into hyper-local DC.

https://www.popville.com/

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA no it doesn't. It's a place for scared white gentrifiers to feed their casual racism and general cluelessness about urban life, goaded along by the Pied Piper of shoddy reporting and dog-whistling, Dan Silverman.

OP, whatever you do, never ever go to that awful site, unless you want to be misinformed about everything in DC.

Anonymous wrote:Hey OP - you should ask this question on PoPville too (local blog). The community there usually has better insight into hyper-local DC.

https://www.popville.com/

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Anonymous wrote:We're in Columbia Heights with a one year old and one on the way and we LOVE it. You can't throw a rock without hitting a playground - the Girard St playground in particular we really love, but there are literally three others just a few blocks from our house. There's also Meridian Hill Park, which doesn't have a playground, but is such a great scene - always tons of people out in nice weather, musicians, picnics, a real community vibe. Plenty of grocery stores, I think, but we're lazy so we just get our groceries delivered. It's very walkable - we don't have a car and it's great - tons of bus lines and the metro is right here, plus really everything you need is in walking distance. It's also one of the few truly diverse parts of DC - racially and economically. Yes, crime is a bit higher here than in the rest of NW DC, but we feel perfectly safe walking around, with or without our kid, after dark (although now that it's summer he's in bed before dark!) People are friendly.

And, while certainly, people are free to make their own determinations about safety and their own comfort level, I would keep in mind that while this website is called "DC Urban Moms" it has a large suburban contingent, and skews rather wealthy, and that may impact the responses you get on threads like these.

This website also has a lot of people who have lived in Columbia Heights and then moved from Columbia Heights, sometimes to the suburbs but often also to other parts of DC (not just UNW), once they have kids.

Maybe. But they mostly moved away because they think the schools are too brown for their kids, not because of "crime."

Why is it so impossible for some people to believe that white folks are concerned about crime and academics but NOT race? Do you really think wealthy white folks would happily keep their kids in a school filled with violent white trash meth heads?

Because I’ve heard enough other parents get concerned about “the demographics of the upper elementary grades”. I’m sure that’s of course not you - I don’t even know who you are. But it’s a theme here in DC.

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Anonymous wrote:We're in Columbia Heights with a one year old and one on the way and we LOVE it. You can't throw a rock without hitting a playground - the Girard St playground in particular we really love, but there are literally three others just a few blocks from our house. There's also Meridian Hill Park, which doesn't have a playground, but is such a great scene - always tons of people out in nice weather, musicians, picnics, a real community vibe. Plenty of grocery stores, I think, but we're lazy so we just get our groceries delivered. It's very walkable - we don't have a car and it's great - tons of bus lines and the metro is right here, plus really everything you need is in walking distance. It's also one of the few truly diverse parts of DC - racially and economically. Yes, crime is a bit higher here than in the rest of NW DC, but we feel perfectly safe walking around, with or without our kid, after dark (although now that it's summer he's in bed before dark!) People are friendly.

And, while certainly, people are free to make their own determinations about safety and their own comfort level, I would keep in mind that while this website is called "DC Urban Moms" it has a large suburban contingent, and skews rather wealthy, and that may impact the responses you get on threads like these.

This website also has a lot of people who have lived in Columbia Heights and then moved from Columbia Heights, sometimes to the suburbs but often also to other parts of DC (not just UNW), once they have kids.

Maybe. But they mostly moved away because they think the schools are too brown for their kids, not because of "crime."

Why is it so impossible for some people to believe that white folks are concerned about crime and academics but NOT race? Do you really think wealthy white folks would happily keep their kids in a school filled with violent white trash meth heads?

If you really think comparing the schools around Columbia Heights with schools "filled with violent white trash meth heads" is a good analogy you have some serious introspection to do. Yes, you are racist.

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Anonymous wrote:We're in Columbia Heights with a one year old and one on the way and we LOVE it. You can't throw a rock without hitting a playground - the Girard St playground in particular we really love, but there are literally three others just a few blocks from our house. There's also Meridian Hill Park, which doesn't have a playground, but is such a great scene - always tons of people out in nice weather, musicians, picnics, a real community vibe. Plenty of grocery stores, I think, but we're lazy so we just get our groceries delivered. It's very walkable - we don't have a car and it's great - tons of bus lines and the metro is right here, plus really everything you need is in walking distance. It's also one of the few truly diverse parts of DC - racially and economically. Yes, crime is a bit higher here than in the rest of NW DC, but we feel perfectly safe walking around, with or without our kid, after dark (although now that it's summer he's in bed before dark!) People are friendly.

And, while certainly, people are free to make their own determinations about safety and their own comfort level, I would keep in mind that while this website is called "DC Urban Moms" it has a large suburban contingent, and skews rather wealthy, and that may impact the responses you get on threads like these.

This website also has a lot of people who have lived in Columbia Heights and then moved from Columbia Heights, sometimes to the suburbs but often also to other parts of DC (not just UNW), once they have kids.

Maybe. But they mostly moved away because they think the schools are too brown for their kids, not because of "crime."

Why is it so impossible for some people to believe that white folks are concerned about crime and academics but NOT race? Do you really think wealthy white folks would happily keep their kids in a school filled with violent white trash meth heads?

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Anonymous wrote:We're in Columbia Heights with a one year old and one on the way and we LOVE it. You can't throw a rock without hitting a playground - the Girard St playground in particular we really love, but there are literally three others just a few blocks from our house. There's also Meridian Hill Park, which doesn't have a playground, but is such a great scene - always tons of people out in nice weather, musicians, picnics, a real community vibe. Plenty of grocery stores, I think, but we're lazy so we just get our groceries delivered. It's very walkable - we don't have a car and it's great - tons of bus lines and the metro is right here, plus really everything you need is in walking distance. It's also one of the few truly diverse parts of DC - racially and economically. Yes, crime is a bit higher here than in the rest of NW DC, but we feel perfectly safe walking around, with or without our kid, after dark (although now that it's summer he's in bed before dark!) People are friendly.

And, while certainly, people are free to make their own determinations about safety and their own comfort level, I would keep in mind that while this website is called "DC Urban Moms" it has a large suburban contingent, and skews rather wealthy, and that may impact the responses you get on threads like these.

This website also has a lot of people who have lived in Columbia Heights and then moved from Columbia Heights, sometimes to the suburbs but often also to other parts of DC (not just UNW), once they have kids.

Maybe. But they mostly moved away because they think the schools are too brown for their kids, not because of "crime."

Why is it so impossible for some people to believe that white folks are concerned about crime and academics but NOT race? Do you really think wealthy white folks would happily keep their kids in a school filled with violent white trash meth heads?

Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks for the comments. We're coming from New York City so we're used to city living, my main concern is proximity to shops and space for kids to play. We'll plan a trip to check out the neighborhood in person.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks for the comments. We're coming from New York City so we're used to city living, my main concern is proximity to shops and space for kids to play. We'll plan a trip to check out the neighborhood in person.

Oh yeah, then for sure CH would be a good fit. Walk on by! Make sure to check out Girard St Playground, Meridian Hill Park, the restaurants along 11th street south of Park, in addition to the main drag of 14th St.

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Anonymous wrote:We're in Columbia Heights with a one year old and one on the way and we LOVE it. You can't throw a rock without hitting a playground - the Girard St playground in particular we really love, but there are literally three others just a few blocks from our house. There's also Meridian Hill Park, which doesn't have a playground, but is such a great scene - always tons of people out in nice weather, musicians, picnics, a real community vibe. Plenty of grocery stores, I think, but we're lazy so we just get our groceries delivered. It's very walkable - we don't have a car and it's great - tons of bus lines and the metro is right here, plus really everything you need is in walking distance. It's also one of the few truly diverse parts of DC - racially and economically. Yes, crime is a bit higher here than in the rest of NW DC, but we feel perfectly safe walking around, with or without our kid, after dark (although now that it's summer he's in bed before dark!) People are friendly.

And, while certainly, people are free to make their own determinations about safety and their own comfort level, I would keep in mind that while this website is called "DC Urban Moms" it has a large suburban contingent, and skews rather wealthy, and that may impact the responses you get on threads like these.

This website also has a lot of people who have lived in Columbia Heights and then moved from Columbia Heights, sometimes to the suburbs but often also to other parts of DC (not just UNW), once they have kids.

Maybe. But they mostly moved away because they think the schools are too brown for their kids, not because of "crime."

Anonymous wrote:OP here, thanks for the comments. We're coming from New York City so we're used to city living, my main concern is proximity to shops and space for kids to play. We'll plan a trip to check out the neighborhood in person.