Anonymous
03/06/2024 06:52
Subject: Petworth
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I've lived in Petworth since 2001. Raised my children here (lotteried into WOTP schools, although I see more and more neighborhood folks walking their kids to local schools each morning). Crime, while not great, is not the hellscape some try to describe. It's a great neighborhood that is accessible to other parts of the city and it's easy to get into Maryland
I've lived here since 2016 and feel the same way. Sure I'd prefer a more stable school set up, but other than that I love our neighborhood and feel lucky to live here.
Since 2014 here and I agree.
Anonymous
03/06/2024 06:51
Subject: Petworth
Anonymous wrote:I've lived in Petworth since 2001. Raised my children here (lotteried into WOTP schools, although I see more and more neighborhood folks walking their kids to local schools each morning). Crime, while not great, is not the hellscape some try to describe. It's a great neighborhood that is accessible to other parts of the city and it's easy to get into Maryland
I've lived here since 2016 and feel the same way. Sure I'd prefer a more stable school set up, but other than that I love our neighborhood and feel lucky to live here.
Anonymous
03/06/2024 06:29
Subject: Petworth
I've lived in Petworth since 2001. Raised my children here (lotteried into WOTP schools, although I see more and more neighborhood folks walking their kids to local schools each morning). Crime, while not great, is not the hellscape some try to describe. It's a great neighborhood that is accessible to other parts of the city and it's easy to get into Maryland
Anonymous
03/06/2024 06:22
Subject: Petworth
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Love that for you. Last time the basketball hoops story didn’t end so well for the Dad
This story still gives me nightmares
We left Petworth about half a year before that happened, lived nearby
What’s your read? It was super weird how fast the family wanted it to go away. Were they intimidated into silence?
No idea, they just sounded like so many of the new young families - just wanted to live there, for the diverse community and make the place a nice community.
It was becoming all of those things pre pandemic however around 2021 and various gangs and teen groups went a little wild, which has driven out anyone who could afford to leave or was able to quickly turn a profit on their house.
There’s still a community but the violence is making it much harder for new-old families to come out
Anonymous
03/05/2024 23:24
Subject: Petworth
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:We live in petworth!
Both attorneys with kids at the local public. We're in our 30s and 40s. We love it here. I've been here since my 20s, so I've lived in Petworth for 15 years in all life stages.
Same here! Plenty of government attorneys/other feds with kids in the local elementary schools. Middle and high school not so much, but people figure it out.
To answer PP our house has doubled in value over the last 12 years, and the market is slowing like everywhere, but we don't plan on selling (if we moved, we'd rent it out). That said, buying a decade ago then refinancing and buying today at today's rates are apples and oranges. If my mortgage was $6-7k a month, I wouldn't want to be somewhere I'd have to "figure out" middle school.
Most people do not send their kids to the local school in Petworth. I live in Petworth and only know one neighbor that send their kids to the local elementary school. Everyone else send it to charters or private. data of where kids go to school showed a participation rate of around 35% in Petworth schools.
My kids are in a Petworth DCPS, but not our IB. There are many OOB high SES families like us that are in the neighborhood (within a 10 min drive or so), but not the "local school." Still plenty of kids at DCI feeders, but many more families sticking with DCPS through elementary than 7-10 years ago. Despite middle school concerns, we turned down DCB and MV for second grade because the academics at our DCPS are stronger.
Not really according to these data: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1110151.page
You’re making my point. The IB participation rate is lower than the neighborhood participation rate. Kids that are a 10 minute walk from school but OOB aren’t showing in that data (unless you want to show me where). It doesn’t mean that kids aren’t staying local and using neighborhood schools. They’re just not the zoned neighborhood school. Out of my third grader’s closest friends, 3 are IB and 3 (her included) within 1-2 miles away and OOB. I’m telling you how my kids’ classrooms are.
Anonymous
03/05/2024 23:23
Subject: Petworth
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Love that for you. Last time the basketball hoops story didn’t end so well for the Dad
This story still gives me nightmares
We left Petworth about half a year before that happened, lived nearby
What’s your read? It was super weird how fast the family wanted it to go away. Were they intimidated into silence?
Anonymous
03/05/2024 23:23
Subject: Re:Petworth
woah just googled that basketball story- horrible and crazy I never heard this at the time.
Anonymous
03/05/2024 23:22
Subject: Petworth
I feel like the city should have a fund to help people move if they won’t make it safe
Anonymous
03/05/2024 23:19
Subject: Petworth
Anonymous wrote:The other day I posted that I took a long walk and ended up in Cleveland Park and found it sterile and boring. Today I ended up in Petworth and found it much more lively and interesting. I’ve never really spent much time there but now I can see why it has so much appeal. I would definitely pick it over Cleveland Park.
Thoughts?
We bought in CC and a friend in Petworth years ago. Friend did lottery and won spot in same jklm schools as our kid so other than the commute they were doing well. Fast forward ten years and the pandemic started and the situation deteriorated. After friend had to duck to the floor a couple of times because there was a shooting outside, friend sold house and moved to a smaller place in CC two years ago. I cannot afford Cleveland park but i would buy there a million times more than in Petworth. I dont GAF about lively if it entails having my kids risk getting hit by a stray bullet while on the porch
Anonymous
03/05/2024 23:09
Subject: Petworth
Anonymous wrote:Love that for you. Last time the basketball hoops story didn’t end so well for the Dad
This story still gives me nightmares
We left Petworth about half a year before that happened, lived nearby
Anonymous
03/05/2024 22:51
Subject: Petworth
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Frankly, Petworth is at least another 5 years of gentrification away (more like 10) before I would even consider living in it. In it's current state (especially post covid) the current levels of crime (and therefore lack of safety) are far too difficult to ignore. Plus dearth of even half decent schools.
Where do you live and how much actual experience do you have with Petworth? From the sound of your post you’ve never lived there.
I have visited quite a few times(know a few people that live there) but yeah true never lived there myself, area does not appeal to me in the slightest. Don't have kids yet but thinking of it soon, and yeah the lack of safety and good schools, plus its distance from work and the parts of DC I frequent make it a no go for me.
I currently live in Clarendon. When I first moved to DMV lived in Georgetown (and stayed in that vicinity for a few years after graduation) before moving to Kalorama for a few years. My preference for area DC wise is very much Georgetown, closely followed by Dupont/Admo (the in-between point of those two areas ideally, so that you can walk to either one in a timely manner).
You sound mighty white!
Why is it that people like you automatically go to race/play the race card as soon as you hear something that you don't like/goes against your beliefs.
For your information, I am neither white nor American (am an immigrant)...so maybe don't assume, as they say, "When you assume, you make an ass out of you and me"
Whatever. You’re still prejudiced.
Stop projecting, just because one does not want to live in Petworth due to safety concerns, and due to a lack of good schools, does not mean they are prejudiced. Hell the fact that you think so may suggest that in fact, you yourself are the prejudiced one, as you are bringing in race to a discussion where race was not even mentioned...
Anonymous
03/05/2024 22:20
Subject: Petworth
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Sorry you can’t afford Cleveland park.
As I said in an earlier post, I live in Logan. I can afford Cleveland Park easily. That’s not what this is about.
Logan is a lot cheaper per sqft. Also many smaller places in Logan
CP >> Logan >> Pet.
I own a rowhome in the heart of Logan. It’s not cheaper than Cleveland Park per square foot. Prove me wrong.
So to recap, you’re a 54 yr old relative newcomer * to DC who owns a $4-5 million rowhome. Who takes really long walks in the middle of the workday with some frequency
And then you come home and post your “impressions” on neighborhoods on a parenting website
* newcomer because you don’t know what Cleveland Park actually entails. So you shelled out millions of dollars on a residence without at least driving by $4-5 million comps in the all of few neighborhoods that actually have $4-5 million comps (such as CP).
Not a newcomer. I’ve lived in the DMV my entire adult life, and in the city itself for two decades.
Wait, you’ve lived in DC proper for two decades and have never been to Cleveland Park or Petworth? How??
Anonymous
03/05/2024 21:59
Subject: Petworth
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Hate to disabuse you but:
1. TH to TH is a Redfin-generated 1-year long mean comparison; so it’s not cherry-picked and I can’t teach you math at this stage in life (if I included SFH etc it’d be not even a fair fight)
2. Moved from 20009 to what you would probably call Whiteopia to be offensive to me but is CP: have not seen a rat, an ATV or any crime since; good riddance it’s been years (have seen: deer, bunnies and chipmunks)
3. Why are you so aggro if Logan and Petworth are such paradise? I said Logan had nice townhomes. I found that the neighbors varied and you could be getting secondary mold, sewer and vermin problems through the shared walls. I genuinely cannot stand the illegal activity like the ATVs so am delighted to not have to have them spoil every nice evening. How are you not bothered?
Ok Karen.
I feel misgendered.
Also the math is correct. There’s almost a half mil difference between a median TH sold in Logan and in CP.
Logan Jan 23 just north of 1m; Jan 24 just south of 1.2m. There’s nothing much out of the wacc in the graph.
In CP, the TH are limited but the median is 1.6m. SFH is north of $2m to north of $3m in Jan 24.
Petworth TH $800k-$1m same period
Can you find the data confirming Logan is the more expensive real estate including than Cleveland Park? Seems counterintuitive but I’d love to see it.
Anonymous
03/05/2024 21:37
Subject: Petworth
Anonymous wrote:Isn't the old soldiers home in Petworth? I'm sure they have deer and bunnies.
Anonymous
03/05/2024 21:36
Subject: Petworth
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Never ever seen an ATV in the residential parts of 20007-20015
suburbanite here -- what is ATV?
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