I did name some of them. And as I am from Nothern Virginia (FFV to boot), I feel entitled.
Actually, I came back to say you’re right. It is not everyone in NoVa, but a type from NoVa that I am pitting.
Yeah, I hate code, too. That’s why I said what I said, not because I’m racist or squeamish.
I’m not afraid of DC. I just don’t want to live there. I like where I am, in, God forbid, Northern Virginia. I like my lower taxes. I like having a yard. I like being able to keep my rifle at home. There’s no reason that I would want to move into the city, to be honest. And that to me applies to NE, SE or NW DC.
I guess personal preference makes me a scaredy cat. I can live with that.
Nonsense! Key Bridge doesn’t go anywhere; it stays right where it is!
Besides, it’s the Blue Line, not Key Bridge, in that joke. 
Except you aren’t telling people to avoid SE DC at all costs. The part that I find galling about those comments is that they are obviously made by someone who doesn’t live in DC, hasn’t lived in DC for a long time, and potentially has never lived in DC or spent any amount of time there. Seeing as the majority of Capitol Hill is located in SE, I can’t imagine telling someone to avoid that area.
Those are all pretty good reasons for not wanting to live in DC. Hell, in the ongoing thread in IMHO, I suggested that that furt check out Greenbelt as it seemed to be a good compromise for what he was looking for.
DC isn’t so bad. I’ve probably been to more places in the District than most since I’ve worked for the power company there for the past 20 years. There are bad neighborhoods, just like in any urban area, but the city is getting better.
I lived in Baltimore City for a number of years, and to hear people talk about it, it’s amazing I survived. My brother drove past my house and decided that it was too dangerous to stop for a visit. And for the 6 years I lived there, he never came back.
Curious where you lived in Baltimore. I lived in a “dollar house” in Barre-Circle when they were first renovated, I had relatives in Mount Vernon and the NW suburbs who never once came to visit.
I hear that area is reverting though…
Still, I find this thread interesting about DC - If I ever get back there, it will be nice to have areas other than NW (Georgetown, Foggy Bottom, Mass Ave, etc. ) to “consider”.
And while were at it: DC dopers, Petworth is not the ghetto. I have a friend who lives in Columbia Heights who doesn’t want to come to my neighborhood. We have the largest Yes! Organic Market in the City for pete’s sake. How ghetto is organic fresh squeezed unfiltered apple cider?
I don’t mean to pick on a single poster, so apologies in advance - but it’s this kind of statement that, if people really lived by it, would insure you (for instance): never went to a DC United home game, never saw the Marine Corps Silent Drill Team, never had a drink at one of literally hundreds of upscale yuppy watering holes (never mind the Tune Inn), never browsed through the flea market on Saturday, sipping your Marvelous Market hand-ground espresso and carrying your organic produce in your hemp tote…not to mention never seeing a free show at the Library of Congress, or just scoping out Main Reading Room in the Jefferson Building. Oh yeah, and Congressional Cemetery would be out of bounds too. Gun crime? Shootings? Not so much.
I agree with the OP (and I have a sneaking suspicion he’s a neighbor, too) - what people mean by “SE” is “Anacostia”, or maybe “Ward 8” (all black parts of town, natch) - not Capitol Hill, Eastern Market, Barney Circle, Lincoln Park, or any of the other beautiful, high-rent, safe (and yes, diverse - we’re not all white, by a very long shot) neighborhoods in SE.
Oh, and as for the schools? My son started in the DC Public Schools at age 4, and will go right on through to the end. They are gutting and restructuring Eastern High, so it’s likely that he - and all of his (multi-cultural, multi-ethnic, economically diverse) friends - will go there, too. I’m a white, upper-middle-class, socially liberal, academic product of private schools and I am very happy with the quality of his education to date.
All that said, we’re all quite happy for those of you who are scared of our part of the city to stay where you’re most comfortable - to each their own, and all that.
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I lived on Patterson Park Avenue, almost directly across from the Pagoda.
Probably was somewhat of an overreaction for me. I just get this the other way - my friends who live in DC fail to see any reason why I would live in Alexandria. There’s only so many times I can tell them that I am ten years older than them, think U street and Adam’s Morgan sucks donkey balls, and don’t want bars on my downstairs windows.
When people say Southeast, I automatically think Anacostia too. Near Southeast is completely different, especially the areas around Capitol Hill, and the Navy Yard. But everything that’s changed in other parts of the city will change in Anacostia too.
The irony is that folks like Anna Lucretia and her family will end the black political domination of the city. No small number of black folks are unhappy about that.
When was that? I spend some time later in a house in a Fells Point alley off of Washington and Gough, mere blocks from there, but that was over by 1991 when I moved west.
Hey, AnnaLucretia I actu’really live in Petworth, but I’m in Kabul these days. I think you said you live on the Hill?
MadMonk28 - yes, I live over by RFK (by “Spielberg Park”, if you remember Minority Report - my house is in the opening scenes, in fact) and before this house I lived in an apartment at 13th and Independence for 9 years.
Oddly, one of my dear friends rents a room in Petworth when he’s not traveling to unsafe places - and he is currently based in Kabul, though he mostly “works” in the tribal lands. You aren’t Bruce, are you?
Stay safe.
No, I’m not Bruce, but I’d like to meet another Petworthian in Afghanistan. We’re not neighbors, but you sound like you would know my cousin who lived right where you are describing but rents out that house and is living over in NOMA.
I’ve noticed bars on windows in Old Town as well, and I imagine that a few houses in Del Ray would still have them based on what it was like twenty years ago. That said, I wouldn’t want to live in Adams Morgan either. Its too noisy and too many people parking on the street. U Street, I could live with, especially if I was a few blocks North or South of U Street.
We looked at a bunch of houses and condominiums in your neighborhood before buying North of H near the Atlas District. We seriously considered a house on Burke Street, and a condo on 18th and A.
No doubt. And I hope I am not coming across as an anti-DC person. I wouldn’t buy a house in Old Town that had bars on the windows either.
As to Adam’s Morgan, I was referring to going out there not living there. Shivers actually ran down my spine at the idea of buying/renting near there. I guess I am a lot older than I thought.
1993 or so to 1999.