I wish they had built/kept the school for DCPS a decade ago. I have a feeling that this school is on the chopping block though - but not for NIMBY reasons. Many of the kids that would go to this school are currently zoned for and walk to Stoddert.

Unlike Foxhall, the Stoddert area has built about ~800 new apartments in the last ~7ish years (Glover House and a bunch of conversions). In Ward 3, the Stoddert area is one of the highest density catchment areas - it doesn't really have detached homes at all (there are technically 4). All the kids are close enough to walk to school. The only drivers are kids who lottery in/commit DC residency fraud (which admittedly is a non-trivial number).

The council has just decided to try to make Stoddert expand, rather than try to make all the parents drive to the 'suburbs/foxhall' for elementary schooling. They are slowly realizing that getting kids from census tracts with 20K people/sq mi (Glover Park) to 5K people/sq mi (Foxhall/Palisades) is really silly.

Basically building a school in a very low-density area isn't good urbanism. The school really only made sense if they upzoned the surrounding area to get to about 10K people/sq mi.

The central problem is the NIMBYism of the area.

the school is mostly for the rest of the city. the neighborhood doesn't have enough density to support a school. And now that the council has 'protected' stoddert-zoned kids from going there, at least 50% of the enrollment will be from out of boundary.

now why doesn't the neighborhood have enough density to support a walkable school? NIMBYism from the same retirees who are don't want a school.

issue: palisades are NIMBY haven. we should just jack up taxes on all of them.

Nah, they gave to building away to a private school in a sweetheart deal due to standard issue corruption,

candy chute. basically a PVC pipe, as our front door is a floor up. certain neighborhoods go all out.

You can either do business districts or the wealthier row home districts. For homes the big ones are Mt Pleasant, Cap Hill, Glover Park and parts of Adams Morgan.

We gave out candy to about 300-400 kids last year and shut down by 7ish. Start is 4:30ish.

Also most neighborhoods are having block parties this weekend. We had one yesterday and are doing a different street today. Two parks are also have mini-festivals a 10 min walk away.

They literally built the whitehurst freeway for that. M street doesn’t exist to connect downtown to VA.

At least 50 blocks of housing and shopping in a historic town center that has mostly original buildings. Doesn’t really exist out of a very small subset. You could add the French quarter to that list. old town Alexandria is good too. But you need homes, shops and restaurants in buildings that are at least 150 years old.

Most other places demolished their equivalents. DC came close, but the freeway riots stopped them just in time. (The key bridge was going to be demolished for an interstate and the entire neighborhood would have become an on-ramp)

Halloween. DC doesn’t deviate ever.

Now most neighborhoods/schools have block parties either today, tomorrow or Sunday. Some even did last night. (The Ross PTA organized a restaurant tour of 14th st last night).

The one on the hill is wrapping up right now. Glover park has one tomorrow. Etc…

Knicks, Celtics, lakers. Doesn’t matter where in the county you are; these tend to be the most in demand.

OP is thinking of moving to Georgetown. Hard to replicate that other than in Boston, Charleston, or Savannah. Maybe a few other (equally expensive) places.

Both DC property and income tax is lower than MoCO. Sales tax is pretty much equal. Rent west of rock creek and inner Bethesda/CC are a wash. Really only difference is schools and services. DC has better services broadly speaking (parental leave, etc), but MoCo has better schools. I don’t think OP has kids yet.

Tax burden is decently lower in DC, but I’d run the numbers personally. (VA vs DC is a different cup of tea).

Siam house.

Two mile covers a good chunk of the city. They aren’t a chain with a million drivers.

Glover park gang rise up. Fastest delivery I’ve had from them was 15 min flat.

I also sometimes walk over, easy enough to do pick up after getting groceries at robot Whole Foods.

> Thai Pad

Nah. Little Serow is second. Beau Thai in Mt Pleasant gets third. Thai Pad is good, but not great. Not a fan of Paragon. Still haven't tried the new one on Calvert. Mai Thai has gone seriously downhill. Soi 38 tries too hard, but isn't bad. Thai Chef is good and may displace Beau Thai for third.

But yeah, I like my thai food.

Best Thai in NW.

The parks in upper NW. Battery Kimble, Klingle, Res 630, Soapstone, Dunburton/Montrose, and Glover Park.

Most people in DC may seem to barely know about them, even though some of them abut 10 story condos. But they are gorgeous, especially right now in the fall and are usually pretty empty.

Holmes must have serious dirt on Bowser. Or bowser is incompetent. Take your pick.

They seem to stock semi daily at the glover park one. They usually stock shelves in the evening around close (which is when I do my shopping)

PS: is there a new Georgetown one that opened?

So many trains actually go out all the way now for testing, they just kick out the passengers before phase two. But I though the signs would hide that fact.

Fair, but according to the data here: https://www.doxo.com/insights/the-united-states-of-bill-pay-50-largest-u-s-cities-household-spend-report-2022/

After looking at incomes here, DC is one of the affordable places. In DC, people only spend 36.0% of average income on bills. In Los Angeles they spend 57% of average income on bills.

Of the top 50 metro areas, only 2 are more affordable by this metric. Only Minneapolis/St Paul and Omaha are cheaper.

No Silver Spring and Alexandria are included. The study uses the Census Dept's metro areas:

> (cities demarcated by the US Census Bureau’s Core Based Statistical Areas).

Here are some maps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core-based_statistical_area

I thought that New York has a massive number of rent controlled places compared to DC; so that would offset people like you.