"Walk?"
Posted on 01/27/2016 2:34:30 PM PST by Olog-hai
Few neighborhoods can match the perks of Adams Morgan in Washington, D.C. - a reality that reflects a broader problem for the U.S. housing market.
Residents of Adams Morgan enjoy a bevy of bars, restaurants, exercise studios and shopping, just steps from their row houses and condo buildings. Home values are reasonable relative to neighborhood incomes. And in general, the area schools rate as better than average nationally.
Across the country, just 14 percent of neighborhoods manage to be at once affordably priced, walkable and near decent schools. And many of those neighborhoods exist in only two cities: Washington and Seattle, according to a new analysis released Wednesday by the real estate brokerage Redfin. ...
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Because cities stink...literally,in many cases.
Then why does practically everyone who doesn’t live here strive to come here?
"Walk?"
Families with children have been fleeing big cities by the tens of millions and moving to exurbia. One of the primary reasons families give for fleeing big cities is because they are not family friendly. The cities aren’t family-friendly because the cities are run by insane liberals.
key phrase “in the cities”
Move to one of the thousands of nice small towns in Flyover Country and you still won’t have to lock your doors (well, most of the time).
Yeah, that’s an issue. But also “good schools” tend to have the offspring of high-achieving parents—who tend to live in expensive neighborhoods.
Neighborhoods used to be fine until the government removed vagrancy laws. Now the bums are everywhere!
Where can you walk safely in the USA? You can be killed by a car or a street savage.
I live in a county with very few A&B schools. The houses in those districts are outrageously expensive, even if they are dumps. You can buy a very nice house in a bad school district for a third to half as much as the better district. This is not a money problem, as this county out spends the adjacent rural county on a per pupil basis. The adjacent county has all A&B schools. This is despite having the same racial mix and lower income parents. What is the difference? My county has been run by Democrats for about a hundred years. The poorer one is much more conservative.
Bears occasionally walk through my back yard.
And I keep hearing about mountain lion attacks on bike trails in California.
Is anyone else amused that the morons at the Ass Press use a DC neighborhood as an example of a “good” neighborhood?
Funny thing is - I would bet that many/most of them came from good neighborhoods.
But that came with all that White Privilege so - that’s bad. Very bad.
Kids walk to school? Really? Who is this guy trying to kid?
Currently all of my grandchildren walk to elementary school. Two are in Germany, two are in Denver, and one in North Fort Worth. The older boys take the bus because Middle schools tend not to be so centrally located.
Do they walk alone? No a parent goes with them. In my daughter’s neighborhood in Denver it is a mile and a half walk to school.
re: rasonable relative to neighborhood incomes
That is key. Most of us try to live above our means for instant gratification.
On schools, they have HD Cooke Elementary. Don't go there if you don't speak good Spanish. And don't send your kids there if you want them to learn anything. They are failing even by miserable DCPS standards.
Now as far as affordable housing, if renting a 2BR apartment for over $2,500 a month (and as high as $4K a month) is affordable, then, well, your idea of affordable is a little different than mine.
Of course, you might buy rather than rent. A 2BR condo will only run you between $400K and $1M, while you can secure a townhouse for a little north of $1M. Just so long as you don't try for a single family house...then you're looking somewhere north of $3M.
Talk about affordable!!
Yes; it certainly is a narrow definition of “affordable”. To say the least.
Good insight. Sounds like heaven on earth for liberals.
Of course, Adams-Morgan and Dupont (which is right next to it) is DC Sodomite Central.
Maybe that's why the reporter thinks it's so fabulous.
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