My wife grew up in DC, but moved away for ten years before we moved here two years ago.
We were driving to RFK stadium for a Nats game, and she had warned me that we'd be driving through some really bad neighborhoods.
Not anymore- pretty much everything in the area had undergone gentrification or was on the way. Amazing what a decade of serious economic growth in this country has done.
That neighborhood used to be scary. I'm glad it is improving. I do like gentrification.