People sleeping in the middle of sidewalks in Columbia Heights

[Thousand Made-Up Loves]

1750 per month rent for a junior one bedroom?

You do realize you can live in a reasonable hood in the District and not have to pay $1750/1BR, right?

[Relaxer]

Hell, you can rent the swanky 1BR apartment in my basement for $1200/month and it includes a separate laundry room. This is in the Eastern Market/Lincoln Park neighborhood.

[Thousand Made-Up Loves]

Hell, you can rent the swanky 1BR apartment in my basement for $1200/month and it includes a separate laundry room. This is in the Eastern Market/Lincoln Park neighborhood.

That is more along the lines of what I was thinking. Down grade the 'hood and upgrade from the basement and you can still do better.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

When did this board become an old folks home?

[hutch]

Hell, you can rent the swanky 1BR apartment in my basement for $1200/month and it includes a separate laundry room. This is in the Eastern Market/Lincoln Park neighborhood.

I'm not sure I want you as my landlord... no offense...

No, what I meant was that I need a lot more space.. and if one can rent out a junior one bedroom for $1750 it doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that it would cost a lot of benjamins to get three or four times that space in an area of dc where one would want to live.

by the way: love eastern market area... was our other pick and hope to live there at some point... just love capitol hill ... we were between that and arlington but we just couldn't swing capitol hilll.. we were seeing townhouses renting for $2000 with corner liquor stores, long walks to metro etc.. sketchiness..and not even close to orange line..

[vansmack]

When did this board become an old folks home?

September 26, 2006

[walkonby]

i find it nice.  you can learn a lot from the reading.  like a living newspaper.

[kosmo vinyl]

When did this board become an old folks home?

September 26, 2006

hmmm i think know where you are going with this date... 

but i was going to say when Facebook and Twitter came online

[Jaguar]

I assumed that it was Smackie's 30th birthday... but not really sure. Maybe it was the day he moved out of DC. He thinks like that, you know. 

[eltee]

(not necessarily an opinion just observing)

i think you got that backwards, because your statement is in fact an opinion.   close enough/far enough, walkability, a little breathing room and even to some extent cleaner - these are opinions. 

thanks for clarifying...hmm. nope, still an opinion based on what people commented earlier. cleaner is relative. okay?

[eltee]

Hell, you can rent the swanky 1BR apartment in my basement for $1200/month and it includes a separate laundry room. This is in the Eastern Market/Lincoln Park neighborhood.

What's the square feet? (again, feel the need to clarify not debating, just asking)
A friend moved to EM and about 700 sq. ft decent price but she had to get rid of just about everything she owns to fit.

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

I went to the DC Financial Planning Day at Bell HS on Saturday so I had the privilege to spend my day in the District's most overrated, overpriced, overcrowded shithole, Columbia Heights, and I noticed I had to step over no fewer than FOUR people sleeping in the middle of sidewalks. One guy on Irving by BOA, one guy on 16 by the HS, one guy on 14th in front of the mall entrance and one time on Mt. Pleasant (yeah, I know, not CH).

Columbia Heights

[Jaguar]

[Herr Professor Doktor Doom]

I assumed that it was Smackie's 30th birthday... but not really sure. Maybe it was the day he moved out of DC. He thinks like that, you know. 

I think it's the date I officially became a dirty old man...

[Jaguar]

By Jove, I've think you've got it!