What kind of people live in Capital Hill?

[carlihot]

I am going there for school and I need to know what kind of people are there

[Plokivos]

Who lives in North Capitol Hill? Drove there few times, I like it, but don't know cost for apartments/houses and who lives there.

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Originally Posted by terrence81

I am seeing someone on the Hill. I am falling in love with this neighborhood. I just started a new job in Fairfax so moving to the Hill seems less and less likely right now but there are offices at the Navy Yard so maybe after a year I can get transferred we'll see.

The mix is what I like about the Hill. I've never met an intern probably because I'm almost 30 and they're "youngins" haha. But yeah love the Hill. Now long timers feel free to step in but from my understanding it used to be a terrible neighborhood and mostly black until it got cleaned up. I think its a nice mix these days.

Honestly I think H street looks like a hot mess with all the construction. I'm sure when they're done and the street car is up and running it'll be nice. But right now? Not so much.

i know what you mean but let's watch how we word these things. i'd hate to think of another human being as some immaterial undesirable object. if you infuse cash and access to cash in any neighborhood, chances are it will be more aesthetically pleasing than a community full of financially poor or cash strapped people. i remember the old cap hill and quite honestly it wasn't as bad as people make it out to be. sure, it wasn't glitzy or glamorous and didn't have 13 coffee shops and bakeries but it was still a decent area with a lot of old timers living there. i find it funny that the thing that drove people to move to cap hill back when the gentrification started, is the very thing that the now generation wants to get rid of. funny how that works.

[terrence81]

Originally Posted by (-)

i know what you mean but let's watch how we word these things. i'd hate to think of another human being as some immaterial undesirable object. if you infuse cash and access to cash in any neighborhood, chances are it will be more aesthetically pleasing than a community full of financially poor or cash strapped people. i remember the old cap hill and quite honestly it wasn't as bad as people make it out to be. sure, it wasn't glitzy or glamorous and didn't have 13 coffee shops and bakeries but it was still a decent area with a lot of old timers living there. i find it funny that the thing that drove people to move to cap hill back when the gentrification started, is the very thing that the now generation wants to get rid of. funny how that works.

I should've restructured my sentence for better clarity, yet I stand by what I said, but perhaps not how I said it. I'm black so of course I wasn't saying the neighborhood was terrible because it was black. How silly would that be? I will still stand by the statement that I heard (versus witnessed) that it was once a bad neighborhood. Also there are some bad people in this world who are indeed undesireable objects (the ones that create crime that causes a neighborhood to be bad in the first place).

I like the Hill as is now. Well prices are cheaper than Dupont and U street so I would guess that was the reason that people cleaned it up (I'm still standing by that particular verb) and moved in. If I were to move to the city I'd pick Capitol Hill or perhaps Woodley Park.

I also stand by my statement that H street is aesthetically displeasing. Its just plain ugly but that has more to do with all the construction than anything else.