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Originally Posted by saganista
The latter is aka Penn Quarter and there are a lot of great places to live in there, and lots of things to see and do as well. It's one of the very top downtown DC neighborhoods and will often have prices to prove it.
Bloomingdale is a whole different ball game. It's long been a stable middle and upper-middle class neigborhood that somehow escaped almost all of the tumult and decay that overcame many nearby areas. It's not exactly posh. More of a meat & potatoes kind of area, and certainly much removed from the action of downtown in comparison to Penn Quarter. Not the greatest Metro access, but very much worth a look anyway...
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Thanks for the heads up about Penn Quarter, and the info about Bloomingdale. It looked to be residential, but with a more hippie/artist vibe, what with the farmer's market and coffee shop. I am going to be up there in a few weeks to get a sense of the neighborhoods of Capitol Hill, Columbia Heights, Bloomingdale, and Penn to see what we think, and get a scope of rough areas.
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