Washington DC

[sancarlos]

There might be an existing thread appropriate here, but I couldn’t find one so I started this.

My 22 year-old daughter has had a couple interviews with a federal agency for a job in DC, located near Union Station. She thinks a job offer might be forthcoming.

If she gets an offer and decides to move there, she will need to find an apartment in an area that is safe, a reasonable commute, affordable, and hopefully fun.

I don’t know anything about the area, so your input would be appreciated.

[wlu_lax6]

There might be an existing thread appropriate here, but I couldn’t find one so I started this.

My 22 year-old daughter has had a couple interviews with a federal agency for a job in DC, located near Union Station. She thinks a job offer might be forthcoming.

If she gets an offer and decides to move there, she will need to find an apartment in an area that is safe, a reasonable commute, affordable, and hopefully fun.

I don’t know anything about the area, so your input would be appreciated.

Where she wants to live will be expensive...She will be very metro accessible if she gets a job there. But DC has good bike, bus, and scooter setups. Neighborhoods

-VA off the Orange LIne- Rosalyn, Courthouse, Clarendon, VA Square, Ballston are metro stops with lots of apartments, shopping, food, etc. Off the Blue/Yellow line you have Pentagon City and Crystal City/National Landing (new name where Amazon HQ2 is)...You can also do the bus to metro pretty easily from Shirlington/Fairlington. Farther out VA will be less expensive (but less attractive for lifestyle)
-MD you end up in Silver Spring, Bethesda (or inside that on the redline) . Both are redline into the city. Again cheaper options the farther out the red line you go but you trade off lifestyle.
-DC you have options on Capitol Hill, SE Waterfront/Navy Yard (near Baseball and soccer stadium), Foggy Bottom (near GW), H-street, and Adams Morgan. Some folks head up towards American University and Catholic University but Catholic to Capital Hill has some less gentrified areas.

Don't go to the Other side of the Anacostia.

Message me if you need more....There are lots of good places and options.

[EnochRoot]

The red line jumped into my head as soon as you said reasonably affordable rent. Unless you want to drop over $3k/mo to live near Union Station.

[Giff]

By the thread title I thought it got nuked.

[Rex]

the swamp got drained!

[A_B]

My oldest lives in Eckington, which is just there just over a mile or so from union station. They have ridden scooters and bikes to the stations.

They have 4 people living there so it's pretty similar to Boston rent-wise, but would have to be shared I would think (depending on the job!). Mine didn't know any roommates when they got there but found a Facebook page that was people looking for roommates. It's a decent enough place now that the landlord has fixed some stuff that had fallen into disrepair while the previous tenants lived there for nearly 10 years.

I don't think there is much issue being able to get around, just how much of a commute you have. Because parking at places of business is insane (though I assume most decent sized cities this is true) a car isn't a necessity. We gave ours my old car and it's nice to get around to the outskirts when needed or for bringing groceries/etc. back home. It WILL get bumper dings at a minimum.

I can ask if they'd be willing to talk/text/whatever kids do these days if yours wanted a little local knowledge from, you know, not 40-50 year old men.

[HaulCitgo]

whats on the other side of the anacostia?

[Giff]

I'm thinking a "Swamper Kids as Roommates" thread!!

[Nonlinear FC]

whats on the other side of the anacostia?

While there are positive signs in the last decade or so, the other side of Anacostia (and out Rt. 50 going towards Prince George's County) are where the vast majority of shootings, robberies, carjacking, etc. occur in DC. You can still run into issues in some of the rapidly gentrifying parts of the city (I'm looking at you Shaw), but you are asking for trouble setting up shop in Anacostia (it's across the river, but that's what the area is called.)

I would just add that anything up the Bethesda side of the red line is going to be pricey, but you can look for bargains in Woodley Park, Van Ness and up by American U (called AU by everyone) in the Tenleytown and Friendship Heights area. Past that... $$$.

The Orange Line with Clarendon and the other spots mentioned is a great option, as many of those communities were built up around the Metro (which isn't really the case in MD.) And the demographics are good for young professionals.

I would also note that Silver Spring is a real up-and-comer in terms of things to do and new apartments popping up. Takoma Park is a nuclear free zone and is much more of a residential type vibe, but it's quirky and you could probably find cheap rental homes if you go in with a group.

[Nonlinear FC]

I would also just add, Pentagon City and Crystal City are pretty soulless (no offense to anyone)... Just my opinion. Alexandria is very nice but also pretty expensive. I'm not familiar with things further down that part of the Metro system, but going out there or out past Tyson's Corner... Not really great in terms of young professional trying to experience the city.

[sancarlos]

Hey, thanks guys! If she gets the offer, I’ll show her this thread!

[tennbengal]

I second looking in Silver Spring.

[The Sybian]

I'm thinking a "Swamper Kids as Roommates" thread!!

That'd make a fantastic spinoff sitcom!

[A_B]

I'm thinking a "Swamper Kids as Roommates" thread!!

That'd make a fantastic spinoff sitcom!

Me and SC end up in dire straits and have to move in with them. GOLD.

[rass]

I'm thinking a "Swamper Kids as Roommates" thread!!

That'd make a fantastic spinoff sitcom!

Me and SC end up in dire straits and have to move in with them. GOLD.

You can pick your roommate, but you can’t pick your dad.

SCAB! A new comedy coming to Peacock this fall.

[EnochRoot]

I'm thinking a "Swamper Kids as Roommates" thread!!

That'd make a fantastic spinoff sitcom!

Me and SC end up in dire straits and have to move in with them. GOLD.

[A_B]

Season 9, Episode 12: The one where SC and AB watch old DVDs because they can't find the right app.




HOLY SHIT. "SC/AB". SCAB. Did you do that on purpose? Your genius knows no bounds.

I give you two gold stars from my personal collection.

[sancarlos]

If they weren't both dead, I'd say we should get Norman Fell and Andy Griffith to play us!

[A_B]

If they weren't both dead, I'd say we should get Norman Fell and Andy Griffith to play us!

Shoot, the AI bots can handle that.

[DSafetyGuy]

I'd name it "Bonded", which is a little more family-friendly.

[elflaco2]

I second looking in Silver Spring.

third!

but be careful... SS extends pretty far north towards olney, stick close to ss station
i grew up in ss so biased.

[Nonlinear FC]

Yeah, great point. Silver Spring is kind of a stupid geographic designation. Definitely want to do a radius that spreads out from the Metro station.