moving, trails, bikes, and anxieties – forum, help me.

[ShawnoftheDread]

@Terpfan 88834 wrote:

You can easily do 10 without a road bike. I do 16-17 each way on a hybrid.

As for where to live, sort of subjective and based on price. There really isn’t that much crime at Huntington. I live a little further south from there and have used that area many times, don’t really feel unsafe. The sketchy stuff is just mostly those old hotels/motels. Even those, eh, folks stick to themselves.

GL

I agree with this. I lived over there for about 8 years, and I think the neighborhood’s crime problems are several years behind it.

[Anonymous]

I was going to say something similar to terp and dread but then didn’t because I figured I don’t really know a lot about those apartments specifically. They are all shiny and new but I have no idea how well run. But the area overall is fine. I lived there 10 years and am a small-ish female and felt comfortable walking around alone at any hour day and night. Honestly I had more sketchy interactions the two years I lived in the del ray vicinity though I agree that is also a nice area and more urban/walkable at least in the sense of places to walk to. You can walk around Huntington but your destinations are slim pickings.

[ShawnoftheDread]

And with the new ped bridge you can walk or bike to Hoffman Center. Not as nice as Mt. Vernon Ave, but it’s something.

[lordofthemark]

Del Ray – the low rise building did not have any 2 BRs available per their website, so I didn’t press to look there. The newish and brand new buildings were nice, but didn’t quite work in terms of price. Ditto for the older buildings in Crystal City. Ditto for Penrose. We looked at one really old building near inner Col Pike, and it was not nice enough. We are leaning towards either outer Col Pike (I can accept riding a quarter of a mile on the sidewalk to get to the W&OD if I can’t find a short cut) or towards Huntington Station. Maybe 3001 Park Center (I know the bike routes from there, since we lived in that area in the past.)

[chris_s]

Did you look at Shawnee or Fillmore Gardens in Penrose?

[baiskeli]

@Emm 88682 wrote:

and The gardens at Del Ray is right by us, and its a huge complex with some good amenities.

I think that’s where we used to live! I didn’t realize it because they changed their name. Looks like they’ve done some major upgrades too.

[lordofthemark]

@chris_s 88924 wrote:

Did you look at Shawnee or Fillmore Gardens in Penrose?

No, we looked at some oldish hi rise, Dominion something or other. If was QUITE affordable, but the layout of the building (narrow dark hallways, the state of some public areas) and the general vibe turned off my DW. I don’t think an older and cheaper (than that) low rise will work. We are looking for the goldilocks property – not too expensive, and not too inexpensive, I guess (I mean we are talking 50 somethings who have spent the last 12 years in the suburbs – please don’t judge us) There are a couple of newer (but still old) hi rises right on Col Pike that might work though, but we ran out of time.

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