Factors for choosing where to live

This is a page from a National Trust publication on owning a historic house.

Mari has some comments in a blog entry below, as well as a good post in her own blog, "Historic Preservation," about how historic preservation needs to broaden its approach to be better situated to broaden its appeal.

The point about the center city is not making it appeal to everybody, but how to make it more appealing to the people who are predisposed to live there. This transcends historic buildings.

You can live in Hyattsville if you want a historic house, as Mari points out. But you can't live in Hyattsville and walk to retail shops and other amenities within your neighborhood. You have to drive.

And while Hyattsville has one subway stop, and is not too far a jaunt to the Riverdale Park train station, for the most part, the transit service there pales when compared to most neighborhoods in the inner core of DC.

The point then is to make land use, transportation and capital investment planning, as well as legislative and regulatory policy totally focused on maintaining and extending the city's competitive advantages.