Chris

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 18:03:22 -0500

I grew up in Lambertville, then moved to New Hope when I was 13. I'm down in the District now, and am a regular reader of the DCist, and happened to pop over to the Phillyist today where I came across this article. I always liked Lambertville and New Hope. They're quaint little towns, but they're real. Well, Lambertville is real anyway. The only real things about New Hope were it's art community and it's gay community (New Hope was a gay town even back in the 60's), but these aspects have long since been drowned by the throngs of tourists and suburban type families moving in. Down here in DC and its burbs, people shell out ridiculous amounts of money to live in supposedly quaint, picturesque , artsy locales, but little do they know that people in NJ and PA have them beat, and are paying 1/3 the price to live there. My girlfriend thought I'd be impressed with the Georgetown area, with it's rows of Victorian homes and canal and mule barges. "Looks a bit like New Hope", I told her. :P

Katie

Sun, 22 Oct 2006 19:26:33 -0500

Oh, I still think that ten, fifteen years down the line you could change your tune and find yourself sitting on your porch, sipping wine from Tomasello's, with your babies and costumed puppies nearby.

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Chris

Katie