Originally Posted by
Oberon
Where is this terrible neighborhood everyone keeps talking about? I've walked or ran in the neighborhoods surrounding the Holiday Inn and they are all pretty nice. The area surrounding the Woodward Academy is much nicer than anyplace I've ever lived.
Not trying to bust your balls Jungle, just trying to shed some light on the situation. From what I was told before I got to training I expected a war zone.
Naw, my comment was somewhat TIC, VA Ave really wasn't that bad. I've heard it's got a lot better over the years. That said, I wouldn't walk in the area between the holiday inn & the training center alone at night. Once you get west of the cemetery or east of Crew Outfitters it's a lot better, I routinely walked home (behind the Greek gyro place) after D periods. First block occasionally had some sketchy dudes hanging out for no particular reason, after that always felt pretty safe. During indoc I walked between training center & spondivets/malone's area at night (with other guys) & wouldn't have felt horribly safe alone. Pretty much matched what the instructors told me (though a few thought I was nuts to walk on VA Ave at all).