I think the location is great. Reasonable distance to just about everything we wanted to get to - not walking, but driving. The street parking was a bit of challenge because of the scary signs that makes you feel like your car will be towed, but when I contacted the host, he assured me that that's the way things are in DC, and we did not have a problem while we were staying there. The neighborhood seems to be in the middle of gentrification, so on one side, it seems like an area that was up and coming with the other side where we would not walk at night. We did not have any problems, however, and it worked out great for our purpose which was to visit some universities around the area and explore some asian towns (Annandale, Fairfax areas).