That's a solid recommendation, /u/solidrecommendations.

What up! We're three cool guys looking for other cool guys who want to hang out in our party mansion.

If you're looking for a dive bar vibe, you can rent out the Ivy & Coney back bar. Unlike other rentable bar spaces, they actually post the price range right there on the website. It's also in Shaw, so while it isn't near any dancing venues, it's not that far either (decent walk or short uber).

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I can't imagine renting out a bar would be cheaper than Ivy, but I've honestly never tried.

I mean, you can literally google this and see that it is blatantly not true. The list of cities by homicide rate is almost exclusively Latin American. There are 4 US cities on the list, and DC is not one of them. There is more recent data available, but the only other US city that pops up on that list is New Orleans, which is famously not Washington DC.

They list the methodology at the bottom of the article. When people talk about how dangerous a city is, they're talking about things like (to quote the top comment at the time of this post), "assaults, armed robbery, open air drug use, murder, etc."

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They're not talking about COVID vaccination rates, potholes on the street, and "perception of safety based on Numbeo website visits." I'm not saying these things don't matter, I'm saying that these are two very different conversations. This is a crap article and a crap list that literally tells people nothing about how dangerous DC actually is.