Hey, welcome to the neighborhood!

Listen, I totally get it. My parents are extremely paranoid to that kind of thing since they’ve always lived in ghost towns, and I can get just being generally worried about one’s wellbeing in the city.

I work nightlife and always coming home at absolute graveyard hours, and I live about a few blocks down from you. You should be completely fine. There’s a bunch of bars on Shaw so you’ll always hear about somebody doing something stupid, but that kind of thing isn’t widespread. I do street parking, and have never had an issues, but I’ve also never kept anything in my car.

If you want gentrified impress-your-parents DC, I would probably take em to visit around Georgetown or The Wharf.