What would you consider to be the Washington area's prestige neighborhoods?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Potomac, always Potomac. Peace, serenity, and the best public schools.

Potomac (20854) peaked decades ago. More expensive suburban zip codes for a single-family home now include:

Arlington/22201
McLean/22102
McLean/22101
Chevy Chase/20815
Arlington/22207
Bethesda/20816
Great Falls/22066
Bethesda/20817

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Potomac, always Potomac. Peace, serenity, and the best public schools.

And crooked former foreign government officials who use their stolen gains to build ugly, ostentatious mansionettes.

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Anonymous wrote:Kalorama

Kalorama and Woodland-Normanstone.

Everything else, while nice, takes a back seat to the actual mansions in these wooded neighborhoods.

Nope. Parts of Spring Valley beat out Woodland Drive by a mile.

Spring Valley is also a cancer cluster (and no close metro station). Woodland Normanstone hands down.

Woodland Drive / Normanstone won’t recover from the “Mansion Murders” anytime soon. That empty lot that no one will buy says it all.

Wrong. Someone bought the house for $3M, then razed it. They plan to build on the empty lot.
But let that sink in. Someone paid $3M for a house where 4 people were murdered. That’s the definition of a sought after neighborhood, where even a tragedy of that magnitude doesn’t dissuade buyers.

Nope. The owner of the lot decided not to build on it. It’s back up for sale. No one wants to actually live there. The previous owner thought he would make a quick buck but it’s not happening. It’s been back up for sale for a year and a half and no one has bought it despite the price being half the value of any other property in that neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Potomac, always Potomac. Peace, serenity, and the best public schools.

Potomac (20854) peaked decades ago. More expensive suburban zip codes for a single-family home now include:

Arlington/22201
McLean/22102
McLean/22101
Chevy Chase/20815
Arlington/22207
Bethesda/20816
Great Falls/22066
Bethesda/20817

Expensive zip code alone does not equal prestigious, i.e. Arlington

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Potomac, always Potomac. Peace, serenity, and the best public schools.

Potomac (20854) peaked decades ago. More expensive suburban zip codes for a single-family home now include:

Arlington/22201
McLean/22102
McLean/22101
Chevy Chase/20815
Arlington/22207
Bethesda/20816
Great Falls/22066
Bethesda/20817

Expensive zip code alone does not equal prestigious, i.e. Arlington

Money is all that talks when it comes to “prestige.” With Amazon’s arrival, 22201 has become the most expensive suburban zip code in the region for a SFH. Potomac is a distant #9. And that’s just the burbs.

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Anonymous wrote:To me, prestige means history. So places like Kalorama and Chevy Chase which have been exclusive for generations would meet that criteria. Some places like Georgetown which was exclusive a generation ago have lost cachet.

But Chevy Chase’s “history” largely is one of deliberate segregation, so your personal notion of “prestige” is tinged with exclusion at least as much as exclusivity.

I am aware. Places like Belle Haven in Alexandria which I think of as a Chevy Chase knock off had restrictive covenants as well. That said people are still clamoring to live there. They carry cachet in the stratospheres of DC. I am sure parts of NW had restrictive covenants as well.

Belle Haven?! Hahahahaha. Enjoy the meth heads of Route 1!

[Anonymous]

Everywhere has a history. Anacostia was largely white only a few decades ago.

Chevy Chase has a continuous history of being exclusively white/wealthy and no interest in diversifying itself as a community. That’s what people like about it.

I think that’s slightly different from Kalorama because Kalorama isn’t a municipality.

[Anonymous]

I think people have mostly nailed the list. But I also think that in a generation, far fewer people will care about Potomac, McLean, or Spring Valley because they are isolated. Large parts of Arlington will have been rebuilt to a wealthier standard, which will have in effect taken their place. Capitol Hill will be at least as prestigious as the better parts of Georgetown are now. Kalorama and Woodland-Normanstone will still be the very wealthiest areas.

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Anonymous wrote:Potomac, always Potomac. Peace, serenity, and the best public schools.

Potomac (20854) peaked decades ago. More expensive suburban zip codes for a single-family home now include:

Arlington/22201
McLean/22102
McLean/22101
Chevy Chase/20815
Arlington/22207
Bethesda/20816
Great Falls/22066
Bethesda/20817

Expensive zip code alone does not equal prestigious, i.e. Arlington

Money is all that talks when it comes to “prestige.” With Amazon’s arrival, 22201 has become the most expensive suburban zip code in the region for a SFH. Potomac is a distant #9. And that’s just the burbs.

I get McLean and Bethesda/CC, but Arlington? No.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fairfax Station and Clifton

Wut?

[Anonymous]

Old Town
Rosemont
Del Ray.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think people have mostly nailed the list. But I also think that in a generation, far fewer people will care about Potomac, McLean, or Spring Valley because they are isolated. Large parts of Arlington will have been rebuilt to a wealthier standard, which will have in effect taken their place. Capitol Hill will be at least as prestigious as the better parts of Georgetown are now. Kalorama and Woodland-Normanstone will still be the very wealthiest areas.

There is convenient prestige and isolated prestige. Some people specifically want to be removed from the fray but still in the city.

My neighborhood loves that there is no metro and no sidewalks but w can still get to the absolute center of the city in 15 mins.

[Anonymous]

Shaw!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think people have mostly nailed the list. But I also think that in a generation, far fewer people will care about Potomac, McLean, or Spring Valley because they are isolated. Large parts of Arlington will have been rebuilt to a wealthier standard, which will have in effect taken their place. Capitol Hill will be at least as prestigious as the better parts of Georgetown are now. Kalorama and Woodland-Normanstone will still be the very wealthiest areas.

There is convenient prestige and isolated prestige. Some people specifically want to be removed from the fray but still in the city.

My neighborhood loves that there is no metro and no sidewalks but w can still get to the absolute center of the city in 15 mins.

Also there is still demand for McLean/GF and Potomac. I think due to schools those areas will have some desirability. The homes along the river will continue to be desirable as there are some who like that kind of setting.

[Anonymous]

Washington area does not have prestige neighborhoods, all of them have weird people
Look for a place far from here