For Westchester New York Transplants Which neighborhoods are most similar in NoVA and MD?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:That feeling is because Alexandria is definitely The South.
Also hybla valley and Mount Vernon / route 1 there have always been sketchy from a crime perspective.

OK, agree re Hybla Valley and Mount Vernon, but complaining that Alexandria is the South is odd. Of course a city on the border of the South isn't going to feel like New England or Westchester, but it has its own charm... If you don't like that, DC (itself, like Baltimore, a southern city) may not be the right fit for you.

This description of people who live in the NY metro area, like happy extended families where everyone waves every morning and hangs over their fence with their cup of coffee saying howdy neighbor, is 180 degrees from the place I spent 20 years of my life in.

Sense of community... more like rat race snobs and social climbers who couldn't find an excuse to say hi if you were locked in a cave with them for a month.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That feeling is because Alexandria is definitely The South.
Also hybla valley and Mount Vernon / route 1 there have always been sketchy from a crime perspective.

OK, agree re Hybla Valley and Mount Vernon, but complaining that Alexandria is the South is odd. Of course a city on the border of the South isn't going to feel like New England or Westchester, but it has its own charm... If you don't like that, DC (itself, like Baltimore, a southern city) may not be the right fit for you.

This description of people who live in the NY metro area, like happy extended families where everyone waves every morning and hangs over their fence with their cup of coffee saying howdy neighbor, is 180 degrees from the place I spent 20 years of my life in.

Sense of community... more like rat race snobs and social climbers who couldn't find an excuse to say hi if you were locked in a cave with them for a month.

Seriously. In my Chappaqua neighborhood in the 90s, the fathers would play poker in their basements while snorting coke. How do I know this? My dad went to one game when we moved there and never went back after seeing them doing lines.

This was where most of the PWC & Bear Stearns assholes lived — Westchester and Greenwich, basically. So I don’t know why anyone thinks these are terrific communities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That feeling is because Alexandria is definitely The South.
Also hybla valley and Mount Vernon / route 1 there have always been sketchy from a crime perspective.

OK, agree re Hybla Valley and Mount Vernon, but complaining that Alexandria is the South is odd. Of course a city on the border of the South isn't going to feel like New England or Westchester, but it has its own charm... If you don't like that, DC (itself, like Baltimore, a southern city) may not be the right fit for you.

This description of people who live in the NY metro area, like happy extended families where everyone waves every morning and hangs over their fence with their cup of coffee saying howdy neighbor, is 180 degrees from the place I spent 20 years of my life in.

Sense of community... more like rat race snobs and social climbers who couldn't find an excuse to say hi if you were locked in a cave with them for a month.

I grew up in Westchester and still live here (in a different town). We were always friends with the neighbors and spent many weekends and holidays together. I am friendly with the neighbors I have now, and I do see them in the mornings with my coffee, or in the grocery store (yesterday), and we chat. Sorry your experience was different.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That feeling is because Alexandria is definitely The South.
Also hybla valley and Mount Vernon / route 1 there have always been sketchy from a crime perspective.

OK, agree re Hybla Valley and Mount Vernon, but complaining that Alexandria is the South is odd. Of course a city on the border of the South isn't going to feel like New England or Westchester, but it has its own charm... If you don't like that, DC (itself, like Baltimore, a southern city) may not be the right fit for you.

This description of people who live in the NY metro area, like happy extended families where everyone waves every morning and hangs over their fence with their cup of coffee saying howdy neighbor, is 180 degrees from the place I spent 20 years of my life in.

Sense of community... more like rat race snobs and social climbers who couldn't find an excuse to say hi if you were locked in a cave with them for a month.

Seriously. In my Chappaqua neighborhood in the 90s, the fathers would play poker in their basements while snorting coke. How do I know this? My dad went to one game when we moved there and never went back after seeing them doing lines.

This was where most of the PWC & Bear Stearns assholes lived — Westchester and Greenwich, basically. So I don’t know why anyone thinks these are terrific communities.

At least they didn’t drink sweet tea.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That feeling is because Alexandria is definitely The South.
Also hybla valley and Mount Vernon / route 1 there have always been sketchy from a crime perspective.

OK, agree re Hybla Valley and Mount Vernon, but complaining that Alexandria is the South is odd. Of course a city on the border of the South isn't going to feel like New England or Westchester, but it has its own charm... If you don't like that, DC (itself, like Baltimore, a southern city) may not be the right fit for you.

This description of people who live in the NY metro area, like happy extended families where everyone waves every morning and hangs over their fence with their cup of coffee saying howdy neighbor, is 180 degrees from the place I spent 20 years of my life in.

Sense of community... more like rat race snobs and social climbers who couldn't find an excuse to say hi if you were locked in a cave with them for a month.

Seriously. In my Chappaqua neighborhood in the 90s, the fathers would play poker in their basements while snorting coke. How do I know this? My dad went to one game when we moved there and never went back after seeing them doing lines.

This was where most of the PWC & Bear Stearns assholes lived — Westchester and Greenwich, basically. So I don’t know why anyone thinks these are terrific communities.

At least they didn’t drink sweet tea.

Well, one of them died because he came home completely drunk and fell down his stairs. Left 2 young kids.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That feeling is because Alexandria is definitely The South.
Also hybla valley and Mount Vernon / route 1 there have always been sketchy from a crime perspective.

OK, agree re Hybla Valley and Mount Vernon, but complaining that Alexandria is the South is odd. Of course a city on the border of the South isn't going to feel like New England or Westchester, but it has its own charm... If you don't like that, DC (itself, like Baltimore, a southern city) may not be the right fit for you.

This description of people who live in the NY metro area, like happy extended families where everyone waves every morning and hangs over their fence with their cup of coffee saying howdy neighbor, is 180 degrees from the place I spent 20 years of my life in.

Sense of community... more like rat race snobs and social climbers who couldn't find an excuse to say hi if you were locked in a cave with them for a month.

Seriously. In my Chappaqua neighborhood in the 90s, the fathers would play poker in their basements while snorting coke. How do I know this? My dad went to one game when we moved there and never went back after seeing them doing lines.

This was where most of the PWC & Bear Stearns assholes lived — Westchester and Greenwich, basically. So I don’t know why anyone thinks these are terrific communities.

At least they didn’t drink sweet tea.

Well, one of them died because he came home completely drunk and fell down his stairs. Left 2 young kids.

Wow, such an apt representation of these communities 😒

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That feeling is because Alexandria is definitely The South.
Also hybla valley and Mount Vernon / route 1 there have always been sketchy from a crime perspective.

OK, agree re Hybla Valley and Mount Vernon, but complaining that Alexandria is the South is odd. Of course a city on the border of the South isn't going to feel like New England or Westchester, but it has its own charm... If you don't like that, DC (itself, like Baltimore, a southern city) may not be the right fit for you.

This description of people who live in the NY metro area, like happy extended families where everyone waves every morning and hangs over their fence with their cup of coffee saying howdy neighbor, is 180 degrees from the place I spent 20 years of my life in.

Sense of community... more like rat race snobs and social climbers who couldn't find an excuse to say hi if you were locked in a cave with them for a month.

Seriously. In my Chappaqua neighborhood in the 90s, the fathers would play poker in their basements while snorting coke. How do I know this? My dad went to one game when we moved there and never went back after seeing them doing lines.

This was where most of the PWC & Bear Stearns assholes lived — Westchester and Greenwich, basically. So I don’t know why anyone thinks these are terrific communities.

At least they didn’t drink sweet tea.

Well, one of them died because he came home completely drunk and fell down his stairs. Left 2 young kids.

Yeah, but at least people remember him for it. If he'd died from a heart attack mowing his lawn after picking his kids up from baseball practice, nobody would care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That feeling is because Alexandria is definitely The South.
Also hybla valley and Mount Vernon / route 1 there have always been sketchy from a crime perspective.

OK, agree re Hybla Valley and Mount Vernon, but complaining that Alexandria is the South is odd. Of course a city on the border of the South isn't going to feel like New England or Westchester, but it has its own charm... If you don't like that, DC (itself, like Baltimore, a southern city) may not be the right fit for you.

I don't know how else to express this, but Old Town always makes me uncomfortable because I feel like you can sense its past as one of the major centers of the slave trade. It's got all of the lovely old architecture of other older East Coast ports, but without the same industrial vibe of warehouses and port industry, because the main industry was selling people. At least Georgetown has the canal. The fact that there is a clear white Southern aristocracy vibe really compounds the issue. It all just feels horribly tone deaf at best.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That feeling is because Alexandria is definitely The South.
Also hybla valley and Mount Vernon / route 1 there have always been sketchy from a crime perspective.

OK, agree re Hybla Valley and Mount Vernon, but complaining that Alexandria is the South is odd. Of course a city on the border of the South isn't going to feel like New England or Westchester, but it has its own charm... If you don't like that, DC (itself, like Baltimore, a southern city) may not be the right fit for you.

This description of people who live in the NY metro area, like happy extended families where everyone waves every morning and hangs over their fence with their cup of coffee saying howdy neighbor, is 180 degrees from the place I spent 20 years of my life in.

Sense of community... more like rat race snobs and social climbers who couldn't find an excuse to say hi if you were locked in a cave with them for a month.

Seriously. In my Chappaqua neighborhood in the 90s, the fathers would play poker in their basements while snorting coke. How do I know this? My dad went to one game when we moved there and never went back after seeing them doing lines.

This was where most of the PWC & Bear Stearns assholes lived — Westchester and Greenwich, basically. So I don’t know why anyone thinks these are terrific communities.

I grew up in one of the Westchester towns that people look down on, because it isn't all wealthy white people. It was a wonderful place to grow up. It was the most integrated environment I have ever lived in. Thirty years later, I am still friends with many people from high school, even though we live all over the world now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That feeling is because Alexandria is definitely The South.
Also hybla valley and Mount Vernon / route 1 there have always been sketchy from a crime perspective.

OK, agree re Hybla Valley and Mount Vernon, but complaining that Alexandria is the South is odd. Of course a city on the border of the South isn't going to feel like New England or Westchester, but it has its own charm... If you don't like that, DC (itself, like Baltimore, a southern city) may not be the right fit for you.

I don't know how else to express this, but Old Town always makes me uncomfortable because I feel like you can sense its past as one of the major centers of the slave trade. It's got all of the lovely old architecture of other older East Coast ports, but without the same industrial vibe of warehouses and port industry, because the main industry was selling people. At least Georgetown has the canal. The fact that there is a clear white Southern aristocracy vibe really compounds the issue. It all just feels horribly tone deaf at best.

If it's such a horrible experience, just don't go there. Stay in the District and Maryland where there were never any slaves or slave traders.

[Anonymous]

You have to look at individual neighborhoods since there are no towns.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That feeling is because Alexandria is definitely The South.
Also hybla valley and Mount Vernon / route 1 there have always been sketchy from a crime perspective.

OK, agree re Hybla Valley and Mount Vernon, but complaining that Alexandria is the South is odd. Of course a city on the border of the South isn't going to feel like New England or Westchester, but it has its own charm... If you don't like that, DC (itself, like Baltimore, a southern city) may not be the right fit for you.

I don't know how else to express this, but Old Town always makes me uncomfortable because I feel like you can sense its past as one of the major centers of the slave trade. It's got all of the lovely old architecture of other older East Coast ports, but without the same industrial vibe of warehouses and port industry, because the main industry was selling people. At least Georgetown has the canal. The fact that there is a clear white Southern aristocracy vibe really compounds the issue. It all just feels horribly tone deaf at best.

What an odd post. If you wanted to express your dislike of the city because there was a period when there was an active slave market there, you surely could have done that without managing the city’s history so badly in the process.

Pretty sure, however, that there were any number of traders who built some of the old houses in the Mid-Atlantic and New England that people gush over for their “charm“ who also benefited from the labor of enslaved people.

[Anonymous]

This has been a great thread except for the turn it has taken the last 10 posts or so.

I’m from the West Coast (and went to a public high school) and have heard of all those places. OP, try to find something in NW DC, Bethesda, CC, Silver Spring, Takoma Park, Garret Park or Kensington. I know people who live in that independent town out in Virginia. I think it has a great bakery but other than that and the schools, it’s really far away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That feeling is because Alexandria is definitely The South.
Also hybla valley and Mount Vernon / route 1 there have always been sketchy from a crime perspective.

OK, agree re Hybla Valley and Mount Vernon, but complaining that Alexandria is the South is odd. Of course a city on the border of the South isn't going to feel like New England or Westchester, but it has its own charm... If you don't like that, DC (itself, like Baltimore, a southern city) may not be the right fit for you.

This description of people who live in the NY metro area, like happy extended families where everyone waves every morning and hangs over their fence with their cup of coffee saying howdy neighbor, is 180 degrees from the place I spent 20 years of my life in.

Sense of community... more like rat race snobs and social climbers who couldn't find an excuse to say hi if you were locked in a cave with them for a month.

Seriously. In my Chappaqua neighborhood in the 90s, the fathers would play poker in their basements while snorting coke. How do I know this? My dad went to one game when we moved there and never went back after seeing them doing lines.

This was where most of the PWC & Bear Stearns assholes lived — Westchester and Greenwich, basically. So I don’t know why anyone thinks these are terrific communities.

At least they didn’t drink sweet tea.

Well, one of them died because he came home completely drunk and fell down his stairs. Left 2 young kids.

I grew up in Mt. Kisco in the 90s. Why do I have no recollection of this?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, the City of Falls Church also comes close to replicating Westchester towns, bc it is a stand alone city in VA. Has its own schools, mayor, police, etc. Has a "main street" area.

That said, there is very slim pickings at your price point. Maybe some newer condos.

FCC is a bit like White Plains or Eastchester, in terms of housing.

Yep and as someone who grew up in Chappaqua, White Plains is not the nice part of Westchester. People in Chappaqua, Scarsdale, and Bedford look down on people who live in White Plains.

Not fair but it’s the truth.

The average HHI in Westchester is about $30K lower than in Fairfax, so most of Westchester isn't like Scarsdale any more than most of Fairfax is like Great Falls.

Yeah, I mean Westchester has a bunch of dumpy towns like Yonkers, Mount Vernon, Ossining and Port Chester.

Most of my mom's family is from Ossining.

Ah Po Che many fond memories driving there from CT on Sunday afternoons to buy beer to drink while watching footfall.