Are Arlington Schools worth the huge mortgage I'm going to need?

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Anonymous wrote:Ok, I have to kind of agree with the "donkey crap" comparison for Arlington. Rude and immature, but somewhat accurate. However obnoxious, the "elan" poster was right. Arlington has more transient government contractor types, with high incomes but not necessarily net worths. Bethesda and Chevy Chase has more big law firm partners who grew up in the NE, have trust funds and belong to one of the "big 3" country clubs.

and you actually believe this? You obviously don't know anyone in my neighborhood. F*ck--DH is retiring by 45 and both houses (one in NW) and current one will be paid off.

Keep believing your own BS.

You sound so incredibly ugly and crass. Another vote to stay in Maryland!

Even Ben's chilli bowl is choosing Arlington over MD.

More drunk frat boys in Arlington who can convince themselves a rancid chili dog is edible?

nightlife continually brings high real estate values. bring it!

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Anonymous wrote:Ok, I have to kind of agree with the "donkey crap" comparison for Arlington. Rude and immature, but somewhat accurate. However obnoxious, the "elan" poster was right. Arlington has more transient government contractor types, with high incomes but not necessarily net worths. Bethesda and Chevy Chase has more big law firm partners who grew up in the NE, have trust funds and belong to one of the "big 3" country clubs.

and you actually believe this? You obviously don't know anyone in my neighborhood. F*ck--DH is retiring by 45 and both houses (one in NW) and current one will be paid off.

Keep believing your own BS.

You sound so incredibly ugly and crass. Another vote to stay in Maryland!

Even Ben's chilli bowl is choosing Arlington over MD.

More drunk frat boys in Arlington who can convince themselves a rancid chili dog is edible?

nightlife continually brings high real estate values. bring it!

I actually love Fat Shortys and it's sausages and tons of Belgian Beers on tap. It's also in heart of Clarendon. Ben's is going to be in Rosslyn--which actually is having a Renaissance right now with new places.

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Anonymous wrote:As a two person gov't employee household, we're probably about average in our N.Arl. home (22207). There's plenty of couples with some kind of BigLaw income above us, and a decent number of well paid spouse + SAH spouse (but bought house several years ago before the market went crazy up) below us.

I find the Bethesda/CC crowd uses the term Arlington which is equivalent to saying Montgomery County. Arlington is huge and has so many different neighborhoods with a huge variation in prices amongst them.

I always roll my eyes when I see this generalization. Even 'north Arlington does not do much--you could be talking about a 5 million condo in Turnberry towers, a 3.5 million home in country club hills, a 5 million home off chain bridge road--or a more average $900k-1.2 million home.

There are home at the Turnberry (undisclosed) that are 10 million dollars. Add another 10-20% to the 5 million condo which is not reflected on the public price of purchase because that is what it cost the average owner to finish a decorators ready condo at the Tunberry. Anything above the purchase price of 5 million seemed to be undisclosed, usually purchased by foreigners, but not all.

Thanks for the clarification. Even the Ritz condos in Georgetown aren't ad pricey as the Rosslyn Turnberry condos. No condos even CLOSE to this price point in Bethesda, btw.

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One building full of kleptocrats hardly makes Arlington appealing.

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The view from that building is priceless.

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Anonymous wrote:One building full of kleptocrats hardly makes Arlington appealing.

Trust me when I say no one in Turnberry even know wildwood or pooks hill exist. Next.

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Anonymous wrote:One building full of kleptocrats hardly makes Arlington appealing.

Trust me when I say no one in Turnberry even know wildwood or pooks hill exist. Next.

Trust me when I say no one in Turnberry even knows Dominion Hills or Cherrydale exist, either. They are in their own little Turnberry world. Yuck.

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Anonymous wrote:One building full of kleptocrats hardly makes Arlington appealing.

Trust me when I say no one in Turnberry even know wildwood or pooks hill exist. Next.

Trust me when I say no one in Turnberry even knows Dominion Hills or Cherrydale exist, either. They are in their own little Turnberry world. Yuck.

Well--they know Clarendon exists. They are definitely in Clarendon Whole Foods on a regular basis.

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Anonymous wrote:One building full of kleptocrats hardly makes Arlington appealing.

Trust me when I say no one in Turnberry even know wildwood or pooks hill exist. Next.

Trust me when I say no one in Turnberry even knows Dominion Hills or Cherrydale exist, either. They are in their own little Turnberry world. Yuck.

Well--they know Clarendon exists. They are definitely in Clarendon Whole Foods on a regular basis.

Probably their staff is.

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Anonymous wrote:One building full of kleptocrats hardly makes Arlington appealing.

Trust me when I say no one in Turnberry even know wildwood or pooks hill exist. Next.

Trust me when I say no one in Turnberry even knows Dominion Hills or Cherrydale exist, either. They are in their own little Turnberry world. Yuck.

Well--they know Clarendon exists. They are definitely in Clarendon Whole Foods on a regular basis.

Probably their staff is.

Nope. It is that 'Beverly Hills face'...super plastic surgery, foreign accent, the very flashy attire--the kind of sh*t you used to never seen in earthy Arlington.

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Anonymous wrote:One building full of kleptocrats hardly makes Arlington appealing.

Trust me when I say no one in Turnberry even know wildwood or pooks hill exist. Next.

Trust me when I say no one in Turnberry even knows Dominion Hills or Cherrydale exist, either. They are in their own little Turnberry world. Yuck.

Well--they know Clarendon exists. They are definitely in Clarendon Whole Foods on a regular basis.

Probably their staff is.

Nope. It is that 'Beverly Hills face'...super plastic surgery, foreign accent, the very flashy attire--the kind of sh*t you used to never seen in earthy Arlington.

Arlington was never earthy. It was just an unpretentious suburb. We had the Clarendon Sears. Bobs Big Boy on Columbia Pike. Joes Pizza on Lee Hwy. For the nice dinner out there was Lums near Parkington or for the special occasion, the Evans Farm Inn in McLean. Then Pentagon City opened, and we got DC's first Macy's and Nordstroms. Then that Whole Foods transformed Clarendon.

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Notice that when it comes to the silly "which place is better to live MD vs. VA wars", it's always the MoCo people who are so bitter about Arlington and VA in general? The truth is close in Chevy Chase has real high end homes but N. Arlington wins by a mile because 1) the schools are better across the board in N. Arlington (and it's not even close- look at stats) 2) the commute is far better to downtown, Tysons, and Reagan (Arlington's key advantage is geography and in a town with this kind of traffic, that matters), 3) less pretentious as MoCo tends to be more insualr with more locals living there who grew up here (hence carting around worthless baggage), and 4) you still get more houst for your $ (though that is changing with N. Arlington's exploding real estate market.) That said, Chevy Chase and parts of MoCo are VERY nice. Just don't know where the viotriol towards VA comes from.

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Anonymous wrote:Notice that when it comes to the silly "which place is better to live MD vs. VA wars", it's always the MoCo people who are so bitter about Arlington and VA in general? The truth is close in Chevy Chase has real high end homes but N. Arlington wins by a mile because 1) the schools are better across the board in N. Arlington (and it's not even close- look at stats) 2) the commute is far better to downtown, Tysons, and Reagan (Arlington's key advantage is geography and in a town with this kind of traffic, that matters), 3) less pretentious as MoCo tends to be more insualr with more locals living there who grew up here (hence carting around worthless baggage), and 4) you still get more houst for your $ (though that is changing with N. Arlington's exploding real estate market.) That said, Chevy Chase and parts of MoCo are VERY nice. Just don't know where the viotriol towards VA comes from.

There's been a very recent buzz around the Rosslyn/Clarendon corridor lately. There has been a total transformation the last year or so and Rosslyn is mid-swing. Buying in the areas walkable to the action has become prohibitively expensive. The proximity to downtown and Georgetown, Reagan National and the hub of 95/66, etc has location beat hands down.

Bigwigs and familiar national TV anchors are buying in Arlington. All of this makes people that always felt superior get their panties in a twist. One well known Arlington Blogger cited she regretfully had to move away from Clarendon to Bethesda because she could not afford a SFH in Clarendon.

This stuff makes the élan class of Bethesda very unhappy--being surpassed by the younger sister so to speak.

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The sock puppeting or Kool Aid drinking is funny. Arlington is the epitome of meh.

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I liked Arlington better when every other family had a volvo station wagon, bought clothes and Jordache Jeans at the Clarendon Pennys or Hecht's, and went downtown for some serious shopping at Woodies or the Gap.