Tell me about Cabin John

[Anonymous]

Also, do people call it "CabJo" or "CaJo"?

No. Hell no.

[Anonymous]

In terms of shopping you have the little shopping center with the coop and fish taco place and then the Sangamore shopping center with Safeway and that gorgeous bakery, Praline, close by. The Whole Foods on River is a bit farther but not more than 10 or 15 min drive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In terms of shopping you have the little shopping center with the coop and fish taco place and then the Sangamore shopping center with Safeway and that gorgeous bakery, Praline, close by. The Whole Foods on River is a bit farther but not more than 10 or 15 min drive.

Also in that center you have the deli (Market on the Boulevard), which has both great sandwiches and very nice Korean dishes. We get the spicy ramen and bibimbap all the time. In the other direction on MacArthur, you have Sushi Kanpai in the 7-11 shopping center.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like it's a hilly area with funky modern houses and lots of trees? Is that accurate? How long does the morning commute to downtown DC take? Also, does being surrounded by a triangle of highways suck and is it a pain to go out and do shopping? (Looks like it might be an isolated area) prices look cheaper than the NOVA neigborhoods directly across the river, so thinking we might move to cabin john some day if we need to downgrade to a cheaper house.

It's cheaper, because in Maryland to pay Montgomery county income taxes and higher state taxes. Op be paying much higher taxes but have a lower mortgage

???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like it's a hilly area with funky modern houses and lots of trees? Is that accurate? How long does the morning commute to downtown DC take? Also, does being surrounded by a triangle of highways suck and is it a pain to go out and do shopping? (Looks like it might be an isolated area) prices look cheaper than the NOVA neigborhoods directly across the river, so thinking we might move to cabin john some day if we need to downgrade to a cheaper house.

Not that cheap. Cheaper than other parts of Bethesda and McLean, North Arlington across the river but not by much...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks like it's a hilly area with funky modern houses and lots of trees? Is that accurate? How long does the morning commute to downtown DC take? Also, does being surrounded by a triangle of highways suck and is it a pain to go out and do shopping? (Looks like it might be an isolated area) prices look cheaper than the NOVA neigborhoods directly across the river, so thinking we might move to cabin john some day if we need to downgrade to a cheaper house.

Not that cheap. Cheaper than other parts of Bethesda and McLean, North Arlington across the river but not by much...

Actually very expensive per sq ft

[Anonymous]

Shopping near Cabin John. Montgomery Mall, Tyson's, Safeway and Giant, Whole Foods, Cabin John Shopping Center, all the shopping in downtown Bethesda and Rockville. It is the perfect location right off the Clara Barton Parkeay with easy access to 495. It is not surrounded by freeways. It is very community oriented. The commute downtown varies with the time you leave. Are you leaving at 7, 8, 9? That makes a huge difference in commute time. There are a bunch of different routes to get into dc. Also, where you commute to in DC makes a diffeeeence in commute time. There are lots of variables. A lot of the comments here are by peoe who really don't know what they are talking about. I am not sure why you would comment about an area that you don't know. Some comments are obviously by people who know the area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Looks like it's a hilly area with funky modern houses and lots of trees? Is that accurate? How long does the morning commute to downtown DC take? Also, does being surrounded by a triangle of highways suck and is it a pain to go out and do shopping? (Looks like it might be an isolated area) prices look cheaper than the NOVA neigborhoods directly across the river, so thinking we might move to cabin john some day if we need to downgrade to a cheaper house.

It's a fun place to live esp. if you're the outdoorsy type. It feels like Chevy Chase and Bethesda did before the NJ crowd moved in and Ryan-homed and deforested the neighborhoods. Glen Echo is nice too, but very few houses are ever for sale.

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Anonymous wrote:Cabin John is a great area. It is definitely going up in value as it is being gentrified. Over the years, it has attracted eclectic artsy types that march to the beat of their own drummer. Bigger homes are being built and a new crowd of folks are moving in. Typically, though, they aren't the uptight Chevy Chase crowd.

You have to be willing to accept that your $900K home may be next to a pretty ramshackle $500K house or dwarfed by a new $2.5M house.

You do have to drive a little for big grocery shopping excursions, but not too far. Commuting to downtown down Clara Barton sucks a bit, but it's no worse than anywhere else that far out.

There are no 500k houses in cabin john and fewer and fewer 900k examples. Also gentrfyied isn't the right term as it has gone from all white to all white just slightly richer.

+1, gentrifying is not the correct term.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Shopping near Cabin John. Montgomery Mall, Tyson's, Safeway and Giant, Whole Foods, Cabin John Shopping Center, all the shopping in downtown Bethesda and Rockville. It is the perfect location right off the Clara Barton Parkeay with easy access to 495. It is not surrounded by freeways. It is very community oriented. The commute downtown varies with the time you leave. Are you leaving at 7, 8, 9? That makes a huge difference in commute time. There are a bunch of different routes to get into dc. Also, where you commute to in DC makes a diffeeeence in commute time. There are lots of variables. A lot of the comments here are by peoe who really don't know what they are talking about. I am not sure why you would comment about an area that you don't know. Some comments are obviously by people who know the area.

I am familiar and I think the commute comments have been pretty fair. It's not terrible but there are bottlenecks.

For an apples to apples commute comparison you should say what the commute is to be at your desk by 9am. I get annoyed when people talk about short commute on DCUM, then 30 posts later you learn they are on a 7am-330 schedule. Sure, commute is great from anywhere when you leave your house at 6/630 am, but that's really beside the point.

[Anonymous]

It's the Takoma Park of Bethesda.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Shopping near Cabin John. Montgomery Mall, Tyson's, Safeway and Giant, Whole Foods, Cabin John Shopping Center, all the shopping in downtown Bethesda and Rockville. It is the perfect location right off the Clara Barton Parkeay with easy access to 495. It is not surrounded by freeways. It is very community oriented. The commute downtown varies with the time you leave. Are you leaving at 7, 8, 9? That makes a huge difference in commute time. There are a bunch of different routes to get into dc. Also, where you commute to in DC makes a diffeeeence in commute time. There are lots of variables. A lot of the comments here are by peoe who really don't know what they are talking about. I am not sure why you would comment about an area that you don't know. Some comments are obviously by people who know the area.

I am familiar and I think the commute comments have been pretty fair. It's not terrible but there are bottlenecks.

For an apples to apples commute comparison you should say what the commute is to be at your desk by 9am. I get annoyed when people talk about short commute on DCUM, then 30 posts later you learn they are on a 7am-330 schedule. Sure, commute is great from anywhere when you leave your house at 6/630 am, but that's really beside the point.

Adding: all along the MD side of the river you see traffic issues, from georgetown through palisades all the way thru glen echo, cabin john to potomac. Being hemmed in by the river on one side restricts possible routes, and all it takes is an accident or construction at an important bottleneck and it can be bad. Very nice places to live though, all along the river.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's the Takoma Park of Bethesda.

Glen Echo is the TP of Bethesda. Cabin John is more the Olney

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It's the Takoma Park of Bethesda.

Glen Echo is the TP of Bethesda. Cabin John is more the Olney

Sigh, we should have moved to either of those, but we ended up in Arlington b/c of commute. Not sure what Arlington is?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Cabin John is a great area. It is definitely going up in value as it is being gentrified. Over the years, it has attracted eclectic artsy types that march to the beat of their own drummer. Bigger homes are being built and a new crowd of folks are moving in. Typically, though, they aren't the uptight Chevy Chase crowd.

You have to be willing to accept that your $900K home may be next to a pretty ramshackle $500K house or dwarfed by a new $2.5M house.

You do have to drive a little for big grocery shopping excursions, but not too far. Commuting to downtown down Clara Barton sucks a bit, but it's no worse than anywhere else that far out.

There are no 500k houses in cabin john and fewer and fewer 900k examples. Also gentrfyied isn't the right term as it has gone from all white to all white just slightly richer.

Not quite all white. There were a number of black families who came to Cabin John to work at the Carderock naval facility during the 40's, and many of their descendants are still there. This history mentions it: http://www.cabinjohn.org/about-cabin-john/history/