What happened to Clarendon?

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Anonymous wrote:Wait Clarendon was cool? I remember it as where the white kids who were scared to go out in the city combined with defense contractor happy hours where married 40 year olds tried to bang ugly GMU & JMU grads. While more was happing it wasn’t cool

Sounds good to me.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait Ballston is cool? I remember it as where the white kids who were scared to go out in the city combined with defense contractor happy hours where married 40 year olds tried to bang ugly GMU & JMU grads. While more was happing it wasn’t cool

FTFY. Defense contractor happy hours are keeping that mall alive after 5:00 PM.

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Anonymous wrote:Ballston is way cooler now. Agree they need live music in Ballston bars and then it will be way cooler than Clarendon ever was.

Ballston is already trying to push back and make it family destination/entertainment but too many hip places for millennials will win out.

Millenials are the families with kids. They're old.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait Clarendon was cool? I remember it as where the white kids who were scared to go out in the city combined with defense contractor happy hours where married 40 year olds tried to bang ugly GMU & JMU grads. While more was happing it wasn’t cool

this is 100% accurate. If you ever thought Clarendon was "cool" you were either a white kid afraid of brown people or a gov't contractor of some sort who lived in Ashburn with a SAH wife and you were waiting out traffic at happy hour.

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Anonymous wrote:Wait Clarendon was cool? I remember it as where the white kids who were scared to go out in the city combined with defense contractor happy hours where married 40 year olds tried to bang ugly GMU & JMU grads. While more was happing it wasn’t cool

Hilarious and dead on accurate.

[Anonymous]

Parking was awful in Clarendon. I lived in the area 12 years ago and trying to park was expensive or challenging. The pizza place was the only good restaurant, the others were either big chain or mediocre.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lyon village moms killed it

This. Lol. Every time I went there it was young families. Nothing cool about hanging in a bar with babies.

[Anonymous]

Every few years a new hot area emerges. Not surprising that Clarendon is uncool now and Ballston the former eyesore of the county is hot. Maybe in 10 years it’ll be landmark

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Anonymous wrote:Every few years a new hot area emerges. Not surprising that Clarendon is uncool now and Ballston the former eyesore of the county is hot. Maybe in 10 years it’ll be landmark

Mosaic District

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ClarenDONE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parking was awful in Clarendon. I lived in the area 12 years ago and trying to park was expensive or challenging. The pizza place was the only good restaurant, the others were either big chain or mediocre.

Big chain restaurants? Which ones? You sound like you have anxiety about parking, perhaps.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait Clarendon was cool? I remember it as where the white kids who were scared to go out in the city combined with defense contractor happy hours where married 40 year olds tried to bang ugly GMU & JMU grads. While more was happing it wasn’t cool

haha this is pretty accurate

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Parking was awful in Clarendon. I lived in the area 12 years ago and trying to park was expensive or challenging. The pizza place was the only good restaurant, the others were either big chain or mediocre.

If you lived in the area why were you driving and parking? You could have just walked.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Every few years a new hot area emerges. Not surprising that Clarendon is uncool now and Ballston the former eyesore of the county is hot. Maybe in 10 years it’ll be landmark

Mosaic District

LOL So I take it the next 'hot' spot will be in West Virginia in 20 years?

The youth are getting so priced out, its hard to imagine where they'll go next. If you're commuting to work, to home, AND to happy hour...when do you sleep?

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Anonymous wrote:Parking was awful in Clarendon. I lived in the area 12 years ago and trying to park was expensive or challenging. The pizza place was the only good restaurant, the others were either big chain or mediocre.

Big chain restaurants? Which ones? You sound like you have anxiety about parking, perhaps.

Cheesecake factory was the restaurant that was busiest. And you had the Container Store and Pottery Barn and Ethan Allen and the like in the area. Not restaurants but popular places to find people. The smaller restaurants were not all that good and were rarely filled. There was the larger restaurants that seemed to change every other year. The hippest place I could think of was the hookah bar, but I can't remember its name. And walking two miles down Lee Highway was not of interest to me. Rays the Steak was in the area, great steaks but I get the feeling they didn't get enough business because they went out of business.