Another new Pimmit Hills Home on the market

[Anonymous]

Maybe you grew up in a crackerbox house surrounded by chainlink so that is just what you know and what you are used to?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok, after all this boosterism, I decided to set aside my reservations and give PH another try, and I drove down Lisle Ave. the other day to take a look. Let me tell you:

PIMMIT HILLS IS A TOTAL DUMP!!!!

So many chain-link fences, random trash and junk out in front yards (practically like broken cars up on cement blocks), unkempt yards, little houses that look like shanties or lean-tos. . . .

People, I don't know if this is the type of neighborhood you are looking for, but PH has a LONG LONG LONG way to go if you are thinking it is a good investment in there.

Plus, the location right off of Route 7, which is a total mish-mash around there also -- very unaesthetically appealing --reinforced my opinion that, at best, PH will take a long time to be anywhere where I personally would want to live.

Just two cents from an unbiased observer, who was willing to give PH another chance and gave it another look.

My suggestion to you is to get out a good dictionary and find out for yourself that "good investment" and "where I personally want to live" are in fact not the same word, and not even synonyms.

While you're at it, you may want to look up "unaesthetically appealing" and find out for yourself that it is in fact a nonsensical chain of words.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Yes, I did drive down Lisle Avenue. I turned off Route 7 and drove straight down Lisle. The links you post a) are in the summertime where it looks much prettier than it currently looks, b/c all the foliage blocks a lot of ugliness in close proximity to the newer homes and b) do not show the ugliness in between the newer homes, which are random and dropped as if out of the sky into a sea of mish-mash.

Remember the real estate rule: to never be the most expensive house on the block? All of these random newer homes violate this cardinal rule.

You want to be on of the cheaper houses in your neighborhood and have your property value pulled UP by the bigger/newer/nicer ones. Not one of the newest arrivals, so that your value is pulled down by the old crap which is all around you.

No skin off my back if you continue to think PH is a good investment. I just would think that if it were a universally acknowledged good investment, you would not want the secret to get out. Instead, you seem to be engaging in this boosterism in order to try to get like-minded normal people to move into your hood, b/c maybe you yourself are tired of the older types of homeowners who persist in living there despite random attempts at gentrification spotted here and there throughout the neighborhood.

PH is what it is. I live there and I am quite open about its flaws. But I am a bit amused with your attempts to appoint yourself an arbiter of universal real estate truths. Seeing as new and newer homes seem to be getting under contract in a matter of days, it doesn't appear that getting "normal people" to move into the neighborhood takes a colossal amount of effort, now does it? And as the number of these "random new homes" keeps growing, it is quite obvious that enough people disagree with your assessment of the neighborhood. Do you want to print out your rant, put it in multiple envelopes and drop it at the doorstep of every new house in PH? Too bad you weren't there when they bought to save them from a real estate blunder of their lives, huh?

Again, PH is not a perfect neighborhood. Its flaws are many, as are its advantages. It works for some people, it doesn't for others. You don't have access to "universal truth" that you think you do. It doesn't work for you? Great. Move along. Make a right off Lisle Avenue, U turn, and you're on Rt. 7. Take it east or west, wherever your heart desires, away from PH.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you grew up in a crackerbox house surrounded by chainlink so that is just what you know and what you are used to?

Oh dear. Embrace your love of planned subdivisions with identical trees planted in identical lawn locations, and tour Lorton next. That should help you recover from the trauma of PH field trip.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you grew up in a crackerbox house surrounded by chainlink so that is just what you know and what you are used to?

Oh dear. Embrace your love of planned subdivisions with identical trees planted in identical lawn locations, and tour Lorton next. That should help you recover from the trauma of PH field trip.

why Lorton? There are definitely some neighborhoods that fit this description, but not all are like that. Lorton Town Center area, though - most definitely.

I suggest Brambleton and the new subdivisions in Gainesville and Warrenton. Those places give me the creeps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you grew up in a crackerbox house surrounded by chainlink so that is just what you know and what you are used to?

I personally grew up in a ranch home with a huge yard...fenced in chain link. And it was AWESOME! Climbing over a chain link fence is an experience all kids should have at least once in their life

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you grew up in a crackerbox house surrounded by chainlink so that is just what you know and what you are used to?

I personally grew up in a ranch home with a huge yard...fenced in chain link. And it was AWESOME! Climbing over a chain link fence is an experience all kids should have at least once in their life

This is one of the best things about living in PH. People talk about wanting their kids to be able to get on their bikes and meet up with friends to play, go from yard to yard in the summer, drink from hoses and come in when the streetlights come on. All those things we get nostalgic for about our own childhoods. My children do all of those things in PH.

The PH haters on this board may be insulting and annoying, but they don't seem to be affecting anyone's decision to snap up houses here quickly. I hope the new families have kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Yes, I did drive down Lisle Avenue. I turned off Route 7 and drove straight down Lisle. The links you post a) are in the summertime where it looks much prettier than it currently looks, b/c all the foliage blocks a lot of ugliness in close proximity to the newer homes and b) do not show the ugliness in between the newer homes, which are random and dropped as if out of the sky into a sea of mish-mash.

Remember the real estate rule: to never be the most expensive house on the block? All of these random newer homes violate this cardinal rule.

You want to be on of the cheaper houses in your neighborhood and have your property value pulled UP by the bigger/newer/nicer ones. Not one of the newest arrivals, so that your value is pulled down by the old crap which is all around you.

No skin off my back if you continue to think PH is a good investment. I just would think that if it were a universally acknowledged good investment, you would not want the secret to get out. Instead, you seem to be engaging in this boosterism in order to try to get like-minded normal people to move into your hood, b/c maybe you yourself are tired of the older types of homeowners who persist in living there despite random attempts at gentrification spotted here and there throughout the neighborhood.

PH is what it is. I live there and I am quite open about its flaws. But I am a bit amused with your attempts to appoint yourself an arbiter of universal real estate truths. Seeing as new and newer homes seem to be getting under contract in a matter of days, it doesn't appear that getting "normal people" to move into the neighborhood takes a colossal amount of effort, now does it? And as the number of these "random new homes" keeps growing, it is quite obvious that enough people disagree with your assessment of the neighborhood. Do you want to print out your rant, put it in multiple envelopes and drop it at the doorstep of every new house in PH? Too bad you weren't there when they bought to save them from a real estate blunder of their lives, huh?

Again, PH is not a perfect neighborhood. Its flaws are many, as are its advantages. It works for some people, it doesn't for others. You don't have access to "universal truth" that you think you do. It doesn't work for you? Great. Move along. Make a right off Lisle Avenue, U turn, and you're on Rt. 7. Take it east or west, wherever your heart desires, away from PH.

Just don't go onto Expectant Mom threads complaining names are trendy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you grew up in a crackerbox house surrounded by chainlink so that is just what you know and what you are used to?

Well I did, bc I grew up in a city in which the houses were barely separated by a driveway and the back lots did have chain-link fences.

you're implying such individuals are beneath you?

Not everyone had a white-picket fence existence. See past your own nose now and again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you grew up in a crackerbox house surrounded by chainlink so that is just what you know and what you are used to?

Well I did, bc I grew up in a city in which the houses were barely separated by a driveway and the back lots did have chain-link fences.

you're implying such individuals are beneath you?

Not everyone had a white-picket fence existence. See past your own nose now and again.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you grew up in a crackerbox house surrounded by chainlink so that is just what you know and what you are used to?

I personally grew up in a ranch home with a huge yard...fenced in chain link. And it was AWESOME! Climbing over a chain link fence is an experience all kids should have at least once in their life

This is one of the best things about living in PH. People talk about wanting their kids to be able to get on their bikes and meet up with friends to play, go from yard to yard in the summer, drink from hoses and come in when the streetlights come on. All those things we get nostalgic for about our own childhoods. My children do all of those things in PH.

The PH haters on this board may be insulting and annoying, but they don't seem to be affecting anyone's decision to snap up houses here quickly. I hope the new families have kids.

I don't think those people hate PH. I think those people are reacting to the obnoxious and over-the-top boosterism for what is widely acknowledged as a marginal neighborhood. To superlatives like "PH is #1" and "the most popular" in the area when those things are clearly untrue to even the most casual of observers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe you grew up in a crackerbox house surrounded by chainlink so that is just what you know and what you are used to?

I personally grew up in a ranch home with a huge yard...fenced in chain link. And it was AWESOME! Climbing over a chain link fence is an experience all kids should have at least once in their life

This is one of the best things about living in PH. People talk about wanting their kids to be able to get on their bikes and meet up with friends to play, go from yard to yard in the summer, drink from hoses and come in when the streetlights come on. All those things we get nostalgic for about our own childhoods. My children do all of those things in PH.

The PH haters on this board may be insulting and annoying, but they don't seem to be affecting anyone's decision to snap up houses here quickly. I hope the new families have kids.

I have to agree, the neighborhood is very neighborly. I don't know if that has anything to do with its rough-around-the-edges quality, I mean, I'm sure kids in N. Arlington have the same things, but I can confirm that PH is a very warm kind of place.

[Anonymous]

When people posting here call our neighborhood a "TOTAL DUMP," defending it becomes boosterism?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When people posting here call our neighborhood a "TOTAL DUMP," defending it becomes boosterism?

The over-the-top boosterism, which is waaaay out of proportion with its actual appeal, will eventually cause an inverse reaction and the hurling of insults, yes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:When people posting here call our neighborhood a "TOTAL DUMP," defending it becomes boosterism?

The over-the-top boosterism, which is waaaay out of proportion with its actual appeal, will eventually cause an inverse reaction and the hurling of insults, yes.

Maybe out of proportion with PH's appeal to you, but not us. How about you just not click these threads anymore if it bugs you so much, k?