Walkability, house size, etc

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Anonymous wrote:Raise your hand if you actually *like Tysons*... anyone?

Is there anyone who thinks that Tysons is a fun place to live? Not a practical place to live, but a *nice* place to live?

If so, seriously?

I think it's nice and convenient to everything and is going to be awesome with the new silver line metro.

+1 hand raised

There are some amazing residential neighborhoods around Tysons and with the long term plan to make it more walkable it can only get better.

So walkable is not bad when one does it in Tysons?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Raise your hand if you actually *like Tysons*... anyone?

Is there anyone who thinks that Tysons is a fun place to live? Not a practical place to live, but a *nice* place to live?

If so, seriously?

I think it's nice and convenient to everything and is going to be awesome with the new silver line metro.

+1 hand raised

There are some amazing residential neighborhoods around Tysons and with the long term plan to make it more walkable it can only get better.

So walkable is not bad when one does it in Tysons?

already gentrified, the schools are great and the taxes are low.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Raise your hand if you actually *like Tysons*... anyone?

Is there anyone who thinks that Tysons is a fun place to live? Not a practical place to live, but a *nice* place to live?

If so, seriously?

I think it's nice and convenient to everything and is going to be awesome with the new silver line metro.

+1 hand raised

There are some amazing residential neighborhoods around Tysons and with the long term plan to make it more walkable it can only get better.

So walkable is not bad when one does it in Tysons?

already gentrified, the schools are great and the taxes are low.

Gentrified? Everyone is middle eastern, Indian, Asian in Tysons s area.... Lots of multi-generations stuffed into one house. No wonder they can't imagine living in a rowhouse.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Raise your hand if you actually *like Tysons*... anyone?

Is there anyone who thinks that Tysons is a fun place to live? Not a practical place to live, but a *nice* place to live?

If so, seriously?

I think it's nice and convenient to everything and is going to be awesome with the new silver line metro.

+1 hand raised

There are some amazing residential neighborhoods around Tysons and with the long term plan to make it more walkable it can only get better.

So walkable is not bad when one does it in Tysons?

already gentrified, the schools are great and the taxes are low.

Gentrified? Everyone is middle eastern, Indian, Asian in Tysons s area.... Lots of multi-generations stuffed into one house. No wonder they can't imagine living in a rowhouse.

Are you a racist moron? Gentrified refers to income not race. I would've thought DC living 101 taught you that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Raise your hand if you actually *like Tysons*... anyone?

Is there anyone who thinks that Tysons is a fun place to live? Not a practical place to live, but a *nice* place to live?

If so, seriously?

I think it's nice and convenient to everything and is going to be awesome with the new silver line metro.

+1 hand raised

There are some amazing residential neighborhoods around Tysons and with the long term plan to make it more walkable it can only get better.

So walkable is not bad when one does it in Tysons?

already gentrified, the schools are great and the taxes are low.

Gentrified? Everyone is middle eastern, Indian, Asian in Tysons s area.... Lots of multi-generations stuffed into one house. No wonder they can't imagine living in a rowhouse.

Are you a racist moron? Gentrified refers to income not race. I would've thought DC living 101 taught you that.

Definition of GENTRIFICATION

: the process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle-class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces poorer residents

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Raise your hand if you actually *like Tysons*... anyone?

Is there anyone who thinks that Tysons is a fun place to live? Not a practical place to live, but a *nice* place to live?

If so, seriously?

I think it's nice and convenient to everything and is going to be awesome with the new silver line metro.

+1 hand raised

There are some amazing residential neighborhoods around Tysons and with the long term plan to make it more walkable it can only get better.

So walkable is not bad when one does it in Tysons?

already gentrified, the schools are great and the taxes are low.

Gentrified? Everyone is middle eastern, Indian, Asian in Tysons s area.... Lots of multi-generations stuffed into one house. No wonder they can't imagine living in a rowhouse.

Not really, but thank God it's not a white-bread yuppie hell like NW or North Arlington.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Raise your hand if you actually *like Tysons*... anyone?

Is there anyone who thinks that Tysons is a fun place to live? Not a practical place to live, but a *nice* place to live?

If so, seriously?

I think it's nice and convenient to everything and is going to be awesome with the new silver line metro.

+1 hand raised

There are some amazing residential neighborhoods around Tysons and with the long term plan to make it more walkable it can only get better.

So walkable is not bad when one does it in Tysons?

already gentrified, the schools are great and the taxes are low.

Gentrified? Everyone is middle eastern, Indian, Asian in Tysons s area.... Lots of multi-generations stuffed into one house. No wonder they can't imagine living in a rowhouse.

Not really, but thank God it's not a white-bread yuppie hell like NW or North Arlington.

woah woah woah let's not get too mean here

[Anonymous]

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Plenty of DCUMs live in DC's urban neighborhoods. You shouldn't assume we're all UpperNWesties, and by the way, not UpperNwestie doesn't automatically mean we've chosen larger, cheaper houses in Petworth over the walking neighborhoods you describe as "Yuppie". (That's an '80s-referencing term if ever there was one!)

Sure, your urban properties were great investments. But how do you not see the connection between their popularity and the increasing popularity of urban living?

I don't know where you all live. That's not my concern. My point - which I am happy to repeat - is that the parts of DC served by public transit and therefore at least somewhat suited for the car-free lifestyle you covet constitute a tiny minority of that thing called District of Columbia. Most of DC residents cannot walk to their school (or want to), library, coffee shop or grocery store. It is therefore inaccurate to state that living in the District makes you closer to being car-free.

I never argued that urban living is not popular. Only that it is not a model for everyone everywhere. My rental properties are taken by young, single, not-rich office workers. When they move on, others will come to take their place and they will be carbon copies of previous tenants.

My rowhouse in Georgetown is rented by World Bank, IMF, embassy employees and their families (Yes, kids too). I'm guessing the size of your place might serve your demographic.

Your demographic is as niche as mine. And Georgetown isn't really walkable to anything besides street-level shopping.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Lots of anger and name-calling on here, but I think the fundamental answer to the OP's question is that some people don't think it's just a "live and let live" issue. They think that other people's decisions to buy larger houses and larger cars and do more driving impact the rest of us negatively by increasing the carbon in the atmosphere and raising global temperatures. There are no laws saying you can't do this in the U.S., but it seems people should be able to voice their opposition to it just as other people voice their opposition to other moral and ethical decisions they disagree with.

Blather away. We'll enjoy our lives while you live in a shit shack and try and convince yourself you've taken some moral high ground.

What is this with the shit shack? I live in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the district, willing to wager that most, if not all, houses on our block cost more than anyone posting on this thread.

If houses on your block really cost THAT much, then chances are that your DC neighborhood is as walkable as Ashburn.

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What is this with the shit shack? I live in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the district, willing to wager that most, if not all, houses on our block cost more than anyone posting on this thread.

Are you trying to promote prostitution or slavery? You should be ashamed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:And Georgetown isn't really walkable to anything besides street-level shopping.

Eh, yes, yes it is. Georgetown is very, very walkable -- it's 30 minutes by foot to the White House, there is a Whole Foods and many other stores, libraries, coffee shops.

What else would you need for a neighborhood to qualify as walkable?

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Anonymous wrote:And Georgetown isn't really walkable to anything besides street-level shopping.

Eh, yes, yes it is. Georgetown is very, very walkable -- it's 30 minutes by foot to the White House, there is a Whole Foods and many other stores, libraries, coffee shops.

What else would you need for a neighborhood to qualify as walkable?

Certainly not White House access. Don't know if one would want to walk for an hour every day. Whole Foods is walkable to part of Georgetown, not all of Georgetown. It's practically Glover Park. No metro. You can walk to a park, but so can most FFX dwellers.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Raise your hand if you actually *like Tysons*... anyone?

Is there anyone who thinks that Tysons is a fun place to live? Not a practical place to live, but a *nice* place to live?

If so, seriously?

I think it's nice and convenient to everything and is going to be awesome with the new silver line metro.

+1 hand raised

There are some amazing residential neighborhoods around Tysons and with the long term plan to make it more walkable it can only get better.

So walkable is not bad when one does it in Tysons?

People don't move to Tyson's for walkability. Metro, when it comes, will enhance our property values and give convenient options, but it's icing on the cake, it's not why we bought here.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And Georgetown isn't really walkable to anything besides street-level shopping.

Eh, yes, yes it is. Georgetown is very, very walkable -- it's 30 minutes by foot to the White House, there is a Whole Foods and many other stores, libraries, coffee shops.

What else would you need for a neighborhood to qualify as walkable?

Certainly not White House access. Don't know if one would want to walk for an hour every day. Whole Foods is walkable to part of Georgetown, not all of Georgetown. It's practically Glover Park. No metro. You can walk to a park, but so can most FFX dwellers.

WF in Foggy Bottom is close to my East Village house--so is Traders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:And Georgetown isn't really walkable to anything besides street-level shopping.

Eh, yes, yes it is. Georgetown is very, very walkable -- it's 30 minutes by foot to the White House, there is a Whole Foods and many other stores, libraries, coffee shops.

What else would you need for a neighborhood to qualify as walkable?

Certainly not White House access. Don't know if one would want to walk for an hour every day. Whole Foods is walkable to part of Georgetown, not all of Georgetown. It's practically Glover Park. No metro. You can walk to a park, but so can most FFX dwellers.

WF in Foggy Bottom is close to my East Village house--so is Traders.

Then Clarendon clearly wins the walkability award with those two and Metro just a few short blocks. True dat.