Another new Pimmit Hills Home on the market

[Anonymous]

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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.

These are the perils of anonymous forums. If comments were attributable to a specific name, it would be easy to single out that person for "obnoxious boosterism." I would note, though, that responses like "PH is a TOTAL DUMP!!!" grew on the same vine with the "PH is NUMBer ONE!" variety. They may even be identical twins.

I would also note that PH is hardly a marginal neighborhood. It is unpretty, yes. Unfancy, yes. But it is safe and has excellent schools. That alone lifts it out of marginality. To compare, Trinidad in DC is a marginal neighborhood. College Park is a marginal neighborhood outside of a small enclave. To live in PH is to be a free of fears of a) getting shot or mugged, and b) risking your kids' education. I would hardly call it marginal. Perhaps you would. That's up to you. Your definition of marginality, then, is an outlier in DC area, this fantasy land of million-dollar properties and shitty schools.

[Anonymous]

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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?

Sure. The problem is PH is cluttering the RE forum much as PH is littered itself.

[Anonymous]

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Sure. The problem is PH is cluttering the RE forum much as PH is littered itself.

Only half of PH cyber-clutter comes from PH lovers. The rest comes from PH haters. You can easily cut it in half by not adding handfuls of your own trash into the pile. Ironic, innit?

[Anonymous]

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Sure. The problem is PH is cluttering the RE forum much as PH is littered itself.

Only half of PH cyber-clutter comes from PH lovers. The rest comes from PH haters. You can easily cut it in half by not adding handfuls of your own trash into the pile. Ironic, innit?

On behalf of the one-third of posters who neither love nor hate Pimmit Hills, I want to express our deep outrage (or, in Hill-ese, our "butt-hurt") that our overall indifference to the neighborhood is so cavalierly ignored by the PH lovers and haters who ignore our presence in your midst.

The "Pimmit Hills is OK/Meh" Manifesto consists of the following theses, soon to nailed on trees on both Pimmit Drive and Lisle Avenue:

1. Pimmit Hills is in a very good location and people will pay to be near Metro.
2. It's nice that there are more affordable neighborhoods like PH in the expensive Tysons area.
3. The fact that people can generally live as they please in Pimmit Hills is something to be celebrated, not ridiculed.
4. Pimmit Hills schools are very good.
5. Some nice new houses have gone up, and are being built, in Pimmit Hills.
6. Many houses in Pimmit Hills are tiny and run-down, and likely to remain so for a very long time.
7. Pimmit Hills has some of the ugliest additions and new McMansions to be found in the greater DC area.
8. Anyone who really thinks the IB participation rate at Marshall HS is 99% needs long-term care.
9. While you can never be too rich or too thin, you can have too much chain link.
10. Pandas are cute; panda memes are annoying AF.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Sure. The problem is PH is cluttering the RE forum much as PH is littered itself.

Only half of PH cyber-clutter comes from PH lovers. The rest comes from PH haters. You can easily cut it in half by not adding handfuls of your own trash into the pile. Ironic, innit?

On behalf of the one-third of posters who neither love nor hate Pimmit Hills, I want to express our deep outrage (or, in Hill-ese, our "butt-hurt") that our overall indifference to the neighborhood is so cavalierly ignored by the PH lovers and haters who ignore our presence in your midst.

The "Pimmit Hills is OK/Meh" Manifesto consists of the following theses, soon to nailed on trees on both Pimmit Drive and Lisle Avenue:

1. Pimmit Hills is in a very good location and people will pay to be near Metro.
2. It's nice that there are more affordable neighborhoods like PH in the expensive Tysons area.
3. The fact that people can generally live as they please in Pimmit Hills is something to be celebrated, not ridiculed.
4. Pimmit Hills schools are very good.
5. Some nice new houses have gone up, and are being built, in Pimmit Hills.
6. Many houses in Pimmit Hills are tiny and run-down, and likely to remain so for a very long time.
7. Pimmit Hills has some of the ugliest additions and new McMansions to be found in the greater DC area.
8. Anyone who really thinks the IB participation rate at Marshall HS is 99% needs long-term care.
9. While you can never be too rich or too thin, you can have too much chain link.
10. Pandas are cute; panda memes are annoying AF.

thanks troll

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Sure. The problem is PH is cluttering the RE forum much as PH is littered itself.

Only half of PH cyber-clutter comes from PH lovers. The rest comes from PH haters. You can easily cut it in half by not adding handfuls of your own trash into the pile. Ironic, innit?

On behalf of the one-third of posters who neither love nor hate Pimmit Hills, I want to express our deep outrage (or, in Hill-ese, our "butt-hurt") that our overall indifference to the neighborhood is so cavalierly ignored by the PH lovers and haters who ignore our presence in your midst.

The "Pimmit Hills is OK/Meh" Manifesto consists of the following theses, soon to nailed on trees on both Pimmit Drive and Lisle Avenue:

1. Pimmit Hills is in a very good location and people will pay to be near Metro.
2. It's nice that there are more affordable neighborhoods like PH in the expensive Tysons area.
3. The fact that people can generally live as they please in Pimmit Hills is something to be celebrated, not ridiculed.
4. Pimmit Hills schools are very good.
5. Some nice new houses have gone up, and are being built, in Pimmit Hills.
6. Many houses in Pimmit Hills are tiny and run-down, and likely to remain so for a very long time.
7. Pimmit Hills has some of the ugliest additions and new McMansions to be found in the greater DC area.
8. Anyone who really thinks the IB participation rate at Marshall HS is 99% needs long-term care.
9. While you can never be too rich or too thin, you can have too much chain link.
10. Pandas are cute; panda memes are annoying AF.

thanks troll

Fair and balanced but haters gonna hate.