NoVa area prestige ranking

[Anonymous]

Let me buy up Woodbridge and aldie now so I can cash in 20 years from now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All the ignorance about Clifton just shows how much this area is now dominated by transient strivers. Clifton is an old school well-heeled Virginia suburb. There are still large horse farms and when you read an obituary of an 80 year old and the person grew up in Clifton it indicates a certain pedigree.

You can’t really buy into the real Clifton because the properties don’t change hands that often. FWIW Oakton used to be the same way until a few landowning families made an absolute killing carving it up for development (and then ironically moving to conservation easements 40 miles to the west).

It’s very much like Great Falls. Except Great Falls is recognized on this board as prestigious because of all the new construction, new residents- people probably don’t even know about the hobby farms, only the ghastly McMansions and they think that’s prestigious. It’s nauseating.

So far all we have is your “word” that Clifton is prestigious. And frankly, nothing indicates it ever was prestigious compared to the other towns we are talking about. Old Town, Delray, Arlington, McLean and Great Falls have median SFH prices $300k to a million dollars higher than Clifton. You don’t want to use that metric. That’s fine. Let’s use residents as a marker of prestige.

A search of notable people that have lived in Clifton vs. any of the other places we are discussing is quite striking. Even back 100 years ago, it’s obvious it lacked prestige. No one famous has lived there. Now do Old Town; one would think that George Washington would have given it some prestige. McLean? The list of people is too long. Kennedy family, governors, Steve Case, Ted Leonsis, Saudi ambassador, Senators, Secretary of Defense. And Arlington lacks pedigree, but people are choosing it over Clifton every time. Arlington has had a Vice President, Senators, Congress people and many other notable people. Including of course, the residents of Arlington House. Which since you are so big in the past you know was built by a descendant of Martha Washington as tribute to George Washington and housed the Lee family.

So please tell me, with actual facts, why is Clifton so prestigious?

DP and I agree with this poster. There are a handful of longtime Virginia families that are Clifton residents. Of course the strivers don't know about them, though.

So again, no actual facts? Just some NO NAME families that used to have money but have never done anything notable? You don’t understand what prestige means.

And this is getting embarrassing. Your posts are having the opposite effect you intend them to have. Your repeated use of “striver” — and the fact that you live in Clifton — shows us that you aren’t wealthy and are insecure about it. You are clinging to something pathetic like a DCUM prestige ranking (lol) to make you feel better.

[Anonymous]

I think a zip code ranking is more precise:

1. 22066 - Great Falls
2. 22101 - McLean
3. 22027- Dunn Loring (Up and coming with all the new builds)
4. 22207 - North Arlington
5. 22124 - Oakton
6. 22039 - Fairfax Station
7. 20124 - Clifton - Yup. CLIFTON is nice!
8. 22182- Vienna/Tysons area
9. 22181- Vienna
10. 20148 - Ashburn

Bottom Tier:

1. 22041- Bailey's Crossroads
2. 22044 - Lake Barcroft/Seven Corners
3. 22305 - Del Ray
4. 22304 - Landmark
5. 22312 - Lincolnia (Alexandria)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think a zip code ranking is more precise:

1. 22066 - Great Falls
2. 22101 - McLean
3. 22027- Dunn Loring (Up and coming with all the new builds)
4. 22207 - North Arlington
5. 22124 - Oakton
6. 22039 - Fairfax Station
7. 20124 - Clifton - Yup. CLIFTON is nice!
8. 22182- Vienna/Tysons area
9. 22181- Vienna
10. 20148 - Ashburn

Bottom Tier:

1. 22041- Bailey's Crossroads
2. 22044 - Lake Barcroft/Seven Corners
3. 22305 - Del Ray
4. 22304 - Landmark
5. 22312 - Lincolnia (Alexandria)

+1. New meets mostly don’t lie. A bit Surprised to see Oakton above Vienna zip codes

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think a zip code ranking is more precise:

1. 22066 - Great Falls
2. 22101 - McLean
3. 22027- Dunn Loring (Up and coming with all the new builds)
4. 22207 - North Arlington
5. 22124 - Oakton
6. 22039 - Fairfax Station
7. 20124 - Clifton - Yup. CLIFTON is nice!
8. 22182- Vienna/Tysons area
9. 22181- Vienna
10. 20148 - Ashburn

Bottom Tier:

1. 22041- Bailey's Crossroads
2. 22044 - Lake Barcroft/Seven Corners
3. 22305 - Del Ray
4. 22304 - Landmark
5. 22312 - Lincolnia (Alexandria)

Del Ray is 22301. Youre obviously too poor to know that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think a zip code ranking is more precise:

1. 22066 - Great Falls
2. 22101 - McLean
3. 22027- Dunn Loring (Up and coming with all the new builds)
4. 22207 - North Arlington
5. 22124 - Oakton
6. 22039 - Fairfax Station
7. 20124 - Clifton - Yup. CLIFTON is nice!
8. 22182- Vienna/Tysons area
9. 22181- Vienna
10. 20148 - Ashburn

Bottom Tier:

1. 22041- Bailey's Crossroads
2. 22044 - Lake Barcroft/Seven Corners
3. 22305 - Del Ray
4. 22304 - Landmark
5. 22312 - Lincolnia (Alexandria)

Are you some Marshall High poster trying to make fetch happen? There was a recent schools thread where OP tried to claim Marshall was a "Tier 1" NoVa public (sorry, but no) and here you are claiming Dunn Loring/22027 (which is very small, hemmed in by the Beltway, and hasn't seen a house crack $2M over the past year) is an up and coming area and the third nicest in NoVa, while ignoring McLean/22102 and Vienna/22180.

Just stop.

[Anonymous]

Add Arlington/22201.

[Anonymous]

We can put all the back and forth to rest right now. Here are the most up to date info on the most expensive zip codes in this area:


22066 - Great Falls
22101 - McLean
22207 - Arlington

See for yourself on the map provided below


https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/dc-area-real-estate/map-see-dc-maryland-and-virginias-most-expensive-zip-codes/3790732/

[Anonymous]

1) McLean
2) Middleburg
3) Great Falls

End of the list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think a zip code ranking is more precise:

1. 22066 - Great Falls
2. 22101 - McLean
3. 22027- Dunn Loring (Up and coming with all the new builds)
4. 22207 - North Arlington
5. 22124 - Oakton
6. 22039 - Fairfax Station
7. 20124 - Clifton - Yup. CLIFTON is nice!
8. 22182- Vienna/Tysons area
9. 22181- Vienna
10. 20148 - Ashburn

Bottom Tier:

1. 22041- Bailey's Crossroads
2. 22044 - Lake Barcroft/Seven Corners
3. 22305 - Del Ray
4. 22304 - Landmark
5. 22312 - Lincolnia (Alexandria)

Del Ray is 22301. Youre obviously too poor to know that.

Ashburn above Del Ray???? Baileys Crossroads as an equal???!!!?

Stop feeding the (poor and brown) trolls people. No rich white person would ever pick either above Del Ray!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let me buy up Woodbridge and aldie now so I can cash in 20 years from now.

Aldie is already well out of your price range.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1) McLean
2) Middleburg
3) Great Falls

End of the list.

Keep middleburg out of this thread. It’s in the Northern Piedmont and not in Northern Virginia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1) McLean
2) Middleburg
3) Great Falls

End of the list.

You ever take geography class…or just use your gps if you failed it . Middleburg part of northern va? Can you read?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let me buy up Woodbridge and aldie now so I can cash in 20 years from now.

Better hurry up a as Woodbridge is America’s fastest growing suburb.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:1) McLean
2) Middleburg
3) Great Falls

End of the list.

Keep middleburg out of this thread. It’s in the Northern Piedmont and not in Northern Virginia.

This side of the Appalachian is NoVa. Curving around to Culpeper and Fredericksburg.

Middleburg is right next to Leesburg. It is NoVA.