What would you consider to be the Washington area's prestige neighborhoods?

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Anonymous wrote:Real estate is cyclical. There have been several instances where city real estate declined while suburban real estate appreciated, most recently in the 90s. Only a fool would think buying in the city is always a good investment, especially when DCPS generally remains so inferior at the middle and the high school level. Not everyone can go to Deal and Wilson would be considered below average in any suburban jurisdiction except PG.

You do realize that not everybody has kids, and that not everybody who does have kids puts them in public schools, right? And you're flat wrong about Deal and Wilson regardless.

Deal is better than Wilson, but Wilson is not good. Some cash-strapped people in DC sacrifice their kids’ education by sending them there so they can have a shorter commute.

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Wilson can be quite good and a strategic move to certain people who play the game right. By hiring a college consultant before high school, they ensure the best teachers, the best extra curriculars in and out of school, private tutoring and acceptance to their 1st or 2nd choice with all kinds of scholarships.
Folks, if a kid who has struggled in math throughout middle and high school can score perfect on the ACT because of receiving tutoring from a college prep center, there’s no limit to gaming the system.

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Anonymous wrote:All of you are very parochial and narrow minded. Prestige doesn't mean white people are good public schools. You can't touch a decent rowhome in Logan Circle for less than $1.5 million. That's prestige.

I don’t think expensive means prestigious but there is some overlap. Prime example of that to me is SF. Can’t get a house there for under 2 million. Yet it seems like a total hellscape. Highest property crime in the nation, intractable homeless problem, a literal government division just for the purpose of cleaning human poop off the streets, garbage public schools, no AC anywhere, etc.

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Neighborhoods with homes that have names, staff quarters, multiple driveways, at least 4 chimneys and cost north of 5 million.

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McClean

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Kalorama, Cleveland/Woodley Park and Georgetown (though not as prestigious as it once was!).

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Neighborhoods with homes that have names, staff quarters, multiple driveways, at least 4 chimneys and cost north of 5 million.

The Plains, Virginia

They are so influential that they kept Disney from putting up a theme park even after Disney had bought up a bunch of land. Back in the 90's.

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^ You can get this one . . . it meets your requirement for having a name.

https://www.redfin.com/VA/The-Plains/3656-Zulla-Rd-20198/home/109289901

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Anonymous wrote:Wesley Heights below Cathedral. Some of the most expensive homes in DC.

The Albrittons, Marriotts, Dezoretzs, Ludwigs, and Zientzs seem to agree.

The Ludwigs? Who are they?

One lives on Fox Hall. Huge yard, pools, tennis courts, views of Va, yard art worth more than many houses. A former bank CEO and consultant that made hundreds of millions or more as a consultant. The other lives near by and has won many Tony awards and made millions writing plays and musicals.

Ok - the guy is famous for having had no background in banking but somehow parlayed a job as a Clinton-era banking regulator into a lucrative career as a fixer for big banks. Some are of the opinion that he shares some of the blame for the financial crash. A classic revolving-door swamp creature.

Huh? The guy was a banking lawyer for 25 years before he became the Comptroller. You are an idiot. He may have ridden the revolving door but he was not a part of the problem that lead to the crash. Frank Raines, Tim Geithner, Barney Frank and a Paul Sarbanes guilty as not charged but not this guy.

Ludwig was an international trade lawyer at Covington. He decided that banking would be more lucrative but when he somehow scored his appointment as a bank regulator he didn’t know much more about banking than how to use an ATM card. But he knew how to “fake it ‘till you make it.” And yes, even though he was appointed by a Democrat, he pimped out the OCC to the big banks. So yes, he bears some responsibility for the financial crash.

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Anonymous wrote:Wesley Heights below Cathedral. Some of the most expensive homes in DC.

The Albrittons, Marriotts, Dezoretzs, Ludwigs, and Zientzs seem to agree.

The Ludwigs? Who are they?

One lives on Fox Hall. Huge yard, pools, tennis courts, views of Va, yard art worth more than many houses. A former bank CEO and consultant that made hundreds of millions or more as a consultant. The other lives near by and has won many Tony awards and made millions writing plays and musicals.

Ok - the guy is famous for having had no background in banking but somehow parlayed a job as a Clinton-era banking regulator into a lucrative career as a fixer for big banks. Some are of the opinion that he shares some of the blame for the financial crash. A classic revolving-door swamp creature.

Huh? The guy was a banking lawyer for 25 years before he became the Comptroller. You are an idiot. He may have ridden the revolving door but he was not a part of the problem that lead to the crash. Frank Raines, Tim Geithner, Barney Frank and a Paul Sarbanes guilty as not charged but not this guy.

Ludwig was an international trade lawyer at Covington. He decided that banking would be more lucrative but when he somehow scored his appointment as a bank regulator he didn’t know much more about banking than how to use an ATM card. But he knew how to “fake it ‘till you make it.” And yes, even though he was appointed by a Democrat, he pimped out the OCC to the big banks. So yes, he bears some responsibility for the financial crash.

Who cares? Prestige isn’t defined by where a couple of old farts from York, Pennsylvania now live.

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Anonymous wrote:Wesley Heights below Cathedral. Some of the most expensive homes in DC.

The Albrittons, Marriotts, Dezoretzs, Ludwigs, and Zientzs seem to agree.

The Ludwigs? Who are they?

One lives on Fox Hall. Huge yard, pools, tennis courts, views of Va, yard art worth more than many houses. A former bank CEO and consultant that made hundreds of millions or more as a consultant. The other lives near by and has won many Tony awards and made millions writing plays and musicals.

Ok - the guy is famous for having had no background in banking but somehow parlayed a job as a Clinton-era banking regulator into a lucrative career as a fixer for big banks. Some are of the opinion that he shares some of the blame for the financial crash. A classic revolving-door swamp creature.

Huh? The guy was a banking lawyer for 25 years before he became the Comptroller. You are an idiot. He may have ridden the revolving door but he was not a part of the problem that lead to the crash. Frank Raines, Tim Geithner, Barney Frank and a Paul Sarbanes guilty as not charged but not this guy.

Ludwig was an international trade lawyer at Covington. He decided that banking would be more lucrative but when he somehow scored his appointment as a bank regulator he didn’t know much more about banking than how to use an ATM card. But he knew how to “fake it ‘till you make it.” And yes, even though he was appointed by a Democrat, he pimped out the OCC to the big banks. So yes, he bears some responsibility for the financial crash.

Weird. I was a banker and he did work for me. Knew a lot too.

How did he pimp out the OCC? Sticking to years of precedent in re preemption?

He was gone before the real problems started anyway but nice try. Look to the clowns who never realized Fan/Fred and Wall Street were all working together with the taxpayers protection if you want to be accurate in your assessments.

That said, his house will go for 25 million when he is done.

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Anonymous wrote:Wesley Heights below Cathedral. Some of the most expensive homes in DC.

The Albrittons, Marriotts, Dezoretzs, Ludwigs, and Zientzs seem to agree.

The Ludwigs? Who are they?

One lives on Fox Hall. Huge yard, pools, tennis courts, views of Va, yard art worth more than many houses. A former bank CEO and consultant that made hundreds of millions or more as a consultant. The other lives near by and has won many Tony awards and made millions writing plays and musicals.

Ok - the guy is famous for having had no background in banking but somehow parlayed a job as a Clinton-era banking regulator into a lucrative career as a fixer for big banks. Some are of the opinion that he shares some of the blame for the financial crash. A classic revolving-door swamp creature.

Huh? The guy was a banking lawyer for 25 years before he became the Comptroller. You are an idiot. He may have ridden the revolving door but he was not a part of the problem that lead to the crash. Frank Raines, Tim Geithner, Barney Frank and a Paul Sarbanes guilty as not charged but not this guy.

Ludwig was an international trade lawyer at Covington. He decided that banking would be more lucrative but when he somehow scored his appointment as a bank regulator he didn’t know much more about banking than how to use an ATM card. But he knew how to “fake it ‘till you make it.” And yes, even though he was appointed by a Democrat, he pimped out the OCC to the big banks. So yes, he bears some responsibility for the financial crash.

Who cares? Prestige isn’t defined by where a couple of old farts from York, Pennsylvania now live.

It’s not who they are but where they live. Have you bought one of the Cafritz’s old homes? Didn’t think so.

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^ You can get this one . . . it meets your requirement for having a name.

https://www.redfin.com/VA/The-Plains/3656-Zulla-Rd-20198/home/109289901

More than 5 as well so no.

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Not gonna read thru all of the PPs but saw the title and had to mention:

L'ambiance in McLean!

It's right there in the name! Used to pass it all the time and circa 1997, the development entrance signs (maybe two?) announced " L'Ambiance"in shiny gold cursive metal mounted on a light brick wall.

Researching now to see if it has changed names.

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Anonymous wrote:McClean

In addition to McLean?