Is Arlington the Best Place to Live in the DC Area?

[Anonymous]

Arlington is a good place to live. It helps if you like dogs. I think it is a requirement to live there to have at least one dog.

There may be more dogs than people in n Arlington.

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Anonymous wrote:McLean is the premium area, arlington is only good because it is near mclean.

If you are poor and out of touch. The DC nice neighborhoods smoke the hinterlands. I have 2 acres, a nice house, parks surrounding me and am minutes from everything!

Yep! McLean is a crap compared to Kalorama, Spring Valley, the Palisades. You can go on.

The only thing Spring Valley is good for is wondering if living there is why you have cancer 20 years later.

Kalorama and the Palisades are nice. Although the latter isn’t super walkable.

DC has great neighborhoods beyond those that blow Arlington away. Cleveland Park, Woodland, Kent, Wesley Heights/Foxhall/Chain Bridge near the parks. Great houses, close to everything.

[Anonymous]

It's clear by now the answer to OP's question is "not even close." Not in the DC area, or even in NoVa.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's clear by now the answer to OP's question is "not even close." Not in the DC area, or even in NoVa.

Outside of DC, it’s the best option for many people.

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Anonymous wrote:It's clear by now the answer to OP's question is "not even close." Not in the DC area, or even in NoVa.

Outside of DC, it’s the best option for many people.

Maybe if you're looking to share an apartment with another recent Virginia Tech graduate, and you're not making enough money or street-smart enough to live in DC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's clear by now the answer to OP's question is "not even close." Not in the DC area, or even in NoVa.

Outside of DC, it’s the best option for many people.

Maybe if you're looking to share an apartment with another recent Virginia Tech graduate, and you're not making enough money or street-smart enough to live in DC.

It’s a good option for people who have enough money to act like entitled jerks and look down on people without grad school degrees or JDs, but not enough money to afford a nicer home and private school for their kids. They can scoff at people in Burke or Springfield because they live in a subpar, aesthetically drab, but “walkable” suburb, but be lagging behind the QOL of people living in places like Old Town, Georgetown, or Cleveland Park who send their kids to Georgetown Prep, Country Day, or Sidwell Friends.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's clear by now the answer to OP's question is "not even close." Not in the DC area, or even in NoVa.

Outside of DC, it’s the best option for many people.

Del Ray, Bethesda, Takoma Park, and Garrett Park are all walkable and much nicer than Arlington. The commute rationale doesn’t matter as much post Covid when hardly anyone with an office job will be forced to come into the office 5 days a week.

[Anonymous]

There are a lot of people in the burbs who decided their QOL would be better if they were stepping slightly away from the DC rat race, of which private schools can be one significant component.

I think many people in DC living that lifestyle are heavily invested in proclaiming its benefits and even superiority. They feel threatened when they find out that others with considerable financial resources consider that lifestyle stifling and unattractive. In their minds it undermines their achievements when they find out others just aren't that impressed by a house in Spring Valley or a kid at Sidwell.

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Anonymous wrote:It's clear by now the answer to OP's question is "not even close." Not in the DC area, or even in NoVa.

Outside of DC, it’s the best option for many people.

Maybe if you're looking to share an apartment with another recent Virginia Tech graduate, and you're not making enough money or street-smart enough to live in DC.

It’s a good option for people who have enough money to act like entitled jerks and look down on people without grad school degrees or JDs, but not enough money to afford a nicer home and private school for their kids. They can scoff at people in Burke or Springfield because they live in a subpar, aesthetically drab, but “walkable” suburb, but be lagging behind the QOL of people living in places like Old Town, Georgetown, or Cleveland Park who send their kids to Georgetown Prep, Country Day, or Sidwell Friends.

Glad to see the Christmas spirit is alive and well on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It's clear by now the answer to OP's question is "not even close." Not in the DC area, or even in NoVa.

Outside of DC, it’s the best option for many people.

Del Ray, Bethesda, Takoma Park, and Garrett Park are all walkable and much nicer than Arlington. The commute rationale doesn’t matter as much post Covid when hardly anyone with an office job will be forced to come into the office 5 days a week.

My job is in VA and I do drive in 3x per week now. I love Old Town but the commute is a b from there. So Arlington works best. Plus I like the parks and having everything so close.

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

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