North Woodside/Woodside in MD
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Anonymous
I take metro and get downtown to my job in under 30 minutes. All my NoVa friends work in DC and commute to DC also, and have far worse commutes. Sadly, there's no more economic development in NoVA either, with Amazon cutting its workforce and GDP growth stalled (https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1297689.page). And between Wheaton and DTSS, I can take care of all of my retail shopping with a 10-minute drive. So, I appreciate the concern, but we're doing just fine over here. |
economic development. How’s that Georgia Avenue pedestrian tunnel for the Forest Glen Metro coming along? How’s the revitalization of Woodside retail on Georgia Avenue? Oh, I forgot, neither Metro or business owners want to invest any money in that area. Sorry. Have fun commuting to DC and VA for work because no one wants to invest any money or build any infrastructure in your county.
Anonymous
| North Woodside is a great neighborhood. A pocket of quiet but bikeable access to two metro stations plus dtSS. Easy access to beltway. Schools have been good. People in North Woodside tend not to leave when they move- everyone likes it so much. I know three families who just moved from one house to another! Fun neighborhood community events. Come visit! |
Anonymous
They’re lovely neighborhoods no question, but they’re way more expensive than SS. |
Anonymous
There’s no growth? Take the Silver Line from West Falls Church to Ashburn and report back on what you see along the Dulles Toll Road. Then tell me what you see from Forest Glen to Glenmont. You can keep deluding yourself, but if you were right the real estate prices in Woodside would have keep pace with North Arlington, Falls Church, and McLean. Those houses in Woodside were probably MORE expensive that similar houses in North Arlington and McLean when they were built. But bad decisions by your local government led the neighborhood to where it is today. I’d love to talk to people who were around when Snider’s first opened to see what they think of the changes to the neighborhood and if it’s improved or gotten worse over the years. |
Anonymous
| I don't know, I think real estate prices in the Woodside area are quite high, and the primary reason they're lower than North Arlington is the qualiy of the schools, not the quality of the area. There are six houses for sale in the the Woodside area right now according to zillow and they range from the high 900s to around 1.4 million. If you factor in a 20 percent or so discount for being zoned to einstein these are not far off from North Arlington and Falls Church prices. |
Anonymous
| decent sized houses in good condition in the Woodside area seem to go in the high 800s at the very minimum now, which is pretty high considering the school zone. So I don't know that it's really that much less desirable than much of Arlington and Falls Church if you factor in the discount for subpar schools |
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Woodside Sold Homes $1.1m - 3,400 sq ft and 4 br, almost entirely renovated https://www.redfin.com/MD/Silver-Spring/8715-2nd-Ave-20910/home/11130895 $1.3m - 4,800 sq ft and 6 br, totally renovated https://www.redfin.com/MD/Silver-Spring/9011-1st-Ave-20910/home/11203346 Falls Church City Sold Homes $1.26m - 3br 2,000 sq ft, livable but not nearly as nice as the Victorians above https://www.redfin.com/VA/Falls-Church/309-W-Columbia-St-22046/home/21706727 $1.12m - 3 br, 2,100 sq ft, not as nice as Woodside homes inside https://www.redfin.com/VA/Falls-Church/907-Lincoln-Ave-22046/home/12033599 It is far from a 20 percent discount. When the Victorians in Falls Church that are between Washington Streer and Sycamore go for sale, they fetch WAY more than the Victorians in Woodside. $1.4 m - 4 br and 2,300 sq ft, no interior pics https://www.redfin.com/VA/Falls-Church/322-E-Broad-St-22046/home/12035757 $1.48 m - 3 br and 2,300 sq ft, renovated inside https://www.redfin.com/VA/Falls-Church/510-E-Columbia-St-22046/home/12036073 The second home is half the size of the home in 1st Avenue in Silver Spring and sold for $350,000+ more. That is not a 20 percent discount because of schools. There is just a lot more amenities in Falls Church and is just nicer. A new Whole Foods > a new Royal Farms on Georgia Ave. |
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And way the heck out 270. |
Anonymous
We live in Woodside Park because we love it here. It's that simple. Park Potomac? Pike & Rose? I wouldn't want to live in a Potemkin Village. 🤣 |
Anonymous
| Your comparing the most desirable parts of Falls Church to Woodside. Compare home sale prices in places like north bethesda or rockville potomac and per square foot it’s often only like 20 percent more or less per square foot. Woodside is also very close to CC and Bethesda, so the amenities of CC, Bethesda and Kensington are often as close as the amenities of pike and rose and park potomac are to 20854 neighborhoods like copenhaver |
Anonymous
PP said that Woodside homes were 20 percent less than North Arlington or FCC because of schools. The facts do not bear that out whatsoever. The sad thing is that Woodside was once as desirable as North Arlington and FCC. Just look at the sales prices of the FCC Victorians in the 80s compared to the second Woodside Victorian. They’re not far off. Montgomery County was also much more wealthy and desirable in the 1980s compared to North Arlington and FCC. Times have changed, in large part due to the bad decisions of the MoCo Council. |
Anonymous
| Oh my gosh, the Mclean/Arlington dude is back. He just can't help himself. Every time there's a thread about Silver Spring, he shows up to tell us about how glorious Arlington and McLean are. It's really sad. My guess is that he couldn't handle the diversity of this area, moved to NoVA to be around more white people, and now feels the need to justify his decision to pay an exorbitant premium to be around more white people. Dude, just move on. We're happy here in Silver Spring, and I hope you're happy in your new place (and I mean that sincerely). |
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It’s cute that you think anyone who could afford it would ever live in Silver Spring over McLean. And homes in the Washington Liberty HS district, where the student body is made up of 33 percent Hispanic kids, are selling for more per square foot than redlined areas in MoCo like the Whitman and Churchill HS district. I keep on hearing this claim that Woodside is selling at a 20% discount because of schools. Einstein has a 7/10 GS score. Washington Liberty has a 6/10. This is what $1.25m will get you in that district. A 2,250 sq ft house backing up to a highway that cost $205,000 in 1993. https://www.redfin.com/VA/Arlington/3214-19th-Rd-N-22201/home/11247519 Alexandria City High School is a 4/10 GS rating and its student body has almost the same racial breakdown as Einstein. This is what a renovated 4,000 sq ft Victorian sells for there, with worse GS scores. https://www.redfin.com/VA/Alexandria/1503-Russell-Rd-22301/home/11848434 This is what a renovated 1,800 sq ft bungalow from 1938 sells for $1.4 m there. This home would barely get $950,000 in Woodside. And this is in a very diverse 4/10 HS pyramid. https://www.redfin.com/VA/Alexandria/107-W-Luray-Ave-22301/home/11848471 So please gaslight us more about how racism is behind the huge disparity in home prices and pretend that Silver Spring hasn’t gone down the tubes in the past 25 years while just as diverse places like Alexandria have gotten progressively nicer and seen far more public and private investment and development. Reality is tough. |