Most expensive suburb of DC?

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Anonymous wrote:Upper Marlboro, bro!

Technically the most expensive part of PG County is actually in Lanham, the Woodmore community. It's a country club community and probably the most expensive per sq ft in the county.

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Let's look at most expensive places per sq.ft and not including exclusive communities, here we are talking about suburbs, which in DC area is usually a mix of opulent mansions and fixer upper dated homes and everything in between.

Let's also say, if you had 2 mil to spend on a house and wanted to live in a suburb, where would you go?

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Anonymous wrote:Let's look at most expensive places per sq.ft and not including exclusive communities, here we are talking about suburbs, which in DC area is usually a mix of opulent mansions and fixer upper dated homes and everything in between.

Let's also say, if you had 2 mil to spend on a house and wanted to live in a suburb, where would you go?

I, as a NoVA person, personally would go to Arlington or McLean.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's look at most expensive places per sq.ft and not including exclusive communities, here we are talking about suburbs, which in DC area is usually a mix of opulent mansions and fixer upper dated homes and everything in between.

Let's also say, if you had 2 mil to spend on a house and wanted to live in a suburb, where would you go?

I, as a NoVA person, personally would go to Arlington or McLean.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's look at most expensive places per sq.ft and not including exclusive communities, here we are talking about suburbs, which in DC area is usually a mix of opulent mansions and fixer upper dated homes and everything in between.

Let's also say, if you had 2 mil to spend on a house and wanted to live in a suburb, where would you go?

Definitely Arlington.

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Let's also say, if you had 2 mil to spend on a house and wanted to live in a suburb, where would you go?

There's a pretty extensive thread talking about this but I think the price was $3M and it didn't limit it to suburbs. But as I said there, I would stay in Chevy Chase.

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town of Vienna if I had $2MM to spend and already had the lot.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's look at most expensive places per sq.ft and not including exclusive communities, here we are talking about suburbs, which in DC area is usually a mix of opulent mansions and fixer upper dated homes and everything in between.

Let's also say, if you had 2 mil to spend on a house and wanted to live in a suburb, where would you go?

I, as a NoVA person, personally would go to Arlington or McLean.

I would never spend $2 million in Arlington. Why would you want to spend the top of the range for that market? I would definitely buy in McLean, where $2 million houses are not an anomaly.

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Anonymous wrote:Kevin Plank (Under Armour Founder), Mitch Rales, Ed Cohen and Adrienne Arsht think you're slumming it. Btw, Ted has a home in Georgetown and if you know anything about him you'll know he spends more time there than in MD. He even has DC plates on his car "Capital".

Who gives a shit? Isn't this thread about the most expensive suburb of DC, not whether some aging dowager has a condo in DC near a hospital?

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Let's also say, if you had 2 mil to spend on a house and wanted to live in a suburb, where would you go?

There's a pretty extensive thread talking about this but I think the price was $3M and it didn't limit it to suburbs. But as I said there, I would stay in Chevy Chase.

Me too. Even if the price was $10M, I'd stay in Chevy Chase.

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Are you kidding???? The only reason anyone would consider living in Vienna is because they couldn't afford one of the nicer suburbs.

Haha. The only reason why people move to the suburbs is because they can't afford Spring Valley and Forest Hills.

Keep telling yourself that.

It's true. I only have $2 million so I'm moving to Chevy Chase. That money gets you jack in Spring Valley. Life in Forest Hills doesn't even begin until over $2.5 mill. It doesn't get me a palace in Chevy Chase, either, but what you do get for that price is much better in CC MD.

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Are you kidding???? The only reason anyone would consider living in Vienna is because they couldn't afford one of the nicer suburbs.

Haha. The only reason why people move to the suburbs is because they can't afford Spring Valley and Forest Hills.

Quick, someone tell Ted Leonsis, Queen Noor, Dan Snyder et al that they are slumming it in Potomac.

Kevin Plank (Under Armour Founder), Mitch Rales, Ed Cohen and Adrienne Arsht think you're slumming it. Btw, Ted has a home in Georgetown and if you know anything about him you'll know he spends more time there than in MD. He even has DC plates on his car "Capital".

Wow, he even has DC plates on his car! Quick, go give him an appreciative handjob.

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Anonymous wrote:vienna

Are you kidding???? The only reason anyone would consider living in Vienna is because they couldn't afford one of the nicer suburbs.

Haha. The only reason why people move to the suburbs is because they can't afford Spring Valley and Forest Hills.

Keep telling yourself that.

It's true. I only have $2 million so I'm moving to Chevy Chase. That money gets you jack in Spring Valley. Life in Forest Hills doesn't even begin until over $2.5 mill. It doesn't get me a palace in Chevy Chase, either, but what you do get for that price is much better in CC MD.

OMG, lady (or dude?), you have some high end tastes. Last time I checked you can have a house in all the above areas for under 1 mil. Yes, there are actually people buying these type of homes and living in them, not just buying them to house their maids/cooks/drivers. And you are going to have these lowly plebs in their "under 2 mil" homes as your neighbors.

And why shoot so low? IMO, life doesn't begin until you have a penthouse pied-a-terre in Manhattan, a waterfront beach home, and a ski chalet in the Alps. And that 10 mil house in DC area is just to hang out once in a while. Yeah, and a yacht would be nice, life doesn't even begin until you have one.

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FYI spring valley and forest hills are not exactly urban. They are indeed "suburbs of dc" so I would include them in the list of most expensive suburbs of dc:
Chevy chase md
McLean
Spring valley
And MAyBE Potomac and Great Falls (I don't tend to include it except for some hoods because in actuality, when I was looking at Bethesda and CCMD when house hunting, we only started looking there because we noticed we got more for our money there. The same house/land in Potomac transplanted in chevy chase was easily 20% more expensive, if not more. Same with GF. I would include them if you are considering what areas have the largest amount of multimillion dollar ($2+ million) properties.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's look at most expensive places per sq.ft and not including exclusive communities, here we are talking about suburbs, which in DC area is usually a mix of opulent mansions and fixer upper dated homes and everything in between.

Let's also say, if you had 2 mil to spend on a house and wanted to live in a suburb, where would you go?

I, as a NoVA person, personally would go to Arlington or McLean.

I would never spend $2 million in Arlington. Why would you want to spend the top of the range for that market? I would definitely buy in McLean, where $2 million houses are not an anomaly.

Because my DH works downtown and his (and, by extension, our) quality of life depends upon his commute, so I want his commute to be as short as possible. Also, we all like frequenting events downtown, so I personally would like to be as close as possible to downtown, while still actually being in VA. I myself work in Tysons so Arlingon or McLean would work well for that. I also prefer walkable communities and, having grown up in McLean (and my parents still live there), I know it is, at best, minimally walkable.