What is the most overrated area (neighborhood, town, etc) in the DC metropolitan area?

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Anonymous wrote:Reston... yuck.

I get why some people don't like it, but it truly was a wonderful place for us when our daughter was young. All the trails and pools and places to play came in handy. And it was close enough to all the amenities we needed.

+1000 If anything, underrated

Close to enough to amenities but really, really, really, really, really far away from DC.

It's sanitized and boring. Gives children a false sense of reality.

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Anonymous wrote:Define overrated. I'll add georgetown.

+1. Ugh. Hate it.

I can see hating the corner of Wisconsin and M Streets. But there's much more to it than the shopping strip. And it's pretty wonderful.

It's inconvenient and all the best restaurants are elsewhere now. Overrated based on the 80s and 90s cache that lingers for a very few.

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Anonymous wrote:Reston... yuck.

I get why some people don't like it, but it truly was a wonderful place for us when our daughter was young. All the trails and pools and places to play came in handy. And it was close enough to all the amenities we needed.

+1000 If anything, underrated

Close to enough to amenities but really, really, really, really, really far away from DC.

not everyone's life in this area revolves around the city. And not THAT far if you're going at off hours/on a weekend.

again, if our jobs were in downtown DC, we wouldn't have picked there to live. But we worked elsewhere and getting to DC daily wasn't an issue.

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Anonymous wrote:Wood Acres

Curious why you said this.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Reston... yuck.

I get why some people don't like it, but it truly was a wonderful place for us when our daughter was young. All the trails and pools and places to play came in handy. And it was close enough to all the amenities we needed.

+1000 If anything, underrated

Close to enough to amenities but really, really, really, really, really far away from DC.

It's sanitized and boring. Gives children a false sense of reality.

the fuck?

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Bethesda, silver spring, georgetown, Chevy chase dc

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Vienna, Georgetown, Wood Acres

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Anonymous wrote:Define overrated. I'll add georgetown.

+1. Ugh. Hate it.

I can see hating the corner of Wisconsin and M Streets. But there's much more to it than the shopping strip. And it's pretty wonderful.

It's inconvenient and all the best restaurants are elsewhere now. Overrated based on the 80s and 90s cache that lingers for a very few.

I'm not talking about restaurants. I'm talking about the quiet streets, the interesting architecture, the old churches, Dumbarton Oaks, Book Hill, the library, Volta pool, the quiet places to sit on a bench and read a book, etc. Walking around and exploring. It's great for that.

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It's sanitized and boring. Gives children a false sense of reality.

wait, what part of this are do YOU live in, then? Because the only parts that I can think of that don't give kids a false sense of reality are the 'burbs that people generally REFUSE to live in...you know, like PG County.

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Lyon Village/Clarendon.

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Anonymous wrote:Lyon Village/Clarendon.

let's talk when you buy a house.

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Spring Valley.

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I love Georgetown, Mount Pleasant, Capital Hill, AU Park, Cleveland Park (P.S.: and live presently in none of these neighborhoods). No clue why one what would make someone consider them "overrated".

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Anonymous wrote:Spring Valley.

let's talk when you buy a munitions dump.

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The entire city of dc
The entire area of Arlington
Anywhere that is not Potomac or Langley zoned McLean