What neighborhood do you think is considered to be the most prestigious in the DC area?

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Anonymous wrote:Edgewood=Edgemore.

Edgemoor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The masses think it is Georgetown. The rich think it is Kent. I actually don't prefer either.

A lot of Gtown is actually:
-small fairly cheap (relatively) row houses
- old money that is running dry but trying desperately to keep up appearances.

With the exception of true mansions there, the real $ is elsewhere. See kent, Wesley hts, etc

It's def not ch ch dc!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There's a lot of money in the D.C. metro area, but the Higley 1000, which uses information from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey 2006-2010, shows exactly where that money lays its head. Of the richest 1000 neighborhoods in the country, 102 are in the D.C. area, although only twelve of those are in D.C. proper. Virginia and Maryland account for 46 and 44 of those affluent neighborhoods respectively. In fact four of those suburban nabes crack the top ten with the Bradley Manor-Longwood in Bethesda coming at at #2 overall. With an annual household mean income of $599,440, that's no surprise. As for those other three uber-pricey neighborhoods: they're in Potomac, MD and McLean, VA. None of the D.C. neighborhoods even show up until #126 in the top 1000. Here are the twelve that made the cut.

1) Spring Valley ($354,727)
2) Foxhall Crescent-Wesley Heights West ($336,498)
3) Kent ($318,400)
4) Forest Hills North ($316,140)
5) Cleveland Park West ($306,496)
6) Logan Circle Northeast ($297,744)
7) Georgetown (residential core) ($296,577)
8) Chevy Chase ($290,931)
9) Tenleytown North ($278,859)
10) Palisades ($252,529)
11) Massachusetts Heights ($251,498)
12) Cathedral Heights ($250,456)

I live in Kent, but would put Mass Avenue Heights, West Kalorama, and parts of East Georgetown, as well as selected areas of Wesley Heights in the I have arrived category. Most of the houses in Spring Valley, Kent, Cleveland Park and Chevy Chase are nice upper middle class stock and Foxhall Crescent says new money.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How would you describe the average resident in Kalorama? Young yuppies, empty nesters, families with older kids? etc....

Old and rich.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bradley farms, edgemoor , burning tree , Chevy Chase village, kent , Georgetown , mass ave heights , kalorama .

Ding ding ding!

[Anonymous]

Ballantrae/Langley Farm area of McLean

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ballantrae/Langley Farm area of McLean

With the exception of Chevy Chase, MD, there are no areas of VA or MD that rank in the "most prestigious."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ballantrae/Langley Farm area of McLean

With the exception of Chevy Chase, MD, there are no areas of VA or MD that rank in the "most prestigious."

Wrong. Bradley Farms, Burning tree due to their attachment to world famous country clubs. And Edgemore.

[Anonymous]

"Legend in their own mind" thread of the morning.

[Anonymous]

There are a couple of blocks in wesley heights were all the residents have live in staff of 2-5 people. All of them. And these are not the embassy type folks that dominate kalarama. You don't find that in many places.

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Anonymous wrote:There are a couple of blocks in wesley heights were all the residents have live in staff of 2-5 people. All of them. And these are not the embassy type folks that dominate kalarama. You don't find that in many places.

Pretense and prestige are not the same.

[Anonymous]

Staff does not necessarily involve pretense, especially if discretely and professionally employed. Ironically, I think the staff being mentioned by the pp involve security personnel who are definitely NOT about "showing off." In fact, it is just the opposite. Now the cat with the 40-60 hockey rink, not so sure there

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Anonymous wrote:Staff does not necessarily involve pretense, especially if discretely and professionally employed. Ironically, I think the staff being mentioned by the pp involve security personnel who are definitely NOT about "showing off." In fact, it is just the opposite. Now the cat with the 40-60 hockey rink, not so sure there

Since PP didn't know how to spell Kalorama correctly, forgive me if I don't view the hyper-ventilating about the "staff" as dispositive on what passes for "prestigious" in these parts.

[Anonymous]

The richest live. Bethesda, McLean, potomac Chevy Chase, not in dc

[Anonymous]

Innsbruck or Falcon Ridge in Great Falls