Lake Barcroft - any residents?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are aware of what that part of Virginia used to be like in the old days, and by that I mean the 90's, then you are rightfully sad. It had declined in a not great way and challenge anyone throwing around the race card to meet me there on a Friday or Saturday evening and walk through the surrounding neighborhood without your precious little cell phone in hand … that is a "you tube" video that would go viral in wonderful ways … stop calling everyone a racist and a hater because they observe the truth and live in reality …. really, stop. It is getting old ….

Oh no! Someone call 911 - sounds like the brain-eating amoebas have started on another victim!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She didn't swim but was pushed in, ugh! But she got out quickly and showered shortly thereafter and don't forget the alcohol ear drops because that is where the infections can fester if in dirty water ….. never again!

You are a nut job.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This area blows, is a relic of the 70s

Very few homes in that area were built in the 1970s. You are a dolt.

[Anonymous]

What a snotty thread. OP freaks out about DISGUSTING RAW SEWAGE OMG and then wants to know if any LB residents post here?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is great, notice nobody on here has said they live there. I am willing to bet they were out bid on the house they wanted so now they trash it. Same thing happens in Bethesda,

The lake is fine, you can use boats on it, electric pontoon boats, kayaks, canoes paddle boards, etc. 5 white sand beaches. Yep, some of the schools are not great but my kids go to TJ after going to the local schools there.

SO imagine waking up this morning, walking down to your dock, meeting friends for a 2 hour paddle board ride driving 15 minutes do downtown instead of getting up and sitting in traffic on 66 for hours and hating life.

Yes, it does take a lot of imagination to believe it's a 15 minute commute.

been doing to for 20 years.

nope but you can enjoy your traffic. at 6 am I am just getting up to go out on the lake what are you doing at 6 am?


At 6am?

[Anonymous]

I've visited friends there, and my kids have swam with dozen of other kids in the lake.

It's very different from where I live, but it's really lovely in a way - it's a real community, with modest homes, and everyone seems to always be outdoors. It's a nice, simple place, and the commute is very easy, at least over the bridge to Georgetown.

I would love to see current advisories saying that the water is contaminated right now. I don't see them online.

I would definitely let my kids swim there again. Then again, I also let them swim and surf in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, which are also always contaminated. I guess I just like to live dangerously. Somehow my three kids have survived so far without me swabbing their ears with alcohol and writing hissy threads on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

We live in Lake Barcroft and love it. All of us (including 2 small kids) swim in the water and have never had any problems. The county just built a big new sewage overflow system so that there wouldn't be leaks into the lake again.

I'd much rather swim in this water than the chlorinated crap at any pool. To each his own

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've visited friends there, and my kids have swam with dozen of other kids in the lake.

It's very different from where I live, but it's really lovely in a way - it's a real community, with modest homes, and everyone seems to always be outdoors. It's a nice, simple place, and the commute is very easy, at least over the bridge to Georgetown.

I would love to see current advisories saying that the water is contaminated right now. I don't see them online.

I would definitely let my kids swim there again. Then again, I also let them swim and surf in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, which are also always contaminated. I guess I just like to live dangerously. Somehow my three kids have survived so far without me swabbing their ears with alcohol and writing hissy threads on DCUM.

[Anonymous]

This thread is insane. I am a millennial who grew up there (so not that long ago) and I swam in the lake most summer days of my 10 years there. I am alive and well, as are my siblings.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is insane.

Welcome to DCUM.. this crap is the norm around here. I can only guess it's a bunch of bored SAHM's with nothing better to do than post drivel on here. I don't live in Lake Barcroft, but know friends that do and it seems like a decent area to me, just not my cup of tea. I've never been in the lake but I certainly wouldn't be scared to or to let my kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've visited friends there, and my kids have swam with dozen of other kids in the lake.

It's very different from where I live, but it's really lovely in a way - it's a real community, with modest homes, and everyone seems to always be outdoors. It's a nice, simple place, and the commute is very easy, at least over the bridge to Georgetown.

I would love to see current advisories saying that the water is contaminated right now. I don't see them online.

I would definitely let my kids swim there again. Then again, I also let them swim and surf in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, which are also always contaminated. I guess I just like to live dangerously. Somehow my three kids have survived so far without me swabbing their ears with alcohol and writing hissy threads on DCUM.

Some of the LB houses look modest from the street but are actually quite large and have wonderful views of the lake. And the ones that truly are modest have as much square footage as a typical older home in Arlington.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This thread is insane. I am a millennial who grew up there (so not that long ago) and I swam in the lake most summer days of my 10 years there. I am alive and well, as are my siblings.

Things have changed in the last 5-10 years

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It is great, notice nobody on here has said they live there. I am willing to bet they were out bid on the house they wanted so now they trash it. Same thing happens in Bethesda,

The lake is fine, you can use boats on it, electric pontoon boats, kayaks, canoes paddle boards, etc. 5 white sand beaches. Yep, some of the schools are not great but my kids go to TJ after going to the local schools there.

SO imagine waking up this morning, walking down to your dock, meeting friends for a 2 hour paddle board ride driving 15 minutes do downtown instead of getting up and sitting in traffic on 66 for hours and hating life.

Yes, it does take a lot of imagination to believe it's a 15 minute commute.

been doing to for 20 years.

nope but you can enjoy your traffic. at 6 am I am just getting up to go out on the lake what are you doing at 6 am?


At 6am?

I don't wake up until 7, but then my commute is much shorter. My friend lives over there and it takes 15 min without traffic just to get near anything else. Let alone cross a bridge at rush hour.

I'm not cutting down Barcroft, it's lovely, but a 15 min commute to downtown at rush hour is BS.

[Anonymous]

Right now going from LB to DC is 30 min according to Google Maps. Going opposite evening traffic.

[Anonymous]

I wouldn't buy there because the schools aren't my preference but we have friends who live there and love it. Their kids swim and kayak all the time. I think it's s beautiful neighborhood with some very interesting mid century modern homes,