Best Curb Appeal Neighborhoods in Potomac/Rockville/Bethesda

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Anonymous wrote:Try Lux Manor. Beautiful homes on large lots. Friendly neighbors. Good schools.

too close to 495 and bad high school district.

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Anonymous wrote:Try Lux Manor. Beautiful homes on large lots. Friendly neighbors. Good schools.

too close to 495 and bad high school district.

and very close to 270.

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Anonymous wrote:Chevy Chase Village, Edgemoor.

+1. Edgemoor is especially walkable and really pretty.

Not enough sidewalks, you never see kids outside playing, in contrast to East Bethesda, which is like kid central.

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Anonymous wrote:And you better be damn sure, for their sakes, that your kids don't go to school and brag about living in a parvenu paradise: the kids that did that got beat up and mocked!

Ugh. It's posts like this that make me worry about BCC high school vs. somewhere like Wotton. Get a grip.

I don't understand these two posts at all. Please explain.

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Anonymous wrote:Try Lux Manor. Beautiful homes on large lots. Friendly neighbors. Good schools.

What schools feed into Luxmanor? I agree the houses are lovely.

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Tilden Woods in Rockville is lovely. Been there for swim meets - seems like an awesome community, but alas not walkable to anything beyond parks & pool apparently. Am I right?

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Anonymous wrote:Try Lux Manor. Beautiful homes on large lots. Friendly neighbors. Good schools.

too close to 495 and bad high school district.

and very close to 270.

Is this a joke??

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Anonymous wrote:Try Lux Manor. Beautiful homes on large lots. Friendly neighbors. Good schools.

too close to 495 and bad high school district.

and very close to 270.

Is this a joke??

Walter Johnson High School is bad? Or is it Wootton...? Lux Manor elementary school is one of the few that is not overcrowded. It is not close to the beltway or too close to 270, I mean it is close enough if you need to get on the highway but not so close it's in your backyard.
This must be a joke.

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Anonymous wrote:Copenhaver in Potomac

+1

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Derwood Station/Hollybrook by Shady Grove Metro station

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Historic West End in Rockville

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Anonymous wrote:Try Lux Manor. Beautiful homes on large lots. Friendly neighbors. Good schools.

too close to 495 and bad high school district.

and very close to 270.

Is this a joke??

On these forums, if it doesn't feed into Whitman HS or Langley HS, it has a bad high school district.

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Anonymous wrote:Kenwood

Probably close to the truth. Kenwood isn't as manicured as a southern neighborhood, but it leans that way. It's kind of not to many locals tastes, which is why Kenwood properties sell at a discount to nearby Somerset.

That's totally not true. The larger homes in kenwood are 3-4 million and they go pretty quickly. Somerset is nice, but the prices are about half of kenwood and if you like the kenwood aesthetic you will find somerset to be scruffy (or kenwood too manicured, if you prefer somerset).

+1. Prior PP doesn't know what she is talking about.

I'm afraid you two are the ones who don't know what you are talking about!

I'm a multi-decade resident of the area: I've been around and know lots of folks and I'll share the truth. Kenwood is known as the neighborhood you went ga-ga over if you made a small pile of cash between the 20s and the 70s and wanted to tattoo "RICH" on your forehead: that makes it a touch cheesy. And before you harp on me, I've know some of Kenwood's 'best': a construction firm's owner, a founder of a top law firm, a jet-setting surgeon, and, gasp, the guy who told national TV his special underwear saved him from a fire.

If showed a rando American photos of Kenwood and Somerset houses and asked which costs more, they'd all say Kenwood. But the truth is Kenwood is cheaper per square foot, Dorset goes through both 'hoods, trust me when I say the comparable Kenwood homes sell at a discount to Somerset. Part of this is that Kenwood is remote, whereas a lot of Somerset is walkable to either FH or Bethesda. And part of this is that a lot of folks don't want to look like a mid-20th century parvenu. Houses in Somerset have sold for $4M+, which AFAIK, has never happened in Kenwood. Kenwood CC is notoriously a cheese fest, too.

To OP: I'm not saying don't live there. I'm saying don't make the mistake that so many Kenwood residents make and think that others in the area are jealous of you. I have never heard anyone outside envy Kenwood, but almost every Kenwood resident boasts about it. I like the Yoshinos myself, but seeing those pissy little yellow signs every five feet ruins so much of the appeal. And you better be damn sure, for their sakes, that your kids don't go to school and brag about living in a parvenu paradise: the kids that did that got beat up and mocked!

Thanks for making me look up the word parvenu. This post reads like satire -- "just dishing the dirt, my dear" -- but it's an example of why DCUM can be fun. Sometimes.