Reserves at Black Rock (Darnestown)

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No my definition if great things is...

If you ship and live concrete... not the best place.

If you like vineyards, farms, CSAs, nature, hikes, kayaking, canoeing, off road biking, soccer, tennis, pools, boating, community, kindness... I can go on forever. It’s a great place to live.

My job is 15 minutes from there.

And for every one of those things (except possibly the community and kindness), you have to get into the car and drive.

I don’t care if I drive 10 minutes and have plenty of parking.

Did DC most my life had to drive too, took longer, people are rude, cars cut you off, ... parking alone took more time than my drive.

Nobody is buying that you walk everywhere so stop trying to sell that snake oil.

Then it's a good place for you. That still doesn't make it close to things.

When you go to visit your neighbors, do you walk, or do you drive?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

No my definition if great things is...

If you ship and live concrete... not the best place.

If you like vineyards, farms, CSAs, nature, hikes, kayaking, canoeing, off road biking, soccer, tennis, pools, boating, community, kindness... I can go on forever. It’s a great place to live.

My job is 15 minutes from there.

And for every one of those things (except possibly the community and kindness), you have to get into the car and drive.

I don’t care if I drive 10 minutes and have plenty of parking.

Did DC most my life had to drive too, took longer, people are rude, cars cut you off, ... parking alone took more time than my drive.

Nobody is buying that you walk everywhere so stop trying to sell that snake oil.

Then it's a good place for you. That still doesn't make it close to things.

When you go to visit your neighbors, do you walk, or do you drive?

Drive to a neighbor? Um, no I walk. WTF would I drive to a neighbor?

It is a good place for me and and 10's of thousands of other people.

Enjoy yourself and be self assured enough about it to not always be shitting on everybody else's lives.

See you at the soccerplex.

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Anonymous wrote:$1m+ big houses by craftmark/classic homes on big lots. What’s the story on this neighborhood? How many homes are they planning on building?

Every time I drive by there, I think two things:

1. Look at these big dumb houses out here in the middle of nowhere.
2. What is it a reserve of?

It’s close to tons of great things.

Your definition of close must be different from mine.

why do you drive by there so often?

PP you're responding to. I don't drive by there often, because it's out in the middle of nowhere.

It says “Every time I drive by there”

If you were more connected to people and nature instead of things you would not be in the middle of nowhere there.

Probably about once or twice a year. And in general, big houses on big lots, where you have to drive to everything, aren't the best way to create connections to people and nature. But if you live there and you're happy, that's good.

I lived in DC we drive everywhere too.

[Anonymous]

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I lived in DC we drive everywhere too.

Stop doing that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

No my definition if great things is...

If you ship and live concrete... not the best place.

If you like vineyards, farms, CSAs, nature, hikes, kayaking, canoeing, off road biking, soccer, tennis, pools, boating, community, kindness... I can go on forever. It’s a great place to live.

My job is 15 minutes from there.

And for every one of those things (except possibly the community and kindness), you have to get into the car and drive.

I don’t care if I drive 10 minutes and have plenty of parking.

Did DC most my life had to drive too, took longer, people are rude, cars cut you off, ... parking alone took more time than my drive.

Nobody is buying that you walk everywhere so stop trying to sell that snake oil.

Then it's a good place for you. That still doesn't make it close to things.

When you go to visit your neighbors, do you walk, or do you drive?

Drive to a neighbor? Um, no I walk. WTF would I drive to a neighbor?

It is a good place for me and and 10's of thousands of other people.

Enjoy yourself and be self assured enough about it to not always be shitting on everybody else's lives.

See you at the soccerplex.

Tens of thousands of other people live at the Reserve at Black Rock in Darnestown? Maybe we're talking about two different places.

[Anonymous]

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I lived in DC we drive everywhere too.

Stop doing that.

It's impossible. Most of DC is a suburb not an actual city. Most of the city is not walkable.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

No my definition if great things is...

If you ship and live concrete... not the best place.

If you like vineyards, farms, CSAs, nature, hikes, kayaking, canoeing, off road biking, soccer, tennis, pools, boating, community, kindness... I can go on forever. It’s a great place to live.

My job is 15 minutes from there.

And for every one of those things (except possibly the community and kindness), you have to get into the car and drive.

I don’t care if I drive 10 minutes and have plenty of parking.

Did DC most my life had to drive too, took longer, people are rude, cars cut you off, ... parking alone took more time than my drive.

Nobody is buying that you walk everywhere so stop trying to sell that snake oil.

Then it's a good place for you. That still doesn't make it close to things.

When you go to visit your neighbors, do you walk, or do you drive?

Drive to a neighbor? Um, no I walk. WTF would I drive to a neighbor?

It is a good place for me and and 10's of thousands of other people.

Enjoy yourself and be self assured enough about it to not always be shitting on everybody else's lives.

See you at the soccerplex.

Tens of thousands of other people live at the Reserve at Black Rock in Darnestown? Maybe we're talking about two different places.

Stay in the city ... why so myopic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I lived in DC we drive everywhere too.

Stop doing that.

It's impossible. Most of DC is a suburb not an actual city. Most of the city is not walkable.

It's not impossible to not drive everywhere. No matter where you are in DC.

[Anonymous]

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Tens of thousands of other people live at the Reserve at Black Rock in Darnestown? Maybe we're talking about two different places.

Stay in the city ... why so myopic.

I live in the upcounty.

[Anonymous]

Not sure why all the sudden interest. This development has been in various phases of development for over ten years. Horrible timing as they got their master plan approved at just about the same time as the financial crisis hit. Looks like they are picking up some steam again. There are 43 lots in the original plan.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

No my definition if great things is...

If you ship and live concrete... not the best place.

If you like vineyards, farms, CSAs, nature, hikes, kayaking, canoeing, off road biking, soccer, tennis, pools, boating, community, kindness... I can go on forever. It’s a great place to live.

My job is 15 minutes from there.

And for every one of those things (except possibly the community and kindness), you have to get into the car and drive.

I don’t care if I drive 10 minutes and have plenty of parking.

Did DC most my life had to drive too, took longer, people are rude, cars cut you off, ... parking alone took more time than my drive.

Nobody is buying that you walk everywhere so stop trying to sell that snake oil.

Then it's a good place for you. That still doesn't make it close to things.

When you go to visit your neighbors, do you walk, or do you drive?

I walk my dog 2 miles to the creek for him to jump through the water. And 2 miles back 5 days a week. Even in the winter... it so incredibly therapeutic.

Just me, my dog and the sound of silence.

Oh and yea I walk to neighbors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I lived in DC we drive everywhere too.

Stop doing that.

It's impossible. Most of DC is a suburb not an actual city. Most of the city is not walkable.

It's not impossible to not drive everywhere. No matter where you are in DC.

Can you explain to me how to get to stephenson place to Georgetown hospital without a car?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I lived in DC we drive everywhere too.

Stop doing that.

It's impossible. Most of DC is a suburb not an actual city. Most of the city is not walkable.

It's not impossible to not drive everywhere. No matter where you are in DC.

Can you explain to me how to get to stephenson place to Georgetown hospital without a car?

By bike it's about 5 miles, downhill. That takes about half an hour. But of course on the way back, it's uphill.

Or you could take the M4 to Sibley and then the D6 to Georgetown. That takes a little less than an hour.

Less realistically, you could walk, but that would take an hour and a half, which is usually longer than I want to walk when I'm trying to get from Point A to Point B.

In any case, the point isn't that you never have to go anywhere by car. It's that you don't have to go everywhere by car.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I lived in DC we drive everywhere too.

Stop doing that.

It's impossible. Most of DC is a suburb not an actual city. Most of the city is not walkable.

It's not impossible to not drive everywhere. No matter where you are in DC.

Can you explain to me how to get to stephenson place to Georgetown hospital without a car?

By bike it's about 5 miles, downhill. That takes about half an hour. But of course on the way back, it's uphill.

Or you could take the M4 to Sibley and then the D6 to Georgetown. That takes a little less than an hour.

Less realistically, you could walk, but that would take an hour and a half, which is usually longer than I want to walk when I'm trying to get from Point A to Point B.

In any case, the point isn't that you never have to go anywhere by car. It's that you don't have to go everywhere by car.

So basically, it makes no sense to do anything but drive.

When I shop for food I end up with no less than 8 bags... should I get a cart that I drag behind my bike.

I'm going to Kennedy Center and Dinner at the Wharf... how should I get there? I'm wearing formal clothes.

My son has soccer practice is in Rockville/Bethesda, how shall he get there?

I'm boating on the weekend out of the Wharf with my family (5). We will be packing a picnic lunch. Should we bike?

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You shop for food at Georgetown Hospital?

Anyway - lots of people don't drive everywhere. (One-third of households in DC don't even have a car.) People walk, people bike (including to buy groceries), people take the bus (including in formal clothes). If you drive everywhere, it's because you choose to. Not because you have to. Not because it makes no sense to do anything else. BECAUSE YOU CHOOSE TO.