Can somebody please exain why South Arlington is considered inferior to North Arlington?

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Anonymous wrote:Apples and oranges. I only left the city if I could walk everywhere and have great public schools. Walk everywhere--meaning gym, drycleaners, multiple grocery stores, shops, pharmacy, parks, bars, Metro, restaurants...while having sidewalks, etc. The area around Clarendon is the only thing that met all if my requirements. We settled on LV for these factors.

If walkability weren't an issue--I would have opened my search outside of Arlington because what's an extra few minutes in a car at that point and I could get more house for the $.

Somebody valuing a large house and large lot is never going to make the same choices and that's fine. I'm the first to admit there are much prettier neighborhoods out there--but I love am urban feel.

I live in Arlington and don't consider Clarendon to have an urban feel. VERY SUBurban, maybe. Like the Dulles Town Center or something.

[Anonymous]

Who are all of these posters keeping this thread alive?! Why do you keep posting such nonsense?!

So embarrassing as an Arlington resident.

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Anonymous wrote:The Lyon Village Shopping Center (Italian Store, etc.) is also really, really nice now since the renovation.

I guess it must have been even worse before the renovation, but the Lyon Village Shopping Center is a plain-old strip-mall, with a big parking lot in front and no walkable connection to the real Lyon Village neighborhood because of the high-traffic Lee Highway and said big parking lot. It is isolated between Spout Run, Lee Highway and 66 and looks like a 1950's suburban nightmare.

Hopefully this can be tore down soon and replaced with high density apartments with retail, like in the Clarendon and Courthouse areas.

It's a nice strip mall with high-end shopsand it doesn't look bad at all. The renovation adds a contemporary flair to it. And in terms of size, it's like and old fashioned "park and shop," not the oversized strip malls you usually find in the suburbs.

Another plus is that it's on the bike trail, and a good pit stop for the cyclists.

I didn't know Giant and CVS were considered "high end shops" in Northern Arlington.

An upscale burger joint, BGR; an upscale Italian Store and deli, the Italian Store; a decent coffee shop, Starbucks; an expensive bike shop; a CVS with the cash registers (not self check out) = upscale strip mall.

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As much as I love the LV shopping center I would never ever call it "high end."

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Anonymous wrote:CCH has a timeless quality. LV is very much flavor of the month. When the lemmings realize how ugly, over-hyped and congested it is, they'll be off to the next place.

This is why the inventory has hovered at near zero month-to-month for the last 10 years....

I basically see Lyon Village as Pimmit Hills East. Not very attractive but over-hyped as hell.

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Anonymous wrote:As much as I love the LV shopping center I would never ever call it "high end."

I live in LV and think its eyesore. That CVS was always the slowest in the fucking world too. I switched my prescriptions to the Walgreens by Whole Foods. The Giant is seriously third world in the produce dept. and 1/2 the shit is past expiration date. Did somebody seriously call it high-end? Ha! I love the Italian Store--but the rest could go...

I've seen much nicer strip malls in Woodbridge.

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Anonymous wrote:As much as I love the LV shopping center I would never ever call it "high end."

Not to mention the pawn shop and hookah bar directly across the street. Not high-end at all.

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Anonymous wrote:As much as I love the LV shopping center I would never ever call it "high end."

I live in LV and think its eyesore. That CVS was always the slowest in the fucking world too. I switched my prescriptions to the Walgreens by Whole Foods. The Giant is seriously third world in the produce dept. and 1/2 the shit is past expiration date. Did somebody seriously call it high-end? Ha! I love the Italian Store--but the rest could go...

I've seen much nicer strip malls in Woodbridge.

To be fair, the Starbucks is great if you want to see grubby middle-aged white people who rarely bother to shave or put on any make-up on the weekends in their native habitat.

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Anonymous wrote:Apples and oranges. I only left the city if I could walk everywhere and have great public schools. Walk everywhere--meaning gym, drycleaners, multiple grocery stores, shops, pharmacy, parks, bars, Metro, restaurants...while having sidewalks, etc. The area around Clarendon is the only thing that met all if my requirements. We settled on LV for these factors.

If walkability weren't an issue--I would have opened my search outside of Arlington because what's an extra few minutes in a car at that point and I could get more house for the $.

Somebody valuing a large house and large lot is never going to make the same choices and that's fine. I'm the first to admit there are much prettier neighborhoods out there--but I love am urban feel.

I live in Arlington and don't consider Clarendon to have an urban feel. VERY SUBurban, maybe. Like the Dulles Town Center or something.

Nah--go to Circa on a Friday or Saturday night around 11pm--rooftop of Eventide or Fat Shorty's for a Belgian beer and sausage at midnight. The people no longer are in shit clothes and brown flip flops. You'll forget your in Arlington. There are actually hot women in nice clothes. I've been here off and on for 15 years and it is very different right now. In fact--it's turned into frickin Adams Morgans with the crowds, noise and drunks.

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Anonymous wrote:As much as I love the LV shopping center I would never ever call it "high end."

Not to mention the pawn shop and hookah bar directly across the street. Not high-end at all.

That's a different strip mall.

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Anonymous wrote:CCH has a timeless quality. LV is very much flavor of the month. When the lemmings realize how ugly, over-hyped and congested it is, they'll be off to the next place.

This is why the inventory has hovered at near zero month-to-month for the last 10 years....

I basically see Lyon Village as Pimmit Hills East. Not very attractive but over-hyped as hell.

Classic, large turn of the century homes versus tiny 1940s GI boxes that now look run down. No comparison, but nice try.

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Anonymous wrote:Who are all of these posters keeping this thread alive?! Why do you keep posting such nonsense?!

So embarrassing as an Arlington resident.

Fellow Arlington resident here. I will admit I posted once or twice in this thread but I agree, it is become embarrassing. I'll stop feeding the trolls.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't really understand the North v. South thing myself, especially since there's at least three sections of Arlington. There's South Arlington (south of Route 50), there's North Arlington (north of I-66), and there's Central Arlington (between 66 and 50).

I understand why people from Bluemont, Lyon Village, and Buckingham want to consider themselves part of North Arlington, but come on, really?

I'm pretty sure my street sign here in 22203 has an "N" on it.

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Anonymous wrote:As much as I love the LV shopping center I would never ever call it "high end."

I live in LV and think its eyesore. That CVS was always the slowest in the fucking world too. I switched my prescriptions to the Walgreens by Whole Foods. The Giant is seriously third world in the produce dept. and 1/2 the shit is past expiration date. Did somebody seriously call it high-end? Ha! I love the Italian Store--but the rest could go...

I've seen much nicer strip malls in Woodbridge.

Same here. We live around the corner and stop by for Italian Store or bike tuning/supplies sometimes. But the CVS Rx dept sucks as does the Giant. The parking lot is tight too. On second thought, love might be too strong of a word.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't really understand the North v. South thing myself, especially since there's at least three sections of Arlington. There's South Arlington (south of Route 50), there's North Arlington (north of I-66), and there's Central Arlington (between 66 and 50).

I understand why people from Bluemont, Lyon Village, and Buckingham want to consider themselves part of North Arlington, but come on, really?

I'm pretty sure my street sign here in 22203 has an "N" on it.

And 22205.