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

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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.

That poster was an obvious troll.

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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.

If they were so classic, they wouldn't be torn down or bumped out with such frequency. Whatever charm LV had disappeared within the last decade. It's horrid today.

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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.

If they were so classic, they wouldn't be torn down or bumped out with such frequency. Whatever charm LV had disappeared within the last decade. It's horrid today.

Take a drive down Key Blvd or Hartford Street, or almost any other street in LV. Close to 100% of the homes are original, and they have been beautifully restored. You obviously don't know what you are talking about. The tiny cape cods or bungalows closer to Courthouse are the ones that tend to get torn down or expanded. Even the builders like BCN and Griffin Head renovate the larger homes, they don't get torn down.

Next week will we be debating Pimmit Hills v. Bethesda? This is getting ridiculous.

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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.

How do you carry costco home

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LV is a congested mess. Very banal and completely overrated. The houses there aren't very nice and wouldn't get a second glance anywhere else.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't think so. The North Arlington homes are far more likely to have SAHM parents who are heavily involved with the schools and their children's education. South Arlington tends to have more two-earner households that rely on schools as a form of daycare.

Where are all these SAHMs with a HHI that can afford a $1M home? I mean, between Bethesda/Potomac, McLean/Great Falls, and NW DC, they're getting stretched thin...

Guess you haven't been in N Arlington on a long time. SAHMs are a dime a dozen and it's tough to finds home under $1M these days. And it's not like these people are super rich/affluent. Just regular upper middle class.

I guess there's just a never-ending supply of folks with HHIs over $200k ... since all the other areas I mentioned need at least a HHI of $200k to enter these days. Or maybe they're just house-poor and barely have money for anything else.

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South Arlington

If you are upper middle class you can buy a new home
If you are middle class you can buy an updated old home
If you are poor you can buy an old home

North Arlington

If you are rich class you can buy a new home
If you are upper middle class you can buy an updated old home
If you are middle you can buy an old home
If you are poor you can buy an old home in south arlington

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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.

That poster was an obvious troll.

Or just calling attention to the ridiculousness of it all....which was borne out when several people happily trumpeted the superiority of their north north Arlington neighborhoods.

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Anonymous wrote:South Arlington

If you are upper middle class you can buy a new home
If you are middle class you can buy an updated old home
If you are poor you can buy an old home

North Arlington

If you are rich class you can buy a new home
If you are upper middle class you can buy an updated old home
If you are middle you can buy an old home
If you are poor you can buy an old home in south arlington

You almost got it right but it should be:
If you are poor you can get govt subsidized housing

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But not public housing. Arlington shifts its neediest to other jurisdictions to deal with

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Anything that BCN has built -- 35th St. Dittmar, Abingdon, 36th St. Drive around my dear, drive around

honey. i'm pretty sure you're confusing your envy with another emotion.

Not really, babe. I live in CCH in one of the so-called timeless homes. We have spent a fortune renovating it and expanding it and I quite like it here. We homeowners do a much better job at our renovations than the builders.

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Anonymous wrote:South Arlington

If you are upper middle class you can buy a new home
If you are middle class you can buy an updated old home
If you are poor you can buy an old home

North Arlington

If you are rich class you can buy a new home
If you are upper middle class you can buy an updated old home
If you are middle you can buy an old home
If you are poor you can buy an old home in south arlington

You almost got it right but it should be:
If you are poor you can get govt subsidized housing

If you are poor you may qualify for subsidized housing but that doesn't necessarily mean you can GET subsidized housing. There is a limited supply. And although I don't know this for sure - I'm willing to bet that there isn't a ton in Arlington.

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Anonymous wrote:LV is a congested mess. Very banal and completely overrated. The houses there aren't very nice and wouldn't get a second glance anywhere else.

LV is typical DC-area 1910s-1930s construction for the upper-middle classes. Similar homes can be found in AU Park, older Silver Spring, older Alexandria, Chevy Chase DC. So much Lyon Village hate this week.