Recommend your Bethesda/Chevy Chase Neighborhood

[Anonymous]

We're looking to move and looking for suggestions. Criteria:

- Lot sizes in the 7,500 - 10,000 sq. ft. range so we can have a bit of a yard
- Streets - Prefer wider streets, at least wide enough for two cars to pass easily, prefer neighborhoods where people have garages and use them rather than park a bunch of cars on the street
- Kids and kid-friendly (toddlers and young ES-age) - nearby park is a bonus
- Price - up to about $1.4mm if move-in ready, around $900,000 - $1.1mm if needs work

Bonus - (1) easy/direct commute to DC for work, (2) proximity to shopping, restaurants, etc.

We've considered:
- East Bethesda - I find most of the streets and lots to be claustrophobic - small lots, small streets
- Somerset and Chevy Chase West - not bad but expensive for what you get, some lots are pretty small
- Rollingwood - Not bad, maybe too far east for easy access to shopping, restaurants, etc? proximity to Candy Cane park is great.
- Neighborhood north of Jones Bridge between Conn. and Jones Mill (don't know the name)

thanks

[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're looking to move and looking for suggestions. Criteria:

- Lot sizes in the 7,500 - 10,000 sq. ft. range so we can have a bit of a yard
- Streets - Prefer wider streets, at least wide enough for two cars to pass easily, prefer neighborhoods where people have garages and use them rather than park a bunch of cars on the street- Kids and kid-friendly (toddlers and young ES-age) - nearby park is a bonus
- Price - up to about $1.4mm if move-in ready, around $900,000 - $1.1mm if needs work

Bonus - (1) easy/direct commute to DC for work, (2) proximity to shopping, restaurants, etc.

We've considered:
- East Bethesda - I find most of the streets and lots to be claustrophobic - small lots, small streets
- Somerset and Chevy Chase West - not bad but expensive for what you get, some lots are pretty small
- Rollingwood - Not bad, maybe too far east for easy access to shopping, restaurants, etc? proximity to Candy Cane park is great.
- Neighborhood north of Jones Bridge between Conn. and Jones Mill (don't know the name)

thanks

Why are you so weird about the street thing? I can just imagine wanting a garage, though personally I couldn't care less. I cannot fathom why you would care whether other people use their garage or not. What is the deal? Are you such a crappy driver that you are scared of crashing into parked cars?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're looking to move and looking for suggestions. Criteria:

- Lot sizes in the 7,500 - 10,000 sq. ft. range so we can have a bit of a yard
- Streets - Prefer wider streets, at least wide enough for two cars to pass easily, prefer neighborhoods where people have garages and use them rather than park a bunch of cars on the street- Kids and kid-friendly (toddlers and young ES-age) - nearby park is a bonus
- Price - up to about $1.4mm if move-in ready, around $900,000 - $1.1mm if needs work

Bonus - (1) easy/direct commute to DC for work, (2) proximity to shopping, restaurants, etc.

We've considered:
- East Bethesda - I find most of the streets and lots to be claustrophobic - small lots, small streets
- Somerset and Chevy Chase West - not bad but expensive for what you get, some lots are pretty small
- Rollingwood - Not bad, maybe too far east for easy access to shopping, restaurants, etc? proximity to Candy Cane park is great.
- Neighborhood north of Jones Bridge between Conn. and Jones Mill (don't know the name)

thanks

Why are you so weird about the street thing? I can just imagine wanting a garage, though personally I couldn't care less. I cannot fathom why you would care whether other people use their garage or not. What is the deal? Are you such a crappy driver that you are scared of crashing into parked cars?

It looks trashy to park cars on the street. My mother in law also holds this belief.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're looking to move and looking for suggestions. Criteria:

- Lot sizes in the 7,500 - 10,000 sq. ft. range so we can have a bit of a yard
- Streets - Prefer wider streets, at least wide enough for two cars to pass easily, prefer neighborhoods where people have garages and use them rather than park a bunch of cars on the street- Kids and kid-friendly (toddlers and young ES-age) - nearby park is a bonus
- Price - up to about $1.4mm if move-in ready, around $900,000 - $1.1mm if needs work

Bonus - (1) easy/direct commute to DC for work, (2) proximity to shopping, restaurants, etc.

We've considered:
- East Bethesda - I find most of the streets and lots to be claustrophobic - small lots, small streets
- Somerset and Chevy Chase West - not bad but expensive for what you get, some lots are pretty small
- Rollingwood - Not bad, maybe too far east for easy access to shopping, restaurants, etc? proximity to Candy Cane park is great.
- Neighborhood north of Jones Bridge between Conn. and Jones Mill (don't know the name)

thanks

Why are you so weird about the street thing? I can just imagine wanting a garage, though personally I couldn't care less. I cannot fathom why you would care whether other people use their garage or not. What is the deal? Are you such a crappy driver that you are scared of crashing into parked cars?

It looks trashy to park cars on the street. My mother in law also holds this belief.

Then don't try live in a semi-urban setting.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
Why are you so weird about the street thing? I can just imagine wanting a garage, though personally I couldn't care less. I cannot fathom why you would care whether other people use their garage or not. What is the deal? Are you such a crappy driver that you are scared of crashing into parked cars?

OP Here. Not sure why you care about what I'm looking for in a neighborhood, but it's not about driving through there. It's (a) a safety issue - safer for pedestrians and kids, especially if there aren't sidewalks, and (b) personal preference. When I look out my window, I like to see green yards and my neighbor's houses, not rows of cars. It looks more orderly.

[Anonymous]

OK, I can tell you where not to look:

Chevy Chase Village, Chevy Chase sections 3,4,5, Martin's Additions, Kenwood.

You could try the Hamlet although I have not been up there in years and can't remember what the streets are like. I also do not have any idea what prices are like there now - it was about 10 years ago when we last looked there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Why are you so weird about the street thing? I can just imagine wanting a garage, though personally I couldn't care less. I cannot fathom why you would care whether other people use their garage or not. What is the deal? Are you such a crappy driver that you are scared of crashing into parked cars?

OP Here. Not sure why you care about what I'm looking for in a neighborhood, but it's not about driving through there. It's (a) a safety issue - safer for pedestrians and kids, especially if there aren't sidewalks, and (b) personal preference. When I look out my window, I like to see green yards and my neighbor's houses, not rows of cars. It looks more orderly.

Then don't try to live in a semi-urban setting. I'm not making a moral judgement, just being practical. Close-in, older neighborhoods tend to have small lots and limited parking. The result is that more people park on the street. Wide streets, garages and off-street parking are standard features the further out you go.

[Anonymous]

- Neighborhood north of Jones Bridge between Conn. and Jones Mill (don't know the name)

This is my neighborhood: North Chevy Chase. We have a third of an acre but most lots are not that large. Some streets are very narrow although most have sidewalks.

I think Kenwood is one place that wouldn't have a lot of cars parked on the streets, because the original houses are large enough that people haven't converted their garages into living space. But it's impossible on your budget.

[Anonymous]

Sounds like you want the approval of your mother in law, if not and you want things orderly, I woudl hate to be yoru neighbor in fear I might not have my yard manicured to your standards.

You might think people in Bethesda and CC care that much but we really don't.

[Anonymous]

NCC PP here again. You might want to check out the newer neighborhood at the southeast corner of Connecticut and Jones Bridge - I think it's called Chevy Chase Commons. The top of your budget should get you in there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're looking to move and looking for suggestions. Criteria:

- Lot sizes in the 7,500 - 10,000 sq. ft. range so we can have a bit of a yard
- Streets - Prefer wider streets, at least wide enough for two cars to pass easily, prefer neighborhoods where people have garages and use them rather than park a bunch of cars on the street- Kids and kid-friendly (toddlers and young ES-age) - nearby park is a bonus
- Price - up to about $1.4mm if move-in ready, around $900,000 - $1.1mm if needs work

Bonus - (1) easy/direct commute to DC for work, (2) proximity to shopping, restaurants, etc.

We've considered:
- East Bethesda - I find most of the streets and lots to be claustrophobic - small lots, small streets
- Somerset and Chevy Chase West - not bad but expensive for what you get, some lots are pretty small
- Rollingwood - Not bad, maybe too far east for easy access to shopping, restaurants, etc? proximity to Candy Cane park is great.
- Neighborhood north of Jones Bridge between Conn. and Jones Mill (don't know the name)

thanks

Why are you so weird about the street thing? I can just imagine wanting a garage, though personally I couldn't care less. I cannot fathom why you would care whether other people use their garage or not. What is the deal? Are you such a crappy driver that you are scared of crashing into parked cars?

It looks trashy to park cars on the street. My mother in law also holds this belief.

My husband hates it too. We vetoed Somerset largely because of this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Then don't try to live in a semi-urban setting. I'm not making a moral judgement, just being practical. Close-in, older neighborhoods tend to have small lots and limited parking. The result is that more people park on the street. Wide streets, garages and off-street parking are standard features the further out you go.

OP here. This is a totally fair and valid point. (We've lived in this area 10 years, so I know by now that many of the neighborhoods make me feel claustrophobic.) But I'm wondering if we're missing anything closer in. For example, Rollingwood has pretty wide streets and bigger lots. It's close-in, although a little east of the rest of the neighborhoods. But I had never been through there until a friend suggested it a few weeks ago. So I'm trying to get suggestions for any neighborhoods we might be missing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NCC PP here again. You might want to check out the newer neighborhood at the southeast corner of Connecticut and Jones Bridge - I think it's called Chevy Chase Commons. The top of your budget should get you in there.

(OP) Thanks. We just looked at a house in your neighborhood for the first time this past weekend. We had never driven through there before, and I really liked it.