Most expensive suburb of DC?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Let's look at most expensive places per sq.ft and not including exclusive communities, here we are talking about suburbs, which in DC area is usually a mix of opulent mansions and fixer upper dated homes and everything in between.

Let's also say, if you had 2 mil to spend on a house and wanted to live in a suburb, where would you go?

I, as a NoVA person, personally would go to Arlington or McLean.

I would never spend $2 million in Arlington. Why would you want to spend the top of the range for that market? I would definitely buy in McLean, where $2 million houses are not an anomaly.

Because my DH works downtown and his (and, by extension, our) quality of life depends upon his commute, so I want his commute to be as short as possible. Also, we all like frequenting events downtown, so I personally would like to be as close as possible to downtown, while still actually being in VA. I myself work in Tysons so Arlingon or McLean would work well for that. I also prefer walkable communities and, having grown up in McLean (and my parents still live there), I know it is, at best, minimally walkable.

Fair enough, but there are parts of McLean as convenient to dc as Arlington. Plus our area of McLean is totally walkable (and we moved from a great north Arlington neighborhood that had zero walkability). That said if I wanted to be closer to downtown than McLean, I'd skip Arlington and spend my $2 million in Kent or palisades or spring valley.

[Anonymous]

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Because my DH works downtown and his (and, by extension, our) quality of life depends upon his commute, so I want his commute to be as short as possible. Also, we all like frequenting events downtown, so I personally would like to be as close as possible to downtown, while still actually being in VA. I myself work in Tysons so Arlingon or McLean would work well for that. I also prefer walkable communities and, having grown up in McLean (and my parents still live there), I know it is, at best, minimally walkable.

Country Club Hills is the only place in Arlington where people regularly drop $2 million on a house and it's less walkable than much of McLean.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Because my DH works downtown and his (and, by extension, our) quality of life depends upon his commute, so I want his commute to be as short as possible. Also, we all like frequenting events downtown, so I personally would like to be as close as possible to downtown, while still actually being in VA. I myself work in Tysons so Arlingon or McLean would work well for that. I also prefer walkable communities and, having grown up in McLean (and my parents still live there), I know it is, at best, minimally walkable.

Country Club Hills is the only place in Arlington where people regularly drop $2 million on a house and it's less walkable than much of McLean.

That's fine. I need not spend up to the full amount of the allotted $2 million to get what we personally are specifically looking for.

[Anonymous]

All you bimbos live in $700k ramblers in Ashburn. Stop with the aspirational talk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All you bimbos live in $700k ramblers in Ashburn. Stop with the aspirational talk.

Bimbos in Ashburn live in McMansions or double-wide townhouses, not ramblers. I don't know if Ashburn even has ramblers - duh - that would assume they were built before Ashburn even existed.

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22:05

Wow, I'd love to see a $700k rambler in Ashburn. It would be quite a house, considering you can get garage mahals and plastic palaces for $500k in Ashburn.

22:20

Not so snippy there, although you do have a good point about ramblers in Ashburn. But Ashburn has actually existed since the early 1800s when it was a huge farm called Farmwell. Legend is that a ash tree burned on the farm, and the name of the farm was changed to Ashburn in about 1850. So even sad little exurbs in Virginia have some history assocaited with them.

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Not so snippy there, although you do have a good point about ramblers in Ashburn. But Ashburn has actually existed since the early 1800s when it was a huge farm called Farmwell. Legend is that a ash tree burned on the farm, and the name of the farm was changed to Ashburn in about 1850. So even sad little exurbs in Virginia have some history assocaited with them.

Point taken, PP. But my larger point was that Ashburn, as the suburb and area to live we know today, did not exist. But, as I mentioned, point taken.

[Anonymous]

The largest point is that Reston and Ashburn are as desirable as a nether region rash on the night of the big date.

[Anonymous]

Any ramblers you find in Ashburn are on the back roads in from Leesburg. About to be knocked down and have a mcmansion and or townhome development built on them. Ashburn is new home central.

[Anonymous]

9:56 Snap! You are one clever girly!