Is AU Park the next Bethesda?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Haha that Johnny McDeveloper builds a house with “better construction” than a solid brick, plaster, slate, actual stone foundation house from 1930.

I think you meant “better open plan”

DCUM is where middlebrows reign. While not all new houses represent improvements in technology, it’s clear that, inter alia, energy efficiency can be wildly better with new construction.

In our old. boring AU park colonial we have original slate roof / original windows (with storms).
We have had a energy audit and they were not surprised that there was little to recommend. We have radiator heat with sensors on each radiator so that each room can be a different temperature.

I also think when you talk "energy efficiency" you need to consider total cost to the environment. What is the cost of making new windows? You can not replace the hardwoods that were used when ours were made.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Palisades, the part of Wesley Heights closest to Mann, parts of Kent, all have better houses and are better neighborhoods.

Even more white and elitist than AU Park if that is your thing. I like AU Park. I have a good friend who lives there. Seems like a lovely neighbourhood to me.
And the houses don’t seem any different than anywhere else in the DC area.

[Anonymous]

I have no pony in this show, living as I do elsewhere in the District

But I insist that all the PPs who claim that every single AU Park home is 'ugly' come back to this thread, and name the neighborhood where they live. Where did you find a neighborhood with uniformly attractive homes? Is it a new development built out by one guy, like in Clarksburg, so there is control over the appearance of every home?

Also, I am genuinely interested to learn about a DC neighborhood -- it has to be DC, apples:apples -- where every one of the single family homes is attractive and well built, at similar price points. I can actually think of one that hasn't been mentioned. Wesley Heights might be the closest comparison.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have no pony in this show, living as I do elsewhere in the District

But I insist that all the PPs who claim that every single AU Park home is 'ugly' come back to this thread, and name the neighborhood where they live. Where did you find a neighborhood with uniformly attractive homes? Is it a new development built out by one guy, like in Clarksburg, so there is control over the appearance of every home?

Also, I am genuinely interested to learn about a DC neighborhood -- it has to be DC, apples:apples -- where every one of the single family homes is attractive and well built, at similar price points. I can actually think of one that hasn't been mentioned. Wesley Heights might be the closest comparison.

The Wesley Heights housing stock is much nicer but also much more expensive. It’s not apples to apples with the exception of maybe one street at the top of the hill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Palisades, the part of Wesley Heights closest to Mann, parts of Kent, all have better houses and are better neighborhoods.

Even more white and elitist than AU Park if that is your thing. I like AU Park. I have a good friend who lives there. Seems like a lovely neighbourhood to me.
And the houses don’t seem any different than anywhere else in the DC area.

Elitist yes but definitely not uniformly white in my area of those highlighted. Power couples of every race and sexual orientation on my street but the price point is about 4 million.