What is it like to live in Kensington MD?

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on what part of kensington. There’s Chevy chase view which is very nice but schools aren’t great. There’s The north side of Kensington which is more middle class and has terrible schools then there is the area around holy redeemer where everyone got to that catholic school, then there’s Parkwood which is normal.

Everyone in CCV sends their kids to Holy Redeemer. Plenty of ToK folks and Parkwood area folks send their kids to HR as well.

The pecking order of certain neighborhoods and schools is real.

But it’s a great place to live if you can afford it.

LOL - only in the minds of the people who think they're at the top of it.

I'm happy where we live (in-bounds for OTES), but this kind of crap does get old.

What is funny to me is our income is far higher than friends who live in the town. We just think it’s absurd to spend a million on a house. Don’t think for a minute that incomes on the other side of the tracks are less as often they are not.

Yeah, same. We could afford that much house, but when it buys you so little (other than majority White schools), that's a hard pass.

Also, you can't swing a dead cat in-bounds for OTES without hitting a parent with a PhD. The idea that DCC families are less invested in their children's education is unfounded.

True. I’m the rock view poster. We can’t afford a $1m house but we are dual income professional family (dual fed)

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on what part of kensington. There’s Chevy chase view which is very nice but schools aren’t great. There’s The north side of Kensington which is more middle class and has terrible schools then there is the area around holy redeemer where everyone got to that catholic school, then there’s Parkwood which is normal.

Everyone in CCV sends their kids to Holy Redeemer. Plenty of ToK folks and Parkwood area folks send their kids to HR as well.

The pecking order of certain neighborhoods and schools is real.

But it’s a great place to live if you can afford it.

LOL - only in the minds of the people who think they're at the top of it.

I'm happy where we live (in-bounds for OTES), but this kind of crap does get old.

What is funny to me is our income is far higher than friends who live in the town. We just think it’s absurd to spend a million on a house. Don’t think for a minute that incomes on the other side of the tracks are less as often they are not.

Yeah, same. We could afford that much house, but when it buys you so little (other than majority White schools), that's a hard pass.

Also, you can't swing a dead cat in-bounds for OTES without hitting a parent with a PhD. The idea that DCC families are less invested in their children's education is unfounded.

If anything we care more. With the money we didn’t spend on a mortgage our kids have very nice college funds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We considered Kensington but ended up in Martin's Addition's in chevy chase and honestly 10/10 recommend. It's a gorgeous community, kids have freedom to run around and play, not a busy area, great schools, walking distance to both DC shopping and brookville market area if you're in need of something quickly. Alot of families are very wealthy but honestly anyone buying a 1M+ house is well off in my opinion so that's the entire area. The families we've met, while many belong to chevy chase country club or send their kids to private schools are very kind, welcoming and good neighbors. For us, we absolutely love the area, love the community and feel as our kids get older we'll all have access to great amenities. Now ehen I go to kensington area I can't imagine living over there as to me it feels so far from where we currently are.

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OP - please tell me about living in Kensington.
PP - I can’t tell you anything about living there but let me brag for a minute about the fact that l live in Martin’s Additions. Find 1.5 million in your budget and join CC Country Club. Kensington is where the riff raff live, you don’t want to live there.

Welcome to MoCo OP, unfortunately a lot of people are classist snobs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We considered Kensington but ended up in Martin's Addition's in chevy chase and honestly 10/10 recommend. It's a gorgeous community, kids have freedom to run around and play, not a busy area, great schools, walking distance to both DC shopping and brookville market area if you're in need of something quickly. Alot of families are very wealthy but honestly anyone buying a 1M+ house is well off in my opinion so that's the entire area. The families we've met, while many belong to chevy chase country club or send their kids to private schools are very kind, welcoming and good neighbors. For us, we absolutely love the area, love the community and feel as our kids get older we'll all have access to great amenities. Now ehen I go to kensington area I can't imagine living over there as to me it feels so far from where we currently are.

😂
OP - please tell me about living in Kensington.
PP - I can’t tell you anything about living there but let me brag for a minute about the fact that l live in Martin’s Additions. Find 1.5 million in your budget and join CC Country Club. Kensington is where the riff raff live, you don’t want to live there.

Welcome to MoCo OP, unfortunately a lot of people are classist snobs.

Seriously, that post was a train wreck of “look at me, I’m doing better than you ever will.” But think of it as DCUM, not MoCo. Lots of classist snobs on DCUM.

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on what part of kensington. There’s Chevy chase view which is very nice but schools aren’t great. There’s The north side of Kensington which is more middle class and has terrible schools then there is the area around holy redeemer where everyone got to that catholic school, then there’s Parkwood which is normal.

Everyone in CCV sends their kids to Holy Redeemer. Plenty of ToK folks and Parkwood area folks send their kids to HR as well.

The pecking order of certain neighborhoods and schools is real.

But it’s a great place to live if you can afford it.

LOL - only in the minds of the people who think they're at the top of it.

I'm happy where we live (in-bounds for OTES), but this kind of crap does get old.

What is funny to me is our income is far higher than friends who live in the town. We just think it’s absurd to spend a million on a house. Don’t think for a minute that incomes on the other side of the tracks are less as often they are not.

Yeah, same. We could afford that much house, but when it buys you so little (other than majority White schools), that's a hard pass.

Also, you can't swing a dead cat in-bounds for OTES without hitting a parent with a PhD. The idea that DCC families are less invested in their children's education is unfounded.

If anything we care more. With the money we didn’t spend on a mortgage our kids have very nice college funds.

Why does everything have to be a competition?


My hesitation with Kensington is Connecticut Ave and all the traffic. It's just getting worse. If you can live with that, it's a lovely area no matter which schools you are zoned for. Everyone is friendly and welcoming.

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on what part of kensington. There’s Chevy chase view which is very nice but schools aren’t great. There’s The north side of Kensington which is more middle class and has terrible schools then there is the area around holy redeemer where everyone got to that catholic school, then there’s Parkwood which is normal.

Everyone in CCV sends their kids to Holy Redeemer. Plenty of ToK folks and Parkwood area folks send their kids to HR as well.

The pecking order of certain neighborhoods and schools is real.

But it’s a great place to live if you can afford it.

LOL - only in the minds of the people who think they're at the top of it.

I'm happy where we live (in-bounds for OTES), but this kind of crap does get old.

What is funny to me is our income is far higher than friends who live in the town. We just think it’s absurd to spend a million on a house. Don’t think for a minute that incomes on the other side of the tracks are less as often they are not.

Yeah, same. We could afford that much house, but when it buys you so little (other than majority White schools), that's a hard pass.

Also, you can't swing a dead cat in-bounds for OTES without hitting a parent with a PhD. The idea that DCC families are less invested in their children's education is unfounded.

If anything we care more. With the money we didn’t spend on a mortgage our kids have very nice college funds.

Why does everything have to be a competition?


My hesitation with Kensington is Connecticut Ave and all the traffic. It's just getting worse. If you can live with that, it's a lovely area no matter which schools you are zoned for. Everyone is friendly and welcoming.

Once you live in the area you learn the ways to avoid the Connecticut/Knowles intersection. I didn’t find the traffic in Kensington to be any worse than other close-in areas once I learned to navigate the side streets.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We considered Kensington but ended up in Martin's Addition's in chevy chase and honestly 10/10 recommend. It's a gorgeous community, kids have freedom to run around and play, not a busy area, great schools, walking distance to both DC shopping and brookville market area if you're in need of something quickly. Alot of families are very wealthy but honestly anyone buying a 1M+ house is well off in my opinion so that's the entire area. The families we've met, while many belong to chevy chase country club or send their kids to private schools are very kind, welcoming and good neighbors. For us, we absolutely love the area, love the community and feel as our kids get older we'll all have access to great amenities. Now ehen I go to kensington area I can't imagine living over there as to me it feels so far from where we currently are.

😂
OP - please tell me about living in Kensington.
PP - I can’t tell you anything about living there but let me brag for a minute about the fact that l live in Martin’s Additions. Find 1.5 million in your budget and join CC Country Club. Kensington is where the riff raff live, you don’t want to live there.

Welcome to MoCo OP, unfortunately a lot of people are classist snobs.

Seriously, that post was a train wreck of “look at me, I’m doing better than you ever will.” But think of it as DCUM, not MoCo. Lots of classist snobs on DCUM.

The Martin’s Additions poster loves to brag about the fact that she lives there, although usually it is at least somewhat on point to the topic, but this time it was apropos of nothing. Unfortunately, it is not just snobs on DCUM, they exist all through MoCo. This whole thread contains proof of that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on what part of kensington. There’s Chevy chase view which is very nice but schools aren’t great. There’s The north side of Kensington which is more middle class and has terrible schools then there is the area around holy redeemer where everyone got to that catholic school, then there’s Parkwood which is normal.

Everyone in CCV sends their kids to Holy Redeemer. Plenty of ToK folks and Parkwood area folks send their kids to HR as well.

The pecking order of certain neighborhoods and schools is real.

But it’s a great place to live if you can afford it.

LOL - only in the minds of the people who think they're at the top of it.

I'm happy where we live (in-bounds for OTES), but this kind of crap does get old.

What is funny to me is our income is far higher than friends who live in the town. We just think it’s absurd to spend a million on a house. Don’t think for a minute that incomes on the other side of the tracks are less as often they are not.

Yeah, same. We could afford that much house, but when it buys you so little (other than majority White schools), that's a hard pass.

Also, you can't swing a dead cat in-bounds for OTES without hitting a parent with a PhD. The idea that DCC families are less invested in their children's education is unfounded.

If anything we care more. With the money we didn’t spend on a mortgage our kids have very nice college funds.

Why does everything have to be a competition?


My hesitation with Kensington is Connecticut Ave and all the traffic. It's just getting worse. If you can live with that, it's a lovely area no matter which schools you are zoned for. Everyone is friendly and welcoming.

It’s not but it’s nice to live under your means and have more money available and that is the point.

The traffic is only bad at rush hour and like other poster said there are lots of work arounds. It will get worse as they keep building without making road and traffic improvements but that is because of the town decisions.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We considered Kensington but ended up in Martin's Addition's in chevy chase and honestly 10/10 recommend. It's a gorgeous community, kids have freedom to run around and play, not a busy area, great schools, walking distance to both DC shopping and brookville market area if you're in need of something quickly. Alot of families are very wealthy but honestly anyone buying a 1M+ house is well off in my opinion so that's the entire area. The families we've met, while many belong to chevy chase country club or send their kids to private schools are very kind, welcoming and good neighbors. For us, we absolutely love the area, love the community and feel as our kids get older we'll all have access to great amenities. Now ehen I go to kensington area I can't imagine living over there as to me it feels so far from where we currently are.

😂
OP - please tell me about living in Kensington.
PP - I can’t tell you anything about living there but let me brag for a minute about the fact that l live in Martin’s Additions. Find 1.5 million in your budget and join CC Country Club. Kensington is where the riff raff live, you don’t want to live there.

Welcome to MoCo OP, unfortunately a lot of people are classist snobs.

In the real world 1.5 million is a lot of money for a nothing special house. Are your kids college funds fully funded? I’d rather you brag about that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Depends on what part of kensington. There’s Chevy chase view which is very nice but schools aren’t great. There’s The north side of Kensington which is more middle class and has terrible schools then there is the area around holy redeemer where everyone got to that catholic school, then there’s Parkwood which is normal.

Everyone in CCV sends their kids to Holy Redeemer. Plenty of ToK folks and Parkwood area folks send their kids to HR as well.

The pecking order of certain neighborhoods and schools is real.

But it’s a great place to live if you can afford it.

LOL - only in the minds of the people who think they're at the top of it.

I'm happy where we live (in-bounds for OTES), but this kind of crap does get old.

What is funny to me is our income is far higher than friends who live in the town. We just think it’s absurd to spend a million on a house. Don’t think for a minute that incomes on the other side of the tracks are less as often they are not.

Yeah, same. We could afford that much house, but when it buys you so little (other than majority White schools), that's a hard pass.

Also, you can't swing a dead cat in-bounds for OTES without hitting a parent with a PhD. The idea that DCC families are less invested in their children's education is unfounded.

True. I’m the rock view poster. We can’t afford a $1m house but we are dual income professional family (dual fed)

You could if you were making $400k a year

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We considered Kensington but ended up in Martin's Addition's in chevy chase and honestly 10/10 recommend. It's a gorgeous community, kids have freedom to run around and play, not a busy area, great schools, walking distance to both DC shopping and brookville market area if you're in need of something quickly. Alot of families are very wealthy but honestly anyone buying a 1M+ house is well off in my opinion so that's the entire area. The families we've met, while many belong to chevy chase country club or send their kids to private schools are very kind, welcoming and good neighbors. For us, we absolutely love the area, love the community and feel as our kids get older we'll all have access to great amenities. Now ehen I go to kensington area I can't imagine living over there as to me it feels so far from where we currently are.

😂
OP - please tell me about living in Kensington.
PP - I can’t tell you anything about living there but let me brag for a minute about the fact that l live in Martin’s Additions. Find 1.5 million in your budget and join CC Country Club. Kensington is where the riff raff live, you don’t want to live there.

Welcome to MoCo OP, unfortunately a lot of people are classist snobs.

In the real world 1.5 million is a lot of money for a nothing special house. Are your kids college funds fully funded? I’d rather you brag about that.

College, who cares about that, don’t you know I live in Martin’s Additions?!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We considered Kensington but ended up in Martin's Addition's in chevy chase and honestly 10/10 recommend. It's a gorgeous community, kids have freedom to run around and play, not a busy area, great schools, walking distance to both DC shopping and brookville market area if you're in need of something quickly. Alot of families are very wealthy but honestly anyone buying a 1M+ house is well off in my opinion so that's the entire area. The families we've met, while many belong to chevy chase country club or send their kids to private schools are very kind, welcoming and good neighbors. For us, we absolutely love the area, love the community and feel as our kids get older we'll all have access to great amenities. Now ehen I go to kensington area I can't imagine living over there as to me it feels so far from where we currently are.

😂
OP - please tell me about living in Kensington.
PP - I can’t tell you anything about living there but let me brag for a minute about the fact that l live in Martin’s Additions. Find 1.5 million in your budget and join CC Country Club. Kensington is where the riff raff live, you don’t want to live there.

Welcome to MoCo OP, unfortunately a lot of people are classist snobs.

In the real world 1.5 million is a lot of money for a nothing special house. Are your kids college funds fully funded? I’d rather you brag about that.

College, who cares about that, don’t you know I live in Martin’s Additions?!!!!

Nope, no clue where that even is. Chevy chase?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We considered Kensington but ended up in Martin's Addition's in chevy chase and honestly 10/10 recommend. It's a gorgeous community, kids have freedom to run around and play, not a busy area, great schools, walking distance to both DC shopping and brookville market area if you're in need of something quickly. Alot of families are very wealthy but honestly anyone buying a 1M+ house is well off in my opinion so that's the entire area. The families we've met, while many belong to chevy chase country club or send their kids to private schools are very kind, welcoming and good neighbors. For us, we absolutely love the area, love the community and feel as our kids get older we'll all have access to great amenities. Now ehen I go to kensington area I can't imagine living over there as to me it feels so far from where we currently are.

😂
OP - please tell me about living in Kensington.
PP - I can’t tell you anything about living there but let me brag for a minute about the fact that l live in Martin’s Additions. Find 1.5 million in your budget and join CC Country Club. Kensington is where the riff raff live, you don’t want to live there.

Welcome to MoCo OP, unfortunately a lot of people are classist snobs.

In the real world 1.5 million is a lot of money for a nothing special house. Are your kids college funds fully funded? I’d rather you brag about that.

College, who cares about that, don’t you know I live in Martin’s Additions?!!!!

Nope, no clue where that even is. Chevy chase?

I think you know, honey.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We considered Kensington but ended up in Martin's Addition's in chevy chase and honestly 10/10 recommend. It's a gorgeous community, kids have freedom to run around and play, not a busy area, great schools, walking distance to both DC shopping and brookville market area if you're in need of something quickly. Alot of families are very wealthy but honestly anyone buying a 1M+ house is well off in my opinion so that's the entire area. The families we've met, while many belong to chevy chase country club or send their kids to private schools are very kind, welcoming and good neighbors. For us, we absolutely love the area, love the community and feel as our kids get older we'll all have access to great amenities. Now ehen I go to kensington area I can't imagine living over there as to me it feels so far from where we currently are.

😂
OP - please tell me about living in Kensington.
PP - I can’t tell you anything about living there but let me brag for a minute about the fact that l live in Martin’s Additions. Find 1.5 million in your budget and join CC Country Club. Kensington is where the riff raff live, you don’t want to live there.

Welcome to MoCo OP, unfortunately a lot of people are classist snobs.

In the real world 1.5 million is a lot of money for a nothing special house. Are your kids college funds fully funded? I’d rather you brag about that.

College, who cares about that, don’t you know I live in Martin’s Additions?!!!!

Isn’t that the newest and cheapest part of CC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We considered Kensington but ended up in Martin's Addition's in chevy chase and honestly 10/10 recommend. It's a gorgeous community, kids have freedom to run around and play, not a busy area, great schools, walking distance to both DC shopping and brookville market area if you're in need of something quickly. Alot of families are very wealthy but honestly anyone buying a 1M+ house is well off in my opinion so that's the entire area. The families we've met, while many belong to chevy chase country club or send their kids to private schools are very kind, welcoming and good neighbors. For us, we absolutely love the area, love the community and feel as our kids get older we'll all have access to great amenities. Now ehen I go to kensington area I can't imagine living over there as to me it feels so far from where we currently are.

😂
OP - please tell me about living in Kensington.
PP - I can’t tell you anything about living there but let me brag for a minute about the fact that l live in Martin’s Additions. Find 1.5 million in your budget and join CC Country Club. Kensington is where the riff raff live, you don’t want to live there.

Welcome to MoCo OP, unfortunately a lot of people are classist snobs.

Seriously, that post was a train wreck of “look at me, I’m doing better than you ever will.” But think of it as DCUM, not MoCo. Lots of classist snobs on DCUM.

The Martin’s Additions poster loves to brag about the fact that she lives there, although usually it is at least somewhat on point to the topic, but this time it was apropos of nothing. Unfortunately, it is not just snobs on DCUM, they exist all through MoCo. This whole thread contains proof of that.

Please, the same is true of Maclean and the horrible Loudon/Fairfax poster. Snobbery is part of the human condition.