What are the Maryland equivalent to these Nova areas (clueless about the MD suburbs...)

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Anonymous wrote:What’s MD equivalent of Pimmit Hills?

silver springs

has more in common with Arlington except better schools

silver springs and p hills are the same lower rated schools, silver spring is lower than bethesda and pimmit is lower than mclean

Weird - Blair is the best school in the county by a wide margin.

Only the magnet programs, and they draw from areas outside SS like Bethesda.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m laughing at all the answers saying that Arlington is more like Bethesda or Chevy Chase than like Silver Spring. No, just no. South Arlington is still Arlington whether you like it or not—and it’s not like Bethesda or Chevy Chase at all. Even Northern Arlington’s schools have higher FARMS rates than the vast majority of Bethesda schools. Silver Spring and Arlington are more or less the same. The only difference is that Arlington is a little more expensive and also segregates people of different socio-economic statuses very strongly, unlike Silver Spring, which is far more integrated economically. If Silver Spring segregated all its affluent people on one side of town and the poor on the other side, then it would resemble Arlington to a tee. Nothing against Arlington. It’s one of two places in Virginia I could tolerate living in (the other being Alexandria), but it’s just not Bethesda and especially not Chevy Chase. There’s nothing wrong with that either. Silver Spring is also a great place.

- a Bethesda native.

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Vienna
McLean
Oakton
Chantilly
Manassas
Old Town( City of Alex)
Dumfries
Ashburn
Great Falls
Fairfax (city)
Lorton

Ya'll are bad at this, esp the last poster who just chose her own areas?

Vienna = Catonsville
McLean = The old Bethesda side towards the river
Oakton = Flower Valley
Chantilly = Columbia
Manassas = Severna Park. Not the nice side
Old Town( City of Alex) = Annapolis?
Dumfries = Ellicott City
Ashburn = Columbia. The nicer part
Great Falls = Darnestown, but not those zips
Fairfax (city) = North Bethesda
Lorton = Hagerstown

No, you are bad at this.

Annapolis is not a suburb. It's certainly not Old Town.

I don't know that I would consider Annapolis a suburb of DC but it's probably the closest MD place to DC that would even compare to Old Town. MoCo and PG have nothing like Old Town.

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Ya'll are bad at this, esp the last poster who just chose her own areas?

Vienna = Catonsville
McLean = The old Bethesda side towards the river
Oakton = Flower Valley
Chantilly = Columbia
Manassas = Severna Park. Not the nice side
Old Town( City of Alex) = Annapolis?
Dumfries = Ellicott City
Ashburn = Columbia. The nicer part
Great Falls = Darnestown, but not those zips
Fairfax (city) = North Bethesda
Lorton = Hagerstown

Dumpfries is more like half Ellicott City and half Glen Burnie. And Lorton is Hagerstown? LOL.

Oh dear god. Former DC resident now in Severna Park. Google tells me Manassas is 39.7 percent Hispanic, 33.1 percent White, 15.3 percent Black and 11.1 percent Asian. SP is 90% white. The vibe more like Arlington (where I've also lived) but all families with children and more Republican and the housing is more like Silver Spring outside the beltway (raised ranches and split levels). And then there's the waterfront which is like a dystopian paradise for white people. And it is really beautiful, like drop dead amazing day after day, if you're white and you have a boat. Maybe 20% of the population is in a drink-boat-crabs-repeat cycle, until winter comes anyway.

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Anonymous wrote:Vienna - north Bethesda
Oakton - darnestown
McLean - a smaller Bethesda
Chantilly - olney
Manassas- Bowie
City of Alexandria - Takoma Park / Silver Spring
Dumfries - Waldorf
Ashburn - North Potomac
Great Falls - Potomac
Fairfax City - Rockville
Lorton - Germantown

Nothing really compares to Chevy Chase , Glen Echo, Brookmont or Cabin John, or Poolesville or Frederick.


Spot on as possible

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Anonymous wrote:Vienna - Chevy Chase
McLean - Bethesda (Area near Mass Ave/ Westgate/Somerset)
Oakton - Potomac/North Bethesda
Chantilly - Laurel/Hanover
Manassas - Waldorf
Old Town( City of Alex) - Annapolis
Dumfries - White Hall/Pomfret/Mechanicsville
Ashburn - Crofton
Great Falls - The area where Bethesda and Potomac meet by the CVS and Giant if you keep straight on River Rd
Fairfax (city) - Derwood
Lorton - Leonardtown

Vienna is the antithesis of Chevy Chase.

Chevy Chase is getting a lot of love here. Arlington is also nothing like Chevy Chase, whoever suggested that.

Aren’t they both Towns? Town of Vienna and Town of Chevy Chase

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Anonymous wrote:Oh dear god. Former DC resident now in Severna Park. Google tells me Manassas is 39.7 percent Hispanic, 33.1 percent White, 15.3 percent Black and 11.1 percent Asian. SP is 90% white. The vibe more like Arlington (where I've also lived) but all families with children and more Republican and the housing is more like Silver Spring outside the beltway (raised ranches and split levels). And then there's the waterfront which is like a dystopian paradise for white people. And it is really beautiful, like drop dead amazing day after day, if you're white and you have a boat. Maybe 20% of the population is in a drink-boat-crabs-repeat cycle, until winter comes anyway.

It always surprises me that Severna Park has managed to stay as white as it is. Not even minorities with high average household incomes like Asian-Americans live there in high numbers unlike Howard County where they make up a large percentage of the population.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious what the NOVA equivalent for Kensington is!

Falls Church

Kensington has a very small walkable downtown area. Housing is / was relatively affordable.

I lIve in FCC and have a walk score of 95. I'd say more like Chevy Chase but smaller (no mall).

I think FCC is more like downtown Bethesda.

Chantilly is a lot like Chevy Chase.

Last time I was in Chantilly I forgot I wasn't back in CC. They're so similar it's an easy mistake.

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Vienna
McLean
Oakton
Chantilly
Manassas
Old Town( City of Alex)
Dumfries
Ashburn
Great Falls
Fairfax (city)
Lorton

Ya'll are bad at this, esp the last poster who just chose her own areas?

Vienna = Catonsville
McLean = The old Bethesda side towards the river
Oakton = Flower Valley
Chantilly = Columbia
Manassas = Severna Park. Not the nice side
Old Town( City of Alex) = Annapolis?
Dumfries = Ellicott City
Ashburn = Columbia. The nicer part
Great Falls = Darnestown, but not those zips
Fairfax (city) = North Bethesda
Lorton = Hagerstown

No, you are bad at this.

Annapolis is not a suburb. It's certainly not Old Town.

I don't know that I would consider Annapolis a suburb of DC but it's probably the closest MD place to DC that would even compare to Old Town. MoCo and PG have nothing like Old Town.

It's not a suburb. It's the state capitol.

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Anonymous wrote:Curious what the NOVA equivalent for Kensington is!

Falls Church

Kensington has a very small walkable downtown area. Housing is / was relatively affordable.

I lIve in FCC and have a walk score of 95. I'd say more like Chevy Chase but smaller (no mall).

I think FCC is more like downtown Bethesda.

Chantilly is a lot like Chevy Chase.

Last time I was in Chantilly I forgot I wasn't back in CC. They're so similar it's an easy mistake.

WHAT!? I live in Chantilly and the only similarity between the 2 places is the first 2 letters of their names. These 2 places couldn't be more different. Hahaha!

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Anonymous wrote:Arlington = Silver Spring (I know a lot of people will disagree, the only reason the difference feels stark is because SS is more economically integrated whereas Arlington is segregated by income in the north vs South).
McLean = Bethesda
Great Falls = Potomac
Alexandria = Annapolis (but a lot larger and more cosmopolitan)
West Springfield = Crofton/Odenton
Lorton = Urbana
Loudoun County = Howard County. Ashburn is essentially Columbia, while the other more rural parts with large homes on a lot of land are equal to Clarksville, Marriottsville, and Glenelg.

Did the OP ask about Arlington, or are you just one of those people who likes to say how awful/overrated Arlington is?

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Anonymous wrote:Vienna - north Bethesda
Oakton - darnestown
McLean - a smaller Bethesda
Chantilly - olney
Manassas- Bowie
City of Alexandria - Takoma Park / Silver Spring
Dumfries - Waldorf
Ashburn - North Potomac
Great Falls - Potomac
Fairfax City - Rockville
Lorton - Germantown

Nothing really compares to Chevy Chase , Glen Echo, Brookmont or Cabin John, or Poolesville or Frederick.


Spot on as possible

Chantilly is more like Clarksburg when it comes to HHI and demographics. The largest demographic for both is Asian then followed by White. Olney's largest population is white.

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Anonymous wrote:Arlington = Silver Spring (I know a lot of people will disagree, the only reason the difference feels stark is because SS is more economically integrated whereas Arlington is segregated by income in the north vs South).
McLean = Bethesda
Great Falls = Potomac
Alexandria = Annapolis (but a lot larger and more cosmopolitan)
West Springfield = Crofton/Odenton
Lorton = Urbana
Loudoun County = Howard County. Ashburn is essentially Columbia, while the other more rural parts with large homes on a lot of land are equal to Clarksville, Marriottsville, and Glenelg.

Did the OP ask about Arlington, or are you just one of those people who likes to say how awful/overrated Arlington is?

Not sure when Arlington's stock rose but it was kind of a dreadful place a decade or two ago.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s MD equivalent of Pimmit Hills?

silver springs

20 years ago maybe. Today, Pimmit is more like a neighborhood in Bethesda, maybe near Montgomery Mall.

Are there still a lot of primer gray cars on cinder blocks?

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Anonymous wrote:I’m laughing at all the answers saying that Arlington is more like Bethesda or Chevy Chase than like Silver Spring. No, just no. South Arlington is still Arlington whether you like it or not—and it’s not like Bethesda or Chevy Chase at all. Even Northern Arlington’s schools have higher FARMS rates than the vast majority of Bethesda schools. Silver Spring and Arlington are more or less the same. The only difference is that Arlington is a little more expensive and also segregates people of different socio-economic statuses very strongly, unlike Silver Spring, which is far more integrated economically. If Silver Spring segregated all its affluent people on one side of town and the poor on the other side, then it would resemble Arlington to a tee. Nothing against Arlington. It’s one of two places in Virginia I could tolerate living in (the other being Alexandria), but it’s just not Bethesda and especially not Chevy Chase. There’s nothing wrong with that either. Silver Spring is also a great place.

- a Bethesda native.

Arlington folks would like to imagine it's like CC.