S/O: Most overrated neighborhood in the area?

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well, I guess I know which neighborhoods to torch when the 99% finally rise up and go after those assholes.

20016 has the most number of legal guns in the District. They're waiting for you...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/07/AR2011020706450.html

When the mob rises, sure, keep thinking these guns are going to save you.

Those guns and our Israeli mercenaries should be sufficient. Worked in New Orleans.

When the 99% rise, it won't work. do the numbers. why would you stick around anyway, unless you are dumb, just go to your summer home or something.

Heh.

Here in Arlington, we'll use pitchforks. They're greener.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's the thing---there are 'city/urban' people and there are 'country/suburban' people. There are people where the size of the house and yard trumps everything else. Then there are people where it is the physical location of the house in relation to walkable amenities that matters and they would rather sacrifice on size and/or prefer a smaller house anyways. These people have fundamentally different views on housing. They have fundamentally different views on lifestyle as well. Neither will ever understand the other side. It's okay. They don't have to. Live where you want to live. Real estate is 'supply and demand' anyways. What some may think is 'over-rated' is higher per square footage or low inventory because there is more demand for it. If an area is not your cup of tea- who cares. Guess what? You don't have to live there.

ITA. And you're right. Never the twain shall meet. I'm in the first camp and it's just so weird that the big house/yard/car people seem so MAD at us. I don't get it. They seem so resentful that we don't covet what they do. As if we're not living the "American" way or something.

Live and let live.

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Anonymous wrote:I think McLean is overrated, and I even grew up there! There's no discernable cute "downtown," everything is sort of a mish-mash, it's basically a bedroom community that sort of grew in fits and starts. . .I honesty have no idea why it developed the cache it did. Shrug.

It is a centrally located safe suburb with great schools, that are considered best public schools in the entire DC metro area. It is convenient for commutes to about anywhere where the jobs are in DC area VA, DC, and even some parts of MD. And it IS cheaper than NWDC, and Arlington. It's not just the land of $1m fixer uppers. If you are a family with two working parents who must commute to opposite sides of the DC metro area, who cannot afford private schools and want to be able to drive into the city on the weekends under 20 min along a pleasant scenic road (vs. all time congested 66 and the beltway), who wants a detached home with minimum 4 bedr 3 baths, a normal size basement and a yard and easy parking and be short distance to most of the amenities for everyday life. And at the same time some of us can walk to our respective elementary schools, parks, and downtown area, which may not be "cute" but certainly is not useless and contains most of the shopping/errand options we need day to day, including groceries, bakeries, dry-cleaners, banks, doctor's offices, etc. Although I personally don't understand why anyone would want to walk to buy a week-load of groceries for the family and cart it or carry it home, when you can use your car. I've done enough of this living in the city with the stroller and it was a PITA.

There are also buses for those commuting to Balston, Rosslyn and Tysons, so there is some public transport option, whether we use it or not. Later on, there will be a metro stop about 2 miles away from us, which will certainly be biking distance away or maybe there even will be a new metro service bus at some point. The demographics are changing, many families are moving in replacing elderly residents, so it is not entirely impossible that in the near future the downtown may get a little more pedestrian friendly and cute. The infrastructure is already there, it's designed as city blocks with sidewalks. The restaurants are changing already starting to cater to the younger crowd. Most major roads like Chain Bridge rd that can take us all the way to the new Tysons East metro already have sidewalks too. Reading DCUM you may think Mclean is a dying out exurb, it's so not true.

Mclean still has its appeal for the families who are not looking to be walking distance to trendy bars as much as to be close to great quality public schools for their kids and at the same time have easy access to the city amenities when needed.

except that they aren't considered the best public schools in the DMV - or even in NOVA - there's Falls Church City public schools and a few in Arlington that are considered better than the McLean public school system

You can tell yourself that while you are remodeling your 1m+ fixer upper starter home in N.Arlington or NWDC. Maybe you should put that money to better use, like private high-school for your kids, because, you know, one day they will be out of elementary.

McLean Lady, you are batsh*t crazy.

She is. I think she was the same one turning her nose up at Glover Park on another thread and going on about Hickory Hill (RFK's former estate) and the home where Dolley Madison camped out during the War of 1812. And talking about people "of note" living in the neighborhood as a way of measuring its value. OMG.

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Anonymous wrote:Here's the thing---there are 'city/urban' people and there are 'country/suburban' people. There are people where the size of the house and yard trumps everything else. Then there are people where it is the physical location of the house in relation to walkable amenities that matters and they would rather sacrifice on size and/or prefer a smaller house anyways. These people have fundamentally different views on housing. They have fundamentally different views on lifestyle as well. Neither will ever understand the other side. It's okay. They don't have to. Live where you want to live. Real estate is 'supply and demand' anyways. What some may think is 'over-rated' is higher per square footage or low inventory because there is more demand for it. If an area is not your cup of tea- who cares. Guess what? You don't have to live there.

This is funny to me because I moved from my too small house in upper NW to one of those suburbs that city people won't go near. When we moved, our neighbors in DC acted like we were totally crazy to leave one of hte best elementary schools in (the worst public school system in the country) DC and to give up the whole upper NW lifestyle. SOme people out here are more of what I would term racist and make dumb comments to my kids like "don't get shot" when we go visit friends in DC. So, clearly nobody is going to win this fight, but it is funny to watch people on this message board continue to go at it.

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Anonymous wrote:Spring Valley, Foxhall and other deeply residential areas of DC. It's like super overpriced car-oriented suburbs without good schools.

Actually there are a ton of good schools: St Pat's, Georgetown Day, NCS/STA, Sidwell. Stop hating.

sure, there are good schools if you can pay for them. I think most people define neighborhoods with good schools as neighborhoods with good PUBLIC schools - the ones you don't have to shell out more of your take home pay to.

Middle class people do. THe people that live in Spring Valley and Foxhall want to be far away from small time low man on the totem pole types like you.

well, I guess I know which neighborhoods to torch when the 99% finally rise up and go after those assholes.

20016 has the most number of legal guns in the District. They're waiting for you...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/07/AR2011020706450.html

When the mob rises, sure, keep thinking these guns are going to save you.

Those guns and our Israeli mercenaries should be sufficient. Worked in New Orleans.

When the 99% rise, it won't work. do the numbers. why would you stick around anyway, unless you are dumb, just go to your summer home or something.

You got me. That's why my car had Florida plates. Don't have to pay DC taxes.

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She is. I think she was the same one turning her nose up at Glover Park on another thread and going on about Hickory Hill (RFK's former estate) and the home where Dolley Madison camped out during the War of 1812. And talking about people "of note" living in the neighborhood as a way of measuring its value. OMG.

OMG!! How do you measure the value of living in Glover Park? Proximity to a strip club? Easy access to Hardy MS?

But, at least it's not over-rated, since few people rate it highly to begin with.

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well, I guess I know which neighborhoods to torch when the 99% finally rise up and go after those assholes.

20016 has the most number of legal guns in the District. They're waiting for you...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/07/AR2011020706450.html

When the mob rises, sure, keep thinking these guns are going to save you.

Those guns and our Israeli mercenaries should be sufficient. Worked in New Orleans.

When the 99% rise, it won't work. do the numbers. why would you stick around anyway, unless you are dumb, just go to your summer home or something.

Heh.


Here in Arlington, we'll use pitchforks. They're greener.

Nope! No worries of such ugliness in Arlington. We aren't wealthy over here. Just plain old, middle class people who can stay out of the coming class war.

(Shhhh...let's keep fooling the person who hates Arlington (and says it on every.single.thread) and doesn't think any of us are in the top 1%.)

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AnonymousThe demographics have totally changed all along the route 7, McLean and great falls corridor. Many multi-family households all swished in.[/quote wrote:

I'm sorry, do you mean that Spics live there now? Why don't you just say what you mean.

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I'm adding a vote to the H Street corridor. I bought a small condo there in 2006 after getting priced out of everywhere else that was close to downtown. It's been an OK place to bunk as a single girl but it has most assuredly not blossomed the way real estate agents wanted you to believe. What's amusing is that growing retail and entertainment on H Street has in no way translated into overall improvement of residential neighborhood in which it is located. It's still ghetto. Sorry (for myself). It won't improve much until people who live or rent there change over. Until then, the only notable sign of improvement will be crowds of white boys and girls who live in Cap Hill proper eight to the basement drinking on H Street.

Oddly enough, I moved to McLean after DS was born and kind of like it there. I didn't expect to like it but after having DS what I want out of housing really changed. Great parks now mean more to me than the abundance of restaurants (one certainly doesn't move to McLean for the food). We'll see how things develop; all is well for now. The ghetto condo is rented out and doing well.

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Anonymous wrote:I think McLean is overrated, and I even grew up there! There's no discernable cute "downtown," everything is sort of a mish-mash, it's basically a bedroom community that sort of grew in fits and starts. . .I honesty have no idea why it developed the cache it did. Shrug.

It is a centrally located safe suburb with great schools, that are considered best public schools in the entire DC metro area. It is convenient for commutes to about anywhere where the jobs are in DC area VA, DC, and even some parts of MD. And it IS cheaper than NWDC, and Arlington. It's not just the land of $1m fixer uppers. If you are a family with two working parents who must commute to opposite sides of the DC metro area, who cannot afford private schools and want to be able to drive into the city on the weekends under 20 min along a pleasant scenic road (vs. all time congested 66 and the beltway), who wants a detached home with minimum 4 bedr 3 baths, a normal size basement and a yard and easy parking and be short distance to most of the amenities for everyday life. And at the same time some of us can walk to our respective elementary schools, parks, and downtown area, which may not be "cute" but certainly is not useless and contains most of the shopping/errand options we need day to day, including groceries, bakeries, dry-cleaners, banks, doctor's offices, etc. Although I personally don't understand why anyone would want to walk to buy a week-load of groceries for the family and cart it or carry it home, when you can use your car. I've done enough of this living in the city with the stroller and it was a PITA.

There are also buses for those commuting to Balston, Rosslyn and Tysons, so there is some public transport option, whether we use it or not. Later on, there will be a metro stop about 2 miles away from us, which will certainly be biking distance away or maybe there even will be a new metro service bus at some point. The demographics are changing, many families are moving in replacing elderly residents, so it is not entirely impossible that in the near future the downtown may get a little more pedestrian friendly and cute. The infrastructure is already there, it's designed as city blocks with sidewalks. The restaurants are changing already starting to cater to the younger crowd. Most major roads like Chain Bridge rd that can take us all the way to the new Tysons East metro already have sidewalks too. Reading DCUM you may think Mclean is a dying out exurb, it's so not true.

Mclean still has its appeal for the families who are not looking to be walking distance to trendy bars as much as to be close to great quality public schools for their kids and at the same time have easy access to the city amenities when needed.

except that they aren't considered the best public schools in the DMV - or even in NOVA - there's Falls Church City public schools and a few in Arlington that are considered better than the McLean public school system

umm NO WAY, falls church city and arlington schools are not better than mclean, the latest rating have falls church city schools below the above average FCPS like marshall. Maybe like 20 years a go.

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Mclean still has its appeal for the families who are not looking to be walking distance to trendy bars as much as to be close to great quality public schools for their kids and at the same time have easy access to the city amenities when needed.

except that they aren't considered the best public schools in the DMV - or even in NOVA - there's Falls Church City public schools and a few in Arlington that are considered better than the McLean public school system

You can tell yourself that while you are remodeling your 1m+ fixer upper starter home in N.Arlington or NWDC. Maybe you should put that money to better use, like private high-school for your kids, because, you know, one day they will be out of elementary.

McLean Lady, you are batsh*t crazy.

Who the F would voluntarily chose to live (with kids) in Arlington or Falls Church rather than McLean, if they could afford McLean? Are you for real? You are strange.

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AnonymousThe demographics have totally changed all along the route 7, McLean and great falls corridor. Many multi-family households all swished in.[/quote wrote:

I'm sorry, do you mean that Spics live there now? Why don't you just say what you mean.

Nah- that's Arlington, man. I mean- Indians, Pakistanis, Bangladesh, etc.

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On DCUMs, the most overrated area is:

SILVER SPRING!

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Mclean still has its appeal for the families who are not looking to be walking distance to trendy bars as much as to be close to great quality public schools for their kids and at the same time have easy access to the city amenities when needed.

except that they aren't considered the best public schools in the DMV - or even in NOVA - there's Falls Church City public schools and a few in Arlington that are considered better than the McLean public school system

You can tell yourself that while you are remodeling your 1m+ fixer upper starter home in N.Arlington or NWDC. Maybe you should put that money to better use, like private high-school for your kids, because, you know, one day they will be out of elementary.

McLean Lady, you are batsh*t crazy.

Who the F would voluntarily chose to live (with kids) in Arlington or Falls Church rather than McLean, if they could afford McLean? Are you for real? You are strange.

So we wouldn't have to live near you.

P.S. our asses aren't fat since we don't have to drive everywhere.

P.P.S. I know who you are. We were all glad when you moved to McLean! We liked your husband though. We often think that "poor, poor bastard".

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well, I guess I know which neighborhoods to torch when the 99% finally rise up and go after those assholes.

20016 has the most number of legal guns in the District. They're waiting for you...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/02/07/AR2011020706450.html

When the mob rises, sure, keep thinking these guns are going to save you.

Those guns and our Israeli mercenaries should be sufficient. Worked in New Orleans.

When the 99% rise, it won't work. do the numbers. why would you stick around anyway, unless you are dumb, just go to your summer home or something.

Heh.


Here in Arlington, we'll use pitchforks. They're greener.

Nope! No worries of such ugliness in Arlington. We aren't wealthy over here. Just plain old, middle class people who can stay out of the coming class war.

(Shhhh...let's keep fooling the person who hates Arlington (and says it on every.single.thread) and doesn't think any of us are in the top 1%.)

Haha. Arlington. The inferiority complex is startling.