Tell me the difference between Arlington and Bethesda...

[Anonymous]

In Bethesda, we have great dinner parties at which everyone sits around talking about politics, history, art and literature, all this peppered with really funny jokes. But in Arlington I was at a party and a girl looked at me and said "Oh my God, are those Juicy jeans that you're wearing?" and I thought, I can't stay here. I have to get back to Bethesda.

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Anonymous wrote:In Bethesda, we have great dinner parties at which everyone sits around talking about politics, history, art and literature, all this peppered with really funny jokes. But in Arlington I was at a party and a girl looked at me and said "Oh my God, are those Juicy jeans that you're wearing?" and I thought, I can't stay here. I have to get back to Bethesda.

Surely someone as cultured and aware wouldn't make an asinine assumption based on one gathering and one comment. My friends and I all discuss politics, art, etc. and we live in Arlington. From what I've seen here, we're hardly outliers. Perhaps it was your friends who were the problem.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've lived in both. More money in Bethesda (this is a negative to me), but more stuff to do, everything doesn't close down at night (esp compared to Rosslyn)

If she lives in Rosslyn she is surrounded by $3.9-10 million condos (Turnberry Towers, etc). I don't think there is really a $ difference...she has to get pretty far up the Blvd before she hits any neighborhoods where entry level is under a million.

That said--I never think of Rosslyn as a neighborhood. It is a place people used to overnight from National Airport. Now- it is mainly luxury condos and hotels. You can walk to Georgetown. It is definitely not a nightspot.

Clarendon and Bethesda are very similar. They even have the same retail stores.

VA has better public universities. Both areas of good schools.

BUt Rosslyn--- I would never consider living there. I have lived in both Bethesda and Clarendon (and NW)--but we moved to Clarendon when we had school age kids--primarily because it is much closer to our jobs (downtown and Oldtown) than Bethesda.

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Arlington, unlike Bethesda, is a county and has attractive and unattractive parts. Comparing Bethesda to all of Arlington in those terms is silly. You could argue that Downtown Bethesda looks better than Clarendon or vice versa. Or that Kenwood has style and Country Club Hills wishes it were Kenwood or vice versa.

Downtown Bethesda looks better than Clarendon, and Kenwood has far more élan than CCH.

People in Bethesda use words like "élan.". With a straight face. Enough said.

Particularly people who live in 500K 1950s splits in Bethesda.

Also, the international thing is nonsense. The vast majority of my colleagues at the World Bank line in DC, Arlington or McLean.

+1 my kid's public elementary in Clarendon is filled with State Dept, World Bank and Obama Cabinet members...a few Congressman. It makes for a high turnover in friends--every few years. It is a very International elem. school.

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Anonymous wrote:Bethesda has Pepco.

Ha!

End the debate right here (and I am a Bethesda resident!)

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Anonymous wrote:Bethesda has Pepco.

Ha!

End the debate right here (and I am a Bethesda resident!)

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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I've lived in both. More money in Bethesda (this is a negative to me), but more stuff to do, everything doesn't close down at night (esp compared to Rosslyn)

If she lives in Rosslyn she is surrounded by $3.9-10 million condos (Turnberry Towers, etc). I don't think there is really a $ difference...she has to get pretty far up the Blvd before she hits any neighborhoods where entry level is under a million.

That said--I never think of Rosslyn as a neighborhood. It is a place people used to overnight from National Airport. Now- it is mainly luxury condos and hotels. You can walk to Georgetown. It is definitely not a nightspot.

Clarendon and Bethesda are very similar. They even have the same retail stores.

VA has better public universities. Both areas of good schools.

BUt Rosslyn--- I would never consider living there. I have lived in both Bethesda and Clarendon (and NW)--but we moved to Clarendon when we had school age kids--primarily because it is much closer to our jobs (downtown and Oldtown) than Bethesda.

This, Lived in South Arlington for 16 years, 6 near Old Alexandria, currently work in Rosslyn and live on the orange line and I would never consider Rosslyn a real place to live. Its like Crystal City, everything shuts down after 6 after people get off of work

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Anonymous wrote:I've lived in both. More money in Bethesda (this is a negative to me), but more stuff to do, everything doesn't close down at night (esp compared to Rosslyn)

If she lives in Rosslyn she is surrounded by $3.9-10 million condos (Turnberry Towers, etc). I don't think there is really a $ difference...she has to get pretty far up the Blvd before she hits any neighborhoods where entry level is under a million.

That said--I never think of Rosslyn as a neighborhood. It is a place people used to overnight from National Airport. Now- it is mainly luxury condos and hotels. You can walk to Georgetown. It is definitely not a nightspot.

Clarendon and Bethesda are very similar. They even have the same retail stores.

VA has better public universities. Both areas of good schools.

BUt Rosslyn--- I would never consider living there. I have lived in both Bethesda and Clarendon (and NW)--but we moved to Clarendon when we had school age kids--primarily because it is much closer to our jobs (downtown and Oldtown) than Bethesda.

This, Lived in South Arlington for 16 years, 6 near Old Alexandria, currently work in Rosslyn and live on the orange line and I would never consider Rosslyn a real place to live. Its like Crystal City, everything shuts down after 6 after people get off of work

We live in Crystal city. Nothing shuts down at 6 and it's often difficult to find a parking spot at the playground.

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Anonymous wrote:Bethesda has Pepco.

Ha!

End the debate right here (and I am a Bethesda resident!)

Little Arlington county is it's own school district. Montco is huge and in Arlington you have more of a voice on everything. I would have bought in Arlington or city of Falls Church if I had realized the scope of FX and Montco.

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People in Bethesda use words like "élan.". With a straight face. Enough said.

People in Arlington use expressions like "YOLO," with a straight face, and then go to Starbucks.

An Arlington resident who thinks both Bethesda and Arlington are great places to live (and that people should reflect a touch on how priveleged they are to own homes in either).

An aside though,the other week I was spending a day in Bethesda, and I was surprised to find no gourmet independent coffee shop in Bethesda (I would disqualify quartermaine which seems pretty chain like with Starbucks like coffee). I grudgingly ended up at Starbucks. As a northside social regular in Clarendon, I was certain that Bethesda would have a handful of similar places. What gives?

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People in Bethesda use words like "élan.". With a straight face. Enough said.

People in Arlington use expressions like "YOLO," with a straight face, and then go to Starbucks.

An Arlington resident who thinks both Bethesda and Arlington are great places to live (and that people should reflect a touch on how priveleged they are to own homes in either).

An aside though,the other week I was spending a day in Bethesda, and I was surprised to find no gourmet independent coffee shop in Bethesda (I would disqualify quartermaine which seems pretty chain like with Starbucks like coffee). I grudgingly ended up at Starbucks. As a northside social regular in Clarendon, I was certain that Bethesda would have a handful of similar places. What gives?

I love Northside Social and Java Shack. We do have more little independents.

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Not in my book. E-W Highway is this twisty, hilly road with hoards of traffic and not very comfortable for the pedestrian. And River Road becomes almost freeway like with no sidewalks near Whitman HS. Glebe Road is walkable except for the final quarter mile to chain bridge.

I'd deal with E-W Highway just to get to the Parkway Deli, and E-W Highway in Bethesda is very navigable by foot.

Who would really want to walk along most of Glebe Road? It's not an attractive road. In fact, it's as lame as most of Arlington.

If the Parkway Deli is the best thing going, well ...

Parkway Deli is in Silver Spring and on the east side of Grubb Road. Chevy Chase is on the west side, not Bethesda.

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Anonymous wrote:In Bethesda, we have great dinner parties at which everyone sits around talking about politics, history, art and literature, all this peppered with really funny jokes. But in Arlington I was at a party and a girl looked at me and said "Oh my God, are those Juicy jeans that you're wearing?" and I thought, I can't stay here. I have to get back to Bethesda.

And of course, you're a native resident of Bethesda, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In Bethesda, we have great dinner parties at which everyone sits around talking about politics, history, art and literature, all this peppered with really funny jokes. But in Arlington I was at a party and a girl looked at me and said "Oh my God, are those Juicy jeans that you're wearing?" and I thought, I can't stay here. I have to get back to Bethesda.

you do realize how full of shit you really are, don't you. thank fucking god you live Bethesda you goddamn loser.

[Anonymous]

^^^ that is a gwynyth Paltrow quote. I recognize it . She looks like sour milk with battery acid leaking out her cooch...perfect for dcum