What neighborhood do you think is considered to be the most prestigious in the DC area?

[Anonymous]

Nobody has mentioned the 1600 block of Pennsylvania Ave.? Very prestigious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The masses think it is Georgetown. The rich think it is Kent. I actually don't prefer either.

A lot of Gtown is actually:
-small fairly cheap (relatively) row houses
- old money that is running dry but trying desperately to keep up appearances.

With the exception of true mansions there, the real $ is elsewhere. See kent, Wesley hts, etc

It's def not ch ch dc!!

Georgetown is in every movie about DC. When I lived in Europe--Dupont and Georgetown were the neighborhoods in DC that were instantly recognizable. The glamour is that to live well there you need to spend $10 million on a house. Yes- I lived in a $650k tiny rowhouse and moved to a house twice that in NoVa--but even what I paid would get me very little in Georgetown. I love Oldtown, Georgetown, Beacon Hill Boston, etc...I love Federal style rowhouses and brick sidewalks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The richest live. Bethesda, McLean, potomac Chevy Chase, not in dc

This - particularly McLean, VA.

Georgetown is run-down, dangerous, riddled with rowdy college kids, and goes crazy every Holloween.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The richest live. Bethesda, McLean, potomac Chevy Chase, not in dc

This - particularly McLean, VA.

Georgetown is run-down, dangerous, riddled with rowdy college kids, and goes crazy every Holloween.

Wrong. East Village is very suburban. You couldn't even hear Halloween and no foot traffic.

These type of responses come from people that only shop or done here or live near GEorgetown Univ or on the blocks bordering M or Wisconsin.

It is lush quiet and filled with neighborhood kids up by Rose and Montrose Parks.

[Anonymous]

Wesley heights wins...chuck and Camilla didn't dine in chevy or Potomac when in town but they hit the Heights!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ballantrae/Langley Farms area of McLean

[Anonymous]

Sorry, no royalty (and Saudis don't count) no dice!

[Anonymous]

That area is still old money, coupled with some the intellectual, business, influential, and important local elites.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That area is still old money, coupled with some the intellectual, business, influential, and important local elites.

I thought it was where David Gregory, a nouveau riche asshat, screamed at his neighbors whole he still had a job.

[Anonymous]

Gregory and his Fannie Mae apologist wife had a subpar house in wh but went down the hill to Phillips park. He was NOT in the same stretch as the Albrittons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The richest live. Bethesda, McLean, potomac Chevy Chase, not in dc

This - particularly McLean, VA.

Georgetown is run-down, dangerous, riddled with rowdy college kids, and goes crazy every Holloween.

Wrong. East Village is very suburban. You couldn't even hear Halloween and no foot traffic.

These type of responses come from people that only shop or done here or live near GEorgetown Univ or on the blocks bordering M or Wisconsin.

It is lush quiet and filled with neighborhood kids up by Rose and Montrose Parks.

+1

I am not a fan of Georgetown, but I would live in this part. For the money, McLean's lots are too close together, and too much of a mish mosh, for the time being.

[Anonymous]

But you are not who makes the call. More play in 3 or 4 blocks of foxhall then all of G'town. Only mrs Kerry has them folks beat and she is in Nantucket more than G'town these days.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Ballantrae/Langley Farms area of McLean

That area is still old money, coupled with some the intellectual, business, influential, and well-known political Washingtonians.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Georgetown, yes, but lots of young families we know that live there live in very modest townhouses -sacrificing size fir location. So everything isn't on the "arrived" scale there. I'd definitely say Mass Heights, Kalorama, Wesley Heights, Spring Valley, The part of Woodley Park directly surrounding the Cathedral.

I would say it's more Cleveland Park that adjoins the Cathedral. Woodley, Lowell, Newark and Highland Pl and Macomb are some lovely streets.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nobody has mentioned the 1600 block of Pennsylvania Ave.? Very prestigious.

It's basically just public housing.