Chevy Chase MD - What's so great about it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Translation: help! We were forced to move by Nestle from an awesome place in LA County and can’t f*** figure out why Chevy Chase is so “coveted.” Answer: because it, and n Arlington, are the best of the unimpressive housing options.

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The housing stock here blows.

Nice try to include Arlington in the discussion, but no. Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Great Falls, McLean, and Potomac are the area’s prestige suburbs. Arlington is second-tier.

Not true. But the area's housing stock still blows.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Translation: help! We were forced to move by Nestle from an awesome place in LA County and can’t f*** figure out why Chevy Chase is so “coveted.” Answer: because it, and n Arlington, are the best of the unimpressive housing options.

+1

The housing stock here blows.

Nice try to include Arlington in the discussion, but no. Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Great Falls, McLean, and Potomac are the area’s prestige suburbs. Arlington is second-tier.

Not true. But the area's housing stock still blows.

Arlington is the Virginia version of Silver Spring. Go away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Old money that is incorporated so that can’t be pushed around by the county gov or planing commission. There will be no affordable housing or apt complexes put in anytime soon. So close to DC yet they don’t owe one penny to SE or NE. One of the more elite country clubs in the US. A police force that focus on residents and what they want.

This is town of chevy Chase or village. We’re in Chevy Chase MD but part of the county. Somerset poster summed nicely what are the advantages and we chose for combination of schooo, commute and house. But it is by no means the only or one of a few nocenarea around, so many nice areas in md, dc and va.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OP, try Forest Hills. You can live in DC and have a yard and a garage.

And sorry schools

OP's budget is 2.5 million. You think they're sending their kids to public school?

Around here? Absolutely. I used to live in CC MD. Private vs. public was split 50/50.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, try Forest Hills. You can live in DC and have a yard and a garage.

And sorry schools

Murch, Deal and Wilson, though many kids do private.

Sorry schools? Do you honestly think MoCo is better? We have small class size down here for Murch - and Deal is far from perfect but awesome for what you get and run so well. High School - many options besides Wilson.

Big yards in FH too - we have over a 1/2 acre and a ten minute walk to the Metro.

By a galaxy

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, try Forest Hills. You can live in DC and have a yard and a garage.

And sorry schools

Murch, Deal and Wilson, though many kids do private.

Sorry schools? Do you honestly think MoCo is better? We have small class size down here for Murch - and Deal is far from perfect but awesome for what you get and run so well. High School - many options besides Wilson.

Big yards in FH too - we have over a 1/2 acre and a ten minute walk to the Metro.

By a galaxy

Elementary schools: similar
Middle: Chevy Chase options are a tad better than Deal
High: BCC much better than Wilson

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, try Forest Hills. You can live in DC and have a yard and a garage.

And sorry schools

OP's budget is 2.5 million. You think they're sending their kids to public school?

Around here? Absolutely. I used to live in CC MD. Private vs. public was split 50/50.

I have lived in Forest Hills for 17 years and have kids. By high school, most of the kids we knew went to private school and not Wilson. That includes my kids. If you have that kind of money to spend on a house, school sconce is not a real factor in your search. It’s the folks who have 3 kids who find it a stretch to pay for private school and need to focus on the neighborhood schools in their search. If you have $2.5 million or more to spend on a house, spending $40K on private school is not a big deal.

[Anonymous]

I meant school “choice”...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Just moved with kids from Los Angeles and have been touring with a great buyer's agent in the Bethesda / CC area. Budget is <$2.5M for a single family home

He says Chevy Chase MD is one of the top places to live in the DMV, but I can't seem to figure out what's so great about CC Village, Martins Additions, Section 3, and Section 5. Seems like a bunch of older houses, small lots (<0.25 acres), and street parked cars due to lack of garages (and sometimes driveways). Reminds me of small old towns in New England.

I absolutely don't mean this as a troll post, but why is CC more desirable than nearby Bethesda where the lots are larger and homes look newer?

I have realized on this forum that there are many many people that find old houses very attractive. While old houses on small lots turn you off, they attract a lot of people. You'll find many of them here on DCUM.

I love old houses! Bonus points if the owners left the original trim, built ins, and in lay floors alone.

I like "regular" sized houses though. I wouldn't go lower than than 2500 sqft or higher than 4000 sqft.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Translation: help! We were forced to move by Nestle from an awesome place in LA County and can’t f*** figure out why Chevy Chase is so “coveted.” Answer: because it, and n Arlington, are the best of the unimpressive housing options.

+1

The housing stock here blows.

Nice try to include Arlington in the discussion, but no. Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Great Falls, McLean, and Potomac are the area’s prestige suburbs. Arlington is second-tier.

Not true. But the area's housing stock still blows.

Arlington is the Virginia version of Silver Spring. Go away.

Alexandria is the silver spring of VA with a couple of nice areas but poor schools and way too many low SES areas and crime, Arlington is the kinsington of VA with its money and good school part vs it’s Meh parts with meh schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, try Forest Hills. You can live in DC and have a yard and a garage.

And sorry schools

Murch, Deal and Wilson, though many kids do private.

Sorry schools? Do you honestly think MoCo is better? We have small class size down here for Murch - and Deal is far from perfect but awesome for what you get and run so well. High School - many options besides Wilson.

Big yards in FH too - we have over a 1/2 acre and a ten minute walk to the Metro.

By a galaxy

Elementary schools: similar
Middle: Chevy Chase options are a tad better than Deal
High: BCC much better than Wilson

+1 Percent proficient in reading and math at Wilson is around 20%. At BCC the % proficient in reading and math is around 90%. We would have rather lived in DC just because it's closer to our downtown commute, but didn't want to feel pressured to move or pay for private in HS.
https://www.niche.com/k12/woodrow-wilson-high-school-washington-dc/
https://www.niche.com/k12/bethesda-chevy-chase-high-school-bethesda-md/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Translation: help! We were forced to move by Nestle from an awesome place in LA County and can’t f*** figure out why Chevy Chase is so “coveted.” Answer: because it, and n Arlington, are the best of the unimpressive housing options.

+1

The housing stock here blows.

Nice try to include Arlington in the discussion, but no. Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Great Falls, McLean, and Potomac are the area’s prestige suburbs. Arlington is second-tier.

Not true. But the area's housing stock still blows.

Always wonder where people are pointing to when they presume other areas have better housing stock. Lived in a lot of places, better housing stock at the same price generally means you're in an economically depressed area.

[Anonymous]

Location is everything. Chevy Chase neighborhoods that are closest to DC (south of EW Highway) have locations that are unbeatable with great public schools and proximity to all the best shops, restaurants, etc.

[Anonymous]

With a budget of 2.5 you can get a larger lot, newer (or brand new) and garage in Chevy Chase

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Location is everything. Chevy Chase neighborhoods that are closest to DC (south of EW Highway) have locations that are unbeatable with great public schools and proximity to all the best shops, restaurants, etc.

*shoppes

PROXIMITY TO ALL THE BEST SHOPS OMFG

Can I ask a serious question though? The Whole Foods née Fresh Fields is so crappy now by comparison to the Whole Foods née Woody’s, so how is it that they are both full? Did more people move in? A whole Whole Foods worth?

Whatever you do OP don’t get snookered into buying a house in Martin’s Additions which is clearly a separate and inferior municipality.