What would you consider to be the Washington area's prestige neighborhoods?

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Anonymous wrote:McLean

What part?

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Anonymous wrote:Georgetown - still the home of some of the most expensive properties in town.

I love Georgetown and even lived there for a couple of years, but it's just not that convenient.

To me a mansion in East Village is as convenient as it gets. It really depends on where you have to go.

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Kalorama. Woodland-Normandstone. Embassy Row. Mass Ave Heights. Kent. Spring Valley. Chevy Chase. Parts of McLean off 123.

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“Prestige” neighborhood = a place inhabited by the most people who like to imagine that other people would like to live in their neighborhood if money were no object.

As opposed to places where people with money live for the simple convenience.

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To me, prestige means history. So places like Kalorama and Chevy Chase which have been exclusive for generations would meet that criteria. Some places like Georgetown which was exclusive a generation ago have lost cachet.

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Haha paupers!

Cambridge, MD

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Anonymous wrote:What about NOVA and MD suburbs? The question was about DC areas' neighborhoods.

The streets/neighborhoods of original pre-Civil War homes in OTA.

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Anonymous wrote:Gaithersburg

I think you mean North North Bethesda.

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Anonymous wrote:To me, prestige means history. So places like Kalorama and Chevy Chase which have been exclusive for generations would meet that criteria. Some places like Georgetown which was exclusive a generation ago have lost cachet.

But Chevy Chase’s “history” largely is one of deliberate segregation, so your personal notion of “prestige” is tinged with exclusion at least as much as exclusivity.

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Anonymous wrote:To me, prestige means history. So places like Kalorama and Chevy Chase which have been exclusive for generations would meet that criteria. Some places like Georgetown which was exclusive a generation ago have lost cachet.

But Chevy Chase’s “history” largely is one of deliberate segregation, so your personal notion of “prestige” is tinged with exclusion at least as much as exclusivity.

If you are living some place do your commute is short it is not “prestigious”.

You live somewhere you don’t need to work.

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Anonymous wrote:To me, prestige means history. So places like Kalorama and Chevy Chase which have been exclusive for generations would meet that criteria. Some places like Georgetown which was exclusive a generation ago have lost cachet.

But Chevy Chase’s “history” largely is one of deliberate segregation, so your personal notion of “prestige” is tinged with exclusion at least as much as exclusivity.

I am aware. Places like Belle Haven in Alexandria which I think of as a Chevy Chase knock off had restrictive covenants as well. That said people are still clamoring to live there. They carry cachet in the stratospheres of DC. I am sure parts of NW had restrictive covenants as well.

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Anonymous wrote:To me, prestige means history. So places like Kalorama and Chevy Chase which have been exclusive for generations would meet that criteria. Some places like Georgetown which was exclusive a generation ago have lost cachet.

But Chevy Chase’s “history” largely is one of deliberate segregation, so your personal notion of “prestige” is tinged with exclusion at least as much as exclusivity.

I am aware. Places like Belle Haven in Alexandria which I think of as a Chevy Chase knock off had restrictive covenants as well. That said people are still clamoring to live there. They carry cachet in the stratospheres of DC. I am sure parts of NW had restrictive covenants as well.

+1 it was in loads of places and continues informally. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-bridge-over-a-painful-past/2018/10/19/87f738a6-ce39-11e8-920f-dd52e1ae4570_story.html

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Anonymous wrote:North Arlington

Maybe since 2015.. Up until then, it was behind McLean/Great Falls (which I know is Nouveau riche to CC/NWDC types) and certain parts of Alexandria. It has definitely become more "prestigious" in the last several years

Don’t try to play in this sandbox. The prize is a turd and N. Arlington still can’t win it.

I think Lyon Village could play. Everyone who lives there thinks it’s all that just like Bethesda.

Not even close. Prestige requires proximity to either top private or top public schools, and LV offers neither. It is near places that matter, but not itself on the map.

Look village is prestigious only to the classless people that live there. The worst

and Bethesda is prestigious only to the folks who live there, who have invested $$ in a low appreciating asset, and feel compelled to constantly justify that bad decision.

Even with "high appreciation", Arlington will never be as prestigious as Bethesda.

- NP and don't even live in Bethesda

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DC area ?

Bethesda, Potomac, Chevy Chase, MD; Kalorama.
They have the history and money.

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Anonymous wrote:DC area ?

Bethesda, Potomac, Chevy Chase, MD; Kalorama.
They have the history and money.

Eh.. Potomac is a bit nouveau riche, but some of the old mansions on the river are nice. Same for McLean. There are parts of Alexandria that are older like Belle Haven that are older and never lost their value, but it is a step below NW and Chevy Chase in some people's minds