Tell me about living in Huntington

[Anonymous]

Seems like one of the few places relatively close in that still has reasonable housing prices and is metro accessible. Do you feel safe? How annoying is the traffic? How are neighbors?

[Anonymous]

Huntington, WV?

[Anonymous]

Floods a lot.

[Anonymous]

Have you looked at houses? They're quite small. Arlington Terrace is the street that floods. There's nothing to walk to(except the subway). There are multiple families living in houses.

[Anonymous]

On the positive side, the schools are better than South Arlington, though. Edison is decent and better than Wakefield.

[Anonymous]

It is a neighborhood that is on the upswing. You can get property for a good price but choose your block wisely. The major benefits are easy access to Metro and to the Beltway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is a neighborhood that is on the upswing. You can get property for a good price but choose your block wisely. The major benefits are easy access to Metro and to the Beltway.

I've known someone who's lived there for 15 years, nothing has changed. I kept waiting for it to gentrify. It seems to have gotten a little worse.

[Anonymous]

I rented half a duplex there for a little over a year in 2003. I was on the north side of Huntington Ave. I never once met any of my neighbors, or even saw them outside. Not a single kid came on Halloween. To me, that was weird.

The big advantage was that I could walk to metro. But there's not really anything else to walk to. I felt ok walking back and forth by myself at night because it's a well traveled area (although I never did it alone really late at night).

[Anonymous]

I literally thought about Alabama and West Virginia before I realized you meant the WMATA metro stop. No one ever talks about the yellow line, good or bad. I guess thats because it only has one stop unique to itself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a neighborhood that is on the upswing. You can get property for a good price but choose your block wisely. The major benefits are easy access to Metro and to the Beltway.

I've known someone who's lived there for 15 years, nothing has changed. I kept waiting for it to gentrify. It seems to have gotten a little worse.

I guess you haven't visited your friend in a while. I suggest you meet for coffee and French pastries at Voila, across from the north entrance of the Metro. You'll see all the new apartment buildings going up. Watch out for the demolition crew at the Penn-Daw shopping center where the Shoppers Warehouse used to be. It's about to become a retail/living space with new restaurants, grocery, coffee shop, etc. Five years ago, duplexes in Jefferson Manor were going for $350K. Now they're up to $440K.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a neighborhood that is on the upswing. You can get property for a good price but choose your block wisely. The major benefits are easy access to Metro and to the Beltway.

I've known someone who's lived there for 15 years, nothing has changed. I kept waiting for it to gentrify. It seems to have gotten a little worse.

http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/2810-Farmington-Dr-Alexandria-VA-22303/51924499_zpid/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is a neighborhood that is on the upswing. You can get property for a good price but choose your block wisely. The major benefits are easy access to Metro and to the Beltway.

I've known someone who's lived there for 15 years, nothing has changed. I kept waiting for it to gentrify. It seems to have gotten a little worse.

I guess you haven't visited your friend in a while. I suggest you meet for coffee and French pastries at Voila, across from the north entrance of the Metro. You'll see all the new apartment buildings going up. Watch out for the demolition crew at the Penn-Daw shopping center where the Shoppers Warehouse used to be. It's about to become a retail/living space with new restaurants, grocery, coffee shop, etc. Five years ago, duplexes in Jefferson Manor were going for $350K. Now they're up to $440K.

+1 As someone who is in the neighborhood every day I definitely see robust growth and change.

[Anonymous]

As long as Jefferson Davis aka RT 1 cuts through an area it will be held back from ever becoming to nice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As long as Jefferson Davis aka RT 1 cuts through an area it will be held back from ever becoming to nice.

Huh? Rte 1 doesn't cut through Huntington. It's a border. Come back when you know what you're talking about and how to spell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As long as Jefferson Davis aka RT 1 cuts through an area it will be held back from ever becoming to nice.

Huh? Rte 1 doesn't cut through Huntington. It's a border. Come back when you know what you're talking about and how to spell.

Yes your semantics completely invalidates the point that RT 1sucks and tarnishes anything it touchs regardless of the exact positioning. Even the nicer area along fort hunt is dragged down by the influx on it's schools and crime. Huntington is worse. I get it that it might be the best you can afford but don't kid your self and others.