VA residents - I had no idea house prices were this high!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Virginia is a lot cleaner. Maryland is is a mess.

Maryland is discusting.

Maryland isn't my favorite state but I would hardly call it disgusting?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. Loudon booster has entered the room. “Come buy a house here, I need the agent’s commission.” He’s like a broken record.

You couldn’t pay me to live in one of the soulless VA developments mushrooming all over Loudon and Fairfax. And yes, I can afford it.

LOL pretending like your old 1960s rambler in Germantown is so much better. Enjoy your strip mall and Applebees.

Yeah, I’m laughing from my 1913, close-in house at your idea of how we in Maryland live.

[Anonymous]

No one lives in VA because it's a great place to live.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. Loudon booster has entered the room. “Come buy a house here, I need the agent’s commission.” He’s like a broken record.

You couldn’t pay me to live in one of the soulless VA developments mushrooming all over Loudon and Fairfax. And yes, I can afford it.

LOL pretending like your old 1960s rambler in Germantown is so much better. Enjoy your strip mall and Applebees.

Yeah, I’m laughing from my 1913, close-in house at your idea of how we in Maryland live.

DP, but LOL, because we weren't the ones who decided you should spend the rest of your days subsidizing people in all the run-down housing now in Wheaton, Montgomery Village, Gaithersburg, and Germantown. You did that to yourselves. Enjoy that old house.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. Loudon booster has entered the room. “Come buy a house here, I need the agent’s commission.” He’s like a broken record.

You couldn’t pay me to live in one of the soulless VA developments mushrooming all over Loudon and Fairfax. And yes, I can afford it.

LOL pretending like your old 1960s rambler in Germantown is so much better. Enjoy your strip mall and Applebees.

Yeah, I’m laughing from my 1913, close-in house at your idea of how we in Maryland live.

Bragging about a tiny 109 year old house…isn’t doing you any favors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where in MD and where in VA are you comparing? Lots of folks don't make apples to apples comparisons.

Exactly this. Median home prices are higher in MD than VA.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_median_home_price

https://www.businessinsider.com/average-home-prices-in-every-state-washington-dc-2019-6

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just need to apologize right now! As a MD born and raised girl I never even looked up VA house prices. I now have to move to VA and wow. The prices you all have been paying for mediocre housing is crazy. I thought we had it bad and apparently we don’t. House hunting in NOVA has been depressing this far.

Depends on where in VA. Mclean, yes. Herndon, no.

Ew, I'd never pay the prices right now for a home in Herndon. It's such an armpit of VA like Sterling, VA.

If I'm paying $900k+, I want in McLean, Loudoun, or somewhere like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just need to apologize right now! As a MD born and raised girl I never even looked up VA house prices. I now have to move to VA and wow. The prices you all have been paying for mediocre housing is crazy. I thought we had it bad and apparently we don’t. House hunting in NOVA has been depressing this far.

Depends on where in VA. Mclean, yes. Herndon, no.

Ew, I'd never pay the prices right now for a home in Herndon. It's such an armpit of VA like Sterling, VA.

If I'm paying $900k+, I want in McLean, Loudoun, or somewhere like that.

Herndon, Loundon? They are basically the same. Far out hinterland.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just need to apologize right now! As a MD born and raised girl I never even looked up VA house prices. I now have to move to VA and wow. The prices you all have been paying for mediocre housing is crazy. I thought we had it bad and apparently we don’t. House hunting in NOVA has been depressing this far.

Depends on where in VA. Mclean, yes. Herndon, no.

Ew, I'd never pay the prices right now for a home in Herndon. It's such an armpit of VA like Sterling, VA.

If I'm paying $900k+, I want in McLean, Loudoun, or somewhere like that.

Tell us you haven't been to Herndon without telling us you haven't been to Herndon.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. Loudon booster has entered the room. “Come buy a house here, I need the agent’s commission.” He’s like a broken record.

You couldn’t pay me to live in one of the soulless VA developments mushrooming all over Loudon and Fairfax. And yes, I can afford it.

LOL pretending like your old 1960s rambler in Germantown is so much better. Enjoy your strip mall and Applebees.

Yeah, I’m laughing from my 1913, close-in house at your idea of how we in Maryland live.

Bragging about a tiny 109 year old house…isn’t doing you any favors.

Lol, it’s quite large, with interesting architectural features. You sound jealous.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why people get so weird about the NOVA vs. MD stuff. There are objectively nice areas (and less nice areas) in both. (And in DC for that matter!). I grew up in MOCO and currently live in Arlington. I'd happily live in either area but Arlington just works for us right now.

The neighborhood obviously matters much more than the state (or District!) it's in. Potomac is a lot more like McLean than it is like Gaithersburg. Arlington is more like Bethesda than Herndon. Chevy Chase DC is more like Chevy Chase MD than it is like Shaw or Capitol Hill.

People just like to import their politics into the discussion

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Just need to apologize right now! As a MD born and raised girl I never even looked up VA house prices. I now have to move to VA and wow. The prices you all have been paying for mediocre housing is crazy. I thought we had it bad and apparently we don’t. House hunting in NOVA has been depressing this far.

Depends on where in VA. Mclean, yes. Herndon, no.

Ew, I'd never pay the prices right now for a home in Herndon. It's such an armpit of VA like Sterling, VA.

If I'm paying $900k+, I want in McLean, Loudoun, or somewhere like that.

Herndon, Loundon? They are basically the same. Far out hinterland.

But I have an awesome brand new McMansion and only had to fix the replace the foundation and roof not to mention a 2 hour commute in bumper to bumper traffic.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't understand why people get so weird about the NOVA vs. MD stuff. There are objectively nice areas (and less nice areas) in both. (And in DC for that matter!). I grew up in MOCO and currently live in Arlington. I'd happily live in either area but Arlington just works for us right now.

The neighborhood obviously matters much more than the state (or District!) it's in. Potomac is a lot more like McLean than it is like Gaithersburg. Arlington is more like Bethesda than Herndon. Chevy Chase DC is more like Chevy Chase MD than it is like Shaw or Capitol Hill.

People just like to import their politics into the discussion

Just a few years ago Shaw was like a war zone. They were pulling out body bags daily. Crazy how things change.

[Anonymous]

I live in MD and we should have never moved here. Should have gone directly to VA and not even thought about MD.

[Anonymous]

You live under a rock?