Which neighborhoods to avoid in NoVa?
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Anonymous
You could also find something in your budget in the Nottingham/Williamsburg/Yorktown pyramid. All three are in 22207. |
Anonymous
ITA. I don't think people know what they are in for when they move to certain Langley neighborhoods. Some people can barely afford it, which makes for a hostile environment, to say the least. You would be much better off in a very close on paper neighborhood. |
Anonymous
You don't have a clue. Incomes and housing prices are far higher in many neighborhoods in 22041 and 22044 than Pimmit Hills, the part of 22043 that goes to Shrevewood/Kilmer/Marshall is more "saught after" than the part of 22046 that goes to Timber Lane (it's not Timberlane), etc. You don't know when to stop embarrassing yourself. |
Anonymous
So you attended Poe at least 15 years ago. Inside-the-Beltway Annandale has changed (and not for the better) over the last decade+. |
Went to Columbia, UVA and W& M for college/grad school. I think lots of white people are scared of the "diversity" at those schools, unfortunately.
Anonymous
I have yet to see you show me any statistical data but I will provide you some. Pimmit Hills: Median Sale Price $481K Median Sale $/Sq Ft $412 Lake Barcroft: Median Sale Price $505K Median Sale $/Sq Ft $260 22042 Real: Median Sale Price $391K Median Sale $/Sq Ft $314 22041 Median Sale Price $240K Median Sale $/Sq Ft $219 Housing values mimic the desire to go to McLean, George Mason and Marshall Pyramids. If you could provide me with neighborhoods 22041 and 22044 that you claim are higher valued and higher income please do so and I can give you a breakdown of the differences. The above is a zip code analysis and can be skewed by different neighborhoods and housing types. The Pimmit hills and Lake Barcroft analysis is the most accurate. Shrevewood is rated slightly lower than the other Elementary schools in Marshall pyramids and has the same rating as Timberlane. Your argument that a Marshall pyramid is more sought after than a McLean one with equally rated elementary schools is wrong http://www.greatschools.org/virginia/falls-church/578-Timber-Lane-Elementary-School/ http://www.greatschools.org/virginia/falls-church/567-Shrevewood-Elementary-School/ Idylwood Real Estate Trends Sale Price $392K Median Sale $/Sq Ft $292 McLean Timberlane oops TIMBER LANE (good catch you get a gold star for something accurate for a change) Median Sale Price $576K Median Sale $/Sq Ft $459 Shrevewood Elementary Median Sale Price $521k Median Sale $/Sq Ft $321 |
Anonymous
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Sorry, but your jumble of purported statistics is less than compelling. On the other hand, it's easy enough to look at the Census explorer tool and the NY mapping and see that other neighborhoods in 22043 (both the Haycock and Idylwood areas), 22041 and 22044 are all higher-income areas with higher median housing prices than Pimmit Hills or the small area in 22046 that feeds into Timber Lane.
http://www.census.gov/censusexplorer/censusexplorer.html http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer Even if values per SF are higher in Pimmit Hills than some of the other areas, so what? People in the other neighborhoods live in larger homes in more attractive neighborhoods. I'd pick them in a heartbeat over Pimmit Hills. |
Anonymous
No one lives in PH for the beauty or for architecture, it wins on other criteria. Location, schools, parks, price, commute, amenities, did I say location? But if you want a uniformly beautiful, manicured neighborhood, then it is not PH. I live in PH and admit this freely. We didn't pick it for the looks. But we are very happy here. |
Anonymous
FCC is nicer than PH, other parts of 22043 (for instance, Haycock/WFC/Idylwood) are also nicer than PH based on the totality of factors that make a neighborhood nice. 22041/22042 aren't if you look at totality of evidence, not just the looks. |
Anonymous
Then why can't you just say it works for you? Instead, you and other PH boosters keep blabbing about how it "wins" and "beats" other parts of Falls Church that are far prettier and have equally good locations, at least if you work in DC. And the schools are not that much better than the schools in other parts of the county, unless you have an unhealthy obsession with GreatSchools. |
Anonymous
NP I know both areas very well. Pimmit Hills has been considered a little rough in the past but the majority of 22041 and 22044 are worse than Pimmit Hills . The schools are also a major issue in 22041 and 22044. I am surprised that the poster didn't proclaim 22041 and 22044 is better than McLean or Georgetown. |
Anonymous
There is a very large difference in school quality it isn't marginal. No one said Pimmit Hills beats all other areas of falls church. The haycock mclean area along with falls church city is the most highest rated and expensive. Followed by the mclean timberlane area Followed by Shrevewood and Pimmit Hills After that the school quality and neighborhoods gets really low and are not even near in comparison to the above areas. |
Anonymous
So you say. No one I know in Lake Barcroft or Holmes Run would ever consider living in Pimmit Hills. Their communities are so much more attractive, they are within 10 miles or so of DC, and their kids get into schools that are every bit as good as those attended by Marshall grads. Your "totality of evidence" line is ridiculous. |
Anonymous
There are indeed neighborhoods in 22041 and 22044 that have higher median incomes and housing values than parts of McLean, although not Georgetown. |
Anonymous
I thought I did; do you realize than more than one person likes PH and we aren't at all responsible for what anyone else says? I think that PH is a better bet than 22041/22042 but not a better bet than FCC and other parts of 22043 if you have the budget. Generally people who can afford a comparable house in FCC or non-PH parts of 22043 do not look at PH as an option, but I exclude 22041/22042 from this calculation because these areas, in my opinion, lose to PH on criteria other than looks. |
Anonymous
Lake Barcroft is an anomaly because of the lake and the deep seated history of it being sought after before the whole area around it became run down in the 70s-80s and never came back. Of course people would proclaim they live in the best place in the world and wouldn't move out. You need to look at information outside of what someone living in their own neighborhood believes. |