For Westchester New York Transplants Which neighborhoods are most similar in NoVA and MD?

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Anonymous wrote:Chevy Chase is the closest you will get for neighborhood feel but you may have to adjust your budget.

+1 can you up your budget to $1M?

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Anonymous wrote:OP, the City of Falls Church also comes close to replicating Westchester towns, bc it is a stand alone city in VA. Has its own schools, mayor, police, etc. Has a "main street" area.

That said, there is very slim pickings at your price point. Maybe some newer condos.

FCC is a bit like White Plains or Eastchester, in terms of housing.

Yep and as someone who grew up in Chappaqua, White Plains is not the nice part of Westchester. People in Chappaqua, Scarsdale, and Bedford look down on people who live in White Plains.

Not fair but it’s the truth.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you adjusted your affordability to DC area property taxes? They are significantly lower than DC such that you can purchase a lot more house.

I am not sure what school district you are moving from - but from friends in Westchester in those areas they are paying more than double in property taxes than you do here - so you can probably afford $1K more a month in mortgage (~ 200K more house)

As long as you choose to drive old or cheap cars, yes this is true.

How expensive is your car? My $30k car has like a $1500 annual tax bill. Is that cheap?

My cars are valued between $800 and $2k. And I love them because they're older German cars which are a lot of fun.

$1,500 is a lot of money when you get nothing marginal for it in return. But that's just my personal opinion.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, the City of Falls Church also comes close to replicating Westchester towns, bc it is a stand alone city in VA. Has its own schools, mayor, police, etc. Has a "main street" area.

That said, there is very slim pickings at your price point. Maybe some newer condos.

FCC is a bit like White Plains or Eastchester, in terms of housing.

Yep and as someone who grew up in Chappaqua, White Plains is not the nice part of Westchester. People in Chappaqua, Scarsdale, and Bedford look down on people who live in White Plains.

Not fair but it’s the truth.

The average HHI in Westchester is about $30K lower than in Fairfax, so most of Westchester isn't like Scarsdale any more than most of Fairfax is like Great Falls.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, the City of Falls Church also comes close to replicating Westchester towns, bc it is a stand alone city in VA. Has its own schools, mayor, police, etc. Has a "main street" area.

That said, there is very slim pickings at your price point. Maybe some newer condos.

FCC is a bit like White Plains or Eastchester, in terms of housing.

Yep and as someone who grew up in Chappaqua, White Plains is not the nice part of Westchester. People in Chappaqua, Scarsdale, and Bedford look down on people who live in White Plains.

Not fair but it’s the truth.

The average HHI in Westchester is about $30K lower than in Fairfax, so most of Westchester isn't like Scarsdale any more than most of Fairfax is like Great Falls.

Yeah, I mean Westchester has a bunch of dumpy towns like Yonkers, Mount Vernon, Ossining and Port Chester.

Most of my mom's family is from Ossining.

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Anonymous wrote:Your problem is that you grew up UMC, but you only have a MC budget for DC. Schools are much worse here than in those towns, but we don’t have the high taxes like Westchester does. I don’t think anything is really comparable here with the town center feeling. Maybe Vienna or DelRay.

Schools are much worse where? They certainly aren't much worse in Fairfax or Loudoun County.

No offense pp, but I'd say the schools in places like Scarsdale or Bronxville are definitely better than the ones in Fairfax and Loudoun.

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People who have never been to Scarsdale or Bronxville have still heard of them from tv,movies,pop culture, etc. as being very nice.

Not true for Fairfax Co.

Lol ... I’m not sure you are aware of how you sound (not flattering) or if this is a great out-on. 😎

Such a weird flex. I'm on my 40s, well educated, well read, and well traveled, and I've never heard of Scarsdale or Bronxville. Not everyone is from the Tri-State region...

I'm not sure it's only a Tri-State region thing. It may be more of a thing for educated people with a Boston-DC orientation. I have a college roommate who lives in Scarsdale and a partner at my law firm lives in Bronxville. Of course I know about those parts of Westchester, and similar areas like Short Hills in NJ, Great Neck on LI, etc. When they found out we moved to McLean, they congratulated me, because they are also familiar with McLean, Bethesda, and Chevy Chase. Do they know anything about Burke? Probably not. But they know about the expensive DC suburbs.

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It's a wealthy East Coast thing. Everyone has heard of Scarsdale or McLean. Who hasn't heard of Sidwell or Spence or Chapin or Dalton. I can go on and on.

And an education thing. I grew up in Westchester. I went to an Ivy for college. So, I am familiar with Brookline, Newton, Lexington in MA, Greenwich, New Canaan, etc in CT, the NJ burbs, Severna Park, Chevy Chase, Bethesda, Potomac, McLean in the DC area, Grosse Point, Bloomfield Hills in MI, Winnetka and other north suburbs of Chicago. Those are the places my classmates and friends were from.

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Anonymous wrote:Your problem is that you grew up UMC, but you only have a MC budget for DC. Schools are much worse here than in those towns, but we don’t have the high taxes like Westchester does. I don’t think anything is really comparable here with the town center feeling. Maybe Vienna or DelRay.

Schools are much worse where? They certainly aren't much worse in Fairfax or Loudoun County.

No offense pp, but I'd say the schools in places like Scarsdale or Bronxville are definitely better than the ones in Fairfax and Loudoun.

+1

People who have never been to Scarsdale or Bronxville have still heard of them from tv,movies,pop culture, etc. as being very nice.

Not true for Fairfax Co.

Lol ... I’m not sure you are aware of how you sound (not flattering) or if this is a great out-on. 😎

Such a weird flex. I'm on my 40s, well educated, well read, and well traveled, and I've never heard of Scarsdale or Bronxville. Not everyone is from the Tri-State region...

I'm not sure it's only a Tri-State region thing. It may be more of a thing for educated people with a Boston-DC orientation. I have a college roommate who lives in Scarsdale and a partner at my law firm lives in Bronxville. Of course I know about those parts of Westchester, and similar areas like Short Hills in NJ, Great Neck on LI, etc. When they found out we moved to McLean, they congratulated me, because they are also familiar with McLean, Bethesda, and Chevy Chase. Do they know anything about Burke? Probably not. But they know about the expensive DC suburbs.

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It's a wealthy East Coast thing. Everyone has heard of Scarsdale or McLean. Who hasn't heard of Sidwell or Spence or Chapin or Dalton. I can go on and on.

And an education thing. I grew up in Westchester. I went to an Ivy for college. So, I am familiar with Brookline, Newton, Lexington in MA, Greenwich, New Canaan, etc in CT, the NJ burbs, Severna Park, Chevy Chase, Bethesda, Potomac, McLean in the DC area, Grosse Point, Bloomfield Hills in MI, Winnetka and other north suburbs of Chicago. Those are the places my classmates and friends were from.

This. And you are quite possibly as likely to be familiar with day schools (Boston Latin, Dalton, Collegiate, etc.) or top suburban schools (New Trier, Newton North, TJ, etc.) as with boarding schools (Andover, Exeter, St. Paul's, etc.).

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Anonymous wrote:Your problem is that you grew up UMC, but you only have a MC budget for DC. Schools are much worse here than in those towns, but we don’t have the high taxes like Westchester does. I don’t think anything is really comparable here with the town center feeling. Maybe Vienna or DelRay.

Schools are much worse where? They certainly aren't much worse in Fairfax or Loudoun County.

No offense pp, but I'd say the schools in places like Scarsdale or Bronxville are definitely better than the ones in Fairfax and Loudoun.

+1

People who have never been to Scarsdale or Bronxville have still heard of them from tv,movies,pop culture, etc. as being very nice.

Not true for Fairfax Co.

Lol ... I’m not sure you are aware of how you sound (not flattering) or if this is a great out-on. 😎

Such a weird flex. I'm on my 40s, well educated, well read, and well traveled, and I've never heard of Scarsdale or Bronxville. Not everyone is from the Tri-State region...

I'm not sure it's only a Tri-State region thing. It may be more of a thing for educated people with a Boston-DC orientation. I have a college roommate who lives in Scarsdale and a partner at my law firm lives in Bronxville. Of course I know about those parts of Westchester, and similar areas like Short Hills in NJ, Great Neck on LI, etc. When they found out we moved to McLean, they congratulated me, because they are also familiar with McLean, Bethesda, and Chevy Chase. Do they know anything about Burke? Probably not. But they know about the expensive DC suburbs.

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It's a wealthy East Coast thing. Everyone has heard of Scarsdale or McLean. Who hasn't heard of Sidwell or Spence or Chapin or Dalton. I can go on and on.

And an education thing. I grew up in Westchester. I went to an Ivy for college. So, I am familiar with Brookline, Newton, Lexington in MA, Greenwich, New Canaan, etc in CT, the NJ burbs, Severna Park, Chevy Chase, Bethesda, Potomac, McLean in the DC area, Grosse Point, Bloomfield Hills in MI, Winnetka and other north suburbs of Chicago. Those are the places my classmates and friends were from.

This. And you are quite possibly as likely to be familiar with day schools (Boston Latin, Dalton, Collegiate, etc.) or top suburban schools (New Trier, Newton North, TJ, etc.) as with boarding schools (Andover, Exeter, St. Paul's, etc.).

PP, and yes, exactly.

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Anonymous wrote:Your problem is that you grew up UMC, but you only have a MC budget for DC. Schools are much worse here than in those towns, but we don’t have the high taxes like Westchester does. I don’t think anything is really comparable here with the town center feeling. Maybe Vienna or DelRay.

An 850K house in this area signals a middle class budget?

Yes it’s basically two fed workers. That’s pretty much the definition of middle class.

A $300k hhi ain’t middle class.

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Anonymous wrote:This is very Chevy Chase like, but seems like Scarsdale is cheaper.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/30-River-Rd-Scarsdale-NY-10583/33093648_zpid/

The property taxes on that one are probably twice what they would be in Chevy Chase.

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Also, the schools in westchester are pretty much identical to those in maryland/nova. Some really really good ones ranging to OK. (not terrible).

A pretty fair comparison:

https://www.niche.com/k12/scarsdale-senior-high-school-scarsdale-ny/rankings/
https://www.niche.com/k12/winston-churchill-high-school-potomac-md/rankings/

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Anonymous wrote:This is very Chevy Chase like, but seems like Scarsdale is cheaper.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/30-River-Rd-Scarsdale-NY-10583/33093648_zpid/

The property taxes on that one are probably twice what they would be in Chevy Chase.

20K+ a year, so for a comparable house in Chevy Chase, yes, about double. Although you're not going to get a comparable house in Chevy Chase anything close to $900K.

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Anonymous wrote:Your problem is that you grew up UMC, but you only have a MC budget for DC. Schools are much worse here than in those towns, but we don’t have the high taxes like Westchester does. I don’t think anything is really comparable here with the town center feeling. Maybe Vienna or DelRay.

Schools are much worse where? They certainly aren't much worse in Fairfax or Loudoun County.

No offense pp, but I'd say the schools in places like Scarsdale or Bronxville are definitely better than the ones in Fairfax and Loudoun.

+1

People who have never been to Scarsdale or Bronxville have still heard of them from tv,movies,pop culture, etc. as being very nice.

Not true for Fairfax Co.

Lol ... I’m not sure you are aware of how you sound (not flattering) or if this is a great out-on. 😎

Such a weird flex. I'm on my 40s, well educated, well read, and well traveled, and I've never heard of Scarsdale or Bronxville. Not everyone is from the Tri-State region...

I'm not sure it's only a Tri-State region thing. It may be more of a thing for educated people with a Boston-DC orientation. I have a college roommate who lives in Scarsdale and a partner at my law firm lives in Bronxville. Of course I know about those parts of Westchester, and similar areas like Short Hills in NJ, Great Neck on LI, etc. When they found out we moved to McLean, they congratulated me, because they are also familiar with McLean, Bethesda, and Chevy Chase. Do they know anything about Burke? Probably not. But they know about the expensive DC suburbs.

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It's a wealthy East Coast thing. Everyone has heard of Scarsdale or McLean. Who hasn't heard of Sidwell or Spence or Chapin or Dalton. I can go on and on.

And an education thing. I grew up in Westchester. I went to an Ivy for college. So, I am familiar with Brookline, Newton, Lexington in MA, Greenwich, New Canaan, etc in CT, the NJ burbs, Severna Park, Chevy Chase, Bethesda, Potomac, McLean in the DC area, Grosse Point, Bloomfield Hills in MI, Winnetka and other north suburbs of Chicago. Those are the places my classmates and friends were from.

This. And you are quite possibly as likely to be familiar with day schools (Boston Latin, Dalton, Collegiate, etc.) or top suburban schools (New Trier, Newton North, TJ, etc.) as with boarding schools (Andover, Exeter, St. Paul's, etc.).

Boston Latin is a public school. Admissions are done through application, but it is a public school, not a day school.

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Anonymous wrote:Your problem is that you grew up UMC, but you only have a MC budget for DC. Schools are much worse here than in those towns, but we don’t have the high taxes like Westchester does. I don’t think anything is really comparable here with the town center feeling. Maybe Vienna or DelRay.

Schools are much worse where? They certainly aren't much worse in Fairfax or Loudoun County.

No offense pp, but I'd say the schools in places like Scarsdale or Bronxville are definitely better than the ones in Fairfax and Loudoun.

+1

People who have never been to Scarsdale or Bronxville have still heard of them from tv,movies,pop culture, etc. as being very nice.

Not true for Fairfax Co.

Lol ... I’m not sure you are aware of how you sound (not flattering) or if this is a great out-on. 😎

Such a weird flex. I'm on my 40s, well educated, well read, and well traveled, and I've never heard of Scarsdale or Bronxville. Not everyone is from the Tri-State region...

I'm not sure it's only a Tri-State region thing. It may be more of a thing for educated people with a Boston-DC orientation. I have a college roommate who lives in Scarsdale and a partner at my law firm lives in Bronxville. Of course I know about those parts of Westchester, and similar areas like Short Hills in NJ, Great Neck on LI, etc. When they found out we moved to McLean, they congratulated me, because they are also familiar with McLean, Bethesda, and Chevy Chase. Do they know anything about Burke? Probably not. But they know about the expensive DC suburbs.

+ 1

It's a wealthy East Coast thing. Everyone has heard of Scarsdale or McLean. Who hasn't heard of Sidwell or Spence or Chapin or Dalton. I can go on and on.

And an education thing. I grew up in Westchester. I went to an Ivy for college. So, I am familiar with Brookline, Newton, Lexington in MA, Greenwich, New Canaan, etc in CT, the NJ burbs, Severna Park, Chevy Chase, Bethesda, Potomac, McLean in the DC area, Grosse Point, Bloomfield Hills in MI, Winnetka and other north suburbs of Chicago. Those are the places my classmates and friends were from.

This. And you are quite possibly as likely to be familiar with day schools (Boston Latin, Dalton, Collegiate, etc.) or top suburban schools (New Trier, Newton North, TJ, etc.) as with boarding schools (Andover, Exeter, St. Paul's, etc.).

Don't be mistaken - it's an education AND money thing. Folks who live in the above towns and/or attend those schools are much more likely to be wealthy and full pay for college. That wealth also enabled them to buy houses in the "top" school districts.

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Anonymous wrote:Your problem is that you grew up UMC, but you only have a MC budget for DC. Schools are much worse here than in those towns, but we don’t have the high taxes like Westchester does. I don’t think anything is really comparable here with the town center feeling. Maybe Vienna or DelRay.

Schools are much worse where? They certainly aren't much worse in Fairfax or Loudoun County.

No offense pp, but I'd say the schools in places like Scarsdale or Bronxville are definitely better than the ones in Fairfax and Loudoun.

+1

People who have never been to Scarsdale or Bronxville have still heard of them from tv,movies,pop culture, etc. as being very nice.

Not true for Fairfax Co.

Lol ... I’m not sure you are aware of how you sound (not flattering) or if this is a great out-on. 😎

Such a weird flex. I'm on my 40s, well educated, well read, and well traveled, and I've never heard of Scarsdale or Bronxville. Not everyone is from the Tri-State region...

I'm not sure it's only a Tri-State region thing. It may be more of a thing for educated people with a Boston-DC orientation. I have a college roommate who lives in Scarsdale and a partner at my law firm lives in Bronxville. Of course I know about those parts of Westchester, and similar areas like Short Hills in NJ, Great Neck on LI, etc. When they found out we moved to McLean, they congratulated me, because they are also familiar with McLean, Bethesda, and Chevy Chase. Do they know anything about Burke? Probably not. But they know about the expensive DC suburbs.

+ 1

It's a wealthy East Coast thing. Everyone has heard of Scarsdale or McLean. Who hasn't heard of Sidwell or Spence or Chapin or Dalton. I can go on and on.

And an education thing. I grew up in Westchester. I went to an Ivy for college. So, I am familiar with Brookline, Newton, Lexington in MA, Greenwich, New Canaan, etc in CT, the NJ burbs, Severna Park, Chevy Chase, Bethesda, Potomac, McLean in the DC area, Grosse Point, Bloomfield Hills in MI, Winnetka and other north suburbs of Chicago. Those are the places my classmates and friends were from.

This. And you are quite possibly as likely to be familiar with day schools (Boston Latin, Dalton, Collegiate, etc.) or top suburban schools (New Trier, Newton North, TJ, etc.) as with boarding schools (Andover, Exeter, St. Paul's, etc.).

Boston Latin is a public school. Admissions are done through application, but it is a public school, not a day school.

OK - so swap Buckingham Browne & Nichols in the East Coast day school category, and include Boston Latin, Stuyvesant, and TJ in the public magnet category, etc.