Upper NW DC the "Suburbs"?

[Anonymous]

If you live in a house in upper NW DC, do you say you live in the suburbs> I was at lunch with a friend today and she was making a joke saying she's a "boring suburban mom." We both live in Chevy Chase (DC) and while it does in some aspects seem like the suburbs, we live in DC and I never think of it that way. Do you?

[Anonymous]

Do you live in a SFH with a yard? Yeah, that’s suburban.

[Anonymous]

I’ve always thought that part of DC is pretty suburban. You need a car and there are a lot of SFHs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you live in a SFH with a yard? Yeah, that’s suburban.

Sure but idk why that's seen like a bad thing. A home with a yard in a major city? Where you can walk to some restaurants and the metro? Count me in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you live in a SFH with a yard? Yeah, that’s suburban.

Oh bullshit. Only children living in those millennial dorms think this way.

Have you ever spent time in philly, Chicago, seattle, providence, boston? SFH =/= suburban

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do you live in a SFH with a yard? Yeah, that’s suburban.

Sure but idk why that's seen like a bad thing. A home with a yard in a major city? Where you can walk to some restaurants and the metro? Count me in.

Most of Chevy Chase isn't particularly walkable to the metro.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you live in a SFH with a yard? Yeah, that’s suburban.

Sure but idk why that's seen like a bad thing. A home with a yard in a major city? Where you can walk to some restaurants and the metro? Count me in.

It’s not a bad thing. It’s just a classification. You have a suburban lifestyle vs an urban one.

[Anonymous]

We live in Upper NW and it is definitely not the suburbs.

All of upper NW was built around street car lines and most neighborhoods are very walkable to both transit and retail.

And several of the commercial corridors in Upper NW (really all of them except Wisconsin Avenue) have some fairly dense residential areas though the residential side streets are obviously mostly single family homes but even there the houses are mostly on lots that are a fraction the size of suburban lots including the lots just across the line in MD.

BTW there are many similar neighborhoods across all 4 quadrants of DC (ok not really SW DC) with single family homes immediately adjacent to higher density corridors with commercial and multi-unit buildings so NW isn't really that different from much of DC except it only has some small pockets of blocks with rowhouses which are more common in other DC neighborhoods.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’ve always thought that part of DC is pretty suburban. You need a car and there are a lot of SFHs.

You don’t need a car if you live along the Red line, near Wisconsin or near Connecticut.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We live in Upper NW and it is definitely not the suburbs.

All of upper NW was built around street car lines and most neighborhoods are very walkable to both transit and retail.

And several of the commercial corridors in Upper NW (really all of them except Wisconsin Avenue) have some fairly dense residential areas though the residential side streets are obviously mostly single family homes but even there the houses are mostly on lots that are a fraction the size of suburban lots including the lots just across the line in MD.

BTW there are many similar neighborhoods across all 4 quadrants of DC (ok not really SW DC) with single family homes immediately adjacent to higher density corridors with commercial and multi-unit buildings so NW isn't really that different from much of DC except it only has some small pockets of blocks with rowhouses which are more common in other DC neighborhoods.

Cool. We have all of that and live in MoCo, outside the Beltway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you live in a SFH with a yard? Yeah, that’s suburban.

Nope - there are houses with yards throughout DC including some relatively close to downtown - do you think that makes them all suburban?

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Anonymous wrote:Do you live in a SFH with a yard? Yeah, that’s suburban.

Sure but idk why that's seen like a bad thing. A home with a yard in a major city? Where you can walk to some restaurants and the metro? Count me in.

Most of Chevy Chase isn't particularly walkable to the metro.

I guess if you are lazy - geographically about half of Chevy Chase DC is west of Connecticut and all of those homes are comfortably within walking distance of a Metro station. And technically some of the neighborhoods east of Connecticut are not even Chevy Chase.

[Anonymous]

Thought experiment - do you consider Arlington to be urban or suburban? It was part of the original District of Columbia and is very similar to the upper NW DC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We live in Upper NW and it is definitely not the suburbs.

All of upper NW was built around street car lines and most neighborhoods are very walkable to both transit and retail.

And several of the commercial corridors in Upper NW (really all of them except Wisconsin Avenue) have some fairly dense residential areas though the residential side streets are obviously mostly single family homes but even there the houses are mostly on lots that are a fraction the size of suburban lots including the lots just across the line in MD.

BTW there are many similar neighborhoods across all 4 quadrants of DC (ok not really SW DC) with single family homes immediately adjacent to higher density corridors with commercial and multi-unit buildings so NW isn't really that different from much of DC except it only has some small pockets of blocks with rowhouses which are more common in other DC neighborhoods.

Cool. We have all of that and live in MoCo, outside the Beltway.

Really - which neighborhoods in MoCo outside the beltway have all of that? The faux urbanism of King Farm doesn't count because the transit there sucks and there really isn't that much density there either though it may feel like it because the traffic is still awful.

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Anonymous wrote:Do you live in a SFH with a yard? Yeah, that’s suburban.

Sure but idk why that's seen like a bad thing. A home with a yard in a major city? Where you can walk to some restaurants and the metro? Count me in.

Most of Chevy Chase isn't particularly walkable to the metro.

I guess if you are lazy - geographically about half of Chevy Chase DC is west of Connecticut and all of those homes are comfortably within walking distance of a Metro station. And technically some of the neighborhoods east of Connecticut are not even Chevy Chase.

What's your definition of comfortable walking distance?