If you could live anywhere in the DC area...

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Anonymous wrote:I'd have difficulty choosing between the following locations: North Arlington, Georgetown, or Foggy Bottom.

Remove North Arlington it is not really that desirable compared to McLean or Great Falls

for you? Because home prices in Arlington suggest that it's "really" actually "that desirable." Remove your head from your ass because it's really not desirable.

It is clearly the same person posting that over and over again. S/He has a bug up the butt about Arlington.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'd have difficulty choosing between the following locations: North Arlington, Georgetown, or Foggy Bottom.

Remove North Arlington it is not really that desirable compared to McLean or Great Falls

for you? Because home prices in Arlington suggest that it's "really" actually "that desirable." Remove your head from your ass because it's really not desirable.

When people think of the DC area suburbs they don't think of Arlington , they think of McLean and Great Falls where the politicians, rich business owners, royalty and sports stars live.

[Anonymous]

I tend to agree that Arlington is like purgatory. It's trying to be like dc and McLean at the same time without the benefit of being in the city and without the larger lots. The only benefit is being close to DC but if you are rich and have your pick to "live anywhere you could" you won't commute and don't really care about proximity to DC.

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cleveland park, between cT and the park.

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Anonymous wrote:I tend to agree that Arlington is like purgatory. It's trying to be like dc and McLean at the same time without the benefit of being in the city and without the larger lots. The only benefit is being close to DC but if you are rich and have your pick to "live anywhere you could" you won't commute and don't really care about proximity to DC.

Totally disagree. If I was rich I would buy a bigger house in Lyon Village but never move out to the car-centric suburbs. To be able to walk to everything -- that's wealth.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd have difficulty choosing between the following locations: North Arlington, Georgetown, or Foggy Bottom.

Remove North Arlington it is not really that desirable compared to McLean or Great Falls

for you? Because home prices in Arlington suggest that it's "really" actually "that desirable." Remove your head from your ass because it's really not desirable.

When people think of the DC area suburbs they don't think of Arlington , they think of McLean and Great Falls where the politicians, rich business owners, royalty and sports stars live.

No. People think of Arlington, Alexandria, Bethesda, and CCMD.

FWIW, I don't live in any of them, but I have no problem admitting what suburbs are the most well-known.

[Anonymous]

Tell that to the people living in Section 8 housing in Shaw, Columbia Heights and Old Town Alexandria.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd have difficulty choosing between the following locations: North Arlington, Georgetown, or Foggy Bottom.

Remove North Arlington it is not really that desirable compared to McLean or Great Falls

for you? Because home prices in Arlington suggest that it's "really" actually "that desirable." Remove your head from your ass because it's really not desirable.

When people think of the DC area suburbs they don't think of Arlington , they think of McLean and Great Falls where the politicians, rich business owners, royalty and sports stars live.

No. People think of Arlington, Alexandria, Bethesda, and CCMD.

FWIW, I don't live in any of them, but I have no problem admitting what suburbs are the most well-known.

The best known suburbs, at least among those who aren't looking for their first apartments fresh out of school, are the ones with money and expensive homes, and that means Chevy Chase, Bethesda, Potomac, McLean and Great Falls, not Arlington. It's not really debatable.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'd have difficulty choosing between the following locations: North Arlington, Georgetown, or Foggy Bottom.

Remove North Arlington it is not really that desirable compared to McLean or Great Falls

for you? Because home prices in Arlington suggest that it's "really" actually "that desirable." Remove your head from your ass because it's really not desirable.

When people think of the DC area suburbs they don't think of Arlington , they think of McLean and Great Falls where the politicians, rich business owners, royalty and sports stars live.

No. People think of Arlington, Alexandria, Bethesda, and CCMD.

FWIW, I don't live in any of them, but I have no problem admitting what suburbs are the most well-known.

The best known suburbs, at least among those who aren't looking for their first apartments fresh out of school, are the ones with money and expensive homes, and that means Chevy Chase, Bethesda, Potomac, McLean and Great Falls, not Arlington. It's not really debatable.

+1

How many Saudi Princes, Professional Athletes live in North Arlington, probably zero? North Arlington's so called "elite" is mostly lawyer drones.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I tend to agree that Arlington is like purgatory. It's trying to be like dc and McLean at the same time without the benefit of being in the city and without the larger lots. The only benefit is being close to DC but if you are rich and have your pick to "live anywhere you could" you won't commute and don't really care about proximity to DC.

Totally disagree. If I was rich I would buy a bigger house in Lyon Village but never move out to the car-centric suburbs. To be able to walk to everything -- that's wealth.

The only people who walk are the poors. I'll never understand why you would walk when it's faster to drive. Unless the parking sucks - which describes half of Arlington.

[Anonymous]

Yeah I don't think of Arlington as the suburbs, at all. More like white-washed overflow city housing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I tend to agree that Arlington is like purgatory. It's trying to be like dc and McLean at the same time without the benefit of being in the city and without the larger lots. The only benefit is being close to DC but if you are rich and have your pick to "live anywhere you could" you won't commute and don't really care about proximity to DC.

Totally disagree. If I was rich I would buy a bigger house in Lyon Village but never move out to the car-centric suburbs. To be able to walk to everything -- that's wealth.

You must have a mental disease to think the definition of wealth is walking to everything.

I think you suffer from walkabilitius aka delusions that most people care about "walkability". news flash the wealthy and elite don't put down "walkability" to starbucks, 711 or whatever crappy arlington strip mall as a must have.

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Anonymous wrote:DC, particularly the walkable core of the city.

joke of the day

? Why? I live in Dupont and it's wonderful. Want to live here for the foreseeable future.

How many people do you know well on our block? Your actual block.

People? Or families?

I know about 25 families on my "actual block" as my condo building has tons of families living there. Actual people? Maybe 60+

How many people do you know on your "actual block"?

The old assumption of people not knowing their neighbors in the city is false, I went to the playground a few blocks away and bumped into my neighbor and a friend from my daughters school.

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Anonymous wrote:DC, particularly the walkable core of the city.

joke of the day

? Why? I live in Dupont and it's wonderful. Want to live here for the foreseeable future.

How many people do you know well on our block? Your actual block.

I live on Capitol Hill, not in Dupont--still central DC, though. And I know every one of my neighbors (and even like most of them). And there's nothing like rats, property crime, and school insecurity to create a bond between neighbors.

It really is a great place to live, though. I thank my lucky stars every day that we stumbled onto our house. (Mostly because it was all we could afford.)

Capitol Hill is not Dupont, though.

Just like, Brookland is not Cleveland park, even though many of the kit bungalows were built in the same 1920s era.

Well, I don't have any best friends on my block, but I am incredibly friendly with 3 or 4 neighbors in my building, most of the workers at the coffee shop downstairs, the owners of the dry cleaners on the corner, and I meet new parents at Stead Park all the time. I have 4 good friends that live a few blocks away in Dupont. Not really sure what PP was getting at. I grew up in Gaithersburg and Falls Church and we were not friendly with our neighbors.

Agreed, lived in Alexandria for years and never knew my neighbors. Took moving to DC to have friendly neighbors.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC, particularly the walkable core of the city.

joke of the day

? Why? I live in Dupont and it's wonderful. Want to live here for the foreseeable future.

How many people do you know well on our block? Your actual block.

I live in Shaw/Logan in a condo, and we know about 75% of our hundred unit building. We hang out with at least half of them once a year and several many times a week. We know lots of other people on our block and all of the people who run the local businesses. We are also active in the community, going to community meetings at least once a week, so we know a lot of others who live around here. This is our home day and night, and we love it.

Wow, you guys must have a lot of free time, to be hanging out with several people many times a week.

I have maybe a close circle of 2-3 friends that I would hang out with at that frequency if I was so inclined. But at most we met one to two friends/families for lunch/dinner on the weekends.

I guess things would be different if I was single, but with work, family obligations, and school nights, I just don't envision having any free time to spend with non-family members multiple times a week.

Get out of your car and live in a walkable neighborhood and you will have more time to "hang out" - its not just for single people. We have couple nights and family play dates. We live downtown.