What do we think? Friday in AU Park Edition ($1.575k)

[Anonymous]

PP - it seems the market would disagree with you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to defend the fool, but I think she was saying that Glover Park is bad enough (i.e., it isn't the downtown hub replete with tapas restaurants and furniture boutiques), but AU Park is a entirely different level of awfulness.

Just ignore the rube. She is probably some underemployed twenty-something who thinks she knows everything about the world. She doesn't understand the attraction of calm, peaceful living with a family because she doesn't have a family. (Not that there's anything wrong with it.) She speaks from ignorance, that much is clear. Just ask her to sing the praises of living in "AdMo" (not Lanier Heights, by the way) or H St. with a family.

PP here. Over-employed 30something, actually! Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit, is it?

I didn't say "Live in AdMo/CoHi," I said "live in proximity to AdMo/CoHi at the very least". Have a family, have "calm, peaceful living" in a 3br in Mt Pleasant, I'm just not a suburban bore with questionable taste like y'all.

And Glover Park is a ~35 minute walk from AU Park... my point wasn't that that's a close/fun walk (though 35 minutes isn't absolutely undoable), it's that that's the closest you come to an area with anything really going on within walking distance of you.

Wait, back up, you live in Mt. Pleasant and you're casting aspersions on AU Park dwellers? Mt. Pleasant homes are lovely but what hip happening joints are you in walking distance to? The Columbia Heights Target? The new Subway they're putting in? The dollar store on Mt. Pleasant St.? Also, Bancroft =/= Janney. If you lived in the Ross catchment I'd give you more props. More urban, better school.

[Anonymous]

Agree there's more i'd like to walk to in au park than mt p. Plus public schools are better and it's closer to most NW dc privates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:who would pay 1.5 million to live in an area that's so far out from the fun parts of the city that it's basically in the suburbs?

You are either clueless or trying to be provocative. AU Park is the ideal combination of homes with yards, walkability, proximity to downtown, and the best schools in DC. Most homes go for less than 1.5 million, but the location isn't the reason for that (the houses just aren't that big). It isn't "the suburbs" by any stretch, and it's an extremely hot market right now.

Gee, I sure am deluded.... or maybe I just know how to use Google StreetView, and I'm not utterly fucking blind as you appear to be? Here's the location of the house:



If I told you that was a picture of anywhere in the anonymous, soulless NoVA suburbs, you'd believe me.

Walkability is all well and good, but you have to have someplace exciting to walk to -- and while Glover Park isn't terrible or anything, it's nowhere near the U Street/CoHi/AdMo/14th St/Dupont/H St nexus where everything fun actually happens.

You can get the same schools for less money in plenty of other areas.

And yes, it is indeed an extremely hot market right now. A lot of people in DC have terrible taste, which is a big part of why NoVA is as bad as it is. But if you have this particular brand of terrible taste, just buy a similar home inbound for TJ out in VA for cheaper.

You can't buy a house inbounds for TJ. There's no such thing. It's an application only high school.

[Anonymous]

Yet another data point to show that 22:25 doesn't know the area. I guess the rest of us are just 'utterly fucking blind', though. Sure.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:who would pay 1.5 million to live in an area that's so far out from the fun parts of the city that it's basically in the suburbs?

You are either clueless or trying to be provocative. AU Park is the ideal combination of homes with yards, walkability, proximity to downtown, and the best schools in DC. Most homes go for less than 1.5 million, but the location isn't the reason for that (the houses just aren't that big). It isn't "the suburbs" by any stretch, and it's an extremely hot market right now.

Gee, I sure am deluded.... or maybe I just know how to use Google StreetView, and I'm not utterly fucking blind as you appear to be? Here's the location of the house:



If I told you that was a picture of anywhere in the anonymous, soulless NoVA suburbs, you'd believe me.

Walkability is all well and good, but you have to have someplace exciting to walk to -- and while Glover Park isn't terrible or anything, it's nowhere near the U Street/CoHi/AdMo/14th St/Dupont/H St nexus where everything fun actually happens.

You can get the same schools for less money in plenty of other areas.

And yes, it is indeed an extremely hot market right now. A lot of people in DC have terrible taste, which is a big part of why NoVA is as bad as it is. But if you have this particular brand of terrible taste, just buy a similar home inbound for TJ out in VA for cheaper.

Please tell us you are joking, because this is the best parody of upper NW hating I've read in a while.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to defend the fool, but I think she was saying that Glover Park is bad enough (i.e., it isn't the downtown hub replete with tapas restaurants and furniture boutiques), but AU Park is a entirely different level of awfulness.

Just ignore the rube. She is probably some underemployed twenty-something who thinks she knows everything about the world. She doesn't understand the attraction of calm, peaceful living with a family because she doesn't have a family. (Not that there's anything wrong with it.) She speaks from ignorance, that much is clear. Just ask her to sing the praises of living in "AdMo" (not Lanier Heights, by the way) or H St. with a family.

PP here. Over-employed 30something, actually! Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit, is it?

I didn't say "Live in AdMo/CoHi," I said "live in proximity to AdMo/CoHi at the very least". Have a family, have "calm, peaceful living" in a 3br in Mt Pleasant, I'm just not a suburban bore with questionable taste like y'all.

And Glover Park is a ~35 minute walk from AU Park... my point wasn't that that's a close/fun walk (though 35 minutes isn't absolutely undoable), it's that that's the closest you come to an area with anything really going on within walking distance of you.

Wait, back up, you live in Mt. Pleasant and you're casting aspersions on AU Park dwellers? Mt. Pleasant homes are lovely but what hip happening joints are you in walking distance to? The Columbia Heights Target? The new Subway they're putting in? The dollar store on Mt. Pleasant St.? Also, Bancroft =/= Janney. If you lived in the Ross catchment I'd give you more props. More urban, better school.

+1. We bought in AU Park rather than Mt. Pleasant because Friendship Heights has a lot more useful things to walk to. Not to mention that Janney is a much better school than Bancroft, and I wouldn't bank on MP still being zoned for Wilson by the time my kids reach high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to defend the fool, but I think she was saying that Glover Park is bad enough (i.e., it isn't the downtown hub replete with tapas restaurants and furniture boutiques), but AU Park is a entirely different level of awfulness.

Just ignore the rube. She is probably some underemployed twenty-something who thinks she knows everything about the world. She doesn't understand the attraction of calm, peaceful living with a family because she doesn't have a family. (Not that there's anything wrong with it.) She speaks from ignorance, that much is clear. Just ask her to sing the praises of living in "AdMo" (not Lanier Heights, by the way) or H St. with a family.

PP here. Over-employed 30something, actually! Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit, is it?

I didn't say "Live in AdMo/CoHi," I said "live in proximity to AdMo/CoHi at the very least". Have a family, have "calm, peaceful living" in a 3br in Mt Pleasant, I'm just not a suburban bore with questionable taste like y'all.

And Glover Park is a ~35 minute walk from AU Park... my point wasn't that that's a close/fun walk (though 35 minutes isn't absolutely undoable), it's that that's the closest you come to an area with anything really going on within walking distance of you.

Wait, back up, you live in Mt. Pleasant and you're casting aspersions on AU Park dwellers? Mt. Pleasant homes are lovely but what hip happening joints are you in walking distance to? The Columbia Heights Target? The new Subway they're putting in? The dollar store on Mt. Pleasant St.? Also, Bancroft =/= Janney. If you lived in the Ross catchment I'd give you more props. More urban, better school.

I'm in the southern part of Mt Pleasant, so for nights out I'm within easy walking distance of AdMo and CoHi, with easy public transport for hanging out in Petworth or 14th St. Wayyy better than AU Park.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:who would pay 1.5 million to live in an area that's so far out from the fun parts of the city that it's basically in the suburbs?

You are either clueless or trying to be provocative. AU Park is the ideal combination of homes with yards, walkability, proximity to downtown, and the best schools in DC. Most homes go for less than 1.5 million, but the location isn't the reason for that (the houses just aren't that big). It isn't "the suburbs" by any stretch, and it's an extremely hot market right now.

Gee, I sure am deluded.... or maybe I just know how to use Google StreetView, and I'm not utterly fucking blind as you appear to be? Here's the location of the house:



If I told you that was a picture of anywhere in the anonymous, soulless NoVA suburbs, you'd believe me.

Walkability is all well and good, but you have to have someplace exciting to walk to -- and while Glover Park isn't terrible or anything, it's nowhere near the U Street/CoHi/AdMo/14th St/Dupont/H St nexus where everything fun actually happens.

You can get the same schools for less money in plenty of other areas.

And yes, it is indeed an extremely hot market right now. A lot of people in DC have terrible taste, which is a big part of why NoVA is as bad as it is. But if you have this particular brand of terrible taste, just buy a similar home inbound for TJ out in VA for cheaper.

You can't buy a house inbounds for TJ. There's no such thing. It's an application only high school.

By 'inbound' I mean 'within the area where you're able to apply'. Passing the application is easy street for a bright kid and barely a formality.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Agree there's more i'd like to walk to in au park than mt p. Plus public schools are better and it's closer to most NW dc privates.

If you're sending your kid to a Northwest DC private school, sorry but your choices are bad enough to remove you from this discussion.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not to defend the fool, but I think she was saying that Glover Park is bad enough (i.e., it isn't the downtown hub replete with tapas restaurants and furniture boutiques), but AU Park is a entirely different level of awfulness.

Just ignore the rube. She is probably some underemployed twenty-something who thinks she knows everything about the world. She doesn't understand the attraction of calm, peaceful living with a family because she doesn't have a family. (Not that there's anything wrong with it.) She speaks from ignorance, that much is clear. Just ask her to sing the praises of living in "AdMo" (not Lanier Heights, by the way) or H St. with a family.

PP here. Over-employed 30something, actually! Reading comprehension isn't your strong suit, is it?

I didn't say "Live in AdMo/CoHi," I said "live in proximity to AdMo/CoHi at the very least". Have a family, have "calm, peaceful living" in a 3br in Mt Pleasant, I'm just not a suburban bore with questionable taste like y'all.

And Glover Park is a ~35 minute walk from AU Park... my point wasn't that that's a close/fun walk (though 35 minutes isn't absolutely undoable), it's that that's the closest you come to an area with anything really going on within walking distance of you.

Wait, back up, you live in Mt. Pleasant and you're casting aspersions on AU Park dwellers? Mt. Pleasant homes are lovely but what hip happening joints are you in walking distance to? The Columbia Heights Target? The new Subway they're putting in? The dollar store on Mt. Pleasant St.? Also, Bancroft =/= Janney. If you lived in the Ross catchment I'd give you more props. More urban, better school.

I'm in the southern part of Mt Pleasant, so for nights out I'm within easy walking distance of AdMo and CoHi, with easy public transport for hanging out in Petworth or 14th St. Wayyy better than AU Park.

PP, you need to realize how ridiculous it is to apply the standards of a single twenty something to a neighborhood preferred by families. Yes, I know you (claim to) have a family as well, and there are people whose priorities don't change once they have kids, but your tastes are clearly in the minority within this demographic. Therefore, no one cares about your judgment of the highly desirable AU Park. Why are you clicking on this thread anyway, instead of being out for a drink?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:who would pay 1.5 million to live in an area that's so far out from the fun parts of the city that it's basically in the suburbs?

You are either clueless or trying to be provocative. AU Park is the ideal combination of homes with yards, walkability, proximity to downtown, and the best schools in DC. Most homes go for less than 1.5 million, but the location isn't the reason for that (the houses just aren't that big). It isn't "the suburbs" by any stretch, and it's an extremely hot market right now.

Gee, I sure am deluded.... or maybe I just know how to use Google StreetView, and I'm not utterly fucking blind as you appear to be? Here's the location of the house:



If I told you that was a picture of anywhere in the anonymous, soulless NoVA suburbs, you'd believe me.

Walkability is all well and good, but you have to have someplace exciting to walk to -- and while Glover Park isn't terrible or anything, it's nowhere near the U Street/CoHi/AdMo/14th St/Dupont/H St nexus where everything fun actually happens.

You can get the same schools for less money in plenty of other areas.

And yes, it is indeed an extremely hot market right now. A lot of people in DC have terrible taste, which is a big part of why NoVA is as bad as it is. But if you have this particular brand of terrible taste, just buy a similar home inbound for TJ out in VA for cheaper.

You can't buy a house inbounds for TJ. There's no such thing. It's an application only high school.

By 'inbound' I mean 'within the area where you're able to apply'. Passing the application is easy street for a bright kid and barely a formality.

LOL. "Easy street." Now I know you're talking smack. Don't forget to pick up your Cava when you're running errands at the tragically hip Bed, Bath and Beyond.

[Anonymous]

very crammed looking

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:who would pay 1.5 million to live in an area that's so far out from the fun parts of the city that it's basically in the suburbs?

You are either clueless or trying to be provocative. AU Park is the ideal combination of homes with yards, walkability, proximity to downtown, and the best schools in DC. Most homes go for less than 1.5 million, but the location isn't the reason for that (the houses just aren't that big). It isn't "the suburbs" by any stretch, and it's an extremely hot market right now.

Gee, I sure am deluded.... or maybe I just know how to use Google StreetView, and I'm not utterly fucking blind as you appear to be? Here's the location of the house:



If I told you that was a picture of anywhere in the anonymous, soulless NoVA suburbs, you'd believe me.

Walkability is all well and good, but you have to have someplace exciting to walk to -- and while Glover Park isn't terrible or anything, it's nowhere near the U Street/CoHi/AdMo/14th St/Dupont/H St nexus where everything fun actually happens.

You can get the same schools for less money in plenty of other areas.

And yes, it is indeed an extremely hot market right now. A lot of people in DC have terrible taste, which is a big part of why NoVA is as bad as it is. But if you have this particular brand of terrible taste, just buy a similar home inbound for TJ out in VA for cheaper.

You can't buy a house inbounds for TJ. There's no such thing. It's an application only high school.

By 'inbound' I mean 'within the area where you're able to apply'. Passing the application is easy street for a bright kid and barely a formality.

LOL. "Easy street." Now I know you're talking smack. Don't forget to pick up your Cava when you're running errands at the tragically hip Bed, Bath and Beyond.

Not to mention that there is a Cava in Tenleytown...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:who would pay 1.5 million to live in an area that's so far out from the fun parts of the city that it's basically in the suburbs?

You are either clueless or trying to be provocative. AU Park is the ideal combination of homes with yards, walkability, proximity to downtown, and the best schools in DC. Most homes go for less than 1.5 million, but the location isn't the reason for that (the houses just aren't that big). It isn't "the suburbs" by any stretch, and it's an extremely hot market right now.

Gee, I sure am deluded.... or maybe I just know how to use Google StreetView, and I'm not utterly fucking blind as you appear to be? Here's the location of the house:



If I told you that was a picture of anywhere in the anonymous, soulless NoVA suburbs, you'd believe me.

Walkability is all well and good, but you have to have someplace exciting to walk to -- and while Glover Park isn't terrible or anything, it's nowhere near the U Street/CoHi/AdMo/14th St/Dupont/H St nexus where everything fun actually happens.

You can get the same schools for less money in plenty of other areas.

And yes, it is indeed an extremely hot market right now. A lot of people in DC have terrible taste, which is a big part of why NoVA is as bad as it is. But if you have this particular brand of terrible taste, just buy a similar home inbound for TJ out in VA for cheaper.

You can't buy a house inbounds for TJ. There's no such thing. It's an application only high school.

By 'inbound' I mean 'within the area where you're able to apply'. Passing the application is easy street for a bright kid and barely a formality.

LOL. "Easy street." Now I know you're talking smack. Don't forget to pick up your Cava when you're running errands at the tragically hip Bed, Bath and Beyond.

Jesus, are you some 40something who's driven through CoHi but has no actual experience of its nightlife? None of CoHi nightlife is centered around the metro stop; it's mostly over on 11th St, anchored by Wonderland and the like.