Chevy Chase MD - What's so great about it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Translation: help! We were forced to move by Nestle from an awesome place in LA County and can’t f*** figure out why Chevy Chase is so “coveted.” Answer: because it, and n Arlington, are the best of the unimpressive housing options.

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The housing stock here blows.

Nice try to include Arlington in the discussion, but no. Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Great Falls, McLean, and Potomac are the area’s prestige suburbs. Arlington is second-tier.

Not true. But the area's housing stock still blows.

Always wonder where people are pointing to when they presume other areas have better housing stock. Lived in a lot of places, better housing stock at the same price generally means you're in an economically depressed area.

New York
New Jersey
Boston
Hartford, CT
Chicago
Portland, ME
Portland, OR

I could go on, but basically cities where growth happened organically over time and not in a big postwar rush.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Translation: help! We were forced to move by Nestle from an awesome place in LA County and can’t f*** figure out why Chevy Chase is so “coveted.” Answer: because it, and n Arlington, are the best of the unimpressive housing options.

+1

The housing stock here blows.

Nice try to include Arlington in the discussion, but no. Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Great Falls, McLean, and Potomac are the area’s prestige suburbs. Arlington is second-tier.

Not true. But the area's housing stock still blows.

Always wonder where people are pointing to when they presume other areas have better housing stock. Lived in a lot of places, better housing stock at the same price generally means you're in an economically depressed area.

New York
New Jersey
Boston
Hartford, CT
Chicago
Portland, ME
Portland, OR

I could go on, but basically cities where growth happened organically over time and not in a big postwar rush.

Most of Chevy Chase predated the big postwar rush.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Chevy Chase and it was very very different. I would not live there even though I will inherit a house.

I inherited a house in Somerset and sold it. Unfathomable to people on this board, i know.

To me it's unfathomable that someone would have so much inherited wealth and privilege and still waste time on this board.

You know that describes every young family in somerset (and CC overall), right!? Hate us cause you aint us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Translation: help! We were forced to move by Nestle from an awesome place in LA County and can’t f*** figure out why Chevy Chase is so “coveted.” Answer: because it, and n Arlington, are the best of the unimpressive housing options.

+1

The housing stock here blows.

Nice try to include Arlington in the discussion, but no. Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Great Falls, McLean, and Potomac are the area’s prestige suburbs. Arlington is second-tier.

Not true. But the area's housing stock still blows.

Always wonder where people are pointing to when they presume other areas have better housing stock. Lived in a lot of places, better housing stock at the same price generally means you're in an economically depressed area.

New York
New Jersey
Boston
Hartford, CT
Chicago
Portland, ME
Portland, OR

I could go on, but basically cities where growth happened organically over time and not in a big postwar rush.

Most of Chevy Chase predated the big postwar rush.

The area as a whole doesn’t look anything like older parts of e.g. Chevy Chase.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Chevy Chase and it was very very different. I would not live there even though I will inherit a house.

I inherited a house in Somerset and sold it. Unfathomable to people on this board, i know.

To me it's unfathomable that someone would have so much inherited wealth and privilege and still waste time on this board.

You know that describes every young family in somerset (and CC overall), right!? Hate us cause you aint us.

Wealth doesn't bring answers to all the silly questions you can ask on an anonymous form... and DCUM provides a lot of popcorn moments, too...

[Anonymous]

I live in one of the sections. I've lived here less than 5 years.
My wife and I rated CC as zero when we started looking for a house for our new daughter, but we are thankful we moved here.
We decided to look here by chance and it turned out to be a great decision.

Why I love CC
Schools. The schools are really good. You can either go to a private or public school. Diversity is important to us. I wanted to move to the Walt Whitman school zone, however that changed when I realized that Churchill and Whitman have < 100 AA students enrolled out of 1800+ students and there were little to no free and reduced lunch kids. We want our daughters to embrace diversity and understand not everyone is as fortunate as they are while maintaining excellent academic standards. BCC is 30% minority and 20% free and reduced lunch.

Community: Section 5 has a July 4th parade with pony rides and a fall neighborhood gathering. I think of our neighborhood as Mayberry.

Taxes: Certain towns in CC don't adhere to the MoCo tax structure. That means that taxes are not as high

Gov't: Because you are not officially apart of MoCo, you have your own town gov't. They tend to be very responsive.

Families: In 5 years, most of the people who have moved into the neighborhood have children under 2. There is a great mix of older and younger families. Our neighborhood is friendly. After Christmas we saw a lot of kids playing with new toys outside....you can't beat that.

Houses: It is a personal preference, but we like old homes. There are new and renovated homes in our neighborhood, but we are going to spend money soon to renovate our house. personally I don't get why people need a house more than 3000 sq/ft. I guess the lots are small, but it never has bothered us. There are a lot of parks around our house and there is not a lot of traffic going down our street.

Careers: There is old and new money. Powerful and powerless people in the neighborhoods. You meet some amazing people (not just media) when talking to your neighbors. Just because someone has a lot of attention does not make them anything less than human. I enjoy getting perspectives from people "in the know".

Value: During the next real estate crash your house won't loose value, but prices aren't growing quickly either. Most of the houses have been dead money for 10 years. But you won't loose money here. You also can't over improve and you will get back your investment.

Location: It is close to everything. Silver Spring is 10 min away. Bethesda is 5 min away. The purple line is 5 min away. The ends of the red line are 5 & 10 min away. We are 2 min from DC and 5 min from 495. w/o traffic we are 15 min away from Tysons.

Shopping: There is a lot around the area.

Parks: There are stables 5 min away from the house. Rock Creek park is a HUGE park.

To each his/her own, but I love CC
I'm not old money. Most of the people I meet are regular people, though somewhat successful. There are a lot of kids running around. The school zone is great and politically I really think this neighborhood is purple.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Translation: help! We were forced to move by Nestle from an awesome place in LA County and can’t f*** figure out why Chevy Chase is so “coveted.” Answer: because it, and n Arlington, are the best of the unimpressive housing options.

+1

The housing stock here blows.

Nice try to include Arlington in the discussion, but no. Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Great Falls, McLean, and Potomac are the area’s prestige suburbs. Arlington is second-tier.

Not true. But the area's housing stock still blows.

Always wonder where people are pointing to when they presume other areas have better housing stock. Lived in a lot of places, better housing stock at the same price generally means you're in an economically depressed area.

New York
New Jersey
Boston
Hartford, CT
Chicago
Portland, ME
Portland, OR

I could go on, but basically cities where growth happened organically over time and not in a big postwar rush.

Oh come on! There's lots of crappy houses in all of those places (Portland, OR? Are you f-ing clueless? Most houses there suck, big time!) and where you do get better stock at the same price (Chicago or Hartford), there's an obvious step down in the community's economic prospects.

Original point still stands, bub.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in one of the sections. I've lived here less than 5 years.
My wife and I rated CC as zero when we started looking for a house for our new daughter, but we are thankful we moved here.
We decided to look here by chance and it turned out to be a great decision.

Why I love CC
Schools. The schools are really good. You can either go to a private or public school. Diversity is important to us. I wanted to move to the Walt Whitman school zone, however that changed when I realized that Churchill and Whitman have < 100 AA students enrolled out of 1800+ students and there were little to no free and reduced lunch kids. We want our daughters to embrace diversity and understand not everyone is as fortunate as they are while maintaining excellent academic standards. BCC is 30% minority and 20% free and reduced lunch.

Community: Section 5 has a July 4th parade with pony rides and a fall neighborhood gathering. I think of our neighborhood as Mayberry.

Taxes: Certain towns in CC don't adhere to the MoCo tax structure. That means that taxes are not as high

Gov't: Because you are not officially apart of MoCo, you have your own town gov't. They tend to be very responsive.

Families: In 5 years, most of the people who have moved into the neighborhood have children under 2. There is a great mix of older and younger families. Our neighborhood is friendly. After Christmas we saw a lot of kids playing with new toys outside....you can't beat that.

Houses: It is a personal preference, but we like old homes. There are new and renovated homes in our neighborhood, but we are going to spend money soon to renovate our house. personally I don't get why people need a house more than 3000 sq/ft. I guess the lots are small, but it never has bothered us. There are a lot of parks around our house and there is not a lot of traffic going down our street.

Careers: There is old and new money. Powerful and powerless people in the neighborhoods. You meet some amazing people (not just media) when talking to your neighbors. Just because someone has a lot of attention does not make them anything less than human. I enjoy getting perspectives from people "in the know".

Value: During the next real estate crash your house won't loose value, but prices aren't growing quickly either. Most of the houses have been dead money for 10 years. But you won't loose money here. You also can't over improve and you will get back your investment.

Location: It is close to everything. Silver Spring is 10 min away. Bethesda is 5 min away. The purple line is 5 min away. The ends of the red line are 5 & 10 min away. We are 2 min from DC and 5 min from 495. w/o traffic we are 15 min away from Tysons.

Shopping: There is a lot around the area.

Parks: There are stables 5 min away from the house. Rock Creek park is a HUGE park.

To each his/her own, but I love CC
I'm not old money. Most of the people I meet are regular people, though somewhat successful. There are a lot of kids running around. The school zone is great and politically I really think this neighborhood is purple.

there’s a sprinkle of AA at Churchill (9%) some wealthy/some from the Scotland/Inverness delevopement. which still isn’t a lot but compared to Whitman which has less than 5 percent AA and is the most predominantly white school in moco

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in one of the sections. I've lived here less than 5 years.
My wife and I rated CC as zero when we started looking for a house for our new daughter, but we are thankful we moved here.
We decided to look here by chance and it turned out to be a great decision.

Why I love CC
Schools. The schools are really good. You can either go to a private or public school. Diversity is important to us. I wanted to move to the Walt Whitman school zone, however that changed when I realized that Churchill and Whitman have < 100 AA students enrolled out of 1800+ students and there were little to no free and reduced lunch kids. We want our daughters to embrace diversity and understand not everyone is as fortunate as they are while maintaining excellent academic standards. BCC is 30% minority and 20% free and reduced lunch.

Community: Section 5 has a July 4th parade with pony rides and a fall neighborhood gathering. I think of our neighborhood as Mayberry.

Taxes: Certain towns in CC don't adhere to the MoCo tax structure. That means that taxes are not as high

Gov't: Because you are not officially apart of MoCo, you have your own town gov't. They tend to be very responsive.

Families: In 5 years, most of the people who have moved into the neighborhood have children under 2. There is a great mix of older and younger families. Our neighborhood is friendly. After Christmas we saw a lot of kids playing with new toys outside....you can't beat that.

Houses: It is a personal preference, but we like old homes. There are new and renovated homes in our neighborhood, but we are going to spend money soon to renovate our house. personally I don't get why people need a house more than 3000 sq/ft. I guess the lots are small, but it never has bothered us. There are a lot of parks around our house and there is not a lot of traffic going down our street.

Careers: There is old and new money. Powerful and powerless people in the neighborhoods. You meet some amazing people (not just media) when talking to your neighbors. Just because someone has a lot of attention does not make them anything less than human. I enjoy getting perspectives from people "in the know".

Value: During the next real estate crash your house won't loose value, but prices aren't growing quickly either. Most of the houses have been dead money for 10 years. But you won't loose money here. You also can't over improve and you will get back your investment.

Location: It is close to everything. Silver Spring is 10 min away. Bethesda is 5 min away. The purple line is 5 min away. The ends of the red line are 5 & 10 min away. We are 2 min from DC and 5 min from 495. w/o traffic we are 15 min away from Tysons.

Shopping: There is a lot around the area.

Parks: There are stables 5 min away from the house. Rock Creek park is a HUGE park.

To each his/her own, but I love CC
I'm not old money. Most of the people I meet are regular people, though somewhat successful. There are a lot of kids running around. The school zone is great and politically I really think this neighborhood is purple.

You're delusional.

Your children will be more f%&ked up by the obvious and inescapable hypocrisy of your professed values and your chosen lifestyle than they would be by living in a "lesser" neighborhood. The kids whose parents are honest that they live where they live because they want to be around other rich people and because they can afford it do better. Nobody moves to Chevy Chase because they want to "embrace diversity." That's literally the opposite of the point of the neighborhood. The diversity that existed was forcibly removed to make way for "Mayberry" and its "excellent academic standards."

Also, wtf, kids play outside with new toys in all sorts of neighborhoods. You should visit one! You might be shocked.

I don't have a problem with Chevy Chase - it's a nice neighborhood (I grew up there!) and people are basically the same everywhere. But I have a huge problem with you.

[Anonymous]

The idea that someone is moving to Chevy Chase diversity...LMAO. Please excuse me while I clean off my computer monitor.

[Anonymous]

I lived in a marginal neighborhood in DC for 15 years Did monthly street cleanups, attended all the ANC meetings, volunteered at for and clothing drives, taught esol on weekends. Happy to do it because I loved my neighbors, the restaurants and shopping, and frankly helped my property values skyrocket. Then had a kid and realized I don't want him to get caught in a random drive-by at the park. I want him to be with other kids who have warm clothes and full bellies. So I moved to CCMD. Not saying that's the best or only place to get that. Some of my neighbors are transplants in the same way. We spent 15-20 years in DC and our lives changed, and CCMD was a great place for us to go. We love our neighbors and the restricts and shopping is just as good or better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I lived in a marginal neighborhood in DC for 15 years Did monthly street cleanups, attended all the ANC meetings, volunteered at for and clothing drives, taught esol on weekends. Happy to do it because I loved my neighbors, the restaurants and shopping, and frankly helped my property values skyrocket. Then had a kid and realized I don't want him to get caught in a random drive-by at the park. I want him to be with other kids who have warm clothes and full bellies. So I moved to CCMD. Not saying that's the best or only place to get that. Some of my neighbors are transplants in the same way. We spent 15-20 years in DC and our lives changed, and CCMD was a great place for us to go. We love our neighbors and the restricts and shopping is just as good or better.

This is much more honest, although the "warm clothes and full bellies" thing is not what you really mean because as you point out, one does not need to move to CCMD for that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I lived in a marginal neighborhood in DC for 15 years Did monthly street cleanups, attended all the ANC meetings, volunteered at for and clothing drives, taught esol on weekends. Happy to do it because I loved my neighbors, the restaurants and shopping, and frankly helped my property values skyrocket. Then had a kid and realized I don't want him to get caught in a random drive-by at the park. I want him to be with other kids who have warm clothes and full bellies. So I moved to CCMD. Not saying that's the best or only place to get that. Some of my neighbors are transplants in the same way. We spent 15-20 years in DC and our lives changed, and CCMD was a great place for us to go. We love our neighbors and the restricts and shopping is just as good or better.

This is much more honest, although the "warm clothes and full bellies" thing is not what you really mean because as you point out, one does not need to move to CCMD for that.

I mean high (er) average SES. I'm not white and an immigrant so I like being around people of color like me. CCMD has a good mix of racial and cultural diversity that I wanted for my kids. I'd even argue there's more cultural diversity than where i can't from in DC bc it's more international here

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I lived in a marginal neighborhood in DC for 15 years Did monthly street cleanups, attended all the ANC meetings, volunteered at for and clothing drives, taught esol on weekends. Happy to do it because I loved my neighbors, the restaurants and shopping, and frankly helped my property values skyrocket. Then had a kid and realized I don't want him to get caught in a random drive-by at the park. I want him to be with other kids who have warm clothes and full bellies. So I moved to CCMD. Not saying that's the best or only place to get that. Some of my neighbors are transplants in the same way. We spent 15-20 years in DC and our lives changed, and CCMD was a great place for us to go. We love our neighbors and the restricts and shopping is just as good or better.

This is much more honest, although the "warm clothes and full bellies" thing is not what you really mean because as you point out, one does not need to move to CCMD for that.

I mean high (er) average SES. I'm not white and an immigrant so I like being around people of color like me. CCMD has a good mix of racial and cultural diversity that I wanted for my kids. I'd even argue there's more cultural diversity than where i can't from in DC bc it's more international here

Is it more diverse than CCDC? Seems to be a lot of international diversity there too, and at least some cultural diversity.

Also, CCDC feeds into a more diverse high school, Wilson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I lived in a marginal neighborhood in DC for 15 years Did monthly street cleanups, attended all the ANC meetings, volunteered at for and clothing drives, taught esol on weekends. Happy to do it because I loved my neighbors, the restaurants and shopping, and frankly helped my property values skyrocket. Then had a kid and realized I don't want him to get caught in a random drive-by at the park. I want him to be with other kids who have warm clothes and full bellies. So I moved to CCMD. Not saying that's the best or only place to get that. Some of my neighbors are transplants in the same way. We spent 15-20 years in DC and our lives changed, and CCMD was a great place for us to go. We love our neighbors and the restricts and shopping is just as good or better.

This is much more honest, although the "warm clothes and full bellies" thing is not what you really mean because as you point out, one does not need to move to CCMD for that.

I mean high (er) average SES. I'm not white and an immigrant so I like being around people of color like me. CCMD has a good mix of racial and cultural diversity that I wanted for my kids. I'd even argue there's more cultural diversity than where i can't from in DC bc it's more international here

Okay I'm taking you off my "honest" list. You mean high (no er) average SES. it's Chevy Chase for goodness sake. DC or MD, high (no er) average SES. Even for the area. The diversity thing is bonkers - CCMD is 85% white. Every other group is vastly underrepresented, for the area and for the nation but especially for the area. The international families in CCMD are wealthy global citizens - any cultural diversity your kids encounter will be limited to fun holiday or food related traditions. Again, it's a nice neighborhood! But call it what it is.