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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Notice that when it comes to the silly "which place is better to live MD vs. VA wars", it's always the MoCo people who are so bitter about Arlington and VA in general? The truth is close in Chevy Chase has real high end homes but N. Arlington wins by a mile because 1) the schools are better across the board in N. Arlington (and it's not even close- look at stats) 2) the commute is far better to downtown, Tysons, and Reagan (Arlington's key advantage is geography and in a town with this kind of traffic, that matters), 3) less pretentious as MoCo tends to be more insualr with more locals living there who grew up here (hence carting around worthless baggage), and 4) you still get more houst for your $ (though that is changing with N. Arlington's exploding real estate market.) That said, Chevy Chase and parts of MoCo are VERY nice. Just don't know where the viotriol towards VA comes from. [/quote]

There's been a very recent buzz around the Rosslyn/Clarendon corridor lately.  There has been a total transformation the last year or so and Rosslyn is mid-swing.  Buying in the areas walkable to the action has become prohibitively expensive.  The proximity to downtown and Georgetown, Reagan National and the hub of 95/66, etc has location beat hands down.

Bigwigs and familiar national TV anchors are buying in Arlington.  All of this makes people that always felt superior get their panties in a twist.  One well known Arlington Blogger cited she regretfully had to move away from Clarendon to Bethesda because she could not afford a SFH in Clarendon.

This stuff makes the élan class of Bethesda very unhappy--being surpassed by the younger sister so to speak.[/quote]

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