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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What kind of people do you like to be around?[/quote]

Also, what kind of people might you not want to be around?[/quote]

OP: uhm... we like regular people? I dont know. We are 30-somethings professionals. Probably wouldnt want to live in an apartment building with loud, inconsiderate college kids or young families. We mostly keep to ourselves honestly.

As for the crowdedness... we went to Traders Joes in dupont on a Sunday -- Cant deal with that level of crowded. Not sure how Bethesda compares to Dupont area on a regular basis. Same for going to a coffee shop and theres not a seat in sight. Dont like that. Concerned that people from further out areas crowd Bethesda on evenings and weekends. Thats the only time Ive been there so resident opinions are helpful.

What about traffic in the am... like getting to 495 or roads leading to DC? [/quote]

So, i wrote about what kind of people you like to be around. In addition to amenities and how the areas have been developed, Bethesda and Tenleytown attract fairly different people in my experience. I didn't know how familiar you are with them.

Bethesda gets more folks with a cutesy/cool/posh suburban vibe and that can be very love it or leave it. There are those who find this a tad shallow and the aggressive pursuit of these things leads to rudeness in many cases. Of course that's not the whole story.

Tenleytown is a bit less of a posh enclave, but is closer to downtown and so gets more folks focused on time and folks who really like access to things inside of DC, but still want a relatively quiet+ low key place to live. It's much easier to be dorky in Tenley, I've seen big time CEOs walking down the street there looking a parody of a dorky dad. That tends not to fit into the Bethesda scene.

I don't know where you're coming from, but I'd work to spend some time, evenings and weekends, around them if you can and see where you think you would fit. I'd also investigate deeper into the lists of amenities in both spots, e.g. the pool at Tenley is nearly olympic quality and indoor and the farmers markets in Bethesda are much better. [/quote]

I don't know.  I think they attract a very similar demographic.  We looked  at both and slightly preferred Bethesda for the schools.  But if we had found a place in Tenley we really liked we would have been open to it.  So maybe you could say Bethesda has people who put the thumb on the scale for schools and Tenley who put the thumb for slightly shorter commute, but at heart I think you are going to have very similar people with similar jobs, backgrounds, interest, etc.

Maybe Tenley gets a slightly younger crowd since elementary schools are less a concern there and maybe some millennial place more value on still being "in the city," even if Tenley is arguably more suburban than downtown Bethesda.  But I really think you are splitting hairs.[/quote]

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