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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Bethesda is truly awful. It’s all upscale chain restaurants, and there are zero jobs so you have nothing but children / teens and parents, zero young folks.[/b] MoCo is becoming a certified dump. Virginia is superior in every single way, and the only counterpoint you see on here is “Virginia has young kin and is less liberal” but it’s just vastly superior to the dump that is MoCo / Pg. [/quote]

All upscale chain restaurants, as opposed to salt of the earth local eateries all around Tysons?! Are you joking or have you never been to Tysons?

[b]I see way more teens and young families in Bethesda Row on a weekend night than in almost any other town center in close-in NoVA. [/b]

Bethesda and Chevy Chase are just nicer looking than Tysons, McLean, and Vienna. They aren’t as congested with traffic, have more houses with character, and feel like actual neighborhoods. I could care less about the political differences. Aesthetics > politics.[/quote]

There are actually a lot of young families, teens, and lots of 20-somethings in the Ballston through Clarendon / Courthouse neighborhoods in Arlington. Clarendon has some charming historic commercial and civic architecture and parks but otherwise it’s new construction, some of it at a high quality. It is all very walkable along those Metro neighborhoods. And there are charming residential areas, schools, etc nearby.

Between Falls Church and Fairfax City there’s a new district called the Mosaic that is modeled after Bethesda Row. Lots of Families there at all hours. But a much older crowd than in Arlington, and the neighborhood feels plopped down in an industrial zone that’s still evolving. It didn’t grow organically like Bethesda or Arlington.

But Bethesda Row is the best of all these newish commercial neighborhoods by far. And B-CC High School with its stately school building, the old Bethesda Theater, all the independent eateries, the soon to be completed Purple Line with bike trail, stunning new office towers, etc adds to the charm of Bethesda, unrivaled in this area. [/quote]

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