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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not saying that Arlington doesn't have teeny ramblers.  It does.  (and yeah, lots of added-on colonials, some of them lovely, some of them not so much.)  You find them in every jurisdiction in this area, though.  I just think that people who categorize *all* arlington houses as ugly and tiny might have a different view of the housing stock than people who actually live there and see all the nice houses on side streets that the casual observer will never see.  And yes, some blocks have ugly, older houses.  The owners likely can't afford to move anywhere else close-in or renovate.  but I'm thinking of my friend's former neighborhood in Vienna, just a couple blocks off of 123, where all of the houses looked like trailers.  Expensive, crappy trailers.

I think the bigger problem in Arlington is that you have to spend so much money to find something nice.  It's all well and good to appreciate the pretty houses, but if you have to spend $1M to live in one of them, it's discouraging.

I'd still rather live here than in a lot of places.  In a lot of cities, the housing stock is all built in the 60's and 70's, which was not a great time for residential architecture.  I really hate the look of split-level houses, and some areas have a LOT of them.  my neighborhood was mostly built up before the age of the split level.[/quote]

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