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[quote=Anonymous][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.  [b]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 house[/b]s.  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.

[b]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.[/b]

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]

I agree with this.  Especially if you only ever drive along the main streets in Arlington - Lee Highway from Rosslyn to East Falls Church has lots of ugly houses built in the 60s and 70s, and Wilson Blvd. and George Mason Drive are similarly ugly.  If you get off those main streets, though, into Maywood, Cherrydale, Lyon Village, Lyon Park, Ashton Heights etc. there are really nice neighborhoods with lots of trees and older, more charming houses (Sears bungalows, etc).

I agree with the 2nd part, too.  Friends are selling a 3 bedroom 3 bath home in Arlington for "only" $850,000.  It is in really good shape and wonderfully renovated, but it is not huge by any means and is a typical 1940s colonial.  [/quote]

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