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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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]

Lee Highway and Wilson Boulevard are mostly commercial.  The neighborhoods on the side streets are hit or miss.  They could be nice like Cherrydale or Lyon Park, or they could be mostly ugly houses, like the neighborhood near Arlington Hospital, or squat boxes like you find in Arlington Forest.  That's part of the reason people agonize so much about housing in Arlington.  They like the idea of the short commute, good schools and proximity to Metro, but they are stuck with the fact that the number of houses on the market at any one time that they actually like may turn out to be quite small.   It's not just the cost.

When people look further out, they lose some of the things they like about Arlington, but they also have more to choose from.  Currently, there are almost twice as many $1M+ properties on the market in McLean and Vienna than in Arlington, and over three times as many under contract.  So, if the OP does want to focus just on Arlington, I think she'd be well-advised not to limit herself to homes in the Yorktown district.

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