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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The point is, the only people who pay $1M to live in a house like that in McLean/Potomac/Bethesda/Chevy Chase are only doing so for prestige. They’re more desperate to make sure people know they’re rich than they are about owning actual luxury homes. That’s why they’re paying exorbitant prices for middle-class homes constructed in the 1970s and trying to justify their lame decision to do so. [/quote]

It's actually the opposite. Some people need to feel like to show off a massive, "luxury" home, to show they're rich, so they keep driving until they find one they can afford. The folks in the 1970s "shitshack" value proximity to the city, culture, and amenities over a large, showy house.[/quote]

This is completely true. We had considered moving out of Chevy chase for more land etc and the places father out seemed so desolate like little lonely islands where you need to use a car everywhere and people go to ugly strip malls for stuff. Except their houses sure are big. [/quote]

Please tell me what “culture” Chevy Chase has over Annapolis, Baltimore, or Ellicott City. Is the culture moving in an ugly $1M house in hopes to become associated with the super  rich people in multi-million gated mansions who are likely involved in big politics, even though those people don’t want anything to do with you and send their kids to private schools? Is it crying because you can’t keep up with Cassie from Long Island, NY who sends her kids to Georgetown Prep, while you have to resort to BCC? Most of the houses in Chevy Chase look like cheap fraternity houses and I feel like I’m in Towson whenever I have to drive through it. Also lol @ “ugly suburban strip malls,” when Chevy Chase and NW DC are just high density suburbs  that have everything generic that suburban strip malls do, except they trying to make it seem “urban,” which ends up so ugly and run down. It looks so messy, unplanned, and ugly. All the commercial stuff along 185 looks so terrible. Most people don’t like living in places that always have heavy traffic from people using the roads to get to DC, never-ending and heavy road construction, industrial pollution, and squashed together houses with narrow streets that aren’t friendly for children playing. Nobody is paying $1M for homes like the one in OP that are a step above section 8 housing. Get real. Whoever the realtor is is desperately trying to make it seem popular. It was “contingent,” then “pending,” now “contingent” again. It will probably be withdrawn from the market and then show up again 4 months later with an $850k asking. [/quote]

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