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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bethesda near Bethesda Row >>>> Arlington on almost every metric (other than affordability and some DC commutes).[/quote]

This x 1,000,000.

If you can afford it go with downtown Bethesda. Better schools than any comparable neighborhood in Arlington and better retail and restaurants too. The only comparable neighborhood to downtown Bethesda in Arlington is Lyon Village and Clarendon and they do not have houses like this over there that are walkable to retail like this:

https://www.redfin.com/MD/Bethesda/5308-Burling-Ter-20814/home/10639397

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That house is $5 million and out of reach for 99 percent of people.[/quote]

DP.  But the above person isn’t wrong.  The lot sizes aren’t big enough on the Rosslyn-Ballston corridor to build a house bigger than about 6000SF.  Many of the new builds are 5000-6000 SF and live like a townhouse due to all the stairs.  The rooms are spread over 4 levels and smaller.   Far North Arlington has houses like the one linked above but those neighborhoods are car-dependent.[/quote]

THat house in Bethesda has a walk score of 13 so is pretty car dependent. there are some big homes near Yorktown where at least you can walk to a Safeway and Harris Teeter (and some random takeout places).  That is not my favorite part of Arlington but there are some big homes over there.

This is a smaller home in a walkable neighborhood in Arlington if OP could live with a 3 bedroom, one-level home. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/707-N-Ivy-St-Arlington-VA-22201/12086789_zpid/[/quote]

That home in Bethesda is .7 miles from an Apple Store in Bethesda Row. You can walk to dozens of restaurants, a grocery store, and retailers that are much nicer than anything in that depressing strip mall at Harrison and Lee Highway from the Bethesda home. Just click on the map and look 4-5 blocks east of the Bethesda home.

There is nothing like that home anywhere near a retail area like Bethesda Row in Arlington. Not only that it is in a 7/9/9 school pyramid and zoned for Whitman HS, which is far better than a high school like Yorktown.[/quote]

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