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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Can someone explain what about CC feels more like part of the city as compared to AU Park? You cannot even get to the metro. [/quote]

The western part of Chevy Chase DC extends to Wisconsin Ave as its western boundary.  The commercial area around the Friendship Heights metro is more densely built than the corresponding commercial area near AU Park.[/quote]

Chevy Chase is situated between two major avenues, with multiple retail, commercial, restaurant, and entertainment options, and from many locations is walkable to both.  There's really nothing in AU Park except other houses in AU Park.  It's kind of like a suburban subdivision.[/quote]
I'm the &lt;smirker&gt; in Adams Morgan with no dog in this fight, but the CC crowd is engaging in some serious cherry-picking here.  First, OP is focused on Lafayette, which means east of CT and nowhere near Friendship Heights (or at least not any closer to Friendship Heights than most of AU Park is).  Second, the commercial strip at Tenley is ugly and soul-sucking, to be sure, but it's at least more built up and commercially diverse than anything so far north on CT.  Finally, anything north and/or east of Lafayette isn't really walkable (or at least isn't really walked) even to CT.  Granted, the western half of the AU Park diamond is definitely deep 'burbs, too, but that's actually a lower percentage of Janney's cachement area than Lafayette's.[/quote]

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