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[quote=Anonymous][quote]So you moved at the height of the pandemic, and you're crowing about how your commute is only 5-10 minutes longer?

That, and the fact that you somehow believe Potomac is "the country," suggest that you don't have enough brain cells to fill a thimble. Good grief.[/quote]

Thanks for the constructive tone.  The following is intended for other readers.

I've been commuting from Potomac on and off for a year now.    No doubt there's less traffic driving into DC from Potomac due to COVID, just like there was less traffic when I was driving in from CC MD in 2020 due to COVID, which was my baseline.  It's a like for like comparison (it's not as if the pandemic spared Chevy Chase and traffic levels there are normal).  It's curious how invested some people here are in informing others that their lived experience isn't valid.

Or, when it comes to Potomac, their apparent inability to grasp the basic geometry that travelling into DC from Potomac along the hypotenuse of a right triangle -- particularly if that hypotenuse is a high-speed road like GW Pkwy or Clara Barton -- can be significantly faster than their own impression of how long that trip would take if one combined Side A (Potomac to Bethesda/CC) and Side B (Bethesda/CC to downtown), along surface roads with traffic lights.

As for living in the country - yes, i'm on three (original growth) wooded acres, i see no neighbors, i hear no cars, i sit in my house and can look out at birds and foxes crossing my property.   It's a low-density community, and the limited shops and restaurants here serve the local community rather than serve as a magnet for weekend visitors (a la Bethesda).   It's precisely the kind of natural setting that most people look for in a country home (it's certainly a more natural environment than our house in the Hamptons was, or our friends' houses in Bethany).   And for us it's obviated any sense we need to consider investing time and money in buying a country place, and spending painful hours in weekend traffic headed east or west.   So for us, living in Potomac and accepting an additional 20 minutes or so commuting time three or four days a week is a worthwhile tradeoff, because unlike being on a CC MD street of quarter acre lots, it really feels like the country, every day.  That's a real and significant benefit to living in Potomac (vis a vis closer-in MontCo suburbs) that I'm mentioning because it gets lost here on DCUM, where most of the 'commentary' about Potomac is just silly insults about the stylistic excesses (not limited to Potomac, in the real world) of a handful of top-end homes.

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