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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stop with the comparisons already.  Don't argue with idiots.

PH is not even nearly the same thing as North Arlington, nor will it ever be. That's not a bad thing. Arlington is a county with lots and lots of all kinds of things. PH is a little neighborhood of 1,600 homes. How can they even conceivably be compared?

PH doesn't have commercial strips. Amen to that. Residents consistently opposed anything other than SFH in the neighborhood, not even a church, and that's a good thing. It was never meant to be anything other than a SFH area. I like it that way.

The quality of construction argument is ridiculous. PH doesn't have a monopoly on McMansions, cheap construction or ugly houses.  Take a brick box out of Arlington, put it anywhere else, and people won't hesitate to call it ugly.  Pick any new house built in PH, look in Arlington, and you'll find dozens of its identical twin brothers and sisters.  Again, they don't make them special for PH.  And they look less annoying on larger lots in PH vs. staring into the windows of their neighboring properties in denser areas.

I don't know why people have to present neighborhoods as either all the things or none of the things. PH is a neat little neighborhood with affordable but ugly old houses, growing number of new houses, a great location, great schools, great parks and great commuting options.  It's not the best thing there is. It's not an urban village. It's not cosmopolitan. It works for some people. It doesn't for some people - not because it's vile or evil but because we all like different thing and we all operate with different budgets.

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You seem to be forgetting that it's the Pimmit booster who keeps arguing Pimmit Hills will be the next North Arlington.

The quality of new construction in North Arlington is far superior to that in Pimmit Hills, on average.  The better builders in North Arlington have never built a house in Pimmit Hills.  It's a different, higher-end market.[/quote]
Well, aren't we all out of first grade? Does it have to be about who started it? It's not OK to play a ridiculous game because someone else started it.

Of course the quality of construction in some North Arlington is superior to PH. The PH market will not support a $2M house; it's not a million-plus neighborhood, and N. Arlington is. Of course you can build a better house with a million an a half vs. $800K.

But it's not right to say that anything less expensive than top of the market is crap. Come on. You can build a perfectly good house with less than a million. It won't be as great as a 2-million house, but it won't be crap.

And again, PH has no monopoly on McMansions. Anything you see in PH you can find elsewhere. [/quote]

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