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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So, back to OP question somewhat, if Arlington is in a bubble, what about Mclean, Bethesda, Potomac? Are prices there still below housing bubble 1.0 peaks? Or not as crazy as the multimillion teardowns that are now selling in Arlington?[/quote]

McLean, Bethesda and Potomac have always hovered around those price points and the type of people living there show that.

North Arlington has quickly bubbled up to those price points without the same high HHI and is not considered as desirable. If given the choice between McLean and North Arlington at the same price point (remember North Arlington was always lower) you would consider looking at the historically more affluent places when considering North Arlington. Once North Arlington hit a certain price point it puts it into comparison with McLean, Potomac, Chevy Chase, Georgetown, Great Falls etc...

Let's get real here, [b]no one thinks of North Arlington as the same league as those places mentioned[/b], so the price point is artificial.[/quote]

Who is "no one," exactly? Is "no one" someone like me, who looked at both homes in the $2 million range in McLean and North Arlington, and settled in North Arlington? Or could "no one" refer to many friends who, when faced with similar price ranges and decisions, made the same choice? I think what bizarrely defensive posters like you fail to grasp is that we don't care about your views on "desirability." I think "desirable" is having a beautiful home in a beautiful neighborhood with good schools and a short commute to my office downtown. You may think that "desirable" means giving people the name of your neighborhood and watching them bow down to you in some sort of deference to you? Well, as an owner of an expensive home that also could have afforded one in the other lovely neighborhoods you mention above, sorry, I'm not buying the crap you're shoveling, lady.[/quote]

Looks like you took the troll bait.  If you re-read your post, it comes across as pretty darn defensive.

Seriously, if you can afford a $2 M home in either McLean or North Arlington, it ought to be all good, and you shouldn't need to spend large amounts of time either defending your decision or reciprocating by lashing out two posts later at someone else's decision.  [/quote]

What now? I didn't "lash out" or insult anyone else's "decision." What I ridiculed was a clearly insecure poster's blanket statement about some vague "desirability" factor that Arlington lacks, which would supposedly preclude wealthy people from purchasing there. Notice I didn't insult the other neighborhoods, which are, as I said, lovely. We certainly considered neighborhoods on both side of the McLean/Arlington border, and ended up in Arlington. Obviously, at the $2M price point, we could have afforded most other neighborhoods around town. We chose North Arlington. Not sure why that comes across as "pretty darn defensive" to you. I suspect that the PP who throws around blanket statements like "no one considers Arlington to be in the same league as _____" is a poster who lives in a modest, not particularly pricey home in an area she views as very fancy, and thus, feels threatened when people spend a lot more $$ than her home is worth in neighborhoods she believes should be -- but aren't -- less "desirable."[/quote]

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