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Anonymous wrote:Rock Creek Forest, which straddles Chevy Chase and Silver Spring. It’s not glamorous but the location is great for commuting. There is a nice neighborhood pool and school. It’s along Rock Creek Park and has a little shopping center with a gym, deli and market.

Oh, this is a good one! Relatively affordable, adorable, walkable, and great location!

Rock Creek Forest, which straddles Chevy Chase and Silver Spring. It’s not glamorous but the location is great for commuting. There is a nice neighborhood pool and school. It’s along Rock Creek Park and has a little shopping center with a gym, deli and market.

Anonymous wrote:I don't live in any of them, but parts of Springfield, Annandale and Woodbridge.

Also agree on some neighborhoods EOTR, which might as well be a foreign country to much of DCUM.

Agree on Annandale, which has some really beautiful housing stock, especially if you like MCM. I think the schools get a bad rap because it's close to some districts with intensely competitive families with extremely high expectations, but for instance as a family coming from DC, we find Annandale schools look pretty good to us.

And agree on EOTR but I think it will change pretty quickly. It was the same with neighborhoods like Edgewood, Kingman Park, Trinidad. White people were unfamiliar with them and they had bad reputations regarding crime, but slowly some white people started buying there because it was a way to get proximity at a lower price and then that made it feel more comfortable for other white people and then gentrification happens. I don't think it will be long before this starts happening more across the river, if it isn't already.

The one sticking point is that the neighborhoods I just mentioned had the advantage of being near some commercial areas (H Street, Brookland) that gave people a reason to go there. There have been more developments going in EOTR, but basically nothing large enough to be a draw for people who live further west. That keeps people from starting to imagine living in a place. We'll see if some of the current planned developments can change this.

Rollingwood. Everyone wants to live in the incorporated sections of CCMD, but the older areas of Rollingwood (with 1920s houses adjacent to Martin’s Addition) are much nicer in many ways.

Anonymous wrote:Twinbrook Rockville
Few blocks from red line metro.
Few blocks from future Wegmans
Almost across Pike and Rose.
Almost 100k cheaper than west Rockville for the same house.
Well, that is not going to last long.

And the adjacent aspen hill area.

I don't live in any of them, but parts of Springfield, Annandale and Woodbridge.

Also agree on some neighborhoods EOTR, which might as well be a foreign country to much of DCUM.

Closer-in EOTR neighborhoods for sure, particularly the ones around the Deanwood and Benning Rd. metro stops.

They have actually affordable housing, with SFHs going for $600K or less and renovated rowhouses in the $400s. Good lot sizes, decent tree cover, big parks nearby. Both areas have a Metro stop and both stops are ~20 minute rides to downtown.

Crime-wise, both are as safe or safer than many much more expensive areas WOTR. It's solely the overblown and outdated stigma of being EOTR that has kept them from getting hot before less convenient neighborhoods. Sure, the schools suck but it's not like anyone in Brookland or Ft. Totten are sending their kids to the in-boundary publics anyway.

Fort Lincoln in DC is nice. We live in the villages and there are nice townhomes for a good price, neighborhood is pretty quiet and friendly

Twinbrook Rockville
Few blocks from red line metro.
Few blocks from future Wegmans
Almost across Pike and Rose.
Almost 100k cheaper than west Rockville for the same house.
Well, that is not going to last long.

close in oakton

Anonymous wrote:Lol I lived for 15 yrs in a neighborhood that brought out every racist troll on DCUM but I loved living there. When we finally moved we sold our house for 500% of our purchase price so apparently we weren’t the only ones who loved the area. No thx though on actually mentioning it tho!!

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I used to live in Shirlington and I think that Shirlington /Fairlington are underrated.

Lol I lived for 15 yrs in a neighborhood that brought out every racist troll on DCUM but I loved living there. When we finally moved we sold our house for 500% of our purchase price so apparently we weren’t the only ones who loved the area. No thx though on actually mentioning it tho!!

I’ve lived in the DMV for eight years and I know very little about various neighborhoods, and the thread about overrated neighborhoods was fun. What about underrated neighborhoods? I live in South Arlington and I feel like it might be a contender but again I don’t know the area that well.