People who buy $5m houses don't have time to hang out on the stoop all day. Where do you think this is? Potomac Gardens?

Anonymous wrote:Our nanny-share partners lived there and I found the neighborhood much less friendly than ours (AU Park). I think the huge houses discourages a lot of people from hanging out with neighbors.

I don't think that's it. I think it's because there are two halves to the neighborhood right now (all rich, mind you). There are the older empty-nesters who keep to themselves and the newer young families now replacing them. They are intermixed at present as the neighborhood turns over, so you don't have the same density of young families that you have in AU Park right now. Give it a few years.

Our nanny-share partners lived there and I found the neighborhood much less friendly than ours (AU Park). I think the huge houses discourages a lot of people from hanging out with neighbors.

Or the house could eventually be torn down, which happened as recently as two years ago, according to the WP:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/house-coming-down-on-former-chemical-weapons-site-in-dc/2012/11/29/f7a28fbe-3a71-11e2-b01f-5f55b193f58f_story.html

I'm 15:42, not the OP. I think SV is gorgeous - stunning, honestly! - but no way I would live there. It just makes me too nervous. I have one friend who lived there and did a ton of rehab work himself, especially in the yard. He developed a brain tumor two years later. Yes of course it can be totally anecdotal but knowling that there are munitions buried there and so much obfuscation fromt he government about what's going on, I couldn't do it.
And honestly, the bizarre and hostile things just posted here (like 15:48) sort of make me wonder about SV residents.

Anonymous wrote:I think it's beautiful but I would worry about the poison

As a Spring Valley resident (and new buyer), I think this is misguided, but I respect the sentiment. I prefer my decisions to be data-driven, but I'd be deluding myself (and lying to you) if I tried to claim that emotion doesn't often influence my decisions.

I think it's beautiful but I would worry about the poison

Hey OP, I'm sorry you're poor and can't afford to live here. Why don't you make your way back to Vienna.

http://wfp.com/listing-showcase/property-details.asp?mlsid=DC8330240

Did you short the Spring Valley market and you're currently out of the money? Hoping that you'll be able to scrounge together enough money before the next margin call? What's your deal, OP? From your phrasing, you clearly have some sort of agenda.

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Anonymous wrote:Why would anybody want to buy there? Expensive, poison in the ground, and you don't see a person in the street - only dead people seem to live there.

Actually, ignoramus, plenty of people are in the streets all the time. There have been many sales recently as the neighborhood turns over from old owners to young owners. Most of the new owners are families with young children.

The children can play in the streets, too, without parental oversight as there is little traffic and no crime.

Despite this, I wouldn't live there. Poison is poison.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would anybody want to buy there? Expensive, poison in the ground, and you don't see a person in the street - only dead people seem to live there.

Actually, ignoramus, plenty of people are in the streets all the time. There have been many sales recently as the neighborhood turns over from old owners to young owners. Most of the new owners are families with young children.

The children can play in the streets, too, without parental oversight as there is little traffic and no crime.

Wow PP calling OP "ignoramus" was quite cruel and unnecessary!

OP was simply stating HER/HIS observation and asking if the observation was correct. meaning she was opening this up to opinion and discussion. so nasty on your part.....

It is very pretty. But I would never buy there. So many other places to live.

Anonymous wrote:Why would anybody want to buy there? Expensive, poison in the ground, and you don't see a person in the street - only dead people seem to live there.

Actually, ignoramus, plenty of people are in the streets all the time. There have been many sales recently as the neighborhood turns over from old owners to young owners. Most of the new owners are families with young children.

The children can play in the streets, too, without parental oversight as there is little traffic and no crime.

Big lots, nice houses. There are parts that are less poisonous than others.

Why would anybody want to buy there? Expensive, poison in the ground, and you don't see a person in the street - only dead people seem to live there.