Anonymous
Post 04/16/2015 23:19     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
Potomac has those beyond absurd Niroo monstrosities out on River Road. Why the 1 acre grass front yard and zero shade trees, fencing? There's zero desire for discretion. They just scream "I'm rich, bitch!".

For that kind of money, one could buy an original castle in Europe, or an island for that matter. Not something facing River Road. Even Versailles has some landscaping...why pay all that money to watch the cars go by?

http://dc.curbed.com/tags/david-niroo
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2015 23:06     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
I am going with Spring Valley after seeing the City Paper article about the historic designation of a parking lot in the name of preserving parking.

Anonymous
Post 04/16/2015 23:04     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
Marylebone and Kensington
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2015 22:59     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
L'ambience of McLean (in Falls Church)!

Just the name alone. Yes, it's a development, but what a pretentious name. I think the entrance sign has changed to slightly less dated and pretentious, but still.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2015 22:58     Subject: Re:Most pretentious neighborhood?
Cleveland Park?? yeah, there are some nice houses, but plenty of duplexes too. People in Cleveland Park are sometimes excessively politically correct, but not pretentious.

I might say Georgetown or Kalorama, except people there are more legit than pretentious. To me pretentious are people who think they are more than they are. People in kalorama are indeed what they are.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2015 22:50     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:In DC it's the Phillips Park neighborhood. Oversized, overpriced mansions squeezed together in a faux-Euro-chic neighborhood with no privacy and over decorated houses. Feels very nouveau riche. Versus neighborhoods like Kalorama or Cleveland Park which are elegant real mansions.


I've lived in Washington for 25 years and I've never heard of Phillips Park.

Looks really nice on Google Maps!


It's not a real neighborhood, that's why. It's more like a name of a subdivision.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2015 22:02     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
Anonymous wrote:In DC it's the Phillips Park neighborhood. Oversized, overpriced mansions squeezed together in a faux-Euro-chic neighborhood with no privacy and over decorated houses. Feels very nouveau riche. Versus neighborhoods like Kalorama or Cleveland Park which are elegant real mansions.


I've lived in Washington for 25 years and I've never heard of Phillips Park.

Looks really nice on Google Maps!
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2015 18:57     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
Potomac is pretentious.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2015 18:53     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
Wherever you live, OP.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2015 18:49     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
OP, do you actually know anyone who lives in Edgemoor? I do. It's not pretentious.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2015 18:13     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
Anonymous wrote:Why do this?


Perhaps OP is honest and self-aware?
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2015 18:11     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
In DC it's the Phillips Park neighborhood. Oversized, overpriced mansions squeezed together in a faux-Euro-chic neighborhood with no privacy and over decorated houses. Feels very nouveau riche. Versus neighborhoods like Kalorama or Cleveland Park which are elegant real mansions.
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2015 17:42     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
Anonymous wrote:Why do this?


Indeed
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2015 17:38     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
Why do this?
Anonymous
Post 04/16/2015 17:37     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
In MoCo, I'd say Edgemoor. In DC, it would be the neighborhoods along Foxhall Rd., although DH would say Cleveland Park.