Anonymous
Post 07/24/2015 15:35     Subject: Re:What do we think? Friday in AU Park Edition ($1.575k)
Sold for $1.4 million:

https://www.redfin.com/DC/Washington/4500-Chesapeake-St-NW-20016/home/9948673
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2015 21:04     Subject: What do we think? Friday in AU Park Edition ($1.575k)
Anonymous wrote:Can we stop quoting the post with the massive picture that messes up the formatting of the page? Signed, person with first world problem.


+1
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2015 15:06     Subject: What do we think? Friday in AU Park Edition ($1.575k)
Can we stop quoting the post with the massive picture that messes up the formatting of the page? Signed, person with first world problem.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2015 14:30     Subject: Re:What do we think? Friday in AU Park Edition ($1.575k)
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Jesus, are you some 40something who's driven through CoHi but has no actual experience of its nightlife? None of CoHi nightlife is centered around the metro stop; it's mostly over on 11th St, anchored by Wonderland and the like.


You're too much. Wonderland is great and all. In fact, I left my beard and flannel shirt in there when I was 25. I figured I'd pick them up sometime in the ensuing 12 years, but I haven't made it back.


Well said. I wonder if the PP is also one of those who drags her infants and toddlers to bars and restaurants without any regard for their sleep needs, because she doesn't want to give up her accustomed lifestyle...
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2015 14:16     Subject: Re:What do we think? Friday in AU Park Edition ($1.575k)
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Jesus, are you some 40something who's driven through CoHi but has no actual experience of its nightlife? None of CoHi nightlife is centered around the metro stop; it's mostly over on 11th St, anchored by Wonderland and the like.


You're too much. Wonderland is great and all. In fact, I left my beard and flannel shirt in there when I was 25. I figured I'd pick them up sometime in the ensuing 12 years, but I haven't made it back.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2015 14:11     Subject: Re:What do we think? Friday in AU Park Edition ($1.575k)
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Anonymous wrote:who would pay 1.5 million to live in an area that's so far out from the fun parts of the city that it's basically in the suburbs?


You are either clueless or trying to be provocative. AU Park is the ideal combination of homes with yards, walkability, proximity to downtown, and the best schools in DC. Most homes go for less than 1.5 million, but the location isn't the reason for that (the houses just aren't that big). It isn't "the suburbs" by any stretch, and it's an extremely hot market right now.


Gee, I sure am deluded.... or maybe I just know how to use Google StreetView, and I'm not utterly fucking blind as you appear to be? Here's the location of the house:



If I told you that was a picture of anywhere in the anonymous, soulless NoVA suburbs, you'd believe me.

Walkability is all well and good, but you have to have someplace exciting to walk to -- and while Glover Park isn't terrible or anything, it's nowhere near the U Street/CoHi/AdMo/14th St/Dupont/H St nexus where everything fun actually happens.

You can get the same schools for less money in plenty of other areas.

And yes, it is indeed an extremely hot market right now. A lot of people in DC have terrible taste, which is a big part of why NoVA is as bad as it is. But if you have this particular brand of terrible taste, just buy a similar home inbound for TJ out in VA for cheaper.


You can't buy a house inbounds for TJ. There's no such thing. It's an application only high school.


By 'inbound' I mean 'within the area where you're able to apply'. Passing the application is easy street for a bright kid and barely a formality.


LOL. "Easy street." Now I know you're talking smack. Don't forget to pick up your Cava when you're running errands at the tragically hip Bed, Bath and Beyond.


Jesus, are you some 40something who's driven through CoHi but has no actual experience of its nightlife? None of CoHi nightlife is centered around the metro stop; it's mostly over on 11th St, anchored by Wonderland and the like.


NP here. Wtf are you doing on this particular thread, trolling about how Columbia Heights is so much hipper? Of course it is, but who cares? If you don't like a quiet family-centered neighborhood of SFHs with yards, why are you wasting your precious lifetime reading this, and ranting about people who don't care about nightlife having "bad taste"? AU Park is very walkable in other ways more important to people with kids, and very unlike the VA suburbs. It seriously sounds like you are compensating for something.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2015 14:03     Subject: Re:What do we think? Friday in AU Park Edition ($1.575k)
Anonymous wrote:LOL. "Easy street." Now I know you're talking smack.


NP here, have no opinion on the other stuff, but PP has a point about TJ; they admit close to the top quintile of applicants, we wouldn't call a college with a 20% acceptance rate super difficult to get into.