There isn’t a lot of real money in DC. Almost everyone is here for work. There aren’t insanely wealthy people like you’d find in LA, NY etc.

There are plenty of nice ones. But they are out of most people’s price ranges.

Anonymous wrote:I've lived in Miami and think this is a pretty false premise.

Those Mizner houses in Miami are perfection in my mind. Peak!

Dc suburbs were built up after WW2 and were mostly housing for feds and similar middle class jobs. Hence all the ranchers and and split levels. Rich people in the 2000s were often foreigners who had no taste (or different tastes?). Hence the houses with 8 turrets, zero landscaping and gaudy interiors.

Anonymous wrote:Why would a La Cornue make a house any nicer? I’m perfectly happy with my Bluestar.

I’m happy with my GE cafe.😁

De gustibus non disputantem est.

Go here: https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1303435.page

People come for career reasons and don't think they will be here forever. We didn't lol.
People aren't into appliances. I am not much interested in cooking so as long as the stove turns on and off and doesn't blow up it's all good.

Anonymous wrote:I mean come on OP, as far as McLean goes (the closer to DC part) it's location, location, location. Once you've languished on 495 for a few months, you'll buy anything to ease the suffering. And the sellers know it.

Just like we don't have a "car culture" here, we don't have really much of an aesthetic design culture, either. Just drive around Arlington and see how many center hall red brick colonials are still hanging on from the 1940s/1950s.

Better than the 70s/80s colonials.

Bethesda has some nice homes.

Because the vast majority of the houses in the DC suburbs were slapped up quickly in the post war years.

Reframe your thinking. There are nice homes, you just can’t afford them and everything you see has flaws that you have to deal with.

I mean come on OP, as far as McLean goes (the closer to DC part) it's location, location, location. Once you've languished on 495 for a few months, you'll buy anything to ease the suffering. And the sellers know it.

Just like we don't have a "car culture" here, we don't have really much of an aesthetic design culture, either. Just drive around Arlington and see how many center hall red brick colonials are still hanging on from the 1940s/1950s.

I've lived in Miami and think this is a pretty false premise.

Because Americans are obsessed with consuming new crap instead of appreciating craft. It distracts us from how awful this place really is.