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Anonymous wrote:OP look at renting a place in the Elizabeth, it’s got a pool and it’s slowly turning over from retirees to families

maths is! Pets okay?

Anonymous wrote:OP look at renting a place in the Elizabeth, it’s got a pool and it’s slowly turning over from retirees to families

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Anonymous wrote:What’s your budget?

Upstairs at Bethesda Row is a spectacular place to live and a mix of ages. There are retirees, young families, to upper 20s to mid 30s DINKs and a few small families with older children though these are admittedly rarer. (But definitely exist).

Common denominator is people paying a big premium for great walkability and a great overall building. We lived there 3 years.

Thanks for the suggestion. I’d say up to $5000 or $5500. Would that work there?

https://upstairsbethesda.com/floorplans/brk15-2/

The building tops out at $4500 for a 1300 square foot 2/2 with den with a terrace overlooking the shops restaurants below. That’s a great budget and you can basically rent anything anywhere fitting your criteria except a three bedroom at the woodley.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s your budget?

Upstairs at Bethesda Row is a spectacular place to live and a mix of ages. There are retirees, young families, to upper 20s to mid 30s DINKs and a few small families with older children though these are admittedly rarer. (But definitely exist).

Common denominator is people paying a big premium for great walkability and a great overall building. We lived there 3 years.

Thanks for the suggestion. I’d say up to $5000 or $5500. Would that work there?

Anonymous wrote:Friendship Heights is in DC, but yes, I see your point. We want to be close to Bethesda/Chevy Chase to be near my mother. Also my daughter is interested in building ga with a pool and that’s mostly a new building thing.

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Anonymous wrote:This is a fairly unique ask. I lived here from NYC too and it just isn’t a thing in the same way.

There are some solidly middle class buildings in Chevy Chase DC with kids, but they are not really upscale buildings, with an exception or two — the new one at military for instance. But it is a very nice area.

Also, Cathedrals heights near St. Albans/NCS has some good options. Neat neighborhood but no metro alas.

There are plenty of newish upscale building in Bethesda, but they are geared more toward singles and childless couples. At the same time, there is a lot more teenager stuff to do in downtown Bethesda. Shops, people watching, food.

Friendship (on the Maryland side) is like the oldest zip code in the USA. And there is less teenage energy around Mazza then there was a few decades ago sadly.

As pp said, you will unfortunately likely spend a lot of time explaining why you chose apartment living. But no big deal if you don’t mind

Thank you. I used to live in DC and I figured this would be an odd ask. Thing is, we are gone a lot and we’ve already done the suburban house and yard thing. Then we lived overseas and now in the city and we are used to being able to walk everywhere and take public transit. Don’t want to be tethered to a car and a big house and yard and people to take care of them. Will look at downtown Bethesda more this weekend, thanks.

Anonymous wrote:What’s your budget?

Upstairs at Bethesda Row is a spectacular place to live and a mix of ages. There are retirees, young families, to upper 20s to mid 30s DINKs and a few small families with older children though these are admittedly rarer. (But definitely exist).

Common denominator is people paying a big premium for great walkability and a great overall building. We lived there 3 years.

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Anonymous wrote:In Friendship, you'll find that that the largest population in the buildings are senior citizens, not 20 somethings. But there are also plenty of teenagers. My mother lives in the Willoughby, which would be a good fit except that it doesn't allow pets, and when my son spent the night there was an entire school bus full of students heading to Westland Middle School from there. We were in another building, that did allow pets but wasn't "higher end" and we had plenty of kids as well.

I'm not sure which buildings allow pets, but you'll definitely find community in those neighborhoods.

This is helpful, thank you. Your mom’s building looks nice.

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Anonymous wrote:Are you moving here from NYC?

We did private school in an apartment here. It was something that we had to continuously defend to our neighbors (“Too good for public? Bad plan to spend money on tuition rather than a mortgage.”) AND DD’s classmates (It’s soooo small. Come to our house where we have a family room and yard?” )

We liked it, but the comments from both sides got old.

Yes, we are. We don’t want to deal with the requirements of a house and we are away about a quarter of the year so we’d prefer a lower maintenance, lower risk situation.

I think you should try to be in whichever place is closer to the school.