What does "prestige" mean to you personally? Everyone's definition is slightly different. Some consider only old money neighborhoods that's been in the money decades ago. Others consider current price per sqft, which gives you potentially different answers and adds many more areas that might have been dumpy before.

Real estate is cyclical. There have been several instances where city real estate declined while suburban real estate appreciated, most recently in the 90s. Only a fool would think buying in the city is always a good investment, especially when DCPS generally remains so inferior at the middle and the high school level. Not everyone can go to Deal and Wilson would be considered below average in any suburban jurisdiction except PG.

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Anonymous wrote:All of you are very parochial and narrow minded. Prestige doesn't mean white people are good public schools. You can't touch a decent rowhome in Logan Circle for less than $1.5 million. That's prestige.

Neighborhoods where addicts and hookers roamed not too long ago aren’t prestigious.

You seem to have confused inflation with prestige.

Houses in the District are always a good buy because it’s in the city. It also opens up the ability to work in VA, MD or DC without a nightmare commute. The traffic is not improving.

This. It's why we moved from the suburbs to DC. Also, the neighborhood we bought in is appreciating a lot faster than the sort of far out, carbound "W" neighborhood we used to live in.

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Anonymous wrote:All of you are very parochial and narrow minded. Prestige doesn't mean white people are good public schools. You can't touch a decent rowhome in Logan Circle for less than $1.5 million. That's prestige.

Neighborhoods where addicts and hookers roamed not too long ago aren’t prestigious.

You seem to have confused inflation with prestige.

So sorry you can't afford it.

Lame response. Could easily afford Logan Circle. Prefer to live in an area that is actually prestigious.

Yea, the boring suburbs. No thanks.

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Anonymous wrote:All of you are very parochial and narrow minded. Prestige doesn't mean white people are good public schools. You can't touch a decent rowhome in Logan Circle for less than $1.5 million. That's prestige.

Neighborhoods where addicts and hookers roamed not too long ago aren’t prestigious.

You seem to have confused inflation with prestige.

Houses in the District are always a good buy because it’s in the city. It also opens up the ability to work in VA, MD or DC without a nightmare commute. The traffic is not improving.

Nothing in NoVa is prestige, except maybe McLean, maybe.

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Anonymous wrote:Wesley Heights below Cathedral. Some of the most expensive homes in DC.

The Albrittons, Marriotts, Dezoretzs, Ludwigs, and Zientzs seem to agree.

The Ludwigs? Who are they?

One lives on Fox Hall. Huge yard, pools, tennis courts, views of Va, yard art worth more than many houses. A former bank CEO and consultant that made hundreds of millions or more as a consultant. The other lives near by and has won many Tony awards and made millions writing plays and musicals.

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Anonymous wrote:Kalorama
Chevy Chase
Wesley heights
Spring Valley

MD:
Potomac

In VA:
McLean
Great Falls
The SE quadrant of Old Town
Belle Haven
Rosemont
The small portion of N. Arlington that borders McLean

This is a good list for the 1980s, but a lot has changed since then.

+1. I assume PP is older.

That list is still very relevant if you delete Belle Haven.

I would also probably delete Great Falls and add Lyon village.

I would also add in Reston, Arlandria and Vienna for Virginia

Through in Fairfax City and Centreville.

Centreville has a very exclusive Asian population.

Herndon and Ashburn.

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Anonymous wrote:All of you are very parochial and narrow minded. Prestige doesn't mean white people are good public schools. You can't touch a decent rowhome in Logan Circle for less than $1.5 million. That's prestige.

Neighborhoods where addicts and hookers roamed not too long ago aren’t prestigious.

You seem to have confused inflation with prestige.

So sorry you can't afford it.

Lame response. Could easily afford Logan Circle. Prefer to live in an area that is actually prestigious.

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Anonymous wrote:All of you are very parochial and narrow minded. Prestige doesn't mean white people are good public schools. You can't touch a decent rowhome in Logan Circle for less than $1.5 million. That's prestige.

Neighborhoods where addicts and hookers roamed not too long ago aren’t prestigious.

You seem to have confused inflation with prestige.

So sorry you can't afford it.

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Anonymous wrote:Kalorama
Chevy Chase
Wesley heights
Spring Valley

MD:
Potomac

In VA:
McLean
Great Falls
The SE quadrant of Old Town
Belle Haven
Rosemont
The small portion of N. Arlington that borders McLean

This is a good list for the 1980s, but a lot has changed since then.

+1. I assume PP is older.

That list is still very relevant if you delete Belle Haven.

I would also probably delete Great Falls and add Lyon village.

I would also add in Reston, Arlandria and Vienna for Virginia

Through in Fairfax City and Centreville.

Excuse me. Throw.

Anonymous wrote:All of you are very parochial and narrow minded. Prestige doesn't mean white people are good public schools. You can't touch a decent rowhome in Logan Circle for less than $1.5 million. That's prestige.

Or stupidity.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Kalorama
Chevy Chase
Wesley heights
Spring Valley

MD:
Potomac

In VA:
McLean
Great Falls
The SE quadrant of Old Town
Belle Haven
Rosemont
The small portion of N. Arlington that borders McLean

This is a good list for the 1980s, but a lot has changed since then.

+1. I assume PP is older.

That list is still very relevant if you delete Belle Haven.

I would also probably delete Great Falls and add Lyon village.

I would also add in Reston, Arlandria and Vienna for Virginia

Through in Fairfax City and Centreville.

Anonymous wrote:All of you are very parochial and narrow minded. Prestige doesn't mean white people are good public schools. You can't touch a decent rowhome in Logan Circle for less than $1.5 million. That's prestige.

Neighborhoods where addicts and hookers roamed not too long ago aren’t prestigious.

You seem to have confused inflation with prestige.