Anonymous
Post 04/07/2014 11:03     Subject: Re:What is the most overrated area (neighborhood, town, etc) in the DC metropolitan area?
Vienna could be so cool. But pretty much hopeless.

If they redeveloped some of the strip malls on 123 and some of the crappy old neighborhoods north of Maple .... but don't hold your breath.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2014 10:55     Subject: Re:What is the most overrated area (neighborhood, town, etc) in the DC metropolitan area?
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1) only the worst of these models can be found in PH
2) work on your reading comprehension ... "it's the 'custom' jobs that make the place humorous" ... THIS is NOT "happening everywhere" and is why people laugh at the PH posse that insists all new/modified houses in PH are on the level of other areas.


1) Not true, the only models out of that list not found in PH are #2 and #6 from the end, and they just happen to be the ugliest.

2) If by "custom" jobs you mean the haphazard building of additions, then this wasn't really a part of discussion, since we're talking about new builds by actual name builders that can be compared oranges for oranges. Secondly, not happening everywhere? Really? Have you seen this place called South Arlington? Around Columbia Pike maybe?
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2014 10:54     Subject: What is the most overrated area (neighborhood, town, etc) in the DC metropolitan area?
Please, can people quote those horrible houses more so we can get those big ass graphics over and over?

I'm sure the people using the quote function for those houses must live in PH - no actual DC person would be that annoying.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2014 10:46     Subject: What is the most overrated area (neighborhood, town, etc) in the DC metropolitan area?
Anonymous wrote:The homes in the photos make me very sad. Give me an old home (pre-1900) over these any day.


I want to live in my home not spend my life fixing it. I lived in old homes and they suck ass.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2014 10:43     Subject: What is the most overrated area (neighborhood, town, etc) in the DC metropolitan area?
The homes in the photos make me very sad. Give me an old home (pre-1900) over these any day.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2014 09:39     Subject: What is the most overrated area (neighborhood, town, etc) in the DC metropolitan area?
Oakton it overrated. It's nice to live there without kids, but with kids it's awful. It's just not family friendly. There is one, ONLY ONE playground in all of Oakton, and there are NO SIDEWALKS. The whole area added too many houses in the 90s, but they didn't also build more pools, playgrounds, community type of things.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2014 09:37     Subject: Re:What is the most overrated area (neighborhood, town, etc) in the DC metropolitan area?
Anonymous wrote:Calling new houses in PH "custom builds" is like saying you got a "custom meal" at McDonald's because you got to choose the number of your Value Meal. These are ugly McMansions, whether in Arlington or PH. The difference is that there's also plenty of good stuff, older and newer, in Arlington, and there really isn't in PH.


Well if these homes are McDonalds what are the original tract ramblers, cap cods, split levels and tiny colonials in this area?
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2014 09:37     Subject: What is the most overrated area (neighborhood, town, etc) in the DC metropolitan area?
Anonymous wrote:People, if you respond to a poster that has included a long list of photographs embed, please delete the photos in your response. No need for us to have to scroll down them repeatedly. We saw the houses the first time.

I agree! How do you do that?
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2014 09:36     Subject: Re:What is the most overrated area (neighborhood, town, etc) in the DC metropolitan area?
Anonymous wrote:Vienna sucks

+100 Over
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2014 09:08     Subject: Re:What is the most overrated area (neighborhood, town, etc) in the DC metropolitan area?
Anonymous wrote:Calling new houses in PH "custom builds" is like saying you got a "custom meal" at McDonald's because you got to choose the number of your Value Meal. These are ugly McMansions, whether in Arlington or PH. The difference is that there's also plenty of good stuff, older and newer, in Arlington, and there really isn't in PH.


I own several of the "I'll take number two, medium, diet coke" homes, but that sh*t is funny!
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2014 08:49     Subject: Re:What is the most overrated area (neighborhood, town, etc) in the DC metropolitan area?
Anonymous wrote:Calling new houses in PH "custom builds" is like saying you got a "custom meal" at McDonald's because you got to choose the number of your Value Meal. These are ugly McMansions, whether in Arlington or PH. The difference is that there's also plenty of good stuff, older and newer, in Arlington, and there really isn't in PH.


I didn't hear anyone call these custom I heard mid range. Personally I like most of the houses in the pictures except for the really narrow and flat faced house.

Maybe I have low standards dunno.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2014 08:24     Subject: Re:What is the most overrated area (neighborhood, town, etc) in the DC metropolitan area?
Calling new houses in PH "custom builds" is like saying you got a "custom meal" at McDonald's because you got to choose the number of your Value Meal. These are ugly McMansions, whether in Arlington or PH. The difference is that there's also plenty of good stuff, older and newer, in Arlington, and there really isn't in PH.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2014 08:11     Subject: What is the most overrated area (neighborhood, town, etc) in the DC metropolitan area?
People, if you respond to a poster that has included a long list of photographs embed, please delete the photos in your response. No need for us to have to scroll down them repeatedly. We saw the houses the first time.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2014 07:59     Subject: Re:What is the most overrated area (neighborhood, town, etc) in the DC metropolitan area?
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Anonymous wrote:... and replaced with the most gawdawful monstrosities a handyman turned architect can dream up.


Same mid range builders as Arlington and McLean . Troll harder.


Haha. Right. You can't seriously be asserting that the average/mode new builds in PH are comparable to those in Arlington or McLean. I am quite sure that the community feel and proximity to things residents need are why people like living there. I would never argue this. But one needs only to drive through a few blocks to realize immediately that the majority of updated/replaced homes are not "mid range" by most definitions.


Stanley Martin, ANV, NDI and others build the same mid level homes in McLean, Arlington and Pimmit Hills. I can school you with examples. I live in McLean and see them all the time.


Even though most of these builders' PH models would be pretty awful in more expensive neighborhoods, they are a HUGE improvement over what they're replacing. What bothers me about the area are the many, many one off new builds by XYZ random GC and the atrocious add-ons that look like a couple of shipping containers bolted only the existing home. Bigger name builders are fine, it's the 'custom' jobs that make the place humorous and will definitely cap the degree to which the hood can improve until they're knocked down themselves.


Cool story this is the same everywhere.


It most assuredly is not the same everywhere ... hence the PH teasing.


Ok so here are some newer North Arlington homes which include NDI that are the same build quality or less than in PH. In fact there are quite a few of these NDI homes in both PH and North Arlington. (Ashburn quality homes as you people call it). Due to many of North Arlington's limited sized lots some of the houses look much more skinny in the front than those in PH resulting in some less desirable exteriors. I can provide you the same for McLean and Vienna if you wish.











1) only the worst of these models can be found in PH
2) work on your reading comprehension ... "it's the 'custom' jobs that make the place humorous" ... THIS is NOT "happening everywhere" and is why people laugh at the PH posse that insists all new/modified houses in PH are on the level of other areas.


Actually there is no worst with ndi, you choose a plan and it's the same. The only homes pictured above not in ph are the skinny ones and the strange flat triangle cream colored custom job.

I can also show you custom jobs that are pretty out of place in north Arlington, Vienna and McLean. It happens everywhere when no hoa is involved.
Anonymous
Post 04/07/2014 07:54     Subject: Re:What is the most overrated area (neighborhood, town, etc) in the DC metropolitan area?
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Anonymous wrote:... and replaced with the most gawdawful monstrosities a handyman turned architect can dream up.


Same mid range builders as Arlington and McLean . Troll harder.


Haha. Right. You can't seriously be asserting that the average/mode new builds in PH are comparable to those in Arlington or McLean. I am quite sure that the community feel and proximity to things residents need are why people like living there. I would never argue this. But one needs only to drive through a few blocks to realize immediately that the majority of updated/replaced homes are not "mid range" by most definitions.


Stanley Martin, ANV, NDI and others build the same mid level homes in McLean, Arlington and Pimmit Hills. I can school you with examples. I live in McLean and see them all the time.


Even though most of these builders' PH models would be pretty awful in more expensive neighborhoods, they are a HUGE improvement over what they're replacing. What bothers me about the area are the many, many one off new builds by XYZ random GC and the atrocious add-ons that look like a couple of shipping containers bolted only the existing home. Bigger name builders are fine, it's the 'custom' jobs that make the place humorous and will definitely cap the degree to which the hood can improve until they're knocked down themselves.


Cool story this is the same everywhere.


It most assuredly is not the same everywhere ... hence the PH teasing.


Ok so here are some newer North Arlington homes which include NDI that are the same build quality or less than in PH. In fact there are quite a few of these NDI homes in both PH and North Arlington. (Ashburn quality homes as you people call it). Due to many of North Arlington's limited sized lots some of the houses look much more skinny in the front than those in PH resulting in some less desirable exteriors. I can provide you the same for McLean and Vienna if you wish.











1) only the worst of these models can be found in PH
2) work on your reading comprehension ... "it's the 'custom' jobs that make the place humorous" ... THIS is NOT "happening everywhere" and is why people laugh at the PH posse that insists all new/modified houses in PH are on the level of other areas.