Apples and oranges. I only left the city if I could walk everywhere and have great public schools. Walk everywhere--meaning gym, drycleaners, multiple grocery stores, shops, pharmacy, parks, bars, Metro, restaurants...while having sidewalks, etc. The area around Clarendon is the only thing that met all if my requirements. We settled on LV for these factors.

If walkability weren't an issue--I would have opened my search outside of Arlington because what's an extra few minutes in a car at that point and I could get more house for the $.

Somebody valuing a large house and large lot is never going to make the same choices and that's fine. I'm the first to admit there are much prettier neighborhoods out there--but I love am urban feel.

South Arlington < North Arlington < McLean < MoCo </= NWDC>

Anonymous wrote:Are we now fighting north vs more north ?

Yes, that's what it's all about. North central vs north north.

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Anything that BCN has built -- 35th St. Dittmar, Abingdon, 36th St. Drive around my dear, drive around

honey. i'm pretty sure you're confusing your envy with another emotion.

Are we now fighting north vs more north ?

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Anonymous wrote:CCH has a timeless quality. LV is very much flavor of the month. When the lemmings realize how ugly, over-hyped and congested it is, they'll be off to the next place.

This is why the inventory has hovered at near zero month-to-month for the last 10 years....

CCH is no more "timeless" than Lyon Village. Some of the teardowns/rebuilds in CCH look pretty bad and woefully out of scale. The only "timeless" Arlington neighborhoods that haven't been touched by teardowns are Aurora Highlands/Arlington Ridge in South Arlington.

I live in CCH and don't know of any "woefully out of scale" or "pretty bad" rebuilds. Maybe you should cite a couple of examples.

The newer builds off of 35th Street. There is a beautiful vintage home on Albemarle that will be demolished soon.

That said, I think CCH and Lyon Village are two of Arlington's most attractive neighborhoods. Many more of these grand old homes are being lovingly restored than demolished for a new BCN build.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't really understand the North v. South thing myself, especially since there's at least three sections of Arlington. There's South Arlington (south of Route 50), there's North Arlington (north of I-66), and there's Central Arlington (between 66 and 50).

I understand why people from Bluemont, Lyon Village, and Buckingham want to consider themselves part of North Arlington, but come on, really?

Oh please all of you "Central Arlington" posters, we cannot open a debate to North Arlington versus Central Arlington; South Arlington versus Central Arlington, Centeral Arlington versus North Arlington, Central Arlington versus South Arlington. The trolley will be built on Columbia Pike before this thread mercifully dies.

THE TROLLEY! THE TROLLEY!

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Anonymous wrote:I understand why people from Bluemont, Lyon Village, and Buckingham want to consider themselves part of North Arlington, but come on, really?

Lyon Village is the single most desirable neighborhood in Arlington. North Arlington is glad to have Lyon Village be part of it...

The wine just shot from my nose.

No. Really, it's not. It's a fine place to live, I'm sure, but I don't think it even cracks the top 5 neighborhoods.

In terms of prices and inventory it is.

Um, CCH outprices LV by a good $400,000. And there's tight inventory here, too.

Anonymous wrote:I don't really understand the North v. South thing myself, especially since there's at least three sections of Arlington. There's South Arlington (south of Route 50), there's North Arlington (north of I-66), and there's Central Arlington (between 66 and 50).

I understand why people from Bluemont, Lyon Village, and Buckingham want to consider themselves part of North Arlington, but come on, really?

Oh please all of you "Central Arlington" posters, we cannot open a debate to North Arlington versus Central Arlington; South Arlington versus Central Arlington, Centeral Arlington versus North Arlington, Central Arlington versus South Arlington. The trolley will be built on Columbia Pike before this thread mercifully dies.

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Anonymous wrote:I understand why people from Bluemont, Lyon Village, and Buckingham want to consider themselves part of North Arlington, but come on, really?

Lyon Village is the single most desirable neighborhood in Arlington. North Arlington is glad to have Lyon Village be part of it...

The wine just shot from my nose.

No. Really, it's not. It's a fine place to live, I'm sure, but I don't think it even cracks the top 5 neighborhoods.

In terms of prices and inventory it is.

PP

Anything that BCN has built -- 35th St. Dittmar, Abingdon, 36th St. Drive around my dear, drive around

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:CCH has a timeless quality. LV is very much flavor of the month. When the lemmings realize how ugly, over-hyped and congested it is, they'll be off to the next place.

This is why the inventory has hovered at near zero month-to-month for the last 10 years....

CCH is no more "timeless" than Lyon Village. Some of the teardowns/rebuilds in CCH look pretty bad and woefully out of scale. The only "timeless" Arlington neighborhoods that haven't been touched by teardowns are Aurora Highlands/Arlington Ridge in South Arlington.

I live in CCH and don't know of any "woefully out of scale" or "pretty bad" rebuilds. Maybe you should cite a couple of examples.

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Anonymous wrote:CCH has a timeless quality. LV is very much flavor of the month. When the lemmings realize how ugly, over-hyped and congested it is, they'll be off to the next place.

This is why the inventory has hovered at near zero month-to-month for the last 10 years....

CCH is no more "timeless" than Lyon Village. Some of the teardowns/rebuilds in CCH look pretty bad and woefully out of scale. The only "timeless" Arlington neighborhoods that haven't been touched by teardowns are Aurora Highlands/Arlington Ridge in South Arlington.

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Anonymous wrote:I understand why people from Bluemont, Lyon Village, and Buckingham want to consider themselves part of North Arlington, but come on, really?

Lyon Village is the single most desirable neighborhood in Arlington. North Arlington is glad to have Lyon Village be part of it...

Not really. Country Club Hills is much nicer.

It's certainly the richest in Arlington. The people that buy in CCH and that buy in Lyon Village are probably looking for very different things.

Yes. LV us a city/urban area with no need for a car and walkable to everything. CCH is a suburb with bigger acreage and houses.

They are apples and oranges. Both very nice neighborhoods.

LV is not a city. It's an old, upper-middle class suburb adjacent to an urban environment. But prices there now place it beyond most upper-middle class families. CCH was built maybe a decade or two after Lyon Village on an even more suburban scale, i.e. even larger homes and huge yards.

Anonymous wrote:CCH has a timeless quality. LV is very much flavor of the month. When the lemmings realize how ugly, over-hyped and congested it is, they'll be off to the next place.

This is why the inventory has hovered at near zero month-to-month for the last 10 years....