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Anonymous wrote:OP: visit the neighborhoods yourself. Walk Score is a deeply flawed criterion and often doesn't match the actual walkability of the neighborhood. Not all stores are created equal: if you live in FH or CCDC, while it may seem nice to have Chevy Chase Pavilion and Mazza Gallerie nearby, those malls are essentially worthless for actual life. (And WalkScore still gives credit to some bodega-equivalent on Western that I've never, not once, seen open.) Actually, despite living in the area, much of Wisconsin Ave. is passable at best for commercial (exceptions being around Tenleytown metro). For many day-to-day things, the "Spring Valley" shopping center on Mass [b](Sbucks, Le Pain Quotidien, CVS, thai, pizza, grocery store) is more useful or at least as useful as the Tenleytown metro hub.[/b] The point is, don't trust a website and instead walk yourself.

You don't know FH very well, do you?
FH has a Starbucks, Le Pain Quot, a CVS, Indian and Japanese, Range, Potomac Pizza, and a Whole Foods, as well as an H&M, Williams-Sonoma, Nordstrom Rack, Bloomies, Gap, BR, Clydes, Anthropologie, movie theater, etc, and a METRO and several bus lines.
It's objectively much more urban and useful than living in Spring Valley, where you are stuck driving and have a very, very limited number of shops.

You're wrong; I know FH well. My point was that the presence of CCP and MG make the WalkScore higher than it really should be. The useful shops you mention, save for Starbucks in the basement of the CCP, are not in CCP or MG. Or, are you actually going to assert that Nieman Marcus, Chas. Swartz and Foot Locker are useful for daily living? H&M, Williams-Sonoma, Bloomingdales and Anthropologie are, at best, useful several times a year.

I never contended that FH was less urban than SV. That's nonsense, but it sure does make a good straw man. My comparison was between the Tenleytown Metro hub (Best Buy, Container Store, Ace Hardware, Panera, SBucks, Guapo's, Domino's, CVS, Whole Foods) to the shops at Spring Valley (CVS, Wagshal's, Homemade Pizza, Tara Thai, Le Pain, SBucks, Fresh and Greens). Sure, Ace and Guapo's would be great, but Homemade Pizza > Dominos and LPQ > Panera. Whole Foods versus Fresh & Greens isn't really a comparison, but I'm not sure I'd be happy with only Whole Foods.

Better luck next time.

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Anonymous wrote:OP: visit the neighborhoods yourself. Walk Score is a deeply flawed criterion and often doesn't match the actual walkability of the neighborhood. Not all stores are created equal: if you live in FH or CCDC, while it may seem nice to have Chevy Chase Pavilion and Mazza Gallerie nearby, those malls are essentially worthless for actual life. (And WalkScore still gives credit to some bodega-equivalent on Western that I've never, not once, seen open.) Actually, despite living in the area, much of Wisconsin Ave. is passable at best for commercial (exceptions being around Tenleytown metro). For many day-to-day things, the "Spring Valley" shopping center on Mass (Sbucks, Le Pain Quotidien, CVS, thai, pizza, grocery store) is more useful or at least as useful as the Tenleytown metro hub. The point is, don't trust a website and instead walk yourself.

You don't know FH very well, do you?
FH has a Starbucks, Le Pain Quot, a CVS, Indian and Japanese, Range, Potomac Pizza, and a Whole Foods, as well as an H&M, Williams-Sonoma, Nordstrom Rack, Bloomies, Gap, BR, Clydes, Anthropologie, movie theater, etc, and a METRO and several bus lines.
It's objectively much more urban and useful than living in Spring Valley, where you are stuck driving and have a very, very limited number of shops.

Anonymous wrote:Cleveland Park/Glover Park.

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Anonymous wrote:OP: visit the neighborhoods yourself. Walk Score is a deeply flawed criterion and often doesn't match the actual walkability of the neighborhood. Not all stores are created equal: if you live in FH or CCDC, while it may seem nice to have Chevy Chase Pavilion and Mazza Gallerie nearby, those malls are essentially worthless for actual life. (And WalkScore still gives credit to some bodega-equivalent on Western that I've never, not once, seen open.) Actually, despite living in the area, much of Wisconsin Ave. is passable at best for commercial (exceptions being around Tenleytown metro). For many day-to-day things, the "Spring Valley" shopping center on Mass (Sbucks, Le Pain Quotidien, CVS, thai, pizza, grocery store) is more useful or at least as useful as the Tenleytown metro hub. The point is, don't trust a website and instead walk yourself.

You don't know FH very well, do you?
FH has a Starbucks, Le Pain Quot, a CVS, Indian and Japanese, Range, Potomac Pizza, and a Whole Foods, as well as an H&M, Williams-Sonoma, Nordstrom Rack, Bloomies, Gap, BR, Clydes, Anthropologie, movie theater, etc, and a METRO and several bus lines.
It's objectively much more urban and useful than living in Spring Valley, where you are stuck driving and have a very, very limited number of shops.

Anonymous wrote:OP: visit the neighborhoods yourself. Walk Score is a deeply flawed criterion and often doesn't match the actual walkability of the neighborhood. Not all stores are created equal: if you live in FH or CCDC, while it may seem nice to have Chevy Chase Pavilion and Mazza Gallerie nearby, those malls are essentially worthless for actual life. (And WalkScore still gives credit to some bodega-equivalent on Western that I've never, not once, seen open.) Actually, despite living in the area, much of Wisconsin Ave. is passable at best for commercial (exceptions being around Tenleytown metro). For many day-to-day things, the "Spring Valley" shopping center on Mass (Sbucks, Le Pain Quotidien, CVS, thai, pizza, grocery store) is more useful or at least as useful as the Tenleytown metro hub. The point is, don't trust a website and instead walk yourself.

Anonymous wrote:salona village in mclean (near franklin sherman and mclean grocery stores.

Kenwood in bethesda (near sidwell and bethesda shopping)

Anonymous wrote:Do you care about green space and when you say urban do you meet fun, cool, and hip or just stores like Crate and Barrel? We prefer to be in the district for more of the urban feel we are used to coming from NYC but it depends what you want. Claredon is cleaner and very gentrified with plenty of shops (but seems to lack park space from when I've been there).