Anonymous
Post 01/26/2014 13:27     Subject: Re:The Future of Pimmit Hills
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP, no matter how hard you try, PH never will be a super desirable place to live. It's just too far from D.C.


Any place between DC and Tysons is considered a good location now. You'll have to explain what exactly "super desirable" is supposed to mean.


Seriously. I am hard pressed to think of many other places I would rather live. I can count on 1 finger - McLean. And I am from MoCo. You couldn't pay me to go back there unless it was a mansion in Potomac.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2014 13:24     Subject: Re:The Future of Pimmit Hills
Anonymous wrote:OP, no matter how hard you try, PH never will be a super desirable place to live. It's just too far from D.C.


That sayeth the transplant. You make me laugh. "too far." My commute is 45 minutes on a horrible day (20 on a good day) - and that is all the way across NW. The bus is in front of my house. The subway is 1 mile away. 99% of real Washingtonians would rather put a butter knife in their eye than live inside DC.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2014 13:18     Subject: The Future of Pimmit Hills
The gate keeper of ph is an angry arlingtuckian
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2014 13:05     Subject: Re:The Future of Pimmit Hills
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP, no matter how hard you try, PH never will be a super desirable place to live. It's just too far from D.C.


It sits next to tysons and is close enough to dc if that is a needed option.


+1
That commute is fine to DC (I live in Fairfax near Vienna). Or would you prefer that everyone drive in from Loudon County?

And how is it possible that some of you fail to recognize that many, many jobs are not sited in DC? You pretend like you're brilliant and great, dispassionate thinkers, but you fail repeatedly to recognize that not everyone works where you do.

That said I don't think the house OP posted is very good. Builders have a serious failure of imagination and I could come up with something better. I mean, the house is better than some of the stuff I have seen in Pimmit Hills (although I admit I haven't been there since we bought elsewhere several years ago), but it's as meh as a lot of new builds around here.


I think the other poster just wants people think Arlington is as far as they can go if they work in DC. I don't know if the house I posted is my favorite house of all time, but I think it's a nice house at that price point inside the Beltway. The same type of house would probably work well in some of the areas in South Arlington that are seeing tear-down activity, and it would have looked better in Lyon Park than the second house posted that has actually been built there.
Anonymous
Post 01/26/2014 12:45     Subject: Re:The Future of Pimmit Hills
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP, no matter how hard you try, PH never will be a super desirable place to live. It's just too far from D.C.


It sits next to tysons and is close enough to dc if that is a needed option.


+1
That commute is fine to DC (I live in Fairfax near Vienna). Or would you prefer that everyone drive in from Loudon County?

And how is it possible that some of you fail to recognize that many, many jobs are not sited in DC? You pretend like you're brilliant and great, dispassionate thinkers, but you fail repeatedly to recognize that not everyone works where you do.

That said I don't think the house OP posted is very good. Builders have a serious failure of imagination and I could come up with something better. I mean, the house is better than some of the stuff I have seen in Pimmit Hills (although I admit I haven't been there since we bought elsewhere several years ago), but it's as meh as a lot of new builds around here.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2014 22:28     Subject: Re:The Future of Pimmit Hills
Anonymous wrote:OP, no matter how hard you try, PH never will be a super desirable place to live. It's just too far from D.C.


Any place between DC and Tysons is considered a good location now. You'll have to explain what exactly "super desirable" is supposed to mean.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2014 22:06     Subject: Re:The Future of Pimmit Hills
Funny how "nobody cares about Pimmit Hills." Yet every thread about it takes off.

Here's looking at you, bitter PH gatekeeper poster:

Anonymous
Post 01/25/2014 21:51     Subject: Re:The Future of Pimmit Hills
Anonymous wrote:OP, no matter how hard you try, PH never will be a super desirable place to live. It's just too far from D.C.


It sits next to tysons and is close enough to dc if that is a needed option.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2014 21:10     Subject: Re:The Future of Pimmit Hills
OP, no matter how hard you try, PH never will be a super desirable place to live. It's just too far from D.C.
Anonymous
Post 01/25/2014 21:08     Subject: The Future of Pimmit Hills


OMG. So funny. The people in sh*t shacks are p*ssed about PH!!! Love it!!!! Hilarious

PP is correct, the new houses carry the tax base. But if the sh*t shack owners want to rip on PH, by all means. Enjoy your commute!