Anonymous
Post 04/19/2015 18:18     Subject: Re:Most pretentious neighborhood?
Anonymous wrote:Phillips park now boasts David Gregory and Brett Baier as residents.


And we all know that the Baier's house is decorated top to bottom in Ralph Lauren.

Can't believe the Chevy Chase Club let them in.
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2015 17:59     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
First of all, why hate on new money? People aren't inherently "better" because they were born into wealth, and people creating wealth for themselves is, ah, the American Dream. What snobbish hogwash.

I say Georgetown. A bunch of self-important blowhards.
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2015 17:13     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Foxhall crescents. Faux European estates on .1 acre lots. It's like the precursor to Phillips park.


+1! I was just about to post this. The most pretentious people I've ever known live in Foxhall Crescents.


Ahhh. That explains it. Met someone recently who told me they lived in Foxhall Cresents which I have never heard of since we're not from DC. There was that pause after telling me like they expected me to say something about it


"Faux-hall Crescents" is more of a subdivision -- think Nouveau Riche Estates -- rather than a real neighborhood.
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2015 16:40     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Foxhall crescents. Faux European estates on .1 acre lots. It's like the precursor to Phillips park.


+1! I was just about to post this. The most pretentious people I've ever known live in Foxhall Crescents.


Ahhh. That explains it. Met someone recently who told me they lived in Foxhall Cresents which I have never heard of since we're not from DC. There was that pause after telling me like they expected me to say something about it
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2015 16:31     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
Anonymous wrote:Foxhall crescents. Faux European estates on .1 acre lots. It's like the precursor to Phillips park.


+1! I was just about to post this. The most pretentious people I've ever known live in Foxhall Crescents.
Anonymous
Post 04/19/2015 07:13     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am going with Spring Valley after seeing the City Paper article about the historic designation of a parking lot in the name of preserving parking.



That's not pretentious. It may be preservation-minded or NIMBY depending on your perspective. But it's not totally off-base. The shopping center is land marked. In fact, there's a shopping center in Cleveland Oark, the Park n Shop, where the front parking is part of the landmark , as it was one of the first such commercial building designs in the U.S. Preservation of that, and stopping what residents called "another Van Ness" proposed at the site, was the catalyst for the whole historic district created in CP in the 80s.


Big difference between the Park and Shop and even the Spring Valley center across the street that the entitlement expressed by certain residents at this proposal.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2015 23:56     Subject: Re:Most pretentious neighborhood?
Phillips park now boasts David Gregory and Brett Baier as residents.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2015 21:08     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
Foxhall crescents. Faux European estates on .1 acre lots. It's like the precursor to Phillips park.
Anonymous
Post 04/18/2015 04:52     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ballston


"Gaslight Square" in Clarendon is awfully silly, too. If you wanted Georgetown, cross the damn river.


The same developer is building a project near Capitol Hill called "Gasbag Square."


Ha ha, love it!
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2015 23:06     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Ballston


"Gaslight Square" in Clarendon is awfully silly, too. If you wanted Georgetown, cross the damn river.


The same developer is building a project near Capitol Hill called "Gasbag Square."
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2015 21:47     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
I've been inside that Niroo mansion! It's a weird, long story as to why, but I can tell you that the people depicted in that ceiling dome are all members of the Niroo family and their friends.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2015 15:35     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
Anonymous wrote:Ballston


"Gaslight Square" in Clarendon is awfully silly, too. If you wanted Georgetown, cross the damn river.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2015 14:46     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Marylebone and Kensington


Pfffft. Marylebone isnt pretentious, Hampstead is pretentious.


It is now that they are trying to keep out the Russians. Hampstead is moving down range fast
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2015 14:30     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
Anonymous wrote:Marylebone and Kensington


Pfffft. Marylebone isnt pretentious, Hampstead is pretentious.
Anonymous
Post 04/17/2015 12:17     Subject: Most pretentious neighborhood?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:L'ambience of McLean (in Falls Church)!

Just the name alone. Yes, it's a development, but what a pretentious name. I think the entrance sign has changed to slightly less dated and pretentious, but still.


lol. I remember when they were building those houses. They had a clown at the entrance trying to draw people in . . .


LOLZ. Sounds appropriate.