Anonymous wrote:Why does it seem like the Asians are more accepted when it comes to identifying race in neighborhoods?

Anonymous wrote:I live in Cabin John and feel like it's one of the few places in this area where everyone is not so freakin uptight and materialistic.

The last couple posts about blacks in Cabin John are disturbing. Who gives a shit?

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new poster here it is still known as the redneck area for Whitman and Pyle. if you remember the quick or kwik or however you called it chances are you were a redneck or knew one or when the bridge had two way traffic on it.

until the demolish the gardens it will always be a place to skip unless you can afford to move into one of the bigger nicer places.

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Anonymous wrote:Went back to the posters link for CabinJohn.org and out of all the pictures of 4th of July, trips and what not sure enough there wasn't one black person pictured. Wow just wow I had no idea places like this where inside the beltway of Chocolate City.

Well, this may also be a function of the activity, kayaking/canoeing

But yes, not many black people in Cabin John.

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Anonymous wrote:Cabin John used to be country and kind of redneck but has reinvented it's self into a modern inside the beltway rural oasis. Great schools and large houses anchor it with easy access to the C&O and Potomac. Not much left under a million but cheaper than McLean near the river for sure.

What in the world are you talking about?

used to be county and redneck? when? the 40's?

Anonymous wrote:Went back to the posters link for CabinJohn.org and out of all the pictures of 4th of July, trips and what not sure enough there wasn't one black person pictured. Wow just wow I had no idea places like this where inside the beltway of Chocolate City.

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Anonymous wrote:Cabin John is a great area. It is definitely going up in value as it is being gentrified. Over the years, it has attracted eclectic artsy types that march to the beat of their own drummer. Bigger homes are being built and a new crowd of folks are moving in. Typically, though, they aren't the uptight Chevy Chase crowd.

You have to be willing to accept that your $900K home may be next to a pretty ramshackle $500K house or dwarfed by a new $2.5M house.

You do have to drive a little for big grocery shopping excursions, but not too far. Commuting to downtown down Clara Barton sucks a bit, but it's no worse than anywhere else that far out.

There are no 500k houses in cabin john and fewer and fewer 900k examples. Also gentrfyied isn't the right term as it has gone from all white to all white just slightly richer.

Not quite all white. There were a number of black families who came to Cabin John to work at the Carderock naval facility during the 40's, and many of their descendants are still there. This history mentions it: http://www.cabinjohn.org/about-cabin-john/history/

Many is quite a stretch, at the last census the area was 84% white and is trending whiter in the last 5 years. As of 2010 there was lust under 2000 people and 74 of them were black (3.8%), that is literally about a dozen house holds or so. It also borders Glen Echo which had 3 black people, not 3%, just 3 total in 2010 which both areas are surrounded or bordered by the vaunted 20816 zip code which makes Cabin John look like the poster child for diversity with only 2.3% of it's population identifying as black in 2010. These numbers are getting more concentrated not less as the eastern portions of MoCo continue to experience a weird hybrid phenom of rich white flight.

http://www.zip-codes.com/zip-code/20818/zip-code-20818-2010-census.asp

I wasn't trying to claim that the streets of Cabin John look like a Benetton ad from the 1980s, just wanted to point out some of the history. "Many" in this case refers to the portion of the 20 or so black families who moved there in the '40s that have some descendants still there today. It doesn't have the same sort of generations-deep history as the Scotland neighborhood in Potomac which was settled by black families right after the Civil War (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/17/AR2005061700588.html), but the demographics are still pretty interesting.

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Anonymous wrote:Cabin John used to be country and kind of redneck but has reinvented it's self into a modern inside the beltway rural oasis. Great schools and large houses anchor it with easy access to the C&O and Potomac. Not much left under a million but cheaper than McLean near the river for sure.

What in the world are you talking about?

used to be county and redneck? when? the 40's?

Anonymous wrote:Cabin John used to be country and kind of redneck but has reinvented it's self into a modern inside the beltway rural oasis. Great schools and large houses anchor it with easy access to the C&O and Potomac. Not much left under a million but cheaper than McLean near the river for sure.

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Anonymous wrote:Cabin John is a great area. It is definitely going up in value as it is being gentrified. Over the years, it has attracted eclectic artsy types that march to the beat of their own drummer. Bigger homes are being built and a new crowd of folks are moving in. Typically, though, they aren't the uptight Chevy Chase crowd.

You have to be willing to accept that your $900K home may be next to a pretty ramshackle $500K house or dwarfed by a new $2.5M house.

You do have to drive a little for big grocery shopping excursions, but not too far. Commuting to downtown down Clara Barton sucks a bit, but it's no worse than anywhere else that far out.

There are no 500k houses in cabin john and fewer and fewer 900k examples. Also gentrfyied isn't the right term as it has gone from all white to all white just slightly richer.

Not quite all white. There were a number of black families who came to Cabin John to work at the Carderock naval facility during the 40's, and many of their descendants are still there. This history mentions it: http://www.cabinjohn.org/about-cabin-john/history/

Many is quite a stretch, at the last census the area was 84% white and is trending whiter in the last 5 years. As of 2010 there was lust under 2000 people and 74 of them were black (3.8%), that is literally about a dozen house holds or so. It also borders Glen Echo which had 3 black people, not 3%, just 3 total in 2010 which both areas are surrounded or bordered by the vaunted 20816 zip code which makes Cabin John look like the poster child for diversity with only 2.3% of it's population identifying as black in 2010. These numbers are getting more concentrated not less as the eastern portions of MoCo continue to experience a weird hybrid phenom of rich white flight.

http://www.zip-codes.com/zip-code/20818/zip-code-20818-2010-census.asp

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Anonymous wrote:Cabin John is a great area. It is definitely going up in value as it is being gentrified. Over the years, it has attracted eclectic artsy types that march to the beat of their own drummer. Bigger homes are being built and a new crowd of folks are moving in. Typically, though, they aren't the uptight Chevy Chase crowd.

You have to be willing to accept that your $900K home may be next to a pretty ramshackle $500K house or dwarfed by a new $2.5M house.

You do have to drive a little for big grocery shopping excursions, but not too far. Commuting to downtown down Clara Barton sucks a bit, but it's no worse than anywhere else that far out.

There are no 500k houses in cabin john and fewer and fewer 900k examples. Also gentrfyied isn't the right term as it has gone from all white to all white just slightly richer.

Not quite all white. There were a number of black families who came to Cabin John to work at the Carderock naval facility during the 40's, and many of their descendants are still there. This history mentions it: http://www.cabinjohn.org/about-cabin-john/history/