A nice thing about moving to Rte 1 corridor has been that there really are more artists, musicians, etc here than other parts of the area. I wasn't sure if the "gateway arts" thing was just marketing and it is that too, but we have several neighbors who are working artists and musicians within a few blocks and that for sure wasn't true in our last, more expensive neighborhood. Better house parties, for sure.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree. CP is really the only cool suburb.

Silver Spring is a weird mix between a dump and an outdoor outlet mall. Takoma Park is old and moldy, Bethesda is too commercial and just yuck, Clarendon used to be very cool but now is like millenial warehouse, Alexandria is too historic, Crystal City is underground, Rockville is a strip of big box stores with filled with soccer parents, Tysons is a mall on steroids...

Nailed it!

No you missed by a mile on silver spring-wheaton.

The most authentic, arty locations where the leading edge opens businesses are the addresses where rents are the cheapest. Duh. Then likeminded people join them, then the masses find out and show up and barf it all over social media. Then the rents go up and the acutely interesting people move on.

See eg logan circle, 14th street, brookland. Bloomingdale.

I agree. Happy the poster agreed CP is cool, but Silver Spring really is #2. Yeah, the Ellsworth street is pretty commercial and not very unique but it is a nice walkable destination. Like I said, the Fillmore music venue and the AFI silver independent theater are huge bonuses to downtown silver spring, and the outer parts of it (including Wheaton) have the cool hole-in-the-wall restaurants and like PP said all the unique interesting businesses that can't afford higher rents.

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There is nothing cool about anything in the DC area. It's great for yuppies, but cool? Nothing.

haha! I love the people who are such snobs that the 6th largest metro area in the US has nothing to offer for them

No, PP is right. Baltimore 20th best bar is better than DC’s best bar and I’m not exaggerating. DC is known as Hollywood for dorks / unattractive people for a reason. There is nothing “cool” about a town known for lobbyists, defense contractors and government lawyers. DC actually ran a PR campaign called “DC Cool” to convince people that the city was cool. That should tell you something.

I'm the PP and yes I agree, Baltimore is way cooler than DC.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree. CP is really the only cool suburb.

Silver Spring is a weird mix between a dump and an outdoor outlet mall. Takoma Park is old and moldy, Bethesda is too commercial and just yuck, Clarendon used to be very cool but now is like millenial warehouse, Alexandria is too historic, Crystal City is underground, Rockville is a strip of big box stores with filled with soccer parents, Tysons is a mall on steroids...

Nailed it!

No you missed by a mile on silver spring-wheaton.

The most authentic, arty locations where the leading edge opens businesses are the addresses where rents are the cheapest. Duh. Then likeminded people join them, then the masses find out and show up and barf it all over social media. Then the rents go up and the acutely interesting people move on.

See eg logan circle, 14th street, brookland. Bloomingdale.

You seem like the ultimate tool. Probably have tattoos, a beard, and handle bars in your mustache.

wait, what? I thought the mustache WAS the handlebars. Is there like some kind of armature in there?

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Anonymous wrote:Wait when did slummy with drunk college kids equal cool? Maybe to bang a coed but would would want to live there? There is a reason it has some of the cheapest real estate in the metro area, lots of reasons actually.

Still million times better than Lynchburg or Blacksburg. I mean, what's with these pps hating on College Park? It has a gay mayor, that is a plus in my book. Have you ever seen South Bend where Notre Dame is? Why is every real estate thread about MD overtaken by haters? I assume it is NoVa posters who say they have better everything, including Amazon now. So, why post here? When someone says Falls Church is awesome, I don't jump in to say it isn't. I saw it twice!

No one says Falls Church is awesome.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree. CP is really the only cool suburb.

Silver Spring is a weird mix between a dump and an outdoor outlet mall. Takoma Park is old and moldy, Bethesda is too commercial and just yuck, Clarendon used to be very cool but now is like millenial warehouse, Alexandria is too historic, Crystal City is underground, Rockville is a strip of big box stores with filled with soccer parents, Tysons is a mall on steroids...

Nailed it!

No you missed by a mile on silver spring-wheaton.

The most authentic, arty locations where the leading edge opens businesses are the addresses where rents are the cheapest. Duh. Then likeminded people join them, then the masses find out and show up and barf it all over social media. Then the rents go up and the acutely interesting people move on.

See eg logan circle, 14th street, brookland. Bloomingdale.

You seem like the ultimate tool. Probably have tattoos, a beard, and handle bars in your mustache.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree. CP is really the only cool suburb.

Silver Spring is a weird mix between a dump and an outdoor outlet mall. Takoma Park is old and moldy, Bethesda is too commercial and just yuck, Clarendon used to be very cool but now is like millenial warehouse, Alexandria is too historic, Crystal City is underground, Rockville is a strip of big box stores with filled with soccer parents, Tysons is a mall on steroids...

Nailed it!

No you missed by a mile on silver spring-wheaton.

The most authentic, arty locations where the leading edge opens businesses are the addresses where rents are the cheapest. Duh. Then likeminded people join them, then the masses find out and show up and barf it all over social media. Then the rents go up and the acutely interesting people move on.

See eg logan circle, 14th street, brookland. Bloomingdale.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree. CP is really the only cool suburb.

Silver Spring is a weird mix between a dump and an outdoor outlet mall. Takoma Park is old and moldy, Bethesda is too commercial and just yuck, Clarendon used to be very cool but now is like millenial warehouse, Alexandria is too historic, Crystal City is underground, Rockville is a strip of big box stores with filled with soccer parents, Tysons is a mall on steroids...

Nailed it!

To your own forehead probably.

Anonymous wrote:I agree. CP is really the only cool suburb.

Silver Spring is a weird mix between a dump and an outdoor outlet mall. Takoma Park is old and moldy, Bethesda is too commercial and just yuck, Clarendon used to be very cool but now is like millenial warehouse, Alexandria is too historic, Crystal City is underground, Rockville is a strip of big box stores with filled with soccer parents, Tysons is a mall on steroids...

Nailed it!

Hyattsville is it

I wouldn't say "cool" but definitely improving and still a great value compared to the rest of the DC area. College Park has a lot of great things going for it including a bunch of new restaurants, new housing, bars and music venues. It is still close to DC wanted to get to the city relatively quickly. It is still a bargain and one of the reasons I decided to purchase there. Hyattsville and really the whole Rt. 1 corridor is improving for the better and offers cheaper housing for first time buyers.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait when did slummy with drunk college kids equal cool? Maybe to bang a coed but would would want to live there? There is a reason it has some of the cheapest real estate in the metro area, lots of reasons actually.

Still million times better than Lynchburg or Blacksburg. I mean, what's with these pps hating on College Park? It has a gay mayor, that is a plus in my book. Have you ever seen South Bend where Notre Dame is? Why is every real estate thread about MD overtaken by haters? I assume it is NoVa posters who say they have better everything, including Amazon now. So, why post here? When someone says Falls Church is awesome, I don't jump in to say it isn't. I saw it twice!

Have you been to these places or did you just pull the names out of your ass? Lynchburg has far more interesting architecture than College Park, and Blacksburg has a better natural setting.

College Park is just bland and a few rainbow flags and a ramen bar isn't going to make it cool.

it also has Liberty and both are utter dumps.

U. Md might have had a chance to be cool if it were in a location as distinctive as Lynchburg or Blacksburg. Being located in a third-tier suburb that combines the worst of the Baltimore and DC regions makes it a true “can miss” destination.

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Anonymous wrote:Downtown Bethesda has lots of really cool restaurants and shops and is very walkable. If you expand the definition to include North Bethesda then you get to include the Strathmore

I live in "North Bethesda" (or as I call it "Rockville"), and I love Strathmore, but Strathmore is for middle aged decidedly uncool people like me.

Nice was a very accurate description of Bethesda, North or otherwise.

That shit is Rockville y’all.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait when did slummy with drunk college kids equal cool? Maybe to bang a coed but would would want to live there? There is a reason it has some of the cheapest real estate in the metro area, lots of reasons actually.

Still million times better than Lynchburg or Blacksburg. I mean, what's with these pps hating on College Park? It has a gay mayor, that is a plus in my book. Have you ever seen South Bend where Notre Dame is? Why is every real estate thread about MD overtaken by haters? I assume it is NoVa posters who say they have better everything, including Amazon now. So, why post here? When someone says Falls Church is awesome, I don't jump in to say it isn't. I saw it twice!

The mayor of South Bend is gay, too, idiot. Did I just blow your mind?

And of Lynchburg too? I just don't get your posting here, if you hate it why post? So much insecurity. Must be from NoVa or pp of Churchill high.

Anonymous wrote:Downtown Bethesda has lots of really cool restaurants and shops and is very walkable. If you expand the definition to include North Bethesda then you get to include the Strathmore

I live in "North Bethesda" (or as I call it "Rockville"), and I love Strathmore, but Strathmore is for middle aged decidedly uncool people like me.

Nice was a very accurate description of Bethesda, North or otherwise.