Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I'm sorry but Lyon village has some of the best schools in the County. The schools are not shitty. Most people move to Lyon village for location, schools, and the neighborhood.

Translation: Most people most to Lyon village to get away from brown people.

LV has wonderful, diverse schools.

Better leave the parlancing and translating to others.

Honestly, LV has some of the most diverse high performing schools: Key, Sci Focus, W-L are all far from homogeneous.

Anonymous wrote:Live by Ballston, H works by WH and takes metro or bikes. I work NW DC - 20-25 minutes in AM 66/Key Bridge and 25 minutes afternoon Chain Bridge. Ashlawn/Swanson/WL schools - all have been fantastic.

What time do you leave?

Live by Ballston, H works by WH and takes metro or bikes. I work NW DC - 20-25 minutes in AM 66/Key Bridge and 25 minutes afternoon Chain Bridge. Ashlawn/Swanson/WL schools - all have been fantastic.

Why are so many of you so vested in making sure everyone knows your elementary school is the best?

Honestly, the differences between the neighborhoods in Arlington JUST DONT MATTER.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
I'm sorry but Lyon village has some of the best schools in the County. The schools are not shitty. Most people move to Lyon village for location, schools, and the neighborhood.

Translation: Most people most to Lyon village to get away from brown people.

LV has wonderful, diverse schools.

Better leave the parlancing and translating to others.

Anonymous wrote:
I'm sorry but Lyon village has some of the best schools in the County. The schools are not shitty. Most people move to Lyon village for location, schools, and the neighborhood.

Translation: Most people most to Lyon village to get away from brown people.

Can we get back to OP's question??

Anywayyyyyyy, I live just North of Ballston. I commute into DC 3 days a week, WFH the other days. Commute has never been more than 30 mins. My commute when I lived in Upper Northwest was 20 mins. The extra 10 mins is well worth it for the great neighborhood and terrific schools.

Why do we have so many families from CC Hills at Science Focus if it is such a shitty pyramid?

Time to turn your asses out!!

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Anonymous wrote:People who get priced out of Yorktown pyramids buy in WL unless they are doing private.

This. People don't actually want to buy near Clarendon. Ugh.

Which is why Lyon Village has the least amount of inventory of ANY Arlington neighborhood .

You people are smoking crack.

People will leave for McLean and CC Hills to get more house for their $. The same house in LV is way more expensive.

Somebody on this thread (Ms.CC Hills) really does not understand the concept of "price per square footage". I would have a house twice the size of my current one if I moved out to 22207.

As much as people hype up WL and Wakefield, Yorktown is still more desirable by a huge margin.

A lot of the neighborhoods closer to metro are in W-L's boundary and not Yorktown's. So while some might think Yorktown is a better school that should command higher housing prices, a lot of folks value Metro access and walkability and happily pay for it in W-L's area.

When looking for a house, I actually would have preferred W-L (and walkability to Metro) but bought in Yorktown because the closer-to-metro houses were more expensive than parts of Yorktown's boundary that are 2 miles from Metro. I moved in from Fairfax because I wanted a shorter commute to/from DC.

22207 is a lot more than CC Hills - there are a bunch of lower-priced (but not low-priced) neighborhoods with nice houses and great schools. Just like there's more to 22201 than Lyon Village. What 22207 doesn't have much of is townhouses and condos, though, so average or median prices reflect that. The townhouses we do have tend to be pretty high-end.

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Anonymous wrote:As of Nov. 6, the average price for 22201 (Lyon Village) is $684,214.

The average price for 22207 (largely CC Hills) is $1,151,742.

http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Arlington-Virginia/

This is flawed because 22201 includes many condos and townhouses which by and large 22207 does not have.

Also, 22207 is not "largely CC Hills". It is a large part of the county and contains many other neighborhoods in the northern part of the county.

Right. The point is 22207 is FAR more expensive and desirable than 22201. People who get priced out in 22207 are forced to look at those smaller places/condos in 22201. The concentration and proximity of high-density housing also pulls down the price of detached housing. It's what's known as an incurable defect in real estate parlance.

In seems like every Arlington topic devolves into a yorktown w-l neighborhood battle. The truth is that both are fine schools; there are many wealthy families that care immensely about the local public schools in both school districts. And contrary to some people's arguments, this is not a 22201 v. 22207 battle either. Both zip codes split into both N Arlington high schools. In dover/riverwood, some of the most expensive homes are actually on the W-L side. My point is there is no simple contrast, which is a good thing. My feeling is that some of the "Arlington posters" aren't even from Arlington based on the web of misinformation in some of these topics.

Anonymous wrote:If you look at the test results Fairfax County Schools closer in like McLean, Langley and Marshall pyramids are much better. I would try to stick to the Yorktown pyramids to get the same level of exceptional quality as the above Fairfax County schools. You will also notice that Yorktown pyramids will command a higher price than the rest of Arlington.

This is simply not true. Even far from Metro in neighborhoods like Dominion Hills that are split between Yorktown and W-L, I have yet to see any difference in price.

Anonymous wrote:As of Nov. 6, the average price for 22201 (Lyon Village) is $684,214.

The average price for 22207 (largely CC Hills) is $1,151,742.

http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Arlington-Virginia/

This is flawed because 22201 includes many condos and townhouses which by and large 22207 does not have.

Also, 22207 is not "largely CC Hills". It is a large part of the county and contains many other neighborhoods in the northern part of the county.