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Posted by: Actual JP Morgenthau ()
Date: January 06, 2023 10:02AM
Well, we were already long gone from the pits of FCC of
course, but once we had the money, making the move from
McLean to the Sweet Spot was just a no-brainer. I could
still go desk-to-desk in under an hour, and we had a
wonderful home and all this beautiful land to play with.
It was already the big house on the hill in the mid 70s,
and we’ve only made more of it since, both inside and
out. This is why the assessment is what it is. Should be
getting a new one of those in a few weeks.
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I am always somewhat ashamed these days to admit that we lived for a time in Falls Church City when we first came to the DC area back in the 60's. At the same time, we did learn quickly and got the hell out of there fast, first moving over to McLean, and then out to the Sweet Spot. Many are those who wish they could have followed but were stuck instead riding the down elevator all the way into the sorry state of affairs of today. C'est la vie!
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No, Falls Church seemed like a nice place at the time. It had then the sort of organized, green, progressive, family-friendly reputation that Vienna still enjoys today. But once we got our feet on the ground professionally and financially and realized the direction that FCC was inexorably headed in, we knew we had to say goodbye to Lum's and get out fast.
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McLean played its part as a solid intermediate setting for several years, but everyone should have seen what Metro-to-Vienna and 66-inside-the-Beltway were going to mean. Thankfully, most back then didn't, and we were able to get in on the ground floor of all that, picking off a prime Sweet Spot property and becoming part of a Property Brothers-playing community that has created a bastion of beautiful, modern, and sought-after homes. With the care and investment it's been given over the years, the magnificent landscaping, and all the amenities that exist close by, the place continues to shine, even in what has become an area of large lots and luxurious 7-figure homes. We get unsolicited offers for it frequently. We just laugh at them. Ha-ha! We beat you to it. By a lot.
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So of course should anyone still mistakenly living with all these impoverished churls and liars lurking like zombies within the dreary confines of Falls Church City. That's what I did lo, these many years ago. It quickly became apparent to me that the place was no longer what it had been built up to be, so immediate migration to McLean became called for. That stepping stone was itself soon enough succeeded by permanent relocation here to the glorious Goldilocks zone of the incredible Sweet Spot. Residential bliss for 40+ years now.
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Actual JP Morgenthau Wrote:
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> Remarkably from what one sees and hears around
> here, the County assesses our property on McHenry
> Street at $1.2M. Lots more than the $79,500 we
> paid for The Big House on the Hill back in
> 1978. We paid even less than that for the Sweet
> Spot home later that year, and now it checks in at
> $1.8M. Moocher/renters can only drool over
> numbers like that.
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> Posted by: Actual JP Morgenthau ()
> Date: July 16, 2020 09:36AM
>
> Well, greetings once again this morning from the
> gorgeous Sweet Spot home that the wife and
> I have owned and so much enjoyed living in for
> more than 40 years now. It was already 'the
> big house on the hill' when we became its
> second owners, and the series of expansion,
> renovation, and landscaping projects that our
> lofty incomes have made possible in the years
> since have only made it an even more impressive
> place.
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Actual JP Morgenthau Wrote:
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> Remarkably from what one sees and hears around
> here, the County assesses our property on McHenry
> Street at $1.2M. Lots more than the $79,500 we
> paid for The Big House on the Hill back in
> 1978. We paid even less than that for the Sweet
> Spot home later that year, and now it checks in at
> $1.8M. Moocher/renters can only drool over
> numbers like that.
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> Posted by: Actual JP Morgenthau ()
> Date: July 16, 2020 09:36AM
>
> Well, greetings once again this morning from the
> gorgeous Sweet Spot home that the wife and
> I have owned and so much enjoyed living in for
> more than 40 years now. It was already 'the
> big house on the hill' when we became its
> second owners, and the series of expansion,
> renovation, and landscaping projects that our
> lofty incomes have made possible in the years
> since have only made it an even more impressive
> place.
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Actual JP Morgenthau Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Remarkably from what one sees and hears around
> here, the County assesses our property on McHenry
> Street at $1.2M. Lots more than the $79,500 we
> paid for The Big House on the Hill back in
> 1978. We paid even less than that for the Sweet
> Spot home later that year, and now it checks in at
> $1.8M. Moocher/renters can only drool over
> numbers like that.
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> Posted by: Actual JP Morgenthau ()
> Date: July 16, 2020 09:36AM
>
> Well, greetings once again this morning from the
> gorgeous Sweet Spot home that the wife and
> I have owned and so much enjoyed living in for
> more than 40 years now. It was already 'the
> big house on the hill' when we became its
> second owners, and the series of expansion,
> renovation, and landscaping projects that our
> lofty incomes have made possible in the years
> since have only made it an even more impressive
> place.
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Posted by: Actual JP Morgenthau ()
Date: January 06, 2023 10:02AM
Well, we were already long gone from the pits of FCC of
course, but once we had the money, making the move from
McLean to the Sweet Spot was just a no-brainer. I could
still go desk-to-desk in under an hour, and we had a
wonderful home and all this beautiful land to play with.
It was already the big house on the hill in the mid 70s,
and we’ve only made more of it since, both inside and
out. This is why the assessment is what it is. Should be
getting a new one of those in a few weeks.
Quote
Actual JP Morgenthau Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Remarkably from what one sees and hears around
> here, the County assesses our property on McHenry
> Street at $1.2M. Lots more than the $79,500 we
> paid for The Big House on the Hill back in
> 1978. We paid even less than that for the Sweet
> Spot home later that year, and now it checks in at
> $1.8M. Moocher/renters can only drool over
> numbers like that.
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Posted by: Actual JP Morgenthau ()
Date: January 06, 2023 10:02AM
Well, we were already long gone from the pits of FCC of
course, but once we had the money, making the move from
McLean to the Sweet Spot was just a no-brainer. I could
still go desk-to-desk in under an hour, and we had a
wonderful home and all this beautiful land to play with.
It was already the big house on the hill in the mid 70s,
and we’ve only made more of it since, both inside and
out. This is why the assessment is what it is. Should be
getting a new one of those in a few weeks.
Quote
Posted by: Actual JP Morgenthau ()
Date: July 16, 2020 09:36AM
Well, greetings once again this morning from the
gorgeous Sweet Spot home that the wife and
I have owned and so much enjoyed living in for
more than 40 years now. It was already 'the
big house on the hill' when we became its
second owners, and the series of expansion,
renovation, and landscaping projects that our
lofty incomes have made possible in the years
since have only made it an even more impressive
place.
Quote
Actual JP Morgenthau Wrote:
-------------------------------------------------------
> Remarkably from what one sees and hears around
> here, the County assesses our property on McHenry
> Street at $1.2M. Lots more than the $79,500 we
> paid for The Big House on the Hill back in
> 1978. We paid even less than that for the Sweet
> Spot home later that year, and now it checks in at
> $1.8M. Moocher/renters can only drool over
> numbers like that.
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Posted by: Actual JP Morgenthau ()
Date: January 06, 2023 10:02AM
Well, we were already long gone from the pits of FCC of
course, but once we had the money, making the move from
McLean to the Sweet Spot was just a no-brainer. I could
still go desk-to-desk in under an hour, and we had a
wonderful home and all this beautiful land to play with.
It was already the big house on the hill in the mid 70s,
and we’ve only made more of it since, both inside and
out. This is why the assessment is what it is. Should be
getting a new one of those in a few weeks.
Quote
Posted by: Actual JP Morgenthau ()
Date: July 16, 2020 09:36AM
Well, greetings once again this morning from the
gorgeous Sweet Spot home that the wife and
I have owned and so much enjoyed living in for
more than 40 years now. It was already 'the
big house on the hill' when we became its
second owners, and the series of expansion,
renovation, and landscaping projects that our
lofty incomes have made possible in the years
since have only made it an even more impressive
place.