A nice thing about Rosslyn is also that you can easily hop on the GW Parkway to go to McLean and there won't be any traffic during rush hour. On I-66 there is reverse commuter congestion.
But Court House is like less than a 15 min walk from Rosslyn.
One general comment about Rosslyn-Clarendon is that it was historically not an upscale area so there are still some very nasty legacy apartments. They won't be cheap necessarily. I think there is still a "welfare client" Motor Inn on Wilson or Clarendon.
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GUWonder
Rosslyn is decent, but it is still somewhat more sterile and "sleepy" than the Courthouse -- Clarendon stretch. For the better part of the past twenty years, Rosslyn's newer buildings had higher rents than Courthouse/Clarendon's buildings of a comparable age. I find Rosslyn great because it's at least somewhat more convenient for Alexandria/DCA and downtown DC if using the Metro a lot. It even has been pretty good with getting out to Dulles, but the future of that is very much up in the air now.