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[quote=Anonymous]I have no idea how I missed this thread as I live in Falls Church. The question about whether there is an "artsy" vibe made me laugh so hard I choked on my tea. I'm an artist myself, and I say, with zero hesitation, this place is the opposite of "artsy." It's as bland and as boring as can be. "Crunchy" and "buttoned-up" are funny as well, because both denote a certain character (or "vibe" as the OP hilariously puts it) -- and FC doesn't have any character. It wants to brand itself as a small town enclave in the urban/suburban DMV, and although it is small, there is almost nothing charming about it. The main drag, Route 7 as it heads through FC, is mostly segments of strip mall, with stuff like Panera and Domino's Pizza and CVS. I wonder how the non-big box stores even survive (who goes into that dusty camera place or the place that fixes leather?). The community is small, old mid-century ramblers that are being torn down every chance a developer gets to be replaced by McMansions. The traffic snarls resulting from the never-ending construction are every bit as bad as people say they are; I live between Haycock and West, and just won't drive down Haycock anymore, even if I'm heading that direction. Something people who don't live here might not notice is that traffic is annoying for another reason as well -- the constant new-home construction means that the residential streets are often torn up or blocked as well. Socially, at least from my point of view, having lived her for a lot of my adult life now (about 16 years), it's dead. Unless you are 1) one of "the mommies" or 2) an extreme joiner (sitting on committees, the city council, school board, own a local business and are super involved that way, etc). People are transient (lots of State Dept folks come and go on my block), or their social priorities are elsewhere (as opposed to with neighbors). I really don't feel this area has much to recommend it at all. I'm only here because it is a convenient location for us, my DH grew up in FFX and is very comfortable in this kind of neighborhood (even if I am not), and we have a very nice house with a 2% mortgage that has increased in value to a crazy degree. I don't know. I don't like it. It's boring as hell. But YMMV. [/quote]
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