Tempted to move to great falls from McLean as prices seem to be falling

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Anonymous wrote:Not so much panicked as thinking that real estate agents decided they needed a 'cheaper' area of Great Falls to sell, and created 'factors' that allowed them to lower the price of homes in certain parts. All they needed was a few desperate homeowners willing to sell at a lower price and you have comps.

Just wait till they slice off the area west of Utterback to go to Herdon HS. That'll take 10% off those houses with the stroke of a pen.

That would not happen any time soon, as Herndon is overcrowded, Langley is under-enrolled, and the new HS in western Fairfax is just a line on a planning document.

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Anonymous wrote:Buy in Great Falls. When the Metro ruins McLean the Great Falls home prices will soar.

The metro is already ruining the experiences at Tysons Corner 1. My GOD it's getting seedy at certain times of the day!

Only south of the toll road though. I don't notice any difference to the east because it was already pretty colorful before as 7 stretch towards Falls Church.

I vote for 22102 as combination of not being too far out, and availability of good sized lots.

Yay!

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Anonymous wrote:Not so much panicked as thinking that real estate agents decided they needed a 'cheaper' area of Great Falls to sell, and created 'factors' that allowed them to lower the price of homes in certain parts. All they needed was a few desperate homeowners willing to sell at a lower price and you have comps.

Just wait till they slice off the area west of Utterback to go to Herdon HS. That'll take 10% off those houses with the stroke of a pen.

That would not happen any time soon, as Herndon is overcrowded, Langley is under-enrolled, and the new HS in western Fairfax is just a line on a planning document.

Garza wants to get rid of the islands of excellence or whatever she calls it. Now that the board election and budget fights are over, expect this to come up soon. Relative enrollments will not matter. Forestville used to be Herndon HS - it will go back. Forestville is 5 miles from Herndon HS, Langley is 10 miles. This will happen.

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Anonymous wrote:Not so much panicked as thinking that real estate agents decided they needed a 'cheaper' area of Great Falls to sell, and created 'factors' that allowed them to lower the price of homes in certain parts. All they needed was a few desperate homeowners willing to sell at a lower price and you have comps.

Just wait till they slice off the area west of Utterback to go to Herdon HS. That'll take 10% off those houses with the stroke of a pen.

That would not happen any time soon, as Herndon is overcrowded, Langley is under-enrolled, and the new HS in western Fairfax is just a line on a planning document.

Garza wants to get rid of the islands of excellence or whatever she calls it. Now that the board election and budget fights are over, expect this to come up soon. Relative enrollments will not matter. Forestville used to be Herndon HS - it will go back. Forestville is 5 miles from Herndon HS, Langley is 10 miles. This will happen.

I cannot think of anything that would damage Garza's credibility more than pulling kids out of Langley right when the renovation and expansion of the school ends. And there is nowhere else to send those kids in Great Falls right now. There is no room at Herndon or any other nearby school for them.

For conspiracy theories to catch on, they need to be at least modestly plausible. Yours fails that basic test.

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Anonymous wrote:Not so much panicked as thinking that real estate agents decided they needed a 'cheaper' area of Great Falls to sell, and created 'factors' that allowed them to lower the price of homes in certain parts. All they needed was a few desperate homeowners willing to sell at a lower price and you have comps.

Just wait till they slice off the area west of Utterback to go to Herdon HS. That'll take 10% off those houses with the stroke of a pen.

That would not happen any time soon, as Herndon is overcrowded, Langley is under-enrolled, and the new HS in western Fairfax is just a line on a planning document.

Garza wants to get rid of the islands of excellence or whatever she calls it. Now that the board election and budget fights are over, expect this to come up soon. Relative enrollments will not matter. Forestville used to be Herndon HS - it will go back. Forestville is 5 miles from Herndon HS, Langley is 10 miles. This will happen.

I cannot think of anything that would damage Garza's credibility more than pulling kids out of Langley right when the renovation and expansion of the school ends. And there is nowhere else to send those kids in Great Falls right now. There is no room at Herndon or any other nearby school for them.

For conspiracy theories to catch on, they need to be at least modestly plausible. Yours fails that basic test.

System-wide redistricting. Ppl thought half day Monday's would never end, people thought that the budget battle was a pipe dream. She's good at getting what she wants. She wants to break up the 2% FARMS schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Not so much panicked as thinking that real estate agents decided they needed a 'cheaper' area of Great Falls to sell, and created 'factors' that allowed them to lower the price of homes in certain parts. All they needed was a few desperate homeowners willing to sell at a lower price and you have comps.

Just wait till they slice off the area west of Utterback to go to Herdon HS. That'll take 10% off those houses with the stroke of a pen.

That would not happen any time soon, as Herndon is overcrowded, Langley is under-enrolled, and the new HS in western Fairfax is just a line on a planning document.

Garza wants to get rid of the islands of excellence or whatever she calls it. Now that the board election and budget fights are over, expect this to come up soon. Relative enrollments will not matter. Forestville used to be Herndon HS - it will go back. Forestville is 5 miles from Herndon HS, Langley is 10 miles. This will happen.

I cannot think of anything that would damage Garza's credibility more than pulling kids out of Langley right when the renovation and expansion of the school ends. And there is nowhere else to send those kids in Great Falls right now. There is no room at Herndon or any other nearby school for them.

For conspiracy theories to catch on, they need to be at least modestly plausible. Yours fails that basic test.

System-wide redistricting. Ppl thought half day Monday's would never end, people thought that the budget battle was a pipe dream. She's good at getting what she wants. She wants to break up the 2% FARMS schools.

There are only two such high schools in FCPS: TJ and Langley. TJ is a sacred cow, and the way to increase the FARMS rate at Langley is to redistrict Tysons apartments out of Marshall and McLean to Langley. Neither involves moving part of Great Falls out of Langley.

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Anonymous wrote:Great Falls is a very nice area, but I think it's time has come and gone. It and Potomac MD are one of the few places you can live on 2+ acres in the DC area, but the commute is insane into Tysons. You will pay dearly for the trees and quiet of the area with a lot of windshield time.

I bought in GF two years ago and commute to tysons daily. I would not characterize it as "insane". It's fine, like 25 mins. Bad accident in 7 or the like, like 40. I live west of the village

Same. It's not nearly as bad as the beltway mavens want you to think.

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Anonymous wrote:Not so much panicked as thinking that real estate agents decided they needed a 'cheaper' area of Great Falls to sell, and created 'factors' that allowed them to lower the price of homes in certain parts. All they needed was a few desperate homeowners willing to sell at a lower price and you have comps.

Just wait till they slice off the area west of Utterback to go to Herdon HS. That'll take 10% off those houses with the stroke of a pen.

That would not happen any time soon, as Herndon is overcrowded, Langley is under-enrolled, and the new HS in western Fairfax is just a line on a planning document.

Garza wants to get rid of the islands of excellence or whatever she calls it. Now that the board election and budget fights are over, expect this to come up soon. Relative enrollments will not matter. Forestville used to be Herndon HS - it will go back. Forestville is 5 miles from Herndon HS, Langley is 10 miles. This will happen.

I cannot think of anything that would damage Garza's credibility more than pulling kids out of Langley right when the renovation and expansion of the school ends. And there is nowhere else to send those kids in Great Falls right now. There is no room at Herndon or any other nearby school for them.

For conspiracy theories to catch on, they need to be at least modestly plausible. Yours fails that basic test.

System-wide redistricting. Ppl thought half day Monday's would never end, people thought that the budget battle was a pipe dream. She's good at getting what she wants. She wants to break up the 2% FARMS schools.

There are only two such high schools in FCPS: TJ and Langley. TJ is a sacred cow, and the way to increase the FARMS rate at Langley is to redistrict Tysons apartments out of Marshall and McLean to Langley. Neither involves moving part of Great Falls out of Langley.

Yes, and Herndon is 40% FARMS. They want those <1% FARMS kids from Forestville in there.

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Anonymous wrote:We moved to GF recently and live it. Love the community activities. There are plenty of restaurants. See friends and neighbors everywhere we go. Wonderful trails. There is a cycling studio, yoga. Love it. Reston is easy to get to.

Saying reston is the featured nearby location is a bit depressing

Only thing worse is "Dulles Town Center"

I remember my wife walking into the Nordstroms there and saying "there's something not right here". And she asked why they did not have the same kind of stock as in Tysons, and was told that the Dulles Town Center Nordstroms was designed/stocked for a lower end market vs Tysons.

What a bunch of snobs you all are.

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Seems like GF is good if you work in Reston or Tysons.

I do expect prices to continue to slide, however, as places need to capture a decent share of high-paid DC workers to maintain price levels as high as GF's historical levels. It doesn't matter if a handful of GF residents live close enough to catch a bus on Route 7 to a Metro station. For the most part, GF is the epitome of a car-dependent suburb with limited access to public transportation.

The distance to the middle and high schools is a negative, too. Imagine how much more convenient it would be if Langley were near 193 and River Bend Road, rather than near the Arlington County border. Unfortunately, there is only one high school in FCPS west of the Beltway and north of the Toll Road - Herndon.

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Anonymous wrote:Not so much panicked as thinking that real estate agents decided they needed a 'cheaper' area of Great Falls to sell, and created 'factors' that allowed them to lower the price of homes in certain parts. All they needed was a few desperate homeowners willing to sell at a lower price and you have comps.

Just wait till they slice off the area west of Utterback to go to Herdon HS. That'll take 10% off those houses with the stroke of a pen.

That would not happen any time soon, as Herndon is overcrowded, Langley is under-enrolled, and the new HS in western Fairfax is just a line on a planning document.

Garza wants to get rid of the islands of excellence or whatever she calls it. Now that the board election and budget fights are over, expect this to come up soon. Relative enrollments will not matter. Forestville used to be Herndon HS - it will go back. Forestville is 5 miles from Herndon HS, Langley is 10 miles. This will happen.

I cannot think of anything that would damage Garza's credibility more than pulling kids out of Langley right when the renovation and expansion of the school ends. And there is nowhere else to send those kids in Great Falls right now. There is no room at Herndon or any other nearby school for them.

For conspiracy theories to catch on, they need to be at least modestly plausible. Yours fails that basic test.

System-wide redistricting. Ppl thought half day Monday's would never end, people thought that the budget battle was a pipe dream. She's good at getting what she wants. She wants to break up the 2% FARMS schools.

There are only two such high schools in FCPS: TJ and Langley. TJ is a sacred cow, and the way to increase the FARMS rate at Langley is to redistrict Tysons apartments out of Marshall and McLean to Langley. Neither involves moving part of Great Falls out of Langley.

Yes, and Herndon is 40% FARMS. They want those <1% FARMS kids from Forestville in there.

When they have another high school in western Fairfax, they can move some other Herndon kids to it and move Forestville back to Herndon. Until then, there is no room at Herndon to move Langley kids there. Which part of that don't you understand?

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Anonymous wrote:We moved to GF recently and live it. Love the community activities. There are plenty of restaurants. See friends and neighbors everywhere we go. Wonderful trails. There is a cycling studio, yoga. Love it. Reston is easy to get to.

Saying reston is the featured nearby location is a bit depressing

Only thing worse is "Dulles Town Center"

I remember my wife walking into the Nordstroms there and saying "there's something not right here". And she asked why they did not have the same kind of stock as in Tysons, and was told that the Dulles Town Center Nordstroms was designed/stocked for a lower end market vs Tysons.

What a bunch of snobs you all are.

I'm the first to say the policy is un...desirable. But its a realistic market policy to sale merchandise which the population can afford or stretch to afford. Nordstroms sells different things in different markets based who they perceive as their clientele. It could be as simple as a Nordstroms in the suburbs having a much larger home goods section while the one in the city might not. By the same extension trying to sell a $125 sweater on sale is not the same as one that's $40 on sale. Different sweaters go to different markets. There's nothing snobbish about that.

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I am the one interested in Great Falls. One take away, Stay int he Colvin Run / Great Falls Area because Forestville may be going to herndon

That helps eliminate a large area. thanks!

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Anonymous wrote:Not so much panicked as thinking that real estate agents decided they needed a 'cheaper' area of Great Falls to sell, and created 'factors' that allowed them to lower the price of homes in certain parts. All they needed was a few desperate homeowners willing to sell at a lower price and you have comps.

Just wait till they slice off the area west of Utterback to go to Herdon HS. That'll take 10% off those houses with the stroke of a pen.

That would not happen any time soon, as Herndon is overcrowded, Langley is under-enrolled, and the new HS in western Fairfax is just a line on a planning document.

Garza wants to get rid of the islands of excellence or whatever she calls it. Now that the board election and budget fights are over, expect this to come up soon. Relative enrollments will not matter. Forestville used to be Herndon HS - it will go back. Forestville is 5 miles from Herndon HS, Langley is 10 miles. This will happen.

I cannot think of anything that would damage Garza's credibility more than pulling kids out of Langley right when the renovation and expansion of the school ends. And there is nowhere else to send those kids in Great Falls right now. There is no room at Herndon or any other nearby school for them.

For conspiracy theories to catch on, they need to be at least modestly plausible. Yours fails that basic test.

System-wide redistricting. Ppl thought half day Monday's would never end, people thought that the budget battle was a pipe dream. She's good at getting what she wants. She wants to break up the 2% FARMS schools.

There are only two such high schools in FCPS: TJ and Langley. TJ is a sacred cow, and the way to increase the FARMS rate at Langley is to redistrict Tysons apartments out of Marshall and McLean to Langley. Neither involves moving part of Great Falls out of Langley.

Yes, and Herndon is 40% FARMS. They want those <1% FARMS kids from Forestville in there.

When they have another high school in western Fairfax, they can move some other Herndon kids to it and move Forestville back to Herndon. Until then, there is no room at Herndon to move Langley kids there. Which part of that don't you understand?

Which part of comprehensive redistricting do you not understand? That's what's coming. In that case, the relative under/over capacity of any individual school does not matter.

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Anonymous wrote:Not so much panicked as thinking that real estate agents decided they needed a 'cheaper' area of Great Falls to sell, and created 'factors' that allowed them to lower the price of homes in certain parts. All they needed was a few desperate homeowners willing to sell at a lower price and you have comps.

Just wait till they slice off the area west of Utterback to go to Herdon HS. That'll take 10% off those houses with the stroke of a pen.

That would not happen any time soon, as Herndon is overcrowded, Langley is under-enrolled, and the new HS in western Fairfax is just a line on a planning document.

Garza wants to get rid of the islands of excellence or whatever she calls it. Now that the board election and budget fights are over, expect this to come up soon. Relative enrollments will not matter. Forestville used to be Herndon HS - it will go back. Forestville is 5 miles from Herndon HS, Langley is 10 miles. This will happen.

I cannot think of anything that would damage Garza's credibility more than pulling kids out of Langley right when the renovation and expansion of the school ends. And there is nowhere else to send those kids in Great Falls right now. There is no room at Herndon or any other nearby school for them.

For conspiracy theories to catch on, they need to be at least modestly plausible. Yours fails that basic test.

System-wide redistricting. Ppl thought half day Monday's would never end, people thought that the budget battle was a pipe dream. She's good at getting what she wants. She wants to break up the 2% FARMS schools.

There are only two such high schools in FCPS: TJ and Langley. TJ is a sacred cow, and the way to increase the FARMS rate at Langley is to redistrict Tysons apartments out of Marshall and McLean to Langley. Neither involves moving part of Great Falls out of Langley.

Yes, and Herndon is 40% FARMS. They want those <1% FARMS kids from Forestville in there.

When they have another high school in western Fairfax, they can move some other Herndon kids to it and move Forestville back to Herndon. Until then, there is no room at Herndon to move Langley kids there. Which part of that don't you understand?

Which part of comprehensive redistricting do you not understand? That's what's coming. In that case, the relative under/over capacity of any individual school does not matter.

There is nothing to suggest comprehensive redistricting is on the horizon and, even if it were, there is still finite capacity at Herndon and students to fill it up who live closer to HHS than the Forestville area. Whether you fear or wish with all your heart for those kids to get kicked out of Langley, it is not going to happen any time soon.