Best metro-accessible, walkable neighborhood for kids

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’d look along the orange line in Arlington like Ballston or East Falls Church

Arlington is way overpriced these days. Buying there is a sure way to lose your shirt when the market tanks.

-1 Get in Arlington while you still can.

Where is a Metro accessible neighborhood for kids in Arlington? Everything along the Orange line is tailor made for DINKs, not kids.

[Anonymous]

We're in Vienna and like it, but if I were to look elsewhere I'd look at Falls Church near the library and Cherry Hill Park. Walkable to lots of stuff, multiple great parks, seems like a nice community. It's too far to walk to Metro but you could bike, bus, or drive.

[Anonymous]

Budget and do schools matter?

Agree with Tenleytown, Friendship Heights, Shepherd Park, Takoma (depends on schools). Don’t agree with Brookland. Still crime heavy (particularly closer to metro) and schools are not a given and charters require commute they take away the perk of metro access.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d look along the orange line in Arlington like Ballston or East Falls Church

Arlington is way overpriced these days. Buying there is a sure way to lose your shirt when the market tanks.

-1 Get in Arlington while you still can.

Where is a Metro accessible neighborhood for kids in Arlington? Everything along the Orange line is tailor made for DINKs, not kids.

Lyon Park, Lyon Village, Ashton Heights, Cherrydale, Waverly Hills....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Where is a Metro accessible neighborhood for kids in Arlington? Everything along the Orange line is tailor made for DINKs, not kids.

Ballston / Bluemont just west of Glebe is both urban and family friendly. Or anywhere just north or south of the buildings from Ballston to Clarendon (generally north of Washington Blvd or south of Wilson Blvd).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d look along the orange line in Arlington like Ballston or East Falls Church

Arlington is way overpriced these days. Buying there is a sure way to lose your shirt when the market tanks.

-1 Get in Arlington while you still can.

Where is a Metro accessible neighborhood for kids in Arlington? Everything along the Orange line is tailor made for DINKs, not kids.

Lyon Park, Lyon Village, Ashton Heights, Cherrydale, Waverly Hills....

+100

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where is a Metro accessible neighborhood for kids in Arlington? Everything along the Orange line is tailor made for DINKs, not kids.

Ballston / Bluemont just west of Glebe is both urban and family friendly. Or anywhere just north or south of the buildings from Ballston to Clarendon (generally north of Washington Blvd or south of Wilson Blvd).

+2 you haven’t been to Ballston in a long time if you think Ballston isn’t family friendly. The bar scene has died down significantly

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I’d look along the orange line in Arlington like Ballston or East Falls Church

Arlington is way overpriced these days. Buying there is a sure way to lose your shirt when the market tanks.

I’ve seen a lot of bad advice on DCUM, but this is exceptionally stupid. OP, completely ignore this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We're in Vienna and like it, but if I were to look elsewhere I'd look at Falls Church near the library and Cherry Hill Park. Walkable to lots of stuff, multiple great parks, seems like a nice community. It's too far to walk to Metro but you could bike, bus, or drive.

Are there a lot of kids roaming around in Vienna? What’s it like?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where is a Metro accessible neighborhood for kids in Arlington? Everything along the Orange line is tailor made for DINKs, not kids.

Ballston / Bluemont just west of Glebe is both urban and family friendly. Or anywhere just north or south of the buildings from Ballston to Clarendon (generally north of Washington Blvd or south of Wilson Blvd).

+2 you haven’t been to Ballston in a long time if you think Ballston isn’t family friendly. The bar scene has died down significantly

I see families at the Ballston Ted’s Bulletin all the time, said no one ever.

The only neighborhoods I see families at in Arlington are in sections of South and North Arlington that are far away from the Metro. Barcroft, Penrose, Westover, etc. Westover is WAY more family friendly than anything walkable to the Orange Line stations in Arlington. There might be families there, but they are vastly outnumbered by the 20 and 30 somethings who are living in the condos than line this area. Businesses in the area - unlike businesses in a place like Westover - cater to singles and DINKs first, families are an oversight.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We're in Vienna and like it, but if I were to look elsewhere I'd look at Falls Church near the library and Cherry Hill Park. Walkable to lots of stuff, multiple great parks, seems like a nice community. It's too far to walk to Metro but you could bike, bus, or drive.

Are there a lot of kids roaming around in Vienna? What’s it like?

Vienna is much more family oriented than a place like Clarendon, where you have to dodge drunk frat boys every Friday and Saturday night. It’s a much more family oriented place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Where is a Metro accessible neighborhood for kids in Arlington? Everything along the Orange line is tailor made for DINKs, not kids.

Ballston / Bluemont just west of Glebe is both urban and family friendly. Or anywhere just north or south of the buildings from Ballston to Clarendon (generally north of Washington Blvd or south of Wilson Blvd).

+2 you haven’t been to Ballston in a long time if you think Ballston isn’t family friendly. The bar scene has died down significantly

I see families at the Ballston Ted’s Bulletin all the time, said no one ever.

The only neighborhoods I see families at in Arlington are in sections of South and North Arlington that are far away from the Metro. Barcroft, Penrose, Westover, etc. Westover is WAY more family friendly than anything walkable to the Orange Line stations in Arlington. There might be families there, but they are vastly outnumbered by the 20 and 30 somethings who are living in the condos than line this area. Businesses in the area - unlike businesses in a place like Westover - cater to singles and DINKs first, families are an oversight.

Huh? What types of businesses does Westover have that can’t be found in orange line neighborhoods? Restaurants, barbers, pharmacy, grocery store, hardware store, ice cream shop, library, playground, sports field, etc.

Seems like those are all covered.



Have you been to these areas? You seem unfamiliar.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We love our Friendship Heights neighborhood. I wish Friendship Heights/Tenleytown were a little more interesting/urban, but worth it for the community. Kids absolutely everywhere.

+1. We have lots of friends in that area who love living there. The trade off with any neighborhood is that the more urban it is, the less kid friendly.

Once you have kids, you just need some family friendly places to go and maybe a couple date night spots. We used to live in the U ST/ Logan neighborhood and while it was fun, we couldn't let our kids roam the neighborhood with their friends the way they do here in UNW. It doesn't matter with really little kids because no one is sending their toddler out and about unsupervised, but it matters once they're a couple years older.

I think what you mean to say but won't is the more black an area is the less kid friendly it is.

Of course that is not really true and my definition or urban has nothing to do with race but more to do with the walkability, vibrancy and connectivity of a neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We're in Vienna and like it, but if I were to look elsewhere I'd look at Falls Church near the library and Cherry Hill Park. Walkable to lots of stuff, multiple great parks, seems like a nice community. It's too far to walk to Metro but you could bike, bus, or drive.

Are there a lot of kids roaming around in Vienna? What’s it like?

Vienna is much more family oriented than a place like Clarendon, where you have to dodge drunk frat boys every Friday and Saturday night. It’s a much more family oriented place.

And you can do very little in Vienna without getting in your car and driving for 10-15 minutes. Sure there are some recreational walking paths if you want to get some exercise and you if you luck out your ES might be walkable but your options for you or your kids to walk/bike/take transit to just about anything will be close to zero.

All of that driving to soccer games and the grocery store is far more dangerous than dodging drunk frat boys on the weekend though why kids who live in Arlington would be crossing paths with that crowd is eluding me.

Ironically those drunk frat kids are most likely driving in from Vienna and other far flung Virginia suburbs.

[Anonymous]

Between Friendship Heights and Bethesda--includes Brookdale, Somerset and Chevy Chase West