Vienna voted #3 best place to live by Money Magazine
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Anonymous
| Walkable downtown? Never been there, but from the birds-eye images looks like a bunch of parking lots, strip malls, apartment buildings. Does anyone actually walk around there? The metro is not anywhere close to the downtown either. When I think small town downtowns, I think about cute main streets and walkable businesses with parking lots behind the buildings. FC is the closest place that has something resembling a downtown in that area apart from Arlington/Rosslyn. |
Anonymous
The Vienna Metro is not near the center of town. The "walkability" of the Town of Vienna is exaggerated, but so too is the "walkability" of much of Arlington and DC. It's primarily a benefit for those who live close to the intersection of Maple and Park and walk to things in that immediate area (the library, the community center, Vienna ES and stores like Whole Foods, Nielsen's, Caffe Amouri and Church St. Pizza). In addition, the W&OD bike trail runs through the heart of Vienna, so people can bike as well. Church Street is cute in a maybe, kind-of semi old-fashioned way, but it's not that long and it also runs parallel to Maple/Route 123. I think what isn't exaggerated is the fact that the Town of Vienna is, indeed, a town, so those who prefer to live in a town with its own mayor, town council and police, rather than in an unincorporated part of a big county may like it better. In addition, while the Town does not have its own schools, everyone in the town in assigned to the same high school (Madison), which gives the school more of a community focus than neighboring schools like Oakton and Marshall that pull in kids from a bunch of different parts of Fairfax County. It's a very good place to live, even though traffic there can be a PITA (and other people do know about every last alternatives to Maple/123, even though some Vienna residents like to pretend only they know about them). |
Anonymous
| Vienna city looks like it is stuck in the 80s, 80sk hhi that is , heeyyyyyhoooo |
Anonymous
Vienna city? U b dumb. |
Anonymous
| The area south of maple |
Anonymous
| Those rankings of best places are totally BS. Anyone with half a brain wouldn't even bother to read them. |
Anonymous
| You can thank dulles corridor , the real job hub of dc |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
| the town area is money, so Money Magazine is right on. The area just south of Maple is being torn down left and right, with very nice new houses in their place. Now they just need to tear down and redevelop some of the shopping centers with mixed use. A bit more density, with residential and retail and underground parking. That would be nice. |
Anonymous
Isn't the southwest area of Vienna still kind of rundown? I mean compared to NE or SE Vienna? It's been several years since I moved out of Vienna. |
Anonymous
| vienna is awesome if you can work nearby! |
Anonymous
| Awesome...I live there. |
Anonymous
It's a mixture. There have been a ton of tear downs in the last 2-3 years. I feel like a see a new one each week. Most of the new builds sell for 1.1 - 1.3 million so the area is definitely changing. |
Anonymous
There is a ton of new home inventory and not enough buyers. If you want a good selection of new homes Vienna has many on the market. http://www.redfin.com/homes-for-sale#!market=dc&min_year_built=2012®ion_id=20297®ion_type=6&sst=&status=131&v=8 |
Anonymous
The town is the least expensive part of Vienna. The money part of Vienna is the 22182 area in the county north of the town. |