Best place to buy and raise a family in fairfax VA

[Anonymous]

Reston and Springfield are also fairfax county. As well
As Tyson's.

Do you have to be walkable to metro? Giving your budget would help a lot, too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:looking out for a place which is accessible by metro and not use of the car a lot

Town of Vienna - great walking to most everything

Vienna has a lot of positive aspects for raising a family (good schools, safe, parks, etc). However, it's wealthy and tends to be superficial so if that's not your style, beware!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:looking out for a place which is accessible by metro and not use of the car a lot

Town of Vienna - great walking to most everything

Vienna has a lot of positive aspects for raising a family (good schools, safe, parks, etc). However, it's wealthy and tends to be superficial so if that's not your style, beware!

One of my best friends has a beautiful home walkable to Vienna metro. She is the farthest thing from this description.

I'm seriously jealous of her house. It is exactly what I would pick if we had any money.

[Anonymous]

Springfield -- The area in SouthRun or near SouthRun Recreation Center.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:looking out for a place which is accessible by metro and not use of the car a lot

Town of Vienna - great walking to most everything

Vienna has a lot of positive aspects for raising a family (good schools, safe, parks, etc). However, it's wealthy and tends to be superficial so if that's not your style, beware!

One of my best friends has a beautiful home walkable to Vienna metro. She is the farthest thing from this description.

I'm seriously jealous of her house. It is exactly what I would pick if we had any money.

Also consider that Town of Vienna had been extra taxes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:looking out for a place which is accessible by metro and not use of the car a lot

In that case, you've just narrowed yourself down to Falls Church and Vienna (sort of). As PPs have said, all the neighborhoods in Fairfax are safe, but none of them has very good walkabikity.

I disagree on the walkability comment. I lived in Reston for 8 years and we walked to a lot of things. And my current neighborhood by Chantilly HS is fairly walkable as well - all 3 levels of school, the library, several parks and the shopping center at the entrance to our neighborhood with a Giant, a CVS, multiple other stores and places to eat. I even go to the dentist in that center.

Is it the city? No, but as the suburbs go, we can walk to a lot. There are days I don't get in my car at all.

But you can't walk to the metro from Chantilly, nor from most of Reston.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:looking out for a place which is accessible by metro and not use of the car a lot

In that case, you've just narrowed yourself down to Falls Church and Vienna (sort of). As PPs have said, all the neighborhoods in Fairfax are safe, but none of them has very good walkabikity.

I disagree on the walkability comment. I lived in Reston for 8 years and we walked to a lot of things. And my current neighborhood by Chantilly HS is fairly walkable as well - all 3 levels of school, the library, several parks and the shopping center at the entrance to our neighborhood with a Giant, a CVS, multiple other stores and places to eat. I even go to the dentist in that center.

Is it the city? No, but as the suburbs go, we can walk to a lot. There are days I don't get in my car at all.

But you can't walk to the metro from Chantilly, nor from most of Reston.

this is true that metro is not walkable.

There are bus routes in my area that take you to metro if that is what you want.

I did not realize that the OP's definition of walkability only meant being able to walk to metro.

I'm gonna need a budget, OP - because walkable to metro is not really possible for us commoners who wish to have a home wth a yard.

[Anonymous]

thanks