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

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Anonymous wrote:Great Falls is quite beautiful. I assure you their citizens are nit concerned with you.

What does it mean to be a "citizen" of Great Falls? Did it just declare independence?

Maybe it should. The people who live there are quite proud of it, but not in an obnoxious, overcompensating way, like some places.

This thread suggests just the opposite. And there wouldn't be much to tax there, besides residential property that is declining in value.

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Anonymous wrote:Great Falls is quite beautiful. I assure you their citizens are nit concerned with you.

What does it mean to be a "citizen" of Great Falls? Did it just declare independence?

Maybe it should. The people who live there are quite proud of it, but not in an obnoxious, overcompensating way, like some places.

This thread suggests just the opposite. And there wouldn't be much to tax there, besides residential property that is declining in value.

This thread suggests there are people anxious for buyers in the not good enough suburbs. Some places look great on paper.

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Will Langley school get re-zoned anytime in the future? If so, will this affect home prices in Great Falls?

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Anonymous wrote:Will Langley school get re-zoned anytime in the future? If so, will this affect home prices in Great Falls?

Langley has been under-enrolled in recent years. The only way people would get moved out of Langley if it (1) McLean and Marshall keep growing; and (2) FCPS builds a new high school in western Fairfax. If both of these things were to happen, part of Great Falls might eventually get moved back to Herndon HS.

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Anonymous wrote:Will Langley school get re-zoned anytime in the future? If so, will this affect home prices in Great Falls?

Good Falls will go to Herndon, Great Falls will stay in Langley.

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Anonymous wrote:Will Langley school get re-zoned anytime in the future? If so, will this affect home prices in Great Falls?

Good Falls will go to Herndon, Great Falls will stay in Langley.

Again, that could only happen if FCPS builds a new high school in western Fairfax. Otherwise, there is no room at Herndon for more students.

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Anonymous wrote:How much would it take to subdivide some of those Great Falls houses that no one wants any more into subsidized housing units?

No can do by law. Even Obama can't take owned land - though his directive stopped just short of it

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Anonymous wrote:Good houses in good locations in GF's are going under contract. Priced points from under 1m to over 2.5m.

Many are removed from sites fed by the mls when under contract. So people might buy a house on about 2 acres in GF for approx 9-2.5 instead of in Pimmit Hills.

I noticed several this past week in GF that were listed under $1M has price drops - one of $100k. That's unusual - especially for May.

Not in the 1 acre or under older areas

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Anonymous wrote:True. Commute in GF is really only bad during typical rush hour.

Unfortunately rush hour is 9am through 6pm everyday

I'm not sure what you are talking about. I live in GF, and the bottleneck for my commute is McLean. It takes me ten minutes to get to Tysons or McLean, then I hit the same bottleneck everyone else in McLean hits. On the way home, I try to avoid McLean altogether. Tysons is no big deal. I often pick my kids up from school in GF during rush hour, and then head down to Tysons to run errands before heading back home.

You've just described my own personal hell.

Maybe a start would be to widen Georgetown Pike. It's crazy that the major artery through Great Falls is such a narrow road. I guess you'd end up with more of the traffic on Route 7 from Loudoun diverting onto 193 but it is such a painful slog now. It definitely takes more than an hour to get downtown from most of Great Falls during rush hour.

Life doesn't revolve around DC. I go only when guests visit.

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Anonymous wrote:True. Commute in GF is really only bad during typical rush hour.

Unfortunately rush hour is 9am through 6pm everyday

I'm not sure what you are talking about. I live in GF, and the bottleneck for my commute is McLean. It takes me ten minutes to get to Tysons or McLean, then I hit the same bottleneck everyone else in McLean hits. On the way home, I try to avoid McLean altogether. Tysons is no big deal. I often pick my kids up from school in GF during rush hour, and then head down to Tysons to run errands before heading back home.

Commuting from McLean, whether to DC, Tysons or Bethesda, is much better than commuting from Great Falls. Everyone knows this, despite the PP's efforts to claim otherwise. It is just one reason why prices is McLean inside the Beltway have appreciated over three times as much as prices in Great Falls since 2004 (30% vs. 9%).

123 from downtown Mclean is horrible. Western Mclean towards GF is a better commute to Tysons. Some areas of Mclean [Summerwood] near the rec center are practically in Tysons. There's a lot of people from MD and DC crossing through Mclean joining the Tysons commute. Mclean covers a lot of territory as does Great Falls and there are dramatically different commutes within those areas.

123 doesn't even go through downtown McLean, but commuting on 123 coming from downtown McLean is a relative breeze compared to going anywhere from Great Falls, not to mention that you're fairly close to two Metro stations (McLean and West Falls Church). Of course, if you live somewhere in 22102 near Great Falls, you may have a longer commute. The key is to be east of Tysons if you want to have an easier commute, and more commuting options.

If you take Old Dominion into McLean, and continue straight, it will take you into North Arlington, through downtown McLean. I don't give a crap what you call the road,as the name changes. In some areas it's 123. And it's not horrible. I've done it in rush hour.

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Anonymous wrote:True. Commute in GF is really only bad during typical rush hour.

Unfortunately rush hour is 9am through 6pm everyday

I'm not sure what you are talking about. I live in GF, and the bottleneck for my commute is McLean. It takes me ten minutes to get to Tysons or McLean, then I hit the same bottleneck everyone else in McLean hits. On the way home, I try to avoid McLean altogether. Tysons is no big deal. I often pick my kids up from school in GF during rush hour, and then head down to Tysons to run errands before heading back home.

Commuting from McLean, whether to DC, Tysons or Bethesda, is much better than commuting from Great Falls. Everyone knows this, despite the PP's efforts to claim otherwise. It is just one reason why prices is McLean inside the Beltway have appreciated over three times as much as prices in Great Falls since 2004 (30% vs. 9%).

123 from downtown Mclean is horrible. Western Mclean towards GF is a better commute to Tysons. Some areas of Mclean [Summerwood] near the rec center are practically in Tysons. There's a lot of people from MD and DC crossing through Mclean joining the Tysons commute. Mclean covers a lot of territory as does Great Falls and there are dramatically different commutes within those areas.

123 doesn't even go through downtown McLean, but commuting on 123 coming from downtown McLean is a relative breeze compared to going anywhere from Great Falls, not to mention that you're fairly close to two Metro stations (McLean and West Falls Church). Of course, if you live somewhere in 22102 near Great Falls, you may have a longer commute. The key is to be east of Tysons if you want to have an easier commute, and more commuting options.

If you take Old Dominion into McLean, and continue straight, it will take you into North Arlington, through downtown McLean. I don't give a crap what you call the road,as the name changes. In some areas it's 123. And it's not horrible. I've done it in rush hour.

Safe track metro starts this weekend.
In the next year, I reckon I smell a Great Falls comeback with more employers adding flexible work arrangements.

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Anonymous wrote:I think a lot of you are missing the mark here. GF residents are a whole another level of wealthy - think frequent international vacations, multiple homes, private schools, etc. Do you think Bill Gates is sweating if his property value drops a few percentage points? They are not slogging to a job downtown every day so they don't care about commute. They are not following real estate trends and trying to live somewhere "walkable to coffee" etc..they just want privacy and space

Silly clown. The median home value in the Badlands in 2015 didn't even crack a million. Are you sure your septic isn't contaminated?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/wonk/housing/overview/

That search showed 22066 up 9%. And the pp is right. We have 4 homes and a lot, only one mortgaged. Don't give a crap. The lot has almost doubled in value. All good

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Anonymous wrote:I think a lot of you are missing the mark here. GF residents are a whole another level of wealthy - think frequent international vacations, multiple homes, private schools, etc. Do you think Bill Gates is sweating if his property value drops a few percentage points? They are not slogging to a job downtown every day so they don't care about commute. They are not following real estate trends and trying to live somewhere "walkable to coffee" etc..they just want privacy and space

Silly clown. The median home value in the Badlands in 2015 didn't even crack a million. Are you sure your septic isn't contaminated?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/business/wonk/housing/overview/

That search showed 22066 up 9%. And the pp is right. We have 4 homes and a lot, only one mortgaged. Don't give a crap. The lot has almost doubled in value. All good

I think the point was probably that a 9% increase over a decade is sub-par for the area.

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Re: 123 at rush hour. One person's "not bad" is another person's hell.

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Anonymous wrote:True. Commute in GF is really only bad during typical rush hour.

Unfortunately rush hour is 9am through 6pm everyday

I'm not sure what you are talking about. I live in GF, and the bottleneck for my commute is McLean. It takes me ten minutes to get to Tysons or McLean, then I hit the same bottleneck everyone else in McLean hits. On the way home, I try to avoid McLean altogether. Tysons is no big deal. I often pick my kids up from school in GF during rush hour, and then head down to Tysons to run errands before heading back home.

Commuting from McLean, whether to DC, Tysons or Bethesda, is much better than commuting from Great Falls. Everyone knows this, despite the PP's efforts to claim otherwise. It is just one reason why prices is McLean inside the Beltway have appreciated over three times as much as prices in Great Falls since 2004 (30% vs. 9%).

123 from downtown Mclean is horrible. Western Mclean towards GF is a better commute to Tysons. Some areas of Mclean [Summerwood] near the rec center are practically in Tysons. There's a lot of people from MD and DC crossing through Mclean joining the Tysons commute. Mclean covers a lot of territory as does Great Falls and there are dramatically different commutes within those areas.

123 doesn't even go through downtown McLean, but commuting on 123 coming from downtown McLean is a relative breeze compared to going anywhere from Great Falls, not to mention that you're fairly close to two Metro stations (McLean and West Falls Church). Of course, if you live somewhere in 22102 near Great Falls, you may have a longer commute. The key is to be east of Tysons if you want to have an easier commute, and more commuting options.

If you take Old Dominion into McLean, and continue straight, it will take you into North Arlington, through downtown McLean. I don't give a crap what you call the road,as the name changes. In some areas it's 123. And it's not horrible. I've done it in rush hour.

Safe track metro starts this weekend.
In the next year, I reckon I smell a Great Falls comeback with more employers adding flexible work arrangements.

On the other hand, if you can't do flex, you are doubly screwed during Safe Track if you live in Great Falls, so it's at best a wash. I expect the experience will make many people appreciate good public transportation options even more.