Any neighborhoods under $400,000 homes that I'm not thinking of?

[Anonymous]

The drive to get down to Braddock takes close to 15 minutes (10 if you make all the lights or even if you cut down the one side street). Once on Braddock, its another 15 minute drive to Little River Turnpike. It just really does take longer than you want it to. No traffic, and you hit every light, and yes it would take less time but I tried that route and it didn't help in rush hour traffic. I lived in the West Springfield area long enough to have tried every iteration of getting downtown faster and there is just no good way. 395 at 6:30am is the best bet. By 6:50am it's back upped. It amazes me how literally 5 minutes in the West Springfield area makes such a major difference.

Don't drive on Braddock to Little River . . .cut up Guinea or Ravensworth or any of the others to Little River. MUCH faster.

[Anonymous]

No it's not much faster, we lived in Burke for 10 years (just moved) and no side street or variation is MUCH faster. A minute or two, sure, but not significant chunks of time.

[Anonymous]

No it's not much faster, we lived in Burke for 10 years (just moved) and no side street or variation is MUCH faster. A minute or two, sure, but not significant chunks of time.

Cuts 10 minutes off my commute. This is in part because of the hot lane construction on the Braddock road overpass by 495. But still. I'll take my 10 minutes in the morning.

[Anonymous]

Another vote for West Springfield - many of the neighborhoods have HOAs with pools. I always read these posts from people in other neighborhoods in desperate search for a pool, many with years-long wait lists and $1K + buy in. Our HOA has a huge pool, and even during holiday weeknds there might be 20 people at it, max. It has a wading pool for the little ones, too.

[Anonymous]

Maybe you can negotiate this to under $400,000.

http://www.weichert.com/38350560/?zip=22310&minpr=179&maxpr=900&type=new

[Anonymous]

17:15, except it already has a contract "contingent, no kick out"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No it's not much faster, we lived in Burke for 10 years (just moved) and no side street or variation is MUCH faster. A minute or two, sure, but not significant chunks of time.

THANK YOU! I am the PP and have tried every variation of every side street everywhere in the Burke/Springfield area and yes, a mintue or two is right.

[Anonymous]

PP said 10 minutes. Isn't that significant to your commutes?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP said 10 minutes. Isn't that significant to your commutes?

PP is wrong. There is no way to shave off 10 minutes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
PP said 10 minutes. Isn't that significant to your commutes?

PP is wrong. There is no way to shave off 10 minutes.

Ok, this is a bizarre debate. I've no motive to lie here. I'm the poster who said I shave 10 minutes off my commute. I actually timed it, because I also didn't think the new route was worth it. I timed it because I was planning to prove my DH wrong, as he was nagging me to try it because he said it was so much faster, and like you, I didn't think it would make a difference. I normaly commute from my house to Tysons, but recently started commuting downtown (23rd and C).

I had been leaving my house near West Springfield High School at about 6:30, driving down Rolling to Old Keane Mill and over to 395 at the mixing bowl. Then up 395 and across memorial bridge. I'd usually arrive at my office around 7:20.

My husband nagged me to try a new route. So I started leaving around 6:30, drive north on Rolling to South Hampton, take that to Braddock, then Braddock to Wakefield Chapel to Little River Turnpike, and Little River Turnpike to 395. When I stared doing this route, I would arrive at work at 7:10.

As far as I can tell, this is a 10 minute difference. But whatever . . . I'm not going to argue this anymore with the PPs.

[Anonymous]

Good for you, 8:03. I don't doubt your timing at all- you have every motivation to find the fastest route and 10 min is significant (to me, at least).

I was a previous poster who mentioned the VRE as a great alternative only to have someone get really frustrated about the commute times I noted. I have no idea where OP will ultimately live thus determining the time to the station, nor do I know exactly where around Capitol Hill her hubby works.

Bizarre debates, indeed.

[Anonymous]

another option no one mentioned about commuting from Burke/Springfield is slugging. My husband slugs in every day. He catches cars at Bob's (or what used to be Bob's) near the mixing bowl and they take him all the way down town to his office. His commute is about 40 minutes, because of the HOV.

[Anonymous]

Burgundy Village

http://www.weichert.com/37970020/?zip=22303&pg=2

10 minutes to old town, quick hop to the beltway/wilson bridge
public and private schools nearby with places to play

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Good for you, 8:03. I don't doubt your timing at all- you have every motivation to find the fastest route and 10 min is significant (to me, at least).

I was a previous poster who mentioned the VRE as a great alternative only to have someone get really frustrated about the commute times I noted. I have no idea where OP will ultimately live thus determining the time to the station, nor do I know exactly where around Capitol Hill her hubby works.

Bizarre debates, indeed.

Agreed. Unlike 8:03, many people that work on Capitol Hill are not able to shift their work schedule to leave the office at 3:30/4:00/4:30 pm and instead must be in the office until 6:00 pm. I'm guessing that the folks with this work-until-6:00 pm requirement would not voluntarily seek to be in their office at 7:30 am when they need to be there at 9:00 am. But perhaps I am wrong.

[Anonymous]

Another vote for Burke. We've lived in Montgomery Country, Burke, and in the District. We've been back and forth to the D.C. area three times. And I lived in Burke as a kid.

First, not sure why the PP suggested an "aging population". There were TONS of kids in our neighborhood. Try this neighborhood..... http://burkestation.net/

We loved it! It has a nice neighborhood pool with a very active swim team. Walking trails, parks,...... And you can walk to the Rolling VRE Station. When we move back to D.C., we won't even look anywhere else. We loved the neighborhood! My husband's commute was so easy. No crowded dirty metro....just a clean, quiet train where you can relax and drink coffee on the way to work.

It's zoned for Lake Braddock High School. King's Park/King's Glen Elementary. We loved the schools!