Is Pimmit Hills walkable?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just walked to Caribou Coffee in the snow/slush/whatever this is. I stopped to talk to a few neighbors along the way. Friendly folk.

Where is the caribou coffee

Near Ledo's and Trade Joe's. In the space the used computer store used to be in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just walked to Caribou Coffee in the snow/slush/whatever this is. I stopped to talk to a few neighbors along the way. Friendly folk.

Where is the caribou coffee

Near Ledo's and Trade Joe's. In the space the used computer store used to be in.

Awesome!

[Anonymous]

Realistically, not many people will walk to these places from Pimmit Hills. It's nice that it's a short drive.

[Anonymous]

People are so lazy.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Realistically, not many people will walk to these places from Pimmit Hills. It's nice that it's a short drive.

If i lived in PH, I would totally walk there. The TJ's parking lot is insane! Worse than Whole Foods across the street. Ci soul walk there but t's a little bit far for me (on the other side of Idylwood Road).

[Anonymous]

14:33 - ITA.

Knowing what I know, I would pick PH in a heartbeat.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh good grief. op here: no, I have not visited. It was an idle thought. I'm not from here. I don't know the NoVa suburbs. Someone told my husband it was a great neighborhood for us, it sounded too good to be true, I looked at Google street view, and I asked you all. I'm not trying to make a point, I was curious whether it was worth checking out.

It's worth checking out. You might like it, or the "My Name is Earl" vibe that lingers might send you running. Until I drove around PH, I assumed it was a lot more run down that it actually is, but you need an open mind and a tolerance for some seriously weird houses to see yourself at home there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh good grief. op here: no, I have not visited. It was an idle thought. I'm not from here. I don't know the NoVa suburbs. Someone told my husband it was a great neighborhood for us, it sounded too good to be true, I looked at Google street view, and I asked you all. I'm not trying to make a point, I was curious whether it was worth checking out.

It's worth checking out. You might like it, or the "My Name is Earl" vibe that lingers might send you running. Until I drove around PH, I assumed it was a lot more run down that it actually is, but you need an open mind and a tolerance for some seriously weird houses to see yourself at home there.

Go see for yourself. Google has the street scene:

Click here: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&tab=wl

Copy Paste: 7409 Lisle Ave, Falls Church, VA 22043

Click on the picture on the left. It gives the 360 degree street view.

[Anonymous]

Or you can do 7415 Lisle Avenue, Falls Church, VA 22043 and enjoy the difference.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Oh good grief. op here: no, I have not visited. It was an idle thought. I'm not from here. I don't know the NoVa suburbs. Someone told my husband it was a great neighborhood for us, it sounded too good to be true, I looked at Google street view, and I asked you all. I'm not trying to make a point, I was curious whether it was worth checking out.

It's worth checking out. You might like it, or the "My Name is Earl" vibe that lingers might send you running. Until I drove around PH, I assumed it was a lot more run down that it actually is, but you need an open mind and a tolerance for some seriously weird houses to see yourself at home there.

this post made me laugh. there definitely was that my name is earl vibe back in the 80s/90s. haven't been there recently, but I have to say that I've always thought that area would eventually be "gentrified" - if that's the right word - given it's location.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Or you can do 7415 Lisle Avenue, Falls Church, VA 22043 and enjoy the difference.

Or another one a few houses down 7404 Lisle Ave http://goo.gl/maps/42KdD

Point being is that it's changing a lot and the old houses don't look too bad especially the brick ones near lisle and north.

[Anonymous]

I love that house, I drive by it every day. It looks better built than many other new construction homes in the area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love that house, I drive by it every day. It looks better built than many other new construction homes in the area.

And it fits in so very beautifully with the neighboring houses.

It's a free country, but still...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I love that house, I drive by it every day. It looks better built than many other new construction homes in the area.

And it fits in so very beautifully with the neighboring houses.

It's a free country, but still...

It's built to set the trend, not to follow

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Realistically, not many people will walk to these places from Pimmit Hills. It's nice that it's a short drive.

But all these retail places are in Pimmit Hills - Paxton Rd dead ends at the shops. I am only a few blocks away, but I can see how maybe people on the other end of the neighborhood like maybe on Anderson Rd might not be within a short walking distance. Of course, with this crap weather, I drive anyway despite it being only a couple blocks.