New Yorkers moving to NOVA: need advice on where to move with young children
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Anonymous
| Op, will you be looking for a job an possibly having to commute? |
Anonymous
There is no gang activity in Pimmit Hills at all. |
Anonymous
| There is gang activity in the apartments off Pimmit Drive on the other side of Route 7, but technically that is not Pimmit Hills, which is all detached houses. |
Anonymous
Not really there was post about that area, you all are living in the 80s. Are all of you extremely elderly? |
Anonymous
| OP - I live in City of Fairfax and like it a lot. I think it would be your best bet to be as close to GMU as possible. Do not underestimate the way traffic around GMU and through the city backs up. Chain Bridge becomes a parade as various choke points and it is very hard to get through. |
Anonymous
| Oh and we paid $435k for a 3bed, 2.5 bath, one car a garage in 2010. There is a 5 bed for sale in my hood right now for $530k. |
Anonymous
| Bristow |
Anonymous
| Another former new yorker and would put in a plug for alexandria city too. We started in nw dc, which every one told us was "exactly like nyc"! No way!!! It's suburbia! Nothing going on at all. Not saying that alexandria is like nyc - far from it. The nice thing though is that it does have its own personality and has a soul, which for us was far better than living with a large number of people who kept talking about how cosmopolitan they are and how nw dc is exactly like manhattan. But beware, dc area is "the south" and it takes a long, long, long time to acclimate. No service culture here at all. No good restaurants. Still miss the bagels and pizza. But, great museums and decent theater. And most of the public schools around here are good. There is a lot of angst over nmsf and where everyone goes to college (especially this weird obsession with "top 3 schools" and "top ivies" and "top" neighborhoods and "top" country clubs) and which is better, but really coming from elsewhere, you'll be amazed at how excellent the facilities and teaching and so forth are almost everywhere. Would also counsel you to rent first.... you'll be appalled at the housing, so takes a while to internalize the exorbitant prices for hideous places. GL! |
Anonymous
Pimmit Run, Matera, Los Pueblos - all areas to avoid. http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/cgi-bin/arrestsearch.cgi?field1=&field2=&field3=&field4=&field5=&field6=Pimmit&field7=&field8=&field9=&field10=&field11=&submit=search |
Anonymous
| I have never, ever heard anyone claim that nw dc is exactly like NYC. Ever. It is, however, a helluva lot better than the strip mall suburban sprawl of arlington, fairfax, etc. old town alexandria is nice but just as pricey as nw dc and depending on where you work the commute can be a killer. |
Anonymous
| I am from the south. Dc is NOT the south. |
Anonymous
I agree with the prior poster. Both DH and I moved from NYC to this area and we prefer the area's suburbs - MoCo and Fairfax, in particular - to "DC proper," which strikes both of us as insular, parochial and inexplicably snobby. The suburbs are messy and sprawling, but the homes are beautiful and there is a diversity and energy that is just lacking in DC (and I'm not talking about the random nightclub full of hipsters or interns). YMMV, but when I want a city, I want a real one that hums and never sleeps, not DC. |
Anonymous
I lump all of those garden apts with Pimmit Hills. They're right across the road. p.s. most of my NYC friends who have moved on now live in various 'burbs now. They aren't trying to recreate that experience elsewhere. |
Anonymous
They are not right across "the road" they are across the four-lane thoroughfare of Route 7 with two large shopping plazas in between. You obviously know nothing about Pimmit Hills. |
Anonymous
The other apartments are going to be torn down and replaced with high end condos http://thetysonscorner.com/lcor-commons-of-mclean-attains-planning-commission-approval-recommendation/ |