Tell Me About Fairfax Station

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd avoid the Lorton part of FFX Station. Look for houses in the Robinson or Lake Braddock pyramid. Specifically Fairview, Oak View or Sangster for ES.

Those familiar with school demographics know this is code language, and only thinly veiled at that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe OP already knew about the dump and the prison.

OP here. What we're looking at is not close to either the dump or the old prison. We're looking farther north than the part of Fairfax Station that borders Lorton (part of Crosspointe borders Lorton and that's probably what you're talking about). We wouldn't even be passing by either or through Lorton.

You mean closer to Route 1?

No, other direction from Route 1. Farther from both route 1 and Lorton.

That's better up there. Just Google waste treatment plants to avoid those because they can stink.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Maybe OP already knew about the dump and the prison.

OP here. What we're looking at is not close to either the dump or the old prison. We're looking farther north than the part of Fairfax Station that borders Lorton (part of Crosspointe borders Lorton and that's probably what you're talking about). We wouldn't even be passing by either or through Lorton.

You mean closer to Route 1?

No, other direction from Route 1. Farther from both route 1 and Lorton.

That's better up there. Just Google waste treatment plants to avoid those because they can stink.

Have you looked at a map? None of that is remotely close to the areas we're discussing.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Ignore the hater.

I grew up and went to Oak View >> Robinson. In those days, Fairfax Station kids went to Robinson. I loved FFX station and thought I'd live there when I became an adult (this was the 80s). FFX station is lovely and I am surprised, but happy to hear that it still has a rural feel with possible septic/well water.

Why would you be happy that people would have septic/well water near the I95 trash dump? Seems not healthy.

I should have expanded on my thoughts - I am happy because it implies FFX station isn't getting all built up the way so many other areas are - too many teardowns and McMAnsions. FFX Station maintains that rural feel in the middle of suburbia. I lived in a place with septic for years - no problems, just routine maintenance. It's not unhealthy for the most part.

Fairfax Station is full of McMansions built in the 80s and 90s, a substantial number of which are big Colonials with brick fronts and vinyl siding. The neighborhoods can be fairly uniform, though, if that’s what you were getting at.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'd avoid the Lorton part of FFX Station. Look for houses in the Robinson or Lake Braddock pyramid. Specifically Fairview, Oak View or Sangster for ES.

Those familiar with school demographics know this is code language, and only thinly veiled at that.

OP here. Please enlighten me. I'm not arguing, I actually want to know what you mean. Like I said, I am not from here and not familiar with schools here. Not a whole lot of elementary schools where I grew up and they were all the same in terms of demographics and performance, nothing like here.

[Anonymous]

Crosspointe is nice, though I think the yards are kind of small for the price point and what I would expect to get that far from DC.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'd avoid the Lorton part of FFX Station. Look for houses in the Robinson or Lake Braddock pyramid. Specifically Fairview, Oak View or Sangster for ES.

Those familiar with school demographics know this is code language, and only thinly veiled at that.

OP here. Please enlighten me. I'm not arguing, I actually want to know what you mean. Like I said, I am not from here and not familiar with schools here. Not a whole lot of elementary schools where I grew up and they were all the same in terms of demographics and performance, nothing like here.

South County HS is newer than Lake Braddock SS and Robinson SS, and single-family homes in the SoCo district are, on average, also newer and more expensive as well. When posters steer people away from SoCo or its feeders to Robinson or Lake Braddock, it more often than not isn’t because the strip malls in Burke are beautiful, but because SoCo has more Black kids (22%) than Lake Braddock (7%) or Robinson (6%).

People can claim they had something else in mind, but they deserve to be called out.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I'd avoid the Lorton part of FFX Station. Look for houses in the Robinson or Lake Braddock pyramid. Specifically Fairview, Oak View or Sangster for ES.

Those familiar with school demographics know this is code language, and only thinly veiled at that.

OP here. Please enlighten me. I'm not arguing, I actually want to know what you mean. Like I said, I am not from here and not familiar with schools here. Not a whole lot of elementary schools where I grew up and they were all the same in terms of demographics and performance, nothing like here.

Just go on Great Schools and look at the school where you are looking for a house. You don't need the hive to give their 2 cents.

[Anonymous]

I grew up in Longwood Knolls, and Fairfax Station was the Crosspointe neighborhood when I was a kid. It's a nice neighborhood. Someone else mentioned South Run, which has the same feel. At that time, Clifton was a day trip.

[Anonymous]

Interesting if you type in ' Fairfax Station, va ' into Zillow it can't find that area, but it does show Lorton, va borders just in a search.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting if you type in ' Fairfax Station, va ' into Zillow it can't find that area, but it does show Lorton, va borders just in a search.

Fairfax Station is zip code 22039.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interesting if you type in ' Fairfax Station, va ' into Zillow it can't find that area, but it does show Lorton, va borders just in a search.

It’s long and narrow. Only the southern tip of whats considered ffx station even borders Lorton.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Longwood Knolls, and Fairfax Station was the Crosspointe neighborhood when I was a kid. It's a nice neighborhood. Someone else mentioned South Run, which has the same feel. At that time, Clifton was a day trip.

I grew up in Longwood Knolls, too! I always dreamed that we would move to South Run, though, because that’s where the fancy houses were. Best sleepovers and best trick-or-treating were in South Run.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Fairfax Station is the pseudonym for Lorton. Back when Lorton prison was open, mcmansion builders didn't want to call the address Lorton because it was undesirable. In fact the advertised directions to the new mcmansions subdivisions avoided going past the prison even though it took people miles out of the way on back roads.

The gloomy Lorton prison building grounds and watch towers are still there in Lorton aka Fairfax Station some have been converted to art studios.

The Workhouse Arts Center is awesome, for those hearing Prison and not understanding what this PP is talking about. They have tons of classes and events for all ages.

https://www.workhousearts.org/

OP here. We wouldn't be near the prison at all, but I don't understand the big deal about being near it if it isn't a functioning prison and they're developing the land ? Like I said, I've lived in a part of New England where literally everything is in some proximity of an old jail, orphanage, or something like that. Like if you had a hang up about being 15 miles from that kind of stuff, you wouldn't be able to find a place to live.

It’s seriously not a big deal at all. Yes there’s an old prison there but it’s used for community events (the section off 123) + townhomes and condos (the section off Silverbrook by the HS) now. Fairfax County old timers will insist that it makes all of the southernmost parts of the county undesirable, but this area turns over so often (Crosspointe and the single family section of Laurel Hill in Lorton are popular with military families) that no area retains a “reputation” all that long. The dump is even further away from there, on Furnace Road, so you’d never notice it in Crosspointe or South Run.

Yes, South County HS has a more economically and racial/ethnic diversity than Robinson or Lake Braddock. You’ll have families in 1 million+ homes and families in small condos and townhomes and everything in between.

[Anonymous]

The Fairfax Station neighborhood that is actually named Fairfax Station and has the Fairfax Station Swimming Pool is off of 123 and Clara Barton. Is that where you are thinking, OP? It’s filled with very nice families and zoned for Oak View/Robinson.