Best rural cities in DC area (Virginia)

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Anonymous wrote:Must be nice to farm off your kid to the care of others so you don’t have to think about schools.

Here comes the welcome wagon!

+1, no time for snarky comments, it’s the holiday season!

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Anonymous wrote:3-stall barn in Fairfax. But surrounded by development, with no place to hack out. (I don’t think Betty’s Azalea Ranch would appreciate visitors.)

https://www.redfin.com/VA/Fairfax/12505-Chronical-Dr-22030/home/9606585

Crazy, that house last sold in 1966. Before most of the people on this forum were born. I can’t imagine what Fairfax County was like then, would love to speak to the owner and hear how much has changed.

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Anonymous wrote:Is 5 acres enough? Feel like building?

https://www.redfin.com/VA/Great-Falls/119-Commonage-Dr-22066/home/40363323

That property is extremely overpriced IMO. 1.5 mil for woodlands in great falls?

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Anonymous wrote:Waterford. Very few have to commute, though.

Also, not a conservative community.

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Closer in… there are lots of horse properties in Fairfax Station/Clifton.

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Anonymous wrote:Waterford. Very few have to commute, though.

Also, not a conservative community.

It is very Conservstive, especially the surrounding areas.

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If you want a nicer rural area with more class, western Loudoun like middlesburg.

If you are on the poorer side but crave an acre+, try Nokesville or Warrenton.

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Anonymous wrote:If you want a nicer rural area with more class, western Loudoun like middlesburg.

If you are on the poorer side but crave an acre+, try Nokesville or Warrenton.

Is Great Falls considered rural? If so I heard you can buy homes with large acreage/ build your on home on undeveloped land there, with a relative short commute to DC.

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Anonymous wrote:There is no reasonable commute to DC from an exurb. You can get acerage and horses in Oakton if you have money, that's only an hour out.

You should look at MD, it gets rural faster to the east and south of DC, a d the commute less congested.

This OP seems rich AF so he can afford tolls into the city which would make his commute 35 to 40 mins from oakton.

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Anonymous wrote:If you want a nicer rural area with more class, western Loudoun like middlesburg.

If you are on the poorer side but crave an acre+, try Nokesville or Warrenton.

Is Great Falls considered rural? If so I heard you can buy homes with large acreage/ build your on home on undeveloped land there, with a relative short commute to DC.

Heard? Have you ever been to the DMV? 😂

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In case it matters to you, most homes in Great Falls & Clifton are on septic.

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Davidsonville, Md

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Not VA but I'm intrigued with Brunswick, MD, with a train station right in town.

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Anonymous wrote:Not VA but I'm intrigued with Brunswick, MD, with a train station right in town.

I am the horse property owner and we are very close to Brunswick/POR area. Brunswick is "in transition." There is quite a lot of what I would call "generational white-trash" in the area that's at odds with the newer subdivisions of Brunswick Crossing and Galyn Manor. There is a lot of bickering back and forth about the strain on the existing infrastructure Brunswick Crossing has caused. The water rates are high, people are always complaining about that, and there does seem to be frequent power outages in the town. The storm last week knocked out most of the town for a day or more for some of the areas. There is a drug problem, drugs are everywhere, but I think it's moreso in the Brunswick area. The CSX trains cause lots of traffic issues because of the lack of access roads at certain areas and there is a big lumberyard close to the depot that also causes issues with the big tractor-trailers making deliveries at the same time trains are coming through. There is at least one train/vehicle accident every six months.

I would not send my kids to Brunswick for school if at all possible, I would opt for Middletown. One of our friends got their kid into the IB program in Urbana rather than send her son to BHS.

The new mayor is trying to drag the town into the 21st century but there is a lot of resistance from the long-time residents. I believe the town just approved a project just across from train station that is going to tear down a street full of row houses and put in a big modern looking ugly apartment complex that doesn't seem to fit with the old part of town's charm and it's quite controversial.

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Anonymous wrote:The area around The Plains and Marshall

I am a liberal and I love the Plains, but the OP wouldn't like it as it probably skews too liberal for them.