$1.1M in NoVA - where should we buy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:try kings park west, Fairfax. 22032

Agree with PP on KPW. Good neighborhood with large lots, no HOA and very good community with excellent schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I feel bad for anyone moving to DC these days. Imagine paying 1.2 million for a POS, 40 year old Toll Brothers stick built house in Fairfax.

Uggh.

yes stay away from cookie cutter neighborhoods where you are making builder rich.

[Anonymous]

OP's budget is ridiculous for inside the beltway with "walkability" unless she's willing to live in a 1950s home with under 2000 sq ft. I'm guessing the homes for sale in Falls Church City right now aren't nice enough for her, though.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s hard for me to picture OP pushing one of those wheeled shoppers down the sidewalk to her walkable 1.1 mil house.

OP please define what is walkable to you.

I live in an 850k house in Oak Hill. It is a “walkable” neighborhood in the sense that there are safe sidewalks, little car traffic, and the neighborhood is pleasant to walk around in with friendly neighbors also walking around. But I don’t really do any walks besides dog walking. However, the pool and tennis club and shopping center with many amenities are a short bike or car ride away without having to use any major roads. My kids ride their bikes plenty of places and take the bus to school. So while we have a car, we are not in it that much. But I don’t go out to drink at bars or get coffee. We do that stuff at home. Maybe that’s what OP wants or thinks she wants.

If I had 1.1 mil, I’d look at Franklin Farm and enjoy walking in that neighborhood.

Vienna might have a lot of shops and restaurants crammed in, but I’d hardly call Maple Ave a place I’d want to walk around.

I have no idea what the illegal immigrant poster is on about.

I'm the OP. We currently are within <15 min walk to a Trader Joe's, a CVS, a park with a playground, and a bunch of restaurants. I would consider that very walkable. Having access to the park only would not be walkable IMO.

You can get all of this in Oak Hill or Reston if you are walking distance to either the Franklin Farm, Fox Mill, Hunter Woods, or South Lakes shopping centers. Not a Trader Joe's, but other grocery stores with a larger variety of foods.

[Anonymous]

I didn't catch that this thread was a year old. Curious about where OP ended up. My guess is Falls Hill or Mantua.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP's budget is ridiculous for inside the beltway with "walkability" unless she's willing to live in a 1950s home with under 2000 sq ft. I'm guessing the homes for sale in Falls Church City right now aren't nice enough for her, though.

You can't buy these in Falls Church anymore. The developers grab them and tear them down. My neighborhood near Mt Daniel and High Point pool (which we left, for Vienna, this spring) was nothing but construction for years and years.

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Anonymous wrote:OP's budget is ridiculous for inside the beltway with "walkability" unless she's willing to live in a 1950s home with under 2000 sq ft. I'm guessing the homes for sale in Falls Church City right now aren't nice enough for her, though.

You can't buy these in Falls Church anymore. The developers grab them and tear them down. My neighborhood near Mt Daniel and High Point pool (which we left, for Vienna, this spring) was nothing but construction for years and years.

It's not in Falls Church City, but close by there are two of these for sale in Falls Hill right now. One of them was a flip and backs to 66 (*I would not buy this house, we toured it before it was flipped, those are not good bones, the flip was cheap and will not hold up) and the other one is just small. Nobody is tearing down Falls Hill homes. It's like the last remaining original neighborhood in the area.