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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're going to have a hard time finding something not near a busy street if you want to be anywhere remotely close-in.

It's actually not a bad thing to be a couple/few blocks off a busy street.  I'm not talking route 66 or 395 - I'm talking a Glebe or Route 1 or Lee Hwy.  We live 1 block off of George Mason in Arlington, and about 3-4 blocks off of Lee and about the same distance from Glebe.  It is great to have the commuting options, and we never hear road noise.  There is some cut-through traffic thanks to the mapping softwares - no way to avoid that.  But we are walkable to all sorts of things BECAUSE we are near a busy road.  That's where shops and restaurants are.  Busy roads get plowed quickly, so you can generally make your way out during/after a storm.

I used to live 2 blocks off of route 50 and a few blocks from route 29 - again, no road noise, huge convenience factor.

Falls Church City would be awesome, but we'd need to know your budget.[/quote]

Lots of us are Anonymous so I'll call myself HH for House Hunter.  :)

It does make sense that in snow, those roads would be the plowed first. I didn't think about that. The roads we've traveled to get to some of the houses we've looked at were around Telegraph and Route 1 (Richmond Highway). Do you know those roads? How do Glebe, Route 1, Lee Highway and George Mason compare to those roads, which seem really run down?  The zip code is 22310 and the High School is Edison which on GreatSchools is a 4. I'm told the school is very diverse and there is an advanced program that students can test into. We don't need the schools anymore but I'm definitely thinking about re-sale down the road. What zip code are you in, if you don't mind my asking? 
 
Our price range is up to about $750,000. Maybe a little more if it's updated.

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