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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live in Ashton Heights/Lyon Park and really like it. Lots of old growth trees and birds chirping make it feel like you're living in an arboretum. Still has plenty of original houses with lots of character. Neighbors are exceedingly friendly and it's easy to make friends. Big "take a walk after dinner" culture where you see people stopping to chat all the time (we've walked around neighborhoods further north by the country club and didn't experience the same - hillier neighborhoods without sidewalks). You have a mix of state department workers/teachers who bought here 20-30 years ago and higher earners in the new $2.4 million farmhouses. Tons of parks including Lyon Park with the community center you can rent out. Our kids are too young for the schools but everyone we spoke to has spoken very highly of our school pyramid and we're in the walking boundary for all three of them. Multiple high quality daycare options within the neighborhood. Easy walk to Ballston/Courthouse/Clarendon. We walk to Whole Foods and TJ's and restaurants all the time. Easy walk to same metro stations. 7-8 minutes from DCA makes picking up friends at the airport a breeze. You can literally run to Georgetown or the mall if you don't want to drive.

I'm going to be mildly snooty though and say that living in the [I]heart[/I] of our neighborhood is really great. There are parts of our neighborhood that I don't think are as nice (looking at you section across Wash Blvd over by 10th St).[/quote]

What a lovely description until your last paragraph. [/quote]

Yeah, I should've worded it differently. That section may be just as wonderful but feels like a separate neighborhood cut off by Wash Blvd. We meet people from all over the area west of Wash Blvd but never from the area to the east. [/quote]

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