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[quote=Anonymous]Moving to the DMV from the San Francisco Bay Area and we've spent most of our attention on looking at Bethesda / Chevy Chase, mostly because my spouse is from the Northeast and thinks MD feels more like NY/NJ.  I'm trying to convince him to look at Northern Virginia in part because the state and local income taxes are so much more reasonable, but we don't know where to really begin.  Cultural differences aside (if there really are any), he doesn't like that NOVA has so many big roads and strip malls and doesn't seem to have more walkable neighborhoods.  He thinks B/CC neighborhoods are full of beautiful older homes and VA seems to have a lot more recent McMansions.  Is that really true?  Are there exceptions?

We've heard traffic can be very bad in Virginia, particularly on main roads and over the bridges, and although we're both WFH, we would like to go into DC regularly to visit museums with the kids.  Here in the Bay Area, we're lucky enough to be able to walk to school, the public library, the grocery store, neighborhood parks, and we'd love not to have to get into the car and sit in traffic to do everything.

Would love some help with recommendations on neighborhoods to look at?  Some have mentioned McLean and Vienna, but we don't know which parts.  Our budget is $2M, give or take.  Excellent public schools are very important to us.[/quote]

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