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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The walkability of both these places is vastly overhyped by people who have apparently never lived in a truly walkable town or city.  In each case, there is a lot of retail concentrated along a single street (Route 123 in Vienna and Route 7 in Falls Church City).  Vienna residents also overhype Church Street, which is parallel to Route 223 and has a very small amount of additional retail.

FCC is more expensive because it’s closer to DC, but not because it’s much more walkable.  Notably, neither area has a Metro station in the core retail area.  The Vienna Metro is off Route 66 outside the Town of Vienna and the two Falls Church Metro stations are in Arlington and Fairfax Counties, not Falls Church City. [/quote]

OP asked to compare two similar parts of the local area, not some secret third place that doesn't exist here.

The fact is, in both Vienna and FC you can live in a nice house with a yard and walk to something - either transit, or restaurants/shopping,  and in a few cases both. That's relatively rare in suburban Virginia.  It's more possible to be near both transit and shopping in FC, but you have to make tradeoffs regardless.

I would not get hung up on exactly where the town boundaries are, either. You can live across the street from WFC Metro (or a block back, for nicer houses) and walk to grocery and retail, even if the station isn't in FCC. I live outside TOV and can walk to the downtown core.[/quote]

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