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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will be commuting to Johns Hopkins for the first year, then working at the new NCI campus in Rockville after that. We'd love to find a walkable, bikeable neighborhood with schools my son can walk to, with parks and sidewalks that are safe for kids, restaurants and shops to walk to. Bikeable to NCI would be fantastic. Close to the metro would be good, too, to open up job possibilities for my husband. We'd prefer to rent a small house with a fenced yard for our dog, with lots of kids in the area. We hate driving so minimizing that as much as possible would be great. Can anyone suggest neighborhoods that might meet our needs? We'll be visiting sometime this spring to look at schools, but some guidance would be helpful.[/quote]
Fallsgrove would be the perfect choice for you if (i) you can sacrifice the fence and (ii) you're comfortable with Julius West MS and Richard Montgomery HS.  It's the closest neighborhood to NCI there is, and it's a new urbanist design with sidewalks, parks, and shopping attached.  If you research the schools and are comfortable, this is probably the best place for you, as it's zoned to offer multiple sizes of homes so I'm sure something would fit your needs.  Similarly, King Farm south of Redland Road is zoned the same for schools, and has a similar style to it (though the shopping is fairly limited comparatively).

If you prefer the Wootton HS / Robert Frost MS combo (which many here will say is better - I'll stay out of that debate today), your options are limited in terms of a walkable neighborhood with shopping attached.  Fallsmead off of Wootton Parkway offers a strong school district, sidewalks and relatively affordable single family homes (700-800k), but you would need to drive for any sort of shopping or entertainment.  At a higher budget, the single family homes in the Willows also have sidewalks (no fences), and are close to NCI, but again don't have walkable access to shopping/entertainment.

Another options is the new Crown development, though it has a school cluster (Gaithersburg) that is generally perceived (rightly or wrongly) as much weaker.

Lastly, if you were willing to rent an apartment or settle for a townhome, the area near Rio (Washingtonian Blvd) offers the Wootton/RobertFrost/Fallsmead school cluster with walkable amenities at Rio.  However, there are no single family homes within the area that has that particular school zoning.[/quote]

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