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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is OP - thanks, all!  What I want to know is how I can find a house on a street with young families and block parties and great new friends like a couple of the PPs.  Either of you want to post your neighborhood?  And the PP who said that I'll still see the good friends and the peripheral ones will fade is wise and I'm sure that's true.  It just seems like such a massive change that I'm not sure I'm ready for yet.  But I know I need to do it in the near future.

Are you all happier in your new houses with space and a yard?  Any regrets?[/quote]

SFH neighborhoods in walkable areas tend to attract social people.  Higher density causes more interaction.  Throw in a good public school and it will be teeming with families that wanted a little more yard than a rowhouse provides.

We were thrilled with our new house and yard (not too big that yardwork isn't a big deal).  Kids go to the park a lot.  Having a place where guests could park (I still need to give them parking hangers) but they aren't circling around the neighborhood for a 1/2 hour looking for a spot--is fabulous.

We have more to walk to now than I did before and I was in an active part of NW.  Metro and all amenities (gyms, grocerys, bars, restaurants, parks, movie theather, drycleaners, coffee shops, some retail, hair salons, oil changes (means a lot when you can walk home after dropping it off), dentist, nail salons, massage center, etc., etc. are all within a few blocks...yet the neighborhood itself manages to retain some of suburbia.[/quote]

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