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[quote=Anonymous]OP, could I suggest that you look in a completely different area.  There is a development of new HUGE houses off of Huntsman (south of the Ffx Cnty Parkway -- but at that intersection).  They are actually about 4 years old, but they are massive and they are right in the $900K+ range (but rarely is one on the market).  They feed into Sangster -- which is an AAP center and then they go to Lake Braddock.  The commute to Pentagon City wouldn't be too bad from this location as there are slugging options to the Pentagon and there is metro from Franconia Springfield to Pentagon City -- which is about a 20-25 min. ride (and the change in the blue line schedule will not affect this b/c the split in the metro route over the river happens AFTER the stop at PC... so DH could take any train that is at Fran. Sprng. to get  to PC.).

Anyway... you will not be among the richest of the richest in Ffx Cnty, but you will be in a VERY solid area with tons of military and government workers with typical traditional families (i.e. being a stay at home mom will not be unusual.)  If you are looking for a chic life and chic friends -- this wouldn't be the place.  You'd be better off in McLean or Tysons.

I just thought you might want to consider this b/c people commuting to the pentagon (or PC), for the most part, tend to live SOUTH of the pentagon and Lake Braddock is probably the nearest school to the south with high test scores and few FARMS (note that I didn't say it was a better school just because it has high test scores -- I personally think we incorrectly label schools as "good" or "bad" when the test scores really just reflect the demographics, not necessarily the quality of the teachers/school as a whole.)[/quote]

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