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[quote=Anonymous]For what it's worth...

We live JUST inside the western border of Falls Church City - on Grove Ave. It's about a 1/2 mile walk to the WFC metro. Could walk to the FC Farmer's Market, but don't (maybe a little more than a mile). Could bike if you were motivated. Can walk to the Giant and everything connected there (Starbucks, CVS, Baja Fresh). Not "charming" but very useful. We go to the Farmers Market almost every weekend and never have problems finding parking somewhere. ALso never have issues parking down by 4 Provinces, Clare and Dons, Argia's, etc. Library has nice kids section and programming.

The city works hard to promote a small town feel with Memorial Day parade, Taste of Falls Church in September, Watch Night on New Years...about a quarter of FCC residents have kids. Big, new houses will be in the $1 million and up range - townhouses less. Hard to find something in the $600-800,000 range. BUT...if you go just a few doors away (from us) towards the metro, there are houses for sale. Also down on/off of Shreve is a little more affordable. Those houses feed into Shrevewood ES, which I think is fine. Haycock ES has an excellent gifted program. Longfellow MS is hit or miss, but overall fine, and McLean HS (in FFx Cty) is good.

If you can find a house in FCC in your price range, grab it. But in the surrounding areas in Fairfax or Arlington are good as well. FCC has 6 or 8 parks - as previously mentioned, Lincoln Park I think is the best, as it's enclosed, easily accessible, and shaded (although it becomes a lake after a hard rain). We can walk to the little park behind the Wachovia. We walk to Mike's Deli (next to the 7-11) for dinner at least once a week. Cherry Hill Park is nice but more spread out. Mt. Daniel is the FCC ES and has an amazing playgound but it is all sunny. We just joined Poplar Heights pool down off Shreve and have met a bunch of families from FCC. Also know families who belong to Tuckahoe pool on Lee Hwy, as well as High Point.

Oh, and to drive on 66 I leave in the morning around 8:15 and I'm at my desk by the Air and Space Museum by 9:00 without fail (usually it takes less time than that, esp if I leave earlier). Going home can be 30 minutes as long as I leave by around 4:45. I use the hybrid exemption on 66 though. Husband leaves around 8 and drives to Georgetown and take him about 35-40 mins on Lee Hwy. Can take him longer than that to get home, but it's really just getting across Roosevelt bridge.

Hope that helps. We've really liked having a small town feel in the middle of everything else DC has to offer. Don't know that I'd call it "charming" per se, but definitely feels small town.[/quote]

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