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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Vienna[/quote]

Thanks, but Vienna is like 10 miles away from dc. Is there anything closer with good schools. looking for a 3 or 4 bedroom house. I mean like is there anything like this in Clarendon? [/quote]

I mean good public schools. 7 or 8 or higher on a good schools scale? is it worth it more to look for houses in NW DC near a metro (with a daily work commute to Capitol Hill) than to try to find this in Virginia?[/quote]

Same pp as above who lives in arlington. Yes, Washington and Lee and the schools in the neighborhoods I see you mentioning are all very good from the standpoint I think you're looking at. Washington and Lee has better diversity than Yorktown if that's important to you just so you know while comparing. Seeing your commute IS to cap hill - see my comment on my husband's commute to cap hill from Westover. I think you're smart to look for walking distance to metro and the closer in metro stations since cap hill is pretty far in there so that you can reduce that second leg that adds to my husband's commute. If you lived in Colonial Village like you mention and had a short walk to the courthouse metro, that should be a very easy commute. About 25 min metro time?
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Sorry, it's me again. How old are your kids? I realize i should in fairness note that some of the elementary schools in that area and well, pretty much all Arlington elementary schools will be experiencing boundary changes in the next few years so you should not buy a house banking on one certain elementary school. In my opinion you're not going to go wrong with any elementary school in n. arlington from the criteria you're looking at (goodschools.org), if you want to get more nuanced people may have different preferences but in general Arlington runs good schools. but you need to be flexible in knowing that the county is growing and boundaries WILL be changing. our house will certainly have a boundary change in the next few years as we're in Westover and my husband and I's approach is to just be happy with the school we end up with and not fuss about it, we bought in an area we knew it wouldn't be an issue (SO MUCH PRIVILEGE in this and this statement but I've already gone on way too long. For the record I would support bussing to better integrate Arlington schools if people would go for it). The push now as the boundaries change will be to be able to have as many kids as possible be able to walk to their elementary school. There is a lot of debate about this now and I would just warn that what you read on DCUM about this doesn't always reflect the general feelings about it if you're talking to folks in the neighborhood. The people that tend to get on dcum seem to schew very scrooge-like and just generally unhappy folk if you ask me, so lots of complaining. [/quote]

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