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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone recommend a neighborhood in Maryland inside or not too far outside the beltway with a friendly community feel, kids running around/riding bikes, etc, ideally walkable to something (a shop or two or three), ideally near a bike trail, and where you can't hear the beltway or other major thoroughfare??  I know it's a tall order.  I keep getting excited about different areas to live but I have a hard time with that constant humming sound of traffic.  I much prefer the sound of slow local traffic to fast traffic sounds.  We can pay as much as 700K for a house but we'd rather stay closer to around 500.  [/quote]

Old Greenbelt sounds very much like what you are looking for.  It is extremely community-centric, kids play together all the time.  There is a community shopping center that has a co-op market, a couple of restaurants, a one-screen movie theater that plays a mixture of 2nd run, artsy and classic movies, a community theater, and a handful of other businesses.  There are several play areas with children's play equipment within walking distances of homes where the children do not have to cross roads to get there.  And from most of the houses, there are under-the-road walkways to get from the houses to the above community center.  There are walking/biking trails through the neighborhood and if you want more bike trails, you're 5 minutes by car from Lake Artemesia which has a 1.5 mile jogging, riding, roller-blading trail that goes around the lake.  It is under a mile to the BW Parkway and under 2 miles to the Capitol beltway, but it is very quiet and suburban and you cannot hear the major roads due to the tree cover.  And you can easily find homes for under your budget.  I have a number of friends that live there including a couple of families that waited to find a house in that neighborhood specifically to move back there because they wanted to be back in that neighborhood so much.  Not so good ES and MS, but Eleanor Roosevelt is one of the best HS in the county.[/quote]

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