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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just spent a few weeks visiting family in the suburbs. It's great for like a few days and then you realize it's really just a lot of hanging around the house or shopping at strip malls. [/quote]

If you have a family and two jobs, no matter where you live, most of your weekend and evening time is spent the same way - cleaning, cooking, doing laundry, running errands (yes, sometimes at strip malls) and hanging out with your kids.  this topic of debate is endlessly stupid.  [/quote]

Nope it’s true.  My sister-in-law’s family lives in NoVA and has 2 kids.  It’s going to the movies, going to the mall, watching TV or movies at home, having the kids friends over to the house, and rec sport.  Her son is 1 year older than our son.

Our weekends are kids programming at the Smithsonians (art, music), concerts on the river, festivals in the city, children’s theater, etc..  The only similarity is both boys are in a soccer rec league.[/quote]

And our weekends are swimming at the pool, tennis or Pickleball, kids play golf with grandparents, festivals where ever we feel like going, volunteer work, pick your own ____, concerts in Fairfax City, Herndon, Wolf Trap, where ever, meals with friends and family, etc.  When we had little kids, we spent a good deal of time in our local parks - Burke Lake Park, Clemyjontri, Great Falls, etc.  If we didn’t feel like a big park, we went to one of the dozen or so smaller pocket parks around us.  Since my office is a 10 minute drive from home and my husband’s 30 minutes from home in bad traffic, it doesn’t make sense to live further away. One can be just as active and engaged with their community and surroundings in the suburbs as in the city.  [/quote]

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