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[quote=Anonymous]Paying an Arlington metro premium for a work commute into the city: Make sense ; Paying an Arlington metro premium for weekend trips into the city: Does not make sense.

As an Arlington resident though, the metro premium (in the Courthouse to Ballston corridor) is also tied to walkability to a lot of amenities, so the areas you're talking about (like Clarendon, Lyon Village etc.) may still be of interest for you. At ~$900k ceiling, you may also want to consider high-end THs in these areas, as you'll often get much more space if you're not someone obssessed with having an SFH. We bought a TH at that price-point in this Arlington corridor (at 2900 sq feet). We cared a lot about metro accessibility at the time we bought, but realize it doesn't matter so much. I commute on the original line for work, but realize that with my 0.8 mile walk to the metro, it would be faster for me to commute in via Route 50. Still, I do metro to work (40 minute commute to Farragut West work all in from Ballston area).

We *never* metro in on the weekends, because it takes much longer than driving on the weekend (we are into the city every weekend or every second weekend). 10 minutes by driving to the national mall or Dupont....with walking/waiting/metro it would take almost an hour on the weekend. We don't care about shelling the $10-15 for weekend parking- the people driven crazy by parking are those only willing to park at street spots.[/quote]

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