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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People who walk in woods not streets.

People who make their own coffee,

People who grow food instead of going to “farmers markets “.

People who cook instead of “go to hip restaurants “.

People who live ethic good.

People who go to neighbors homes to visit over the corner bar.

People who ride bikes for fun not transportation.

People who don’t breath in exhaust when they walk with their kids.

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I've lived in the exurbs and walkable urban areas and loved both, but this is barf-inducing[/quote]

+1.

I live in the actual exurbs, out between Leesburg and Purcellville. Trust, most people still go to restaurants versus growing their own food, there are just a lot fewer options; and they go to bars (because they don't actually know their neighbors!),  and breath in exhaust (probably not as much) when I walk with my kids and dog twice a day and have to be careful of passing cars whooshing by at high speed, because there are no sidewalks. Closer-in suburbanites complain about airplane noise, out here we get helicopter traffic from Mount Weather that is sometimes so loud it can make my house vibrate. There are probably more people who have chickens and are eager to get rid of the eggs, I will say that as a dozen from an acquaintance sit in my fridge. :)

OP, you talk about exurbs in your subject line but it sounds like you actually mean the suburbs, TBH. There are pros and cons to any place. I was hesitant when we moved here but I do like it. I grew up in a VERY rural area so I knew what that was like and hated it. I LOVED living in the suburbs for 12+ years and having so many things so close and convenient, even if "walkability" was a stretch. I consider where I am now to be rural but not remote. There's a Starbucks three minutes down the road and two grocery stores in town, I'm within 30 minutes of outposts for most major medical services. I can get big-box store access in Leesburg and the drive to IAD and DC isn't awful most of the time, because I'm not commuting. That said, I was in Arlington this week for a policy event, left a little before 7 a.m. and was in the door by about 8:15 via the Greenway. Oh, and I do go to the farmers market and farm stores that are out here, but I still get most of our food from the regular old grocery store (so do most people in the exurbs ...). :P

I work 100% remotely except for travel and the occasional in-person event locally. (When we bought, we ruled out some homes in the area because of lack of access to high-speed internet for WFH, which is not a given this far out. Thank God, because pandemic stuff with satellite internet was a total PITA for the people who had to deal with it.) My DH commutes to Herndon & works for a defense contractor. My neighbors are a mix of local business owners (HVAC, landscaping, etc.), people who work in Reston or Herndon, and feds who only have to go in once a week or less. Most people who move into the area are already semi-local and are coming from the closer-in suburbs (Arlington, Alexandria, Ashburn) for a variety of reasons.

It's a different lifestyle than the city or the close-in suburbs, but also not the same (thank God) as small-town rural life where you are hours from a major metro. I've lived in all of those type of places at various times. I think whether you are happy in a different lifestyle environment depends a lot on how attached you are to the positives about your "known" type of place and how well you deal with the downsides that inevitably crop up.

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