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[quote=Anonymous]I'm the one who hated living "farther out" in close-in Fairfax.  I lived in DC for 4 years, then Arlington for 5, than Fairfax for 12, and Fairfax just never "took" for me.  The only reason I stayed as long as I did was because my mortgage was cheap and I liked my house well enough, and my Metro commute was ok.  But it was a drag to have to take the metro to/from Vienna all the time, especially on weekends with long wait times, the outdoor metro stations shut down in snowy weather and I just felt isolated from the city.  There wasn't anything cool in Merrifield like there is now, and you could walk to the Safeway and CVS, but not much else.  When my daycare dropoff (3 miles from home in the direction of my work) + commute started taking over 3 hours a day round-trip, I threw in the towel and moved back to Arlington.  Traffic was really, really terrible when road projects on 29, 50, Gallows and 495 all happened at once.  It's probably better now.

Plenty of people would have been just fine in that situation.  I just underestimated how much I'd hate being farther out than Arlington.  (I'm a single mom, so being single in family-ville probably had something to do with it too - the only singles were GMU students.)  My point is that people should think very hard about location when they're buying.  If the tradeoff is location vs. space, make sure you know what you're getting into and maybe try hard to love your house if the alternative might be hating a commute.[/quote]

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