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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. Sounds like Chantilly is an awful option. This is why I thought to come here and get ideas of commutes from folks more familiar with the area - I only really drive to work when I'm in FFX.

Like I said, we're also looking at Burke and FFX, but Vienna seems really out of our price range. We're looking for four bedrooms, one of which would be a guest, and needing enough area to have an office if DH or I choose to telework. I need yard if we're not within walking distance of parks (less than a mile) and I'd prefer a garage and/or lots of storage space. And we need a big kitchen, we love to cook and that's just part of our family/friend culture - that's the biggest factor that's keeping a lot of these houses out of the running. And DH wants lots of natural light.

I could go down to three rooms but we're under pressure from DH's family to go larger to host holidays now. :([/quote]

You're not as wealthy as your extended family pressuring you to get a four bedroom house thinks you are. You can't have a room dedicated just to them, make the home office double as a guest room. People in three bedrooms houses love to cook and host holidays too. Joy and love does not have a square footage requirement.[/quote]

sorry OP but on your budget you have some trade offs. For us, we were not willing to give up the nice commute or the big kitchen, so we moved close in, small house, but renovated to have the big open kitchen. We only have 3 bedrooms and no master bath. Luckily we have a lot of family close by, so when my parents want to stay the night (they are about 2 hours away) they usually crash at my sibling's house about half an hour away. And DH's parents and sibling live within 45 minutes so no need to spend the night. We can host nice holiday meals in our kitchen, people just can't stay over.[/quote]

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