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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're in Vienna and like it, but if I were to look elsewhere I'd look at Falls Church near the library and Cherry Hill Park. Walkable to lots of stuff, multiple great parks, seems like a nice community. It's too far to walk to Metro but you could bike, bus, or drive.[/quote]

Are there a lot of kids roaming around in Vienna? What’s it like?[/quote]

Vienna is much more family oriented than a place like Clarendon, where you have to dodge drunk frat boys every Friday and Saturday night. It’s a much more family oriented place.[/quote]

And you can do very little in Vienna without getting in your car and driving for 10-15 minutes.  Sure there are some recreational walking paths if you want to get some exercise and you if you luck out your ES might be walkable but your options for you or your kids to walk/bike/take transit to just about anything will be close to zero.

All of that driving to soccer games and the grocery store is far more dangerous than dodging drunk frat boys on the weekend though why kids who live in Arlington would be crossing paths with that crowd is eluding me.

Ironically those drunk frat kids are most likely driving in from Vienna and other far flung Virginia suburbs.[/quote]

I'm the original PP who lives in Vienna, but not the person talking about Clarendon.  We walk to restaurants and parks.  We can't walk to the library, but know people who can and send their older kids there alone on foot.  Kids run around the neighborhood and between houses, or bike to friends' houses.  Lots of kids walk to school; mine take the bus.  We used to live a few blocks from Vienna Metro, but are now an easy bike ride away.

"Walkable" for families doesn't usually mean walking to the grocery store or a soccer game.  Before I moved to Vienna 10+ years ago, I lived literally behind a grocery store in Falls Church -- and I still drove to the grocery most of the time, because walking home with a flat of toilet paper and bung of bottles/cans is a PITA.  If your kids can walk to a park and/or their friends' houses that is plenty walkable for most people.[/quote]

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