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[quote=Anonymous]Another N.Arl. resident posting.  I totally agree with this PP  "OP - I'm a North Arlington PP and there is definitely a premium for metro when you're comparing SIMILAR properties. There are expensive areas farther from Metro, but they're generally expensive because they're exclusive, have bigger houses or more land or they're a new infill house. Lyon Village is a good example - you compare a house in Lyon Village (walkable to Clarendon) with a similar one in Country Club (2.5 miles from Ballston) and the prices are very different. Hint: you can park at Ballston Commons Mall for $8/weekday, $1/weekend day or $77/month. That's what I do, so we can use Metro without paying $200K extra for the same house closer to Metro. "

We live  in N.Arl. nearish to Yorktown highschool.  I could walk to EFC metro - would be more than a mile and I probably wouldn't bother.  (We park in the Ballston mall if we need metro parking - my husband has a weekday parking pass because he works in Ballston and that's where we park if we need something weekends or evenings, it's very reasonable and close to home so the drive isn't bad or stressful.)  But I can also easily walk to cofee, bagel store, ice cream, groceries and a few good restaurants from my home.  Living in the 'burbs doesn't always equal total loss of walkability.  Plus in between my house and all those things mentioned above is a truly awesome playground and my kids are close enough to walk to their elementary, middle and highschool, all of which are good schools.  No, there's not as much to do as if you were downtown and had shops etc in every direction, but with small kids, how much of that are you going to do anyway?

One downside - when we've had friends visiting from out of twon, it can be hard to pick them up from metro since we've got two carseats installed in our car we don't have enough seat room for two adults plus a driver without taking out carseats, but carless guests have had little to no trouble using bus+metro to get around during the week and to sight see (I agree, with others that on the weekend this can be a PITA as both buses and metros come much less frequently, it makes the waiting really not worth it.)

OP, for $900k you can definitely buy in a neighborhood like mine which, if you don't want/need metro every day, may be a really good fit for you.[/quote]

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