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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s hard for me to picture OP pushing one of those wheeled shoppers down the sidewalk to her walkable 1.1 mil house.

OP please define what is walkable to you.

I live in an 850k house in Oak Hill. It is a “walkable” neighborhood in the sense that there are safe sidewalks, little car traffic, and the neighborhood is pleasant to walk around in with friendly neighbors also walking around. But I don’t really do any walks besides dog walking. However, the pool and tennis club and shopping center with many amenities are a short bike or car ride away without having to use any major roads. My kids ride their bikes plenty of places and take the bus to school. So while we have a car, we are not in it that much. But I don’t go out to drink at bars or get coffee. We do that stuff at home. Maybe that’s what OP wants or thinks she wants.

If I had 1.1 mil, I’d look at Franklin Farm and enjoy walking in that neighborhood.

Vienna might have a lot of shops and restaurants crammed in, but I’d hardly call Maple Ave a place I’d want to walk around.

I have no idea what the illegal immigrant poster is on about. [/quote]
I'm the OP. We currently are within <15 min walk to a Trader Joe's, a CVS, a park with a playground, and a bunch of restaurants. I would consider that very walkable. Having access to the park only would not be walkable IMO.[/quote]

OP, look for a suburban shopping center with a store/restaurant mix you like, and then look at the housing adjacent to it. Frankin Farms is a very well done example because it has nice paths and common green space, but there are TH and SFH built behind every grocery-anchored shopping center in the suburbs.

T[b]o take the Vienna example PP asked about, if you drive down Maple you see a series of shopping centers. Immediately behind them on both sides are residential neighborhoods. People in those neighborhoods walk on quiet streets (not on Maple) to the shops that front Maple.[/b] [/quote]

They do indeed walk on quiet streets to the shops on Maple. But not from homes that cost 1.1M or less. [/quote]

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