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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want to be walkable to Old Town Alexandria, you have basically Del Ray (just north) Rosemont (just northwest)  Taylor Run (due west),  Carlyle/Eisenhower East (just southwest)   [quote]and some parts of Fairfax immediately due south (which have Alexandria street addresses)[/quote]

Carlyle has no single family houses, I think, if that is what you are looking for. Rosemont and Taylor run will be somewhat challenging in your price range, I think  - and Taylor Run I think is weak on walkability to shops, and not an easy walk to Old Town (because the direct route on Duke is a terrible place to walk).  The areas in FFX just south of Old Town are cheaper, not much in the way of local retail (but more is coming with redevelopment I think) but also not the most pleasant walk to Old Town (you have to walk on a sidepath along Telegraph on a high bridge over the highway and RR tracks, and its a good distance)

Best bet sounds like Del Ray, but the houses there are mostly not large, and if you thinking of needing public schools at some point, note that there is a fair amount of disagreement on the desirability of the schools there.

There are many more parts of Fairfax County with Alexandria mailing addresses, some of which have been suggested, but they are far from walkable to Old Town. [/quote]

This continues to be weird description of parts of the FC part of Alexandria "some parts of fairfax immediately due south (which have Alexandria) street addresses". This argument that is often on the real estate section of DCUM makes zero sense. Are parts of Falls Church or Mclean really fairfax because they are fairfax county? The parts of Alexandria that are in Fairfax County are still Alexandria. It makes no sense they would be considered Fairfax when they are nowhere close. [/quote]

I wouldn't call them "Fairfax" though they ARE in Fairfax County, feed to FCPS, pay FFX taxes, etc, etc.

I would call them Belle Haven, Kingstowne, Lincolnia, Hybla Valley, etc.

I won't call them "Alexandria" just because A. The USPS allows them to be so addressed B.  and some people want the prestige of Old Town, without dealing with Alexandria schools or property taxes.

You are free to call them Alexandria. I am free to mock you and call them "fake Alexandria".  [/quote]

DP.  Please stop this silly argument. As a historical matter, you’re wrong. There’s a complicated history, but the short version is that the existing “City of Alexandria” is relatively new as it was set up as a separate entity in 1852 because it was the part of Alexandria that was ceded to DC and later returned to Virginia. [b]In fact, parts of “The City of Alexandria” (Del  Ray, Potomac Yard, etc) were in an incorporated Town called Potomac and weren’t annexed until 1930. Pre-cessation, the Town of Alexandria was the County Seat of Fairfax County. It’s all historically, “Alexandria.”[/b] [/quote]

Not quite right. Alexandria was the city associated with Alexandria County, VA which had its own county courthouse built in the late 1800s where the Orange Line Courthouse Metro station is today. Before that, Alexandria was the county seat of Alexandria County, VA, and Alexandria County, D.C., when it was part of the District of Columbia. Alexandria County was renamed Arlington County in 1920. Soon thereafter, Alexandria (the city) annexed portions of Arlington County including the town of Potomac. [/quote]

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