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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I realize this is quite broad but we are thinking of relocating from NYC and thus don't have any family or friends (or work!) in the area we need to be near. Dh will commute to NYC and work 2 days from office there, once a week (stay in hotel overnight). Budget is $6-$8k per month. Could be city or burb. Number one priority: would love really good schools for DCs (who are 8 and 10), and some historic element/ oldness to the area. And a yard! Ideally house not apartment. Any tips so so so welcome and ty! [/quote]

Historic house, yard, good schools, close to an airport or train station…. All for 6-8k per month.

It’s not broad at all.  You’re basically describing a carriage house that may or may not exist in a 6-10 block area of Rosemont in Alexandria.

This would make a great house hunters episode.

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How would that work for getting to the Amtrak? It's a PITA to go between Alexandria and anywhere else.  Everytime I go there - which is not often, usually when we have family in town that want to check out King St or whatever - I regret it.[/quote]

DCA - no one trains from Alexandria to NYC because of the few number of trains… but it’s technically possible.[/quote]

WTF are you smoking? Two of my neighbors do Alexandria- Union Station multiple times a month for the last.... 15 years.[/quote]

So switching twice and then taking a 3+ hour train to NYC? And then back in the evening? Come on.[/quote]

Are these bots or trolls?

There is no switching. Not once, not twice. You walk down Commonwealth to the train station, get on the train, go to the quiet car, scroll through emails, and voila, you are in NYC.[/quote]

This oversimplifies. There is a ~40 min stop in DC while they change the engine. [/quote]

But there are people posting here who don’t seem to know that there is an Amtrak station in Alexandria. There are ten trains a day from Alexandria to Penn Station. Getting the train in Alexandria does add about 45 minutes to the trip. The only way to avoid that would be to live walking distance to Union Station, since you’d have to allow that much time to travel from Cleveland Park (or wherever) to Union Station (source: I used to live in Cleveland Park and work on the Hill).

https://www.amtrak.com/tickets/schedule-results.html[/quote]

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