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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For some, it s not just price.  Not every commutes in.  If I lived in McLean, my commute would be worse and more expensive.  [/quote]

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In Northern Virginia, all bets are off.  Yes, for lots of reasons, certain areas will have higher home prices but it isn't as clear cut as it was long ago when the majority of high paying jobs were in DC. The proximity to jobs argument doesn't work anymore because DC is not the only place to work--especially in Virginia.   We could afford Mclean, Arlington, Bethesda, Falls Church, Alexandria and Great Falls. We chose Vienna because we found a house were my commute is 10 minutes.  Kids walk to school and the pool.  We have walking trails nearby and our Church is also walkable.  If we decide to work in DC again, we are near to the new metro line and the old orange line.  Wolf trap is in our back yard.  Groceries, restaurants, shopping are all within 10-15 minutes.  For us, the commute was the clincher but all the other stuff was a big deal too.  Lots of McLean is really nice but our house was built by Yeonas in the late 60's as were many McLean houses and it is large colonial like many McLean houses.  So I got the SAME house for about $250,000 less.  Yes, we could have paid more for the McLean address and very slightly better school (we are Madison).   But when the commute is worse, and shopping and restaurants are less in McLean than Vienna, we did not think forking over that much more money for McLean high school was worth it.  For that amount, we could send both our kids to private high school.[/quote]

Are you talking about Wolftrap ES rather than the Wolf Trap Performing Arts Center?  No one zoned for Madison has Wolf Trap (the Arts Center) in their back yard.  The area around Wolf Trap is primarily zoned for McLean HS, with the areas south of the Toll Road near Wolf Trap zoned for Marshall HS.    [/quote]

I was unclear.  I am walking distance to Wolftrap ES.  However, I did mean that Wolftrap is in my backyard.   In reality, Wolftrap creek is in my back yard --actually my yard abuts the park that has the creek and trails and basketball and a playground.  I can walk to the creek directly from my yard.  I feel completely secluded and have deer, fox, woodpeckers, and many other birds in view all the time.  The Wolftrap performing arts park is very close--1.5 miles or maybe 2--so not in my backyard but really close.[/quote]

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