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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Plenty of woods are by my house in Chevy Chase DC.  You can sometimes still find houses like you describe in the 700s.  Lafayette, Janney, Murch schools?

I find it hard to believe that anyone who lived in a townhouse in a "hot" area in DC would ever consider moving to Virginia.

[/quote] You will be surprised just how many people do.   Unless you plan to stop your kid education at elementary school level, chances are, you will be looking across the river or further north in MD sooner than you think.[/quote]

+1.  I don't think urban living in DC has such a powerful pull on most people.  It can be convenient, and it has its charms, but it's just not something that inspires a great deal of pride or loyalty among most of its residents, many of whom would jump to live in another area if the right opportunity came along.  In addition, the public schools aren't very good and the retail isn't great, either.

Given that a lot of current DC residents grew up elsewhere, leaving DC is not a big deal.  I do understand that there are those who pride themselves on having escaped the suburbs of their youth to live in the city, so such people clearly exist, but moving out of DC to NoVa or MoCo isn't a big deal for most of us.  [b]Leaving NYC for Long Island or Westchester, on the other hand, is often huge deal because people have more of their identify wrapped up in being New Yorkers.[/b] [/quote]

Westchester and LI burbs are much further from Manhattan attractions than most of the DC's burbs are from DC's cultural amenities.  DC area is much much smaller and you can easily make it to DC's central areas in 10-20 min without traffic on weekends from most burbs inside and around the beltway.  Moving to the burbs in DC is not as much of a sacrifice as people here really portray this to be.  Besides, a lot of people actually work in the burbs and it's easier commutes for them to live in NOVA or MD.  Driving into the city on the weekends is a breeze.  The way people make it sound is that moving to NOVA is like moving to another universe, it's really just a few miles away, across river accessible by a few uncongested and FREE bridges, plus, there is Metro access and bus access there too.  NYC is a different world, just getting in-out of the island is a huge PITA and traffic even on weekends can be insane.  I am from there.   Plus a lot of DC, esp. NWDC is essentially suburban in nature anyway, maybe cuter housing than NOVA, but that's about all its attraction really. [/quote]

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