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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm pretty sure Long Branch is the APS that buses kids from the Ft Myer CDC...so if you need before or after school care you can get it on post at a VERY reasonable price. A bonus to using Ft Myer SAS for before and after school is priority in their summer camp program.

There is a great mix of military/non-military in Fairfax county down along the GW Parkway toward Mt Vernon. The schools down that way -- Belle View, Waynewood, Stratford Landing, Fort Hunt -- are good and there are many community activities inside the school and within the communities themselves. Commute to the Pentagon is 25ish minutes if you go in early.

The best advice in this area is to minimize your commute. [b]Sure you can get a big, new home on lots of land farther south, but the trade off is a horrendous commute.[/b][/quote]

Many of us commute to Reston, Herndon, Dulles, McLean, etc. and so getting a big home on lots of land in the suburbs makes perfect sense.  It seems like so many DCUM-ers assume everyone's commuting to DC, and that's certainly not the reality in our neighborhood.  [/quote]

I'm the PP who wrote what you quoted. I don't assume everyone commutes to DC. However, the OP said her husband will commute to the Pentagon. We are a military family with one commuting to the Pentagon and I can say, from experience, that the commute from the Mt Vernon area of Fairfax County is not bad. Commuting to the Pentagon from much farther south (Woodbridge, Dale City, Aquia) and from the western part of Fairfax County takes longer than the OP indicated they were interested in. If I worked in Reston, Herndon, Dulles, or McLean then, sure, I'd live out that way. Just trying to answer the OP's inquiry. [/quote]

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