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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure why posters are saying Vienna has strip malls...they certainly aren't unique to Vienna. There are strip malls all over Arlington, McLean, Falls Church, Fairfax, Bethesda, etc...  I can't think of any area that doesn't have a bunch of strip malls.  [/quote]

Probably because some Vienna posters lay on the "small-town" atmosphere thick enough to suggest it's some quaint village, all because of a few semi-cutesy blocks on Church Street.  You are right that all these areas have strip malls, though many of the strip malls in Arlington have been demolished and replaced with new development.   [/quote]

NP here. The small town feel of Vienna isn't because of a few cutesy blocks of Church Street. Even before Church Street was redeveloped, Vienna had a small town feel. It's because of the community center with sports fields right next to it. A fire station and police station right nearby holding bike rodeos and open houses. The library right down the street with story times and the playgrounds and parks right in town. Add in the July 4th festival and fireworks, the Halloween Parade, the Church Street Holiday Stroll, the Walk on the Hill, Viva Vienna, the Vienna Youth Theatre plays, the weekly farmers markets, the Taste of Vienna, and the Fire Station Pancake breakfasts all within a 4 square mile radius, and you can practically live the life of a small-town Norman Rockwell painting. Sure, it's not as quaint looking as a small New England town, but it functions as well or better than most of small-town America. The strip malls you see from Maple Avenue only tell one-quarter of the story.[/quote]

I lived there for over a decade and I just didn't get that vibe, the way I did when I lived in a small, historic town in another state further north, but carry on.  It's cute.[/quote]

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