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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think living in a walkable suburb, close to metro, with good public schools and county services, but still close enough in to enjoy city amenities frequently is the dream for a lot of people (at least for me it is). I live along the orange line in Arlington and am so happy raising my family here. My house isn’t new and big, but it’s nicely updated with a yard big enough for kids to run around plus several parks within a less than half a mile walk. Not all suburbs are created equal.[/quote]

Again, I’m just not sure why you need to be so close to the metro. Where are you going all the time?

I’m reading and walking and hiking and gardening. Where are you going?[/quote]

I’m a NP so I don’t know what you mean “again.” But our family takes the metro to museums, Nats games, events like the Easter Egg Roll, to the airport, etc. or even just within Arlington when we don’t feel like driving or the other parent has our only car. My kids think it’s fun to ride metro. I like that they’re growing up learning how to use transit so they can hopefully read subway maps in other cities when they travel. They also are used to riding in Ubers. When they are teens they can have independence without being tethered to needing a car to get places. But we still get all the perks of suburban living. It comes with a price tag though, which shows how in demand urban-ish suburbs are.[/quote]

OK, so we do actual art we play actual sports, My kids find it fun to ride a dirtbike.

Listen, my kids Have friends in the city and they are not metro anywhere they’re all taking Uber.

Ridiculousness of you saying that teens are shackled to a car yet you get into Metro bus or an Uber or metro I mean girl Come on. Your dependent on transportation consist of metal and gas.[/quote]

Or bike trails and sidewalks. We have those too. I like having options. I never said transportation doesn’t use gas so that is a weird tangent. Not being “shackled to a car” means my kids can go places without needing to always have access to a family car, needing to deal with finding parking, etc. And I have no idea what you mean “actual” art and sports. Like kids closer to the city don’t do those things?

Also, I didn’t even insult where you or anyone else lives. I just commented on what I like about the suburb I live in and that I don’t feel like living here is a failure. For whatever you’re really defensive about this. [/quote]

The kids in the suburbs, also go places without being “shackled to a car”.

They spend a lot more time in nature than indoors or riding in a concrete submarine.

Your kids do not go anywhere without using some sort of transportation.

The thing about parking in the suburbs is it’s everywhere. There’s no finding parking you just drive up and park.

My son is at my house and I drive them to the hospital and she’s like drop me off and then you can go find a place to park and I’m like there’s parking right here in front of the hospital. You literally don’t have parking at your hospitals.

Great I’m glad your city kids are rock, climbing, kayaking, biking, doing art, horseback riding… Yet you don’t mention any of those things you just talk about riding in a concrete submarine to other buildings did you go inside and watch other people do stuff[/quote]

I literally mentioned our yard, parks, and bike trails in my posts so I’m not sure where you get that I only talked about my kids riding the metro. Mine spend plenty of time outside (they play a lot of ball sports and do hiking/camping through scouts). We aren’t really horse people, but I’m glad you have access to that if you like it.

Also, you specifically asked where we ride the metro to so that is why I listed the places we go on the metro. I never said that is all we do so not sure why you’d assume my kids are riding it all day to buildings.

You are so weirdly angry about me saying I enjoy living in Arlington. I’m not sure why you have such a strange hang up about it![/quote]

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