AgentX wrote:The Virginia side will be a tougher commute for you to the Hill. Do you have a strong preference on VA or MD? Many people who are from here do have strong preferences.

If MD - I would say Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Kensington

If VA - Falls Church City, Vienna is lovely but would be pushing it with a commute

If DC - AU Park, Glover Park, Chevy Chase

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Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure I understand the takoma park recs when you’re commuting to the hill. We live in westover in Arlington with two kids in a house worth less than 1.2. Very happy on all accounts. Small yard, great neighbors, very happy with the walkability and ease getting places. We bike a lot - trails abound here too. My husband used to commute to the hill daily pre-pandemic. By car, super easy. By train he would bike to metro and go in that way and I can’t remember how long maybe 45 min it wasn’t that short because he had the bike at the front end etc. So maybe takoma park isn’t that bad either, just seems on the other side of things from the hill. We highly considered takoma park md as well so agree it’s a great spot.

Takoma Park is a 15 minute metro ride (max) from Union Station, so makes sense to me why you’d consider TP.

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Anonymous wrote:Close in Silver Spring (inside the Beltway). It’s 20 min on the metro to Union Station.

+1. Also the areas just outside the beltway near Forest Glen.

This is where I live and I love it but OP has $1.5 million to spend and houses here are generally in the 500-900K range. OP may want to look in Kensington which is an easy drive to the Forest Glen metro and potentially easy walk to the MARC train to Union Station. Houses are closer to OP’s budget there. I also agree with PP who suggested Takoma Park.

Op here! Wow so many helpful responses! And for the record, I would be happier if I didn’t have to spend 1.5, and could keep it closer to 1 or 1.2, but with my casual browsing I had assumed that wouldn’t cut it.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m hopelessly clueless about the areas surrounding DC. We are starting to think about moving from our townhouse in DC to somewhere out in the burbs, but “out of DC” is so many places I’m a bit lost as to where we should even start looking! If you moved out of DC, where’d you go and why?

About us: we’ve got two kids in elementary, and frankly the reason for the move is to be in a more established school and school system. It would also be nice to have some of those amenities I think of when I imagine moving out of the city—like a proper yard, parking, and a little extra space. But I go in to work almost every day down by the Hill, so don’t want to be spending too too much time commuting (or if there is a longer commute hopefully it would be all on train or something?). We also don’t want to completely abandon our mostly walking/biking lifestyle around our neighborhood, and hopefully some place that would welcome some aging hipsters who lean maybe a little bit crunchy. Does such an area exist?? I thiink we’d be hoping to find something around 1.5ish. Are we dreaming?!?

Anyone know where we should start looking?!

Easy. Bethesda. Woodacres/Pyle/Whitman. Done.

Anonymous wrote:I’m hopelessly clueless about the areas surrounding DC. We are starting to think about moving from our townhouse in DC to somewhere out in the burbs, but “out of DC” is so many places I’m a bit lost as to where we should even start looking! If you moved out of DC, where’d you go and why?

About us: we’ve got two kids in elementary, and frankly the reason for the move is to be in a more established school and school system. It would also be nice to have some of those amenities I think of when I imagine moving out of the city—like a proper yard, parking, and a little extra space. But I go in to work almost every day down by the Hill, so don’t want to be spending too too much time commuting (or if there is a longer commute hopefully it would be all on train or something?). We also don’t want to completely abandon our mostly walking/biking lifestyle around our neighborhood, and hopefully some place that would welcome some aging hipsters who lean maybe a little bit crunchy. Does such an area exist?? I thiink we’d be hoping to find something around 1.5ish. Are we dreaming?!?

Anyone know where we should start looking?!

Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure I understand the takoma park recs when you’re commuting to the hill. We live in westover in Arlington with two kids in a house worth less than 1.2. Very happy on all accounts. Small yard, great neighbors, very happy with the walkability and ease getting places. We bike a lot - trails abound here too. My husband used to commute to the hill daily pre-pandemic. By car, super easy. By train he would bike to metro and go in that way and I can’t remember how long maybe 45 min it wasn’t that short because he had the bike at the front end etc. So maybe takoma park isn’t that bad either, just seems on the other side of things from the hill. We highly considered takoma park md as well so agree it’s a great spot.

Anonymous wrote:I’m not sure I understand the takoma park recs when you’re commuting to the hill. We live in westover in Arlington with two kids in a house worth less than 1.2. Very happy on all accounts. Small yard, great neighbors, very happy with the walkability and ease getting places. We bike a lot - trails abound here too. My husband used to commute to the hill daily pre-pandemic. By car, super easy. By train he would bike to metro and go in that way and I can’t remember how long maybe 45 min it wasn’t that short because he had the bike at the front end etc. So maybe takoma park isn’t that bad either, just seems on the other side of things from the hill. We highly considered takoma park md as well so agree it’s a great spot.

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Anonymous wrote:Close in Silver Spring (inside the Beltway). It’s 20 min on the metro to Union Station.

+1. Also the areas just outside the beltway near Forest Glen.

This is where I live and I love it but OP has $1.5 million to spend and houses here are generally in the 500-900K range. OP may want to look in Kensington which is an easy drive to the Forest Glen metro and potentially easy walk to the MARC train to Union Station. Houses are closer to OP’s budget there. I also agree with PP who suggested Takoma Park.

I mean, just because they can afford 1.5M doesn’t mean they have to spend the full amount.

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Anonymous wrote:AU Park or Cleveland Park.

+1