Anonymous wrote:With a ten year old and that budget, I would look at McLean Hamlet. So many kids

The worst intersection in McLean is Balls Hill and Georgetown Pike, near Cooper MS. Balls Hill and Old Dominion is almost as bad. If we’d known how awful the traffic is near Cooper we would have bought on the other side of McLean closer to Falls Church.

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Anonymous wrote:Aw.

Does anyone remember eating at Evans Farm Inn? Sigh.

It's too bad they turn all these pretty places into ugly townhome communities.

Fairfax county would not give the restaurant and working farm a tax break. The family that operated the place were forced into selling. They had great food until they closed way back in the 2000s, some 15 years ago or so.

25 yrs ago

I went to so many wedding receptions there. I've never forgotten that place. We loved going there.

Anonymous wrote:With a ten year old and that budget, I would look at McLean Hamlet. So many kids

OP here: Thank you for the advice everyone! We'll look elsewhere, including McLean Hamlet. When we last lived in D.C. we had a condo in Dupont Circle, so navigating all the neighborhoods in Nova is quite a change, especially from afar.

I had my wedding reception at Evan’s Farm Inn. It was a beautiful place and would have been a true gem if it had been able to continue.

With a ten year old and that budget, I would look at McLean Hamlet. So many kids

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Anonymous wrote:It's near tons of traffic and major commuter routes- look at the map, 495 is right there and 267 has already been mentioned. It's near Little Langley too (a Pk- 8). That private school does have bus service, but having a school right there adds to the business of the area.

If you care at all about particulate matter, that's going to be an issue there too. I used to drive through their every morning and I would never want to live right there (though if you are retired and live there part-time, I could see the appeal)

It’s not that close to Little Langley. You’re thinking of the Evans Mill Pond townhouses on the other side of Route 123.

Wrong, it's in spitting distance. Look at a map. Little Langley is across Dolley Madison to the north right next to the police station.

It is close, but because of the way the roads are, the school does not really affect traffic in Evan’s Farm.

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Anonymous wrote:It's near tons of traffic and major commuter routes- look at the map, 495 is right there and 267 has already been mentioned. It's near Little Langley too (a Pk- 8). That private school does have bus service, but having a school right there adds to the business of the area.

If you care at all about particulate matter, that's going to be an issue there too. I used to drive through their every morning and I would never want to live right there (though if you are retired and live there part-time, I could see the appeal)

You’re 100% not talking about the subject TH. But do go on.

DP, but no need to be snide. The "subject townhouse" does indeed abut Chain Bridge. Look at a map. It gets that traffic - which is a LOT, and all of the cars turning into the development at the gatehouse. Every time a car traveling from the east turns into the development, the lights go into the "subject townhouse".

And, yes, it IS near "tons of traffic and major commuter routes". Everything the PP says is correct. Also, the intersection of Great Falls and Dolley Madison is one of the worst in Tysons. This development is plunked inbetween Dolley Madison, Chain Bridge AND Great Falls. Avoid

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Anonymous wrote:It's near tons of traffic and major commuter routes- look at the map, 495 is right there and 267 has already been mentioned. It's near Little Langley too (a Pk- 8). That private school does have bus service, but having a school right there adds to the business of the area.

If you care at all about particulate matter, that's going to be an issue there too. I used to drive through their every morning and I would never want to live right there (though if you are retired and live there part-time, I could see the appeal)

It’s not that close to Little Langley. You’re thinking of the Evans Mill Pond townhouses on the other side of Route 123.

Wrong, it's in spitting distance. Look at a map. Little Langley is across Dolley Madison to the north right next to the police station.

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Anonymous wrote:Aw.

Does anyone remember eating at Evans Farm Inn? Sigh.

It's too bad they turn all these pretty places into ugly townhome communities.

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Loved that place. We became friends w/ the caretaker of rhe farm and his family. I really think the could have done a nice development there with green space and larger houses. Instead you have these houses wedged into each other and this row faces a major road yet no real access onto it. Terribly done. They were built cheaply (same builder and models as fords landing, that subdivision right off 395 in dc, etc). I think EYA was the builder? They have not aged well

They’ve more than held their value, grandma. The main entrance is intentionally off Chain Bridge, not Dolley Madison.

Nevertheless, constructed cheaply. ask anyone in McLean.

Anonymous wrote:It's near tons of traffic and major commuter routes- look at the map, 495 is right there and 267 has already been mentioned. It's near Little Langley too (a Pk- 8). That private school does have bus service, but having a school right there adds to the business of the area.

If you care at all about particulate matter, that's going to be an issue there too. I used to drive through their every morning and I would never want to live right there (though if you are retired and live there part-time, I could see the appeal)

You’re 100% not talking about the subject TH. But do go on.

We loved Thanksgiving and other dinners there.

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Anonymous wrote:Aw.

Does anyone remember eating at Evans Farm Inn? Sigh.

It's too bad they turn all these pretty places into ugly townhome communities.

Fairfax county would not give the restaurant and working farm a tax break. The family that operated the place were forced into selling. They had great food until they closed way back in the 2000s, some 15 years ago or so.

25 yrs ago

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Anonymous wrote:Aw.

Does anyone remember eating at Evans Farm Inn? Sigh.

It's too bad they turn all these pretty places into ugly townhome communities.

We used to skate on the pond and feed the ducks.

McLean has changed a lot. And not in a good way.

Change is inevitable. McLean isn't immune from it, even if it happens more slowly there than most places.

It's the best place we've ever lived and I say that as a Maryland natives who's also lived in NW and other parts of NoVa.

Yes, thanks, I know. But change is not always for the better.

Anonymous wrote:Aw.

Does anyone remember eating at Evans Farm Inn? Sigh.

It's too bad they turn all these pretty places into ugly townhome communities.

Fairfax county would not give the restaurant and working farm a tax break. The family that operated the place were forced into selling. They had great food until they closed way back in the 2000s, some 15 years ago or so.

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Anonymous wrote:Aw.

Does anyone remember eating at Evans Farm Inn? Sigh.

It's too bad they turn all these pretty places into ugly townhome communities.

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Loved that place. We became friends w/ the caretaker of rhe farm and his family. I really think the could have done a nice development there with green space and larger houses. Instead you have these houses wedged into each other and this row faces a major road yet no real access onto it. Terribly done. They were built cheaply (same builder and models as fords landing, that subdivision right off 395 in dc, etc). I think EYA was the builder? They have not aged well

They’ve more than held their value, grandma. The main entrance is intentionally off Chain Bridge, not Dolley Madison.