Why not some of the areas near the Great Falls Village Center/

Id recommend some of the areas off of west ox

Anonymous wrote:Navy elementary.

What neighborhoods feeding into Navy?

OP here, we could expand our house a little, we looked into it, but we cannot expand our garage or our lot. We were optimistic that maybe there were other neighborhoods out there with great people....and three car garages! I don't want to necessarily be tied to this house forever (been here for more than 10 years) but didn't want to move up to a dud of a neighborhood either. We may end up staying till the kids are out of elementary school if nothing looks promising but all things being equal it'd be nice to have a bigger house and lot and we are open to making new friends. We'd definitely stay in touch with friends here it just isn't the same when you aren't down the street realistically. Way more planning and coordination to get together so I'd like our new neighborhood to be cool as well.

Tammarack off Hunter Mill Rd is VERY social- lots of kids, lots of parties. There is a community pool. Feed into Oakton Elementary School (AAP), Thoureau M.S. but you can select the AAP Luther Jackson if wanted, and Madison H.S. Homes aren't quite your price point- they are a bit lower.

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Anonymous wrote:You can find a new construction house or a newer house for under $1.5 million in the Westbriar school area of Vienna on 1/2 - 1 acre depending on the lot and house. Westbriar is either a center or has local level IV - they just switched it last year and I can't recall which one. Its not far to the toll road via Browns Mill from that area. Westbriar mostly feeds to Marshall HS.

Yes, but doesn't the OP want an established community that socializes? New houses on huge lots doesn't fit the request.

Westbriar has two attendance areas - one near Tysons and the other out near Browns Mill. The area further west near Browns Mill (the "Westbriar Island") probably will get moved to Colvin Run or Wolftrap, or split between those schools in a year or two. Westbriar is now an AAP center and the enrollment is growing with more people living near Tysons.

Also, if the island gets moved to Colvin Run, it will probably move from Marshall to Langley.

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Anonymous wrote:We are looking at moving up to a bigger house and are having a hard time finding a neighborhood to target. Our current neighborhood is VERY social and that is really important to us- lots of neighborhood get togethers, kids playing in the street, etc. We are looking at houses in the 1.2 to 1.6M range. We'd like at least a little land- half acre min. and the elementary schools should be an Ffx AAP center school as our older kids are in AAP and we don't want to manage multiple schools for the younger ones. We both work. We work off of the toll road west of Reston so we don't need to be near DC. Summer swim team a bonus.

Does anyone live in a great fun neighborhood that sounds like this? Thank you!

You probably can't recreate your current neighborhood as part of what makes it special are the memories you have already created and friendships and support network you have made. Can you expand your current house?

I was thinking the same. OP, really - if you have neighbors you like, I can not emphasize enough that you stay where you are. Who knows? You might end up next to some gun toting neighborhood watch vigilante type who has irrational visceral disdain for the new builds and will do anything to make it a point. Oh yeah, he exists, and it aint pretty.

You can change house accoutrements, but you can not change the whack job next door. I would tell you to stay where you are if you like the neighbors and they are normal.

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Anonymous wrote:You can find a new construction house or a newer house for under $1.5 million in the Westbriar school area of Vienna on 1/2 - 1 acre depending on the lot and house. Westbriar is either a center or has local level IV - they just switched it last year and I can't recall which one. Its not far to the toll road via Browns Mill from that area. Westbriar mostly feeds to Marshall HS.

Yes, but doesn't the OP want an established community that socializes? New houses on huge lots doesn't fit the request.

Most of the new construction would be on an in-fill lot so already in an established neighborhood, and Vienna tends to be relatively social overall between all the community events, pool clubs, etc. And I'd hardly call 1/2 an acre a huge lot - it was OP's minimum requirement.

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Anonymous wrote:You can find a new construction house or a newer house for under $1.5 million in the Westbriar school area of Vienna on 1/2 - 1 acre depending on the lot and house. Westbriar is either a center or has local level IV - they just switched it last year and I can't recall which one. Its not far to the toll road via Browns Mill from that area. Westbriar mostly feeds to Marshall HS.

Yes, but doesn't the OP want an established community that socializes? New houses on huge lots doesn't fit the request.

Westbriar has two attendance areas - one near Tysons and the other out near Browns Mill. The area further west near Browns Mill (the "Westbriar Island") probably will get moved to Colvin Run or Wolftrap, or split between those schools in a year or two. Westbriar is now an AAP center and the enrollment is growing with more people living near Tysons.

Check out some of the neighborhoods along 7 like Colvin Run Forest, Towlston Meadows, and Shouse Village. Shouse Village meets your requirements (summer swim team, very social, tight-knit neighborhood, feeds into Colvin Run AAP center, lots are about .5 acre, sidewalks). Houses are well below your budget as the houses are older but as PP mentioned you could renovate. Might be a challenge finding a home there as they very rarely come on the market

I think neighborhoods are more social if there is not a ton of land separating houses or if it is a pool community. What about shouse village and expand the house?

Anonymous wrote:We are looking at moving up to a bigger house and are having a hard time finding a neighborhood to target. Our current neighborhood is VERY social and that is really important to us- lots of neighborhood get togethers, kids playing in the street, etc. We are looking at houses in the 1.2 to 1.6M range. We'd like at least a little land- half acre min. and the elementary schools should be an Ffx AAP center school as our older kids are in AAP and we don't want to manage multiple schools for the younger ones. We both work. We work off of the toll road west of Reston so we don't need to be near DC. Summer swim team a bonus.

Does anyone live in a great fun neighborhood that sounds like this? Thank you!

You probably can't recreate your current neighborhood as part of what makes it special are the memories you have already created and friendships and support network you have made. Can you expand your current house?

Yes OP here- fun neighborhood is a huge requirement. I don't want just a nice house on an isolated patch of land. It's the hardest thing to judge about areas - once kids came we shifted social focus to immediate neighborhood so moving is tough- basically need to make new friends and want an outgoing neighborhood with happy hours, bbqs, etc. I dont know any other way to find super social neighborhoods other than asking people if they live in one!

Anonymous wrote:You can find a new construction house or a newer house for under $1.5 million in the Westbriar school area of Vienna on 1/2 - 1 acre depending on the lot and house. Westbriar is either a center or has local level IV - they just switched it last year and I can't recall which one. Its not far to the toll road via Browns Mill from that area. Westbriar mostly feeds to Marshall HS.

Yes, but doesn't the OP want an established community that socializes? New houses on huge lots doesn't fit the request.

You can find a new construction house or a newer house for under $1.5 million in the Westbriar school area of Vienna on 1/2 - 1 acre depending on the lot and house. Westbriar is either a center or has local level IV - they just switched it last year and I can't recall which one. Its not far to the toll road via Browns Mill from that area. Westbriar mostly feeds to Marshall HS.