Anonymous wrote:Do it! But go for oakton, Vienna is so much traffic and strip malls. Oakton is lovely. I'd say one hour commute into the city due to traffic. Carpool for 66 and cut that in galf

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Anonymous wrote:Currently own tiny sh!tbox rambler in great elem school district south of Oldtown Alexandria ... DH and I bought before we had any kids, now we have 2 kids, 3 and 1.

While zoned for great elem school, middle and high school are pretty rough. We need a bigger home, now in 2 bedroom, and just realized we can get decent place in Viennna, Oakton for same price as larger home in our area (Ffx county part of Alexandria).

We commute to McPherson Square area in DC, although DH works from home a lot. Takes an hour in mornings, usually 75 minutes on way home from where we are... would Vienna, Oakton be that much worse?

I used to live in Vienna next to the metro. It'll be close to an hour. If you drive to the metro, the parking is full after 7:30 am. Forget about driving, it would be a nightmare. I'm in McLean now close to N Arlington and the drive takes me around 1 hour around 8 AM.

were you using the south garage or north garage? DH uses the north garage and says it's always super easy to get a spot on the main level. He tends to go at 8:00, 10:00 or even as late as 1:00.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Vienna and commute daily to McPherson, and it's about an hour door to door, when metro is running on time. I think that's going to increase when the new "service" levels are put into place at the end of June because trains will run less frequently. (Metro: Higher Fares, Less Service)

Breaking that down, it's about 15-20 minutes to drive there, park, and walk to the station, 35 minutes on the train (again, when on schedule), and a 5-10 minute walk to get out of the station and into the building.

This is where you are wrong... OP asked specifically about Vienna/Oakton... meaning she is looking at the area right around the Vienna metro. I live very close to it (in a SFH worth 900K -- not a th or condo). It is literally 3 min. to the metro parking garage on the north side. It is 20 min. from Vienna to Roslyn station. Exactly. I've timed it. So, add on 10 min. to get to McPherson. 10 min. to walk from the metro to office. I would say 45 min. max. Might be less.

Are you seriously telling me that I don't know how long my commute takes? (I mean, yours sounds like some over-optimistic bullshit to me, but I don't know where in the surrounding area you live and am willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.) I live in Vienna and have for nearly a decade. It takes me 15-20 minutes to drive from where I live IN VIENNA to the actual metro station, park in the garage, and walk from the garage to the actual platform. I am not at the furthest reaches of Vienna, either. I'm on my third home in Vienna, and the best I ever did was 10 minutes when I lived on Ware near Kingsley.

OP did not once say that they were looking at living right on top of the metro. They said Vienna/Oakton, which covers a pretty wide area. Most of Oakton is further away from the metro than I am, and headed to the metro, you're dealing with traffic going both there, to 66, and to the local elementary schools. And god help you if you have to get on 123 at all. Unless you're in the 66 side of Vienna Woods, the surrounding townhouse/condo/apartment communities, Edgelea, etc., it's not a five minute hop to the metro, and the walk from the parking areas at Vienna are not like the ones at the walk-up stations like EFC.

I am also so impressed that you managed to work in that you live in a $900K home -- and not one of those attached-type things, either! -- in a thread about commuting times. How DCUM of you. Is your HHI over $500K as well?

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Vienna and commute daily to McPherson, and it's about an hour door to door, when metro is running on time. I think that's going to increase when the new "service" levels are put into place at the end of June because trains will run less frequently. (Metro: Higher Fares, Less Service)

Breaking that down, it's about 15-20 minutes to drive there, park, and walk to the station, 35 minutes on the train (again, when on schedule), and a 5-10 minute walk to get out of the station and into the building.

This is where you are wrong... OP asked specifically about Vienna/Oakton... meaning she is looking at the area right around the Vienna metro. I live very close to it (in a SFH worth 900K -- not a th or condo). It is literally 3 min. to the metro parking garage on the north side. It is 20 min. from Vienna to Roslyn station. Exactly. I've timed it. So, add on 10 min. to get to McPherson. 10 min. to walk from the metro to office. I would say 45 min. max. Might be less.

Are you seriously telling me that I don't know how long my commute takes? (I mean, yours sounds like some over-optimistic bullshit to me, but I don't know where in the surrounding area you live and am willing to give you the benefit of the doubt.) I live in Vienna and have for nearly a decade. It takes me 15-20 minutes to drive from where I live IN VIENNA to the actual metro station, park in the garage, and walk from the garage to the actual platform. I am not at the furthest reaches of Vienna, either. I'm on my third home in Vienna, and the best I ever did was 10 minutes when I lived on Ware near Kingsley.

OP did not once say that they were looking at living right on top of the metro. They said Vienna/Oakton, which covers a pretty wide area. Most of Oakton is further away from the metro than I am, and headed to the metro, you're dealing with traffic going both there, to 66, and to the local elementary schools. And god help you if you have to get on 123 at all. Unless you're in the 66 side of Vienna Woods, the surrounding townhouse/condo/apartment communities, Edgelea, etc., it's not a five minute hop to the metro, and the walk from the parking areas at Vienna are not like the ones at the walk-up stations like EFC.

I am also so impressed that you managed to work in that you live in a $900K home -- and not one of those attached-type things, either! -- in a thread about commuting times. How DCUM of you. Is your HHI over $500K as well?

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Anonymous wrote:Currently own tiny sh!tbox rambler in great elem school district south of Oldtown Alexandria ... DH and I bought before we had any kids, now we have 2 kids, 3 and 1.

While zoned for great elem school, middle and high school are pretty rough. We need a bigger home, now in 2 bedroom, and just realized we can get decent place in Viennna, Oakton for same price as larger home in our area (Ffx county part of Alexandria).

We commute to McPherson Square area in DC, although DH works from home a lot. Takes an hour in mornings, usually 75 minutes on way home from where we are... would Vienna, Oakton be that much worse?

I used to live in Vienna next to the metro. It'll be close to an hour. If you drive to the metro, the parking is full after 7:30 am. Forget about driving, it would be a nightmare. I'm in McLean now close to N Arlington and the drive takes me around 1 hour around 8 AM.

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Anonymous wrote:Currently own tiny sh!tbox rambler in great elem school district south of Oldtown Alexandria ... DH and I bought before we had any kids, now we have 2 kids, 3 and 1.

While zoned for great elem school, middle and high school are pretty rough. We need a bigger home, now in 2 bedroom, and just realized we can get decent place in Viennna, Oakton for same price as larger home in our area (Ffx county part of Alexandria).

We commute to McPherson Square area in DC, although DH works from home a lot. Takes an hour in mornings, usually 75 minutes on way home from where we are... would Vienna, Oakton be that much worse?

I used to live in Vienna next to the metro. It'll be close to an hour. If you drive to the metro, the parking is full after 7:30 am. Forget about driving, it would be a nightmare. I'm in McLean now close to N Arlington and the drive takes me around 1 hour around 8 AM.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Currently own tiny sh!tbox rambler in great elem school district south of Oldtown Alexandria ... DH and I bought before we had any kids, now we have 2 kids, 3 and 1.

While zoned for great elem school, middle and high school are pretty rough. We need a bigger home, now in 2 bedroom, and just realized we can get decent place in Viennna, Oakton for same price as larger home in our area (Ffx county part of Alexandria).

We commute to McPherson Square area in DC, although DH works from home a lot. Takes an hour in mornings, usually 75 minutes on way home from where we are... would Vienna, Oakton be that much worse?

I used to live in Vienna next to the metro. It'll be close to an hour. If you drive to the metro, the parking is full after 7:30 am. Forget about driving, it would be a nightmare. I'm in McLean now close to N Arlington and the drive takes me around 1 hour around 8 AM.

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Anonymous wrote:I live in Vienna and commute daily to McPherson, and it's about an hour door to door, when metro is running on time. I think that's going to increase when the new "service" levels are put into place at the end of June because trains will run less frequently. (Metro: Higher Fares, Less Service)

Breaking that down, it's about 15-20 minutes to drive there, park, and walk to the station, 35 minutes on the train (again, when on schedule), and a 5-10 minute walk to get out of the station and into the building.

This is where you are wrong... OP asked specifically about Vienna/Oakton... meaning she is looking at the area right around the Vienna metro. I live very close to it (in a SFH worth 900K -- not a th or condo). It is literally 3 min. to the metro parking garage on the north side. It is 20 min. from Vienna to Roslyn station. Exactly. I've timed it. So, add on 10 min. to get to McPherson. 10 min. to walk from the metro to office. I would say 45 min. max. Might be less.

Anonymous wrote:Currently own tiny sh!tbox rambler in great elem school district south of Oldtown Alexandria ... DH and I bought before we had any kids, now we have 2 kids, 3 and 1.

While zoned for great elem school, middle and high school are pretty rough. We need a bigger home, now in 2 bedroom, and just realized we can get decent place in Viennna, Oakton for same price as larger home in our area (Ffx county part of Alexandria).

We commute to McPherson Square area in DC, although DH works from home a lot. Takes an hour in mornings, usually 75 minutes on way home from where we are... would Vienna, Oakton be that much worse?