Anonymous
Post 08/20/2025 20:09     Subject: Re:Idyllic small town
Staunton
Roanoke
Winchester
Woodstock
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2025 17:36     Subject: Idyllic small town
Orange, VA. Far enough away to be pleasant. On Amtrak, so it still is easy to visit DC if desired.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2025 14:53     Subject: Idyllic small town
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Nowhere is perfect OP. You have explore yourself. VA is hard. To me, it's culturally too stuck up for the most part. There's scenic small towns, expensive ones, politically leaning ones and ones that are more rural in scope. But none I think that are scenic, relaxed, middle of the road and affordable all. Not a one.


Sperryville, Marshall, Little Washington, Flint Hill are all very scenic and have segments of the market that are both affordable and attractive.


Culturally those places are DC exurbs at this point.
Anonymous
Post 08/20/2025 14:27     Subject: Idyllic small town
Middleburg used to be a real small town, but I was disappointed when I stayed there recently. It's now all tourist traps, and not particularly nice ones.

There are real "Stars Hollow" small towns all over the US, but the locals are not advertising it because they don't want what happened to Middleburg to happen to them. I live in a town like that in another state, and it's beginning here and there's really no way to stop it.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2025 12:35     Subject: Idyllic small town
Toms Brook or Woodstock
Really, you can't go wrong with any of the little towns along Shen Valley
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2025 12:27     Subject: Idyllic small town
Anonymous wrote:We live in a little neighborhood in Clarksburg Outside in Maryland and it is just as you describe. We are diverse in all way though (age, politics, race, religion) but get along fabulously. There are only 30 homes on acre + lots, no crime, people walk all day and night, we have bonfires in the fall, block parties, Halloween parades, and we trade veggies for eggs from our garden and coops. We send soup and flowers when one is sick and money for grads. We do showers for new babies and keep our lawns in great shape. We watch out for one another and alert when peddlers come to bother. All kids play together and have a great time. I love where I live!


All of that also happens in DC or MoCo.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2025 10:57     Subject: Idyllic small town
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Lol what’s the problem with a college town?


Public drunkenness, loud noise at night from house parties, lots of protests. I am looking for somewhere serene.


It’s very obvious that you’re looking to move to 1950 where there are no minorities and no liberals.


The very obvious problem with this response is that it indicates minorities and liberals = drunkenness, noise, protests. In your view, is it only possible to have peace and quiet with white people?
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2025 08:32     Subject: Idyllic small town
Anonymous wrote:Nowhere is perfect OP. You have explore yourself. VA is hard. To me, it's culturally too stuck up for the most part. There's scenic small towns, expensive ones, politically leaning ones and ones that are more rural in scope. But none I think that are scenic, relaxed, middle of the road and affordable all. Not a one.


Sperryville, Marshall, Little Washington, Flint Hill are all very scenic and have segments of the market that are both affordable and attractive.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2025 08:30     Subject: Idyllic small town
Anonymous wrote:OP, if you are not a native of those small.towna, or at least a Virginia native, most residents will not be friendly if you buy a house there and stay.


As long as you don’t come in and start advocating for bike lanes and 24hr bars you should be fine. If you have some awareness of country living (ie you don’t complain about the tractors slowing down traffic or the appearance of one of the “long term residents” front yard) you’ll be fine.

It’s not all that different from moving into a gentrifying neighborhood in DC.
Anonymous
Post 08/13/2025 00:00     Subject: Idyllic small town
We live in a little neighborhood in Clarksburg Outside in Maryland and it is just as you describe. We are diverse in all way though (age, politics, race, religion) but get along fabulously. There are only 30 homes on acre + lots, no crime, people walk all day and night, we have bonfires in the fall, block parties, Halloween parades, and we trade veggies for eggs from our garden and coops. We send soup and flowers when one is sick and money for grads. We do showers for new babies and keep our lawns in great shape. We watch out for one another and alert when peddlers come to bother. All kids play together and have a great time. I love where I live!
Anonymous
Post 08/12/2025 22:21     Subject: Idyllic small town
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:OP, if you are not a native of those small.towna, or at least a Virginia native, most residents will not be friendly if you buy a house there and stay.

The seniors will be polite at least. Younger people will likely rev their pickups as you walk by, or spit.


Yep.
Anonymous
Post 08/12/2025 21:37     Subject: Idyllic small town
Abington, VA
Anonymous
Post 08/11/2025 22:47     Subject: Idyllic small town
New Market, Va
Anonymous
Post 08/11/2025 20:54     Subject: Idyllic small town
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Lol what’s the problem with a college town?


Public drunkenness, loud noise at night from house parties, lots of protests. I am looking for somewhere serene.


It’s very obvious that you’re looking to move to 1950 where there are no minorities and no liberals.


So am I.


Anonymous
Post 08/11/2025 06:17     Subject: Idyllic small town
Anonymous wrote:OP, if you are not a native of those small.towna, or at least a Virginia native, most residents will not be friendly if you buy a house there and stay.

The seniors will be polite at least. Younger people will likely rev their pickups as you walk by, or spit.