Chantilly Question (Alexandria, Fairfax: 2015, apartments, crime)

[NYC_To_Nova_7]

While doing searches on where to live in NoVa, I've come across confusing information. Sometimes Chantilly comes up in a Loundoun County search, sometimes it comes up in a Fairfax County search. So the question I have for you is which county is Chantilly, Va reside in?

[choff5]

Originally Posted by NYC_To_Nova_7

While doing searches on where to live in NoVa, I've come across confusing information. Sometimes Chantilly comes up in a Loundoun County search, sometimes it comes up in a Fairfax County search. So the question I have for you is which county is Chantilly, Va reside in?

Post office address covers both. It's in the zip code. Here's the secret to figuring them out. Chantilly 20151 is in Fairfax County. Chantilly 20152 is in Loudoun County.

[choff5]

One more word of warning. Getting anywhere from the Loudoun County, 20152, Chantilly can be brutal. Main route is Rt. 50, currently under construction to widen it and the back ups are bad. It can take at least a half hour to get from South Riding (Chantilly, 20152) to the Greenbriar shopping center (just edge of Fairfax Chantilly 20151).

[qtbrye]

30 minutes can be generous. I live in Greenbriar and for the past 3 weeks have been dropping my son off at a temporary in-house babysitter in Loudon's Chantilly. Coming back toward Fairfax in the morning is bad... really...soul-draining...bad. Thousands and thousands of cars coming out of those cookie cutter houses and pouring into Route 50, backing up all the way past South Riding and Aldie. And believe it or not, in the afternoon it is WORSE due to the bottleneck at the Rt. 28 ramps. One time it took 45 minutes just to get through that quarter-mile stretch.

Let's just say that I'd rather drop my son off in Alexandria than having to continue and endure that traffic nightmare. The bright side is that the constructions will eventually finish and should help, because it couldn't get worse than it is now

Originally Posted by choff5

One more word of warning. Getting anywhere from the Loudoun County, 20152, Chantilly can be brutal. Main route is Rt. 50, currently under construction to widen it and the back ups are bad. It can take at least a half hour to get from South Riding (Chantilly, 20152) to the Greenbriar shopping center (just edge of Fairfax Chantilly 20151).

[spencgr]

Originally Posted by qtbrye

Let's just say that I'd rather drop my son off in Alexandria than having to continue and endure that traffic nightmare. The bright side is that the constructions will eventually finish and should help, because it couldn't get worse than it is now

There are hundreds of new houses going up in Aldie off of Rt 50....traffic will not improve when construction is done; at least for any period of time.

[PK12]

Offtopic I know, but I really like the Fairfax part of Chantilly, leading up to Metrotech Drive.

Paradise for ethnic food.

[Candicem]

I used to live in the Fairfax side of Chantilly near the staples shopping center. It's not a very good area. Lots of break ins when we lived over there. That area is just not very safe. I hated living in Chantilly and it once took me over an hour to drive 8 miles down the road to Aldie

[hilsmom]

it depends what area of Fairfax Chantilly. I think Candicem is referring to the apartments and townhouses near that shopping center? I don't know about crime stats in the brookfield single family home neighborhood itself that surrounds it, but I do have friends that live there and are happy.

There are many nice neighborhoods in fairfax chantilly. I also live in Greenbriar - we occasionally have the police chopper over our hood (always seems to be people running from the shopping center or dumb kids trying to outrun the cops by running into the park that runs through the center of our hood), but I've really only heard of very small things happening in the neighborhood itself. There were a couple break-ins that turned out to be stupid teens going through open garage windows. Close windows and lock your doors - it's common sense, you know? And then we had a couple of those pellet gun incidents (car windows getting shot out) that were happening here and in centreville.

Most of the single family home communities are pretty nice.

[Candicem]

hilsmom, yes, we used to live in the brookleigh townhomes behind the staples. We were right next to the larger single family homes that are back there. One of my neighbors there had just gotten out of jail twice and the cops were there weekly. Another neighbor had a safe house. I'm glad to be out of there!

[hilsmom]

yeah, I know that little pocket is questionable. I think that is why brookfield is so much cheaper than other neighborhoods.

Where are you now?