Where to live if one job in dc & one in centreville (neighborhood)

[Daffycat]

Hi all. Where does a couple live if one of them works in Centreville and the other works in Downtown DC? We love and want to stay in the city, but that's impossible without one of us having a soul destroying commute. But traffic timing is hard to guess until you've actually driven the route in rush hour a few times, so we don't know where to move to even out our commutes.

Is there some place where we would each have an equally good or terrible commute, and preferably also a walkable neighborhood with access to stores or restaurants by foot?

[DC Bossman]

I'd suggest Falls Church

[PK12]

Your best option would be to find a place in Fairfax County that is in close proximity to the Metro's Orange Line stations (Vienna, Dunn Loring, West Falls Church - Vienna station might be the best option) .

The one working in DC could take the metro to work, and for Centreville you could drive on mostly a reverse commute (though I have heard the traffic bottleneck around 28 heading into Centreville can be pretty bad)


There might also be buses that run to Centreville on the Fairfax Connector service.. but I can't say where in Centreville it'd go, since I'm not familiar with this service

[geoking66]

Perhaps somewhere like Ballston if you can get parking? Easy approach to 66 in the reverse direction and Metro to DC, but it's not as suburban as further west.