Updated for 2019 The 23rd annual Church Street Holiday Stroll will be held in Vienna, Virginia on Monday, December 2, 2019 from 6 to 9, a much-anticipated free event for everyone living in Vienna. This is always a fun evening for everyone to stroll from Lawyers Road to Mill Street where Mayor DiRocco will light the Holiday Tree near the Freeman Continue Reading
Living Here in Northern Virginia
This collection of posts is intended to help you get a feeling what it is like to live here. Many clients who relocate to Vienna or nearby aren't sure what to expect ~ hopefully this will be a collection that is interesting. Some are written by me, and some are written by local bloggers. Enjoy!
Vienna fall leaf clean-up schedule
Town of Vienna Schedule for 2021 Click Here to see UPDATED MAP Routes Note that there is a new game plan for leaf collection in Vienna this year! Original Post: The leaves are falling all around my Vienna home, and it's time to consult the collection schedule that the Town of Vienna puts out. Yes, Town residents get another perk... curbside leaf Continue Reading
Vienna Traffic Alert | Halloween Parade 10-27-2021
In case you missed the memo, if you commute through Vienna, Virginia on Route 123, please note that Route 123 or Maple Avenue will be CLOSED from East Street to Lawyers Road from 6:50 to 10. Local Vienna Traffic will be detoured onto Church Street... good luck! Ready for the Vienna Halloween Parade? Everyone is welcome to attend this annual Continue Reading
It’s Fire Prevention Week, Virginia!
It was a cold, late fall morning as I read the Washington Post about ten years ago. The Metro Section had an article about a couple escaping a burning home on Dominion Way in Falls Church... I took a sip of coffee. "Dominion Way, don't I have clients on that street?", I thought. "Right, I should call Scott and Jeannie to see if they saw Continue Reading
My Vienna VA home FiOS upgrade!
UPDATE: I have upgraded again to 25mps in 2011! In the late 1990’s, I was seeing many new homes being built with Cat5 cable and a network hub from Bell Atlantic (soon to be Verizon) so that buyers could have the best available communications network. The box was branded with the Bell Atlantic logo but it was up to the new owner to either pick Continue Reading
Relocations and the restaurants dilemma
A quarter of my clients relocate from another part of the world, and they are typically eager to get out of the McLean Hilton to explore their new life in the D.C. suburbs. And a key part of that search for meaning is finding a new favorite restaurant. Not necessarily a place like Cheers, but I imagine restaurants with local personality, charm, a Continue Reading
A peek inside Wolf Trap’s Filene Center in Vienna
In the Northern Virginia, you need a driving strategy.
Talk to anyone who has been in the area for a day or two, and I'm sure the topic of traffic will come up. How long it took to drive to work or the tie up on the beltway for no other reason than heavy volume. It is the smart people who factor that in when looking for a home to buy. And the reality is that paying an extra $250k may just save your Continue Reading
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