House-hunting TV show to feature Annandale
The public TV program “If You Lived Here” will air an episode on Annandale on Monday, March 6.
It will be shown at 9 p.m. on WETA PBS, Channel 26.
Each episode of “If You Lived Here” explores the types of homes available in a particular neighborhood in the D.C. region, while also shining a spotlight on the community’s history, culture, and flavor.
The series is geared toward house hunters. The hosts, Christine Louise and John Begeny tour homes and neighborhoods with a local realtor.
In the Annandale episode, real estate agent Deirdre Thao Vo of Pearson Smith Realty will highlight three homes: a split-level starter home inside the beltway, a mid-century modern home with contemporary updates in the Truro community, and a stunning 3,700 square-foot modern, open-concept home with five bedrooms and five bathrooms.
The program will also feature a second-generation Korean-American restaurateur, members of the Artisans United collective who display their works at the Craft Gallery in Annandale, and the owners of Collector’s World, a shop that sells sports memorabilia and comics.
The program will also be live-streamed. Click here for more viewing options.
I hope they mention the new “swamp Accotink” on the show and the negligence of the county board and staff. Lovely place to live w mosquitos and gnats and the smell of swamp gas if the lake allowed to fill with mud. Not to mention homeless population, murders at the ATM, hit and run deaths at intersections and the County’s willful resistance to citizens working to build a safe residential community.
Your comment leaves much to unpack and resolve. Perhaps seeking out a professionally licensed and empathetic therapist might help you come to grips with your cynical and antisocial issues.
Chf Acctnk m isn’t wrong, maybe a little extreme, if anything. But these problems do exist.
There’s not one thing that was said that could be considered extreme. The tone strikes for a reason.
No, actually, you’re wrong. There’s no swamp. There’s no epidemic of ATM murders.
The County isn’t engaging in “willful citizen resistance”. Just stop already with the hyperbole and provide meaningful input towards real solutions, not constant complaining. It’s easy to be cynical, negative and defeatist, and you and Chf A m both are leading the charge.
Perhaps you two can join in on some group therapy. It’s on me.
Let’s call it a bayou, instead of a swamp –
Accotink Bayou Estates – much more marketable
Annandale, Virginia is a sweet spot to live.
Fully agree.
tell them to go to Fairmont Gardens 😂
There’s shitty locations in every city. If you always see the bad and don’t take the time to embrace the good every once in a while you live a pretty sorry existence. Publicity for Annandale through this show is wonderful, why not get excited?
ChfAcctnk nailed it. This ain’t gonna be a Huntley Meadows or a some kind of a magic bayou. Ride your bike through the clouds of gnats around the upper lake this summer and you’ll get a taste and smell of the future. A once lovely lake community will be a giant toilet bowl for all the upstream development and trash from the rest of the county. But sounds like folks like that look?
Annandale in the housing spotlight? Why ?If you want to attract people to the DMV, Annandale is NOT a prime example of living in Fairfax County. I love the cultural diversity here but: The schools are mediocre, above average students are left to their own devices at most of the school because that school doesn’t give a cr*p about them, some schools don’t offer advanced math, parks are boring, no rapid mass transit, no county swimming pool or rec center (Providence RECCEN was NOT built to provide facilities to this area and was built by and for Providence District ) no water park, spray park, ice skating rink
skateboard park, and more , too many MAJOR streets with zero or inadequate sidewalks, ZERO access to county and national bike trails, zero modern major shopping centers, buildings in the ‘city center’ that are decrepit, abandoned, or otherwise reminiscent of poor villages in under-developed countries, rising property crime rate, district government does NO planning to modernize the area or attract business from the new hospital being built half a mile from Mason District, too many streets have above ground power lines, too many older streets are dangerously narrow, problems at certain intersections that have existed for DECADES and zero plans to fix, HIGHEST number of very low market value housing units (<$200k) and LOWEST number of high market value housing units. What is really sad is that Mason District has the lowest population but the highest number of low value units AND the highest number of housing units built before 1970 with the exception of Mt Vernon District. Mason District has $104k median income vs $134k for Fairfax County and unemployment rate of xxx% vs xxx% for Fairfax county; 12% poverty rate vs 6% rate for Fairfax County. I could go on & on. (This area was fine when we had no children; but, the older my kids get, the more I want to move.)
Doesn’t Audrey Moore have a new expensive skate park? There are costly unusable bike lanes on Ravensworth and on Annandale rd that both dead end into deadly intersections. There’s the weed garden traffic circle on Ravensworth that’s proven to be a pointless mess that unlicensed non-US drivers can’t seem to figure out. The junk stores, the rodent population at local eateries. But don’t worry there’s still Lake Accotink. It has an ice skating pond in winter and a swimming beach and water slide in the summer. The paid parking garage at the lake funds all the extra amenities and the fee keeps the car traffic down. There’s also a managed investment account that’s funded by fines on developer run-off and slumlords – that fund pays for lake dredging every 10 years. There’s lite rail on little River Turnpike between old town and Fairfax city center with stops in Annandale that connect to a network of bike trails encircling the greater Alexandria to Tysons area and connecting to metro stations and parks. It’s all so great. Police engagement helps keep crime down. Affordable housing for families is still available. Things are so great here — in our dreams.
The bike lanes on Ravensworth and Annandale are not costly. VDOT simply painted them when they were repaving those streets…the cost was negligible. The reason they are unusable is due to car traffic and driving habits. Most people will not ride bicycles unless there are grade separated bike lanes…which is too costly to build.