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Public Transportation: Bus
Walk Score: 22
Grocery Store(s): Harris Teeter, Giant, Safeway
Local High School: Langley

Great Falls, VA is a small suburb with major appeal. Residents here enjoy wide-open spaces indoors and out. $1 million-plus homes set on two- to five-acre lots ensure plenty of privacy, but if that’s not enough room, locals can spread out at Great Falls National Park where the Potomac River rushes through 800 acres of stunning wilds.

There are no condos, apartments or townhomes in Great Falls, but the distance between neighbors is less vast than you might think. An active newcomers group welcomes recent arrivals, and good old-fashioned socials in the Village Centre bring everyone together for holidays and summer concerts.

Due to its proximity to Washington, D.C., several figures from American politics and government live or have lived in Great Falls including Senator Rick Santorum as well as former Central Intelligence Agency directors Louis Freeh and Stansfield Turner. Other famous residents have included political commentator Peggy Noonan, heiress Jacqueline Mars, businessman Steve Case, and Washington Redskins owner Dan Snyder.

CNN Money ranked Great Falls first in the nation on its list of “top earning towns” in 2011.

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