Manassas District of Columbia Condos

Sit back in your wicker chair, prop your feet up on the cushioned stool, take a long cool sip from your tall glass of lemonade, and live like the Southern folk—at least pre-Civil War—easy and genteel.  Or, mosey up the road to fields and high-style developments, still relaxed living, but many with the hot amenities families want today. 

Make your home or vacation accommodations in Manassas or Centreville, VA, and be in metropolitan Washington, DC, but a different world.  The Manassas condo for sale you choose will be in the environs of the city, the county seat, by its old town, begun in 1852, or surrounding new developments.  Select a Centreville condo for sale, just seven miles up the road, once open country, now a mecca of new communities linked by brand-new shopping centers. 

Centreville may sport spanking new stores and the latest in housing amenities, but along Route 29 there to Manassas, you’ll find pure country treasures, particularly roadside seafood joints selling Chesapeake Bay crab cakes or the morning catch.  Manassas is 15 miles from Occoquan Bay, a gateway to the Chesapeake. 

Manassas condos for sale are affordable, yet many offer top-grade amenities.  The media family income is $70,000.  IBM is a major employer.  Quantico Marine Base lies 21 miles away. Manassas is in Prince William County.  Next-door Centreville is in Fairfax County, one of the richest in the country; the median family income is $129,000, but condos are relatively affordable for the Fairfax area, especially with it being so close to DC and the luxuries you can easily find.  Major employers include defense contractors and high-tech. 

The area is about 40 minutes from DC’s Georgetown, non-rush hour, via Route 66.  Form a carpool and take advantage of the high-occupancy lanes.  About eight miles from Centreville you’ll find, behind the trees, Fair Lakes shopping area, with its trendy fare, and Fair Oaks Mall’s major department stores.  Throughout you’ll find organic grocers and farmers’ markets as well as farm stands that pop out on the road when the harvest gets rich. 

Potomac Mills, about 12 miles from Manassas, is a long conglomerate of outlet stores, including designer fashions. 

Or, a few miles down, take it slow and stroll the 18^th Century streets of Occoquan for crafts, gallery exhibits, arts festivals, a lunch overlooking the water or ice cream sitting on the grass watching boats come in from the Bay.   

Hike close by Prince William Park.  Manassas and Centreville condos for sale will put you about 50 miles from the Blue Ridge Mountains for hiking and camping.  Drive come fall on 66 to Shenandoah National Park to leaf-look in autumn on Skyline Drive.  When the traffic is light, ease your pace and drive Route 29 through old town Warrenton and take Skyline Drive down as far as you can go.   Be the first to see wildflowers bloom in the spring, turn down the temperature with 6,000-foot breezes and take in the panoramic view after the leaves fall.  Lease a Manassas or Centreville vacation condo for rent and you’ll be close to tourist highlights, yet there before the lines get long.