Best Healthy Places to Retire: Reston, Virginia

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Robert Simon made sure that every area of Reston had tennis courts. There are 49 courts in Reston 26 of them with lights. The senior tennis community is very active. The Senior Round Robin has over fifty participants, six courts filled on Wednesday all summer, and every Friday the senior drop-in-tennis is usually filled and more at the four courts on Hook Road.
Somehow the people that moved to Reston are of a unique makeup, not so competitive that they neglect the finer parts of life as witnessed by their evolving into a congenial social group. It is unlike any tennis group that I have known.
Our one lack is an indoor facility, so we trek to Herndon to use their bubble. but we, on the tennis advisory committee, keep hammering away and hoping that Someday------.

JoAnn Huston Niemela of VA 3:35PM November 20, 2008

This article is accurate! I can walk anywhere in Reston on endless trails through nature preserves. I can dine at some of the best restaurants in the D.C. area. Public transportation is phenomenal and the schools offer the best of everything. The four-seasons of weather is beautiful with only an occasional too hot/too cold day. The artistic and athletic community is thriving and there is always something fun to do! And best of all, our children and grandchildren can actually play outside like the "good-ole days".

Anne of VA 5:53PM November 06, 2008

I lived in Reston from first until I left for college in Florida. I loved growing up in Reston, swim team every summer, tons of pools, riding on the bike paths throughout Reston on your bikes. Reston was and still is a very active community that's one of the reasons I loved it! I am a Personal Trainer now living in Charlotte, NC. Charlotte reminds me in so many ways of my home, Reston.

Jill Coshland Perry of NC 12:42PM October 06, 2008

In fact, Reston was designed from the beginning to offer a range of housing choices for different levels of income. That is still true to some extent. Reston is still home to folks working retain and to many of us living on fixed retirement incomes. And, it is still beautiful. We hope we can keep it that way!

John L. of VA 9:29AM September 29, 2008

Sure, it's beautiful, but unless you retire RICH, who can afford it?!

D Ryder of VA 10:32AM September 26, 2008

I grew up in Reston, and there is NO place like home. I'm here now for a short vacation, and I enjoy going to the stores on the lakes and visiting the Reston Town Center. Life here is relaxing and fun. I am grateful for the vision of Robert E. Simon, and I am proud to be from "A Place Called Reston"

Sutonia McKamey Sanders of TN 11:22AM September 24, 2008