When you turn onto Waterway Drive in Montclair, Va., and drive down the spacious tree-lined parkway, you’ve entered another world. You catch glimpses of different home styles through the Bradford pear trees — Williamsburg colonials, split-levels, Victorians, ramblers and modern homes set off from the main road on well-kept streets. You see children riding bikes, families walking together, and fathers and mothers doing yard work.

Surrounded in all directions by a mixture of farms and new construction on the rolling hills of Prince William County, this self-contained and mature close-knit community makes you nostalgic for your youth — it is a well-planned suburban paradise. It’s home.