Wow, I never realized how terrible the gap is between in MoCo vs NoVa for jobs

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody IRL gives two shits about MoCo “vs” NOVA and I think you’re all bad AI.

I am pretty sure MoCo lives rent free in NoVa mind, otherwise they wouldn't be starting all these threads.

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Anonymous wrote:Why has MoCo declined so badly? New to the area...

We dont like greedy and bad business like Amazon and weapon makers in MoCo. We have big heart to welcome poor people. We hate room ch people like Dan Snyder.

Yet Dan Snyder lives in Potomac.

He is moving to VA soon.

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Anonymous wrote:The inferiority complex of VA folks never ceases to amaze me.

Really? What inferiority complex? Because when I look at these threads I usually see VA posters let the data and facts around things like job growth speak for themselves, while many DC and especially MD posters sit around taking potshots with the maturity level and ignorance of a 10 year-old.

Seems like you might be projecting your own inferiority complex, PP.

What's the point of all these threads? So VA folks can feel good about themselves? Stick it to MoCo?
Inferiority complex

Again, I ask, why do VA people consistently compare *ONE* county in MD with the entire state of VA. That screams *insecure* to me. And I'm originally from out west.

They're not. They're mostly comparing Arlington/FFX/Alexandria and sometimes Loudoun/Prince William.

I mean do you want to include PG county in with Moco? I'm not sure it's a favorable comparison and it would make Maryland look even worse.

So, it's the whole NoVa Vs one county in MD.

Most people compare MoCo and Fairfax. Both have about the same population and geographic size. And back in the year 2000, they were economically equivalent. Since then their paths diverged dramatically.

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Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of people in this area move the closest they can to the place they work. We moved to MoCo because it was closer and less expensive. As far as I am concerned, most areas in the DC metro are much of a muchness.

Exactly. And because the vast majority of private sector high wage jobs in this area are in Fairfax and because MoCo doesn’t want it’s residents to be able to easily travel between MoCo and Fairfax you can see how things are the way they are now and where they are going.

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Anonymous wrote:It's been this way for years. MoCo is not business-friendly at all.

Heck, they just passed a new regulation requiring all restaurants, even the smallest corner deli, to offer a healthy kids meal option:
https://www.npr.org/local/305/2022/03/03/1084134378/montgomery-county-passes-bill-requiring-restaurants-provide-healthy-kids-meal-option

So? Any restaurant worth its salt should be able to easily figure out how to have a healthy kids option available.

But why force it? Let the market decide. They even require it of places like the lunch counter in the basement of office buildings that cater solely to office workers.

That's anti-business. Few places in the US have such requirements because this is a typical case of government overreach. All this anti-business regulation has its effect -- it drives business outside of the county.

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Anonymous wrote:The vast majority of people in this area move the closest they can to the place they work. We moved to MoCo because it was closer and less expensive. As far as I am concerned, most areas in the DC metro are much of a muchness.

Exactly. And because the vast majority of private sector high wage jobs in this area are in Fairfax and because MoCo doesn’t want it’s residents to be able to easily travel between MoCo and Fairfax you can see how things are the way they are now and where they are going.

+1

And this is the real reason why MD opposes a new bridge over the Potomac. The agricultural reserve is just a convenient excuse.

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Anonymous wrote:Getting its lunch eaten? How old are you?

Many people would never live in a state as backwards as VA. Youngkin? Absolutely not.

Yeah, cram all democrats into a handful of acceptable states. Sounds smart. We would never have another democrat for president or anything but a majority republican senate and house if all democrats were as short sighted as you are. Democrats NEED liberals to live in “backwards” (lol) states like VA. SMH.

Yes ^^ the electoral college system for electing POTUS is not always friendly to densely populated urban areas.

In Virginia, state representatives and state senators are elected via plurality vote in single-winner contests. The governor, lieutenant governor, and attorney general are elected in single-winner contests via plurality vote.

Virginia is a large state with 95 counties + 38 independent cities. Maryland has 23 counties + Baltimore city

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Virginians being weirdly obsessed with hating Maryland was by far the most random and strange thing I encountered when moving here. I truly don’t get it…. People in Maryland don’t care about VA one way or another. They’re just… there. I’ve also noticed a hyper focus of NOVA people on what people do for a living - so I guess I can understand this post.

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I think neither VA nor MD want to admit that they are FAR more similar than different, so they bicker like siblings.

It's actually quite amusing to observe.

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Anonymous wrote:I think neither VA nor MD want to admit that they are FAR more similar than different, so they bicker like siblings.

It's actually quite amusing to observe.

True, but have you ever watched a Marylander try to drive on the beltway? Scary sight to behold.

Seriously, there really isn’t a Maryland and a Virginia. There’s NOVA, and there’s Va Beach, and Richmond and then the rest of “country” VA. Then there’s Metro DC MD, there’s Baltimore, and there’s Annapolis, and there’s the rest of “country” MD. Country MD and Country VA are very similar as are metro DC MD and NOVA, and the DelMarVa peninsula is pretty much all the same. I suppose in NOVA they don’t have the crime like PG county or in Richmond they don’t have the crime like Baltimore … but then again Baltimore doesn’t have Klan rallies. So pick your regional area poison and live with it is the moral of this thread.

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ITT: a bunch of whiny, butt hurt govt workers in MD.

MD is fine with being mediocre I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:I think neither VA nor MD want to admit that they are FAR more similar than different, so they bicker like siblings.

It's actually quite amusing to observe.

True, but have you ever watched a Marylander try to drive on the beltway? Scary sight to behold.

Seriously, there really isn’t a Maryland and a Virginia. There’s NOVA, and there’s Va Beach, and Richmond and then the rest of “country” VA. Then there’s Metro DC MD, there’s Baltimore, and there’s Annapolis, and there’s the rest of “country” MD. Country MD and Country VA are very similar as are metro DC MD and NOVA, and the DelMarVa peninsula is pretty much all the same. I suppose in NOVA they don’t have the crime like PG county or in Richmond they don’t have the crime like Baltimore … but then again Baltimore doesn’t have Klan rallies. So pick your regional area poison and live with it is the moral of this thread.

I've seen reckless drivers with MD tags and reckless drivers with VA tags on the Beltway. However, it does appear that the number of reckless drivers is higher along the PG stretch of the Beltway.

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Anonymous wrote:I think neither VA nor MD want to admit that they are FAR more similar than different, so they bicker like siblings.

It's actually quite amusing to observe.

True, but have you ever watched a Marylander try to drive on the beltway? Scary sight to behold.

Seriously, there really isn’t a Maryland and a Virginia. There’s NOVA, and there’s Va Beach, and Richmond and then the rest of “country” VA. Then there’s Metro DC MD, there’s Baltimore, and there’s Annapolis, and there’s the rest of “country” MD. Country MD and Country VA are very similar as are metro DC MD and NOVA, and the DelMarVa peninsula is pretty much all the same. I suppose in NOVA they don’t have the crime like PG county or in Richmond they don’t have the crime like Baltimore … but then again Baltimore doesn’t have Klan rallies. So pick your regional area poison and live with it is the moral of this thread.

I've seen reckless drivers with MD tags and reckless drivers with VA tags on the Beltway. However, it does appear that the number of reckless drivers is higher along the PG stretch of the Beltway.

The worst drivers in the area are the a-holes VA drivers hanging out in the left lane and blocking traffic. Either totally clueless or acting like some kind of hall monitor.

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Anonymous wrote:Virginians being weirdly obsessed with hating Maryland was by far the most random and strange thing I encountered when moving here. I truly don’t get it…. People in Maryland don’t care about VA one way or another. They’re just… there. I’ve also noticed a hyper focus of NOVA people on what people do for a living - so I guess I can understand this post.

NOVA truly is the:

- land of “what do you do for a living?”

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Anonymous wrote:Virginians being weirdly obsessed with hating Maryland was by far the most random and strange thing I encountered when moving here. I truly don’t get it…. People in Maryland don’t care about VA one way or another. They’re just… there. I’ve also noticed a hyper focus of NOVA people on what people do for a living - so I guess I can understand this post.

NOVA truly is the:

- land of “what do you do for a living?”

Well I guess that's better than MoCo where the disussion is:

"what agency or bureau do you work for?"