Falls Church vs. Alexandria

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Anonymous wrote:To get the discussion back on track for OP.

If you plan to use public schools and city services, FCC is a no brainer. It’s pricier than Alexandria overall with higher taxes but you pay for those services and the almost private school.

If you like waterfront living and a lot of retail within walking distance go Old Town.

Crime is substantially higher in Alexandria but won’t impact you much if you live near Old Town. Del Ray has both flooding and crime issues so would avoid even though it’s charming.

Please show the data that demonstrate Del Ray has "crime issues." And Old Town area has far more crime than North Ridge or Rosemont, both of which are far larger residential areas than Del Ray.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To get the discussion back on track for OP.

If you plan to use public schools and city services, FCC is a no brainer. It’s pricier than Alexandria overall with higher taxes but you pay for those services and the almost private school.

If you like waterfront living and a lot of retail within walking distance go Old Town.

Crime is substantially higher in Alexandria but won’t impact you much if you live near Old Town. Del Ray has both flooding and crime issues so would avoid even though it’s charming.

What crime issues in Del Ray?!

You mean someone occasionally checking unlocked cars to rummage through? Because that stuff happens everywhere, even in boonies--and definitely in Falls Church.

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Del Ray having a crime problem is the silliest comment on this thread. It’s extremely safe.

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This was written by an insecure temp at FCC tourism bureau. No one who knows even anything about NOVA would ever select FCC over City of Alexandria. Like, literally, no one.

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Anonymous wrote:I dislike both. Falls Church City is nice but their tax is way too high. Falls Church that belongs to FFX is rough and has bad schools, Alexandria has horrible horrible schools. Go to Alexandria if you send kids to private schools.

Please describe, with objective evidence, exactly why Alexandria city has universally “horrible horrible schools.” This is a tired DCUM trope. See the longer post above somebody made about city schools and how the “rankings” tend to destroy schools that happen to serve non-native English speaking and lower SES families. There’s a lot of truth there.

My kid graduated in 2018 from TC- Public all the way through. Offered admissions to UPenn and Cornell. Went to Stanford. I love it when they trash TC. It makes my child's accomplishments seem so much bigger.

Right. You realize your son only stood out because of TC's demographics, right? If your son had attended Episcopal or SSSAS or a DC private school like most MC and UMC kids in Alexandria, your son would have been 1 of 500 similar kids, not 1 of 10. Your son's "accomplishment" isn't that much of an "accomplishment."

Imagine being so butt hurt about a city's reputation that you try to claim that graduating from Stanford is NBD.

Oooff. I'm actually embarrassed for you.

And the rest of us are embarrassed by you. There is a difference. You're in the worse position actually.

You're embarrassed for the person who raised a child that gained admission to UPenn, Cornell and Stanford? Are you sure you now what that word means?

The parents played the game well. They put their kid into a school where the kid would be 1 out of 5 or 6, not 1 out of 200 or 300, like the rest of us. I give more credit to the parents than the kid. But I would not have put my kid in that position either. That shooting incident and the rape struck too close to home for us. The demographics of TC are why the kid stood out. Nothing more, nothing less.

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There's a lot of casual and thinly coded racism amongst the anti-Alexandria trolls.

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Anonymous wrote:There's a lot of casual and thinly coded racism amongst the anti-Alexandria trolls.

Yep. “Omg diverse people = bad” vibes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This was written by an insecure temp at FCC tourism bureau. No one who knows even anything about NOVA would ever select FCC over City of Alexandria. Like, literally, no one.

DP but I moved from Alexandria to FCC, so not *literally* no one. Why do these threads always get so nasty anyway? They are both perfectly nice places to live, though unfortunately very expensive these days. OP, can’t go wrong with either!

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Anonymous wrote:This was written by an insecure temp at FCC tourism bureau. No one who knows even anything about NOVA would ever select FCC over City of Alexandria. Like, literally, no one.

As if FCC has (or needs) a "tourism bureau." Pretty funny. It's pretty hard to select FCC over City of Alexandria because there's almost zero inventory in FCC. I grew up in Arlington but when I was researching where to live in NOVA to raise my own kids the obvious choice was FCC. We moved there from Alexandria. Your "literally no one" is amusing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Del Ray having a crime problem is the silliest comment on this thread. It’s extremely safe.

Agree. The only crime in del ray is the horrendously narrow streets and people parking on both sides. That really grinds my gears.

LOL

We live in north ridge I guess and have for almost 8 years. Wouldn’t change a thing. Did look at falls church city. We don’t have children. Did not have interest in driving from there to work in NW. Still wouldn’t even with majority work from home.

So our house would be worth 1.5 now instead of 1.2. Who cares.

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I'd be embarrassed to say I was from Falls Church. So white and mediocre. At least Alexandria is a real city.

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Anonymous wrote:This was written by an insecure temp at FCC tourism bureau. No one who knows even anything about NOVA would ever select FCC over City of Alexandria. Like, literally, no one.

As if FCC has (or needs) a "tourism bureau." Pretty funny. It's pretty hard to select FCC over City of Alexandria because there's almost zero inventory in FCC. I grew up in Arlington but when I was researching where to live in NOVA to raise my own kids the obvious choice was FCC. We moved there from Alexandria. Your "literally no one" is amusing.

You downgraded. We get it. You couldn't afford Alexandria anymore so you moved to the sticks. No need to so defensive. People only lave Alexandria when they can't hack it anymore.

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I always wonder about grade z trilingual like the prior two posts. I mean who believes anyone cares about that?

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*Lol grade z trolling.

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Almost anybody reading this who is legitimately familiar with either place understands both are excellent places to live and raise a family. And people trying to knock one to praise the other are obnoxious rich people who apparently have nothing better to do than sling mud.