Tell me about Centreville

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Centreville and the rest of the greater Fairfaxland area (can't tell where any portion begins or ends) are indeed boring and ugly. It's endless generic, ugly suburban sprawl, disorientingly the same for miles. I drive around Centreville, Chantilly, and general "Fairfax" daily. It feels like those old cartoons, where the background runs in a short, repeating loop.

You have to drive (in perpetually heavy traffic) to do anything. People go shopping at big box chain stores as the main entertainment. You can also drive to a park to walk around.

There are a lot of people who live in Centreville and the rest of Fairfaxland because cookie cutter vinyl developments and chain restaurants really appeal to them. If these are your people, you will like it here very much. It's safe.

Oh please. This is such bullshit. Its dripping with disdain for the vast majority of your countrymen who probably have a shitload in common with you, should you stoop off your high horse to actually talk to them. I live in suburbia land, you know what? Target doesn't hold the same value to me as the Smithsonian and I highly doubt any of my neighbors would disagree but go ahead and keep on with those narrow boxes you want to put people into.

OP, let's be real, most people are just living their life, grinding out the tough parts and trying to enjoy the good parts. They aren't worried about their vinyl siding curb appeal, they might prefer to live someplace cooler, or maybe like me they have in the past and know they may in the future, or they may like sitting in their yard listening to music and reading more than anything else.

I'll give you one thing, traffic sucks. It does in most all suburban areas here and certainly in much of the city too. Its the price you pay for wanting to live near a major city. And yes, it helps to remember that if you are 20 miles away, you are near a major city, you don't have to be 100 yards from a border to be "close"

+1000

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too many Koreans and Indians. Next Annandale. Stay away.

Let me guess: you have a Trump sticker on your car. And/or a confederate flag.

Have you been to Centreville? There are entire shopping centers that have their signs up only in Korean. They do not want English speaking customers.

NP.Please provide proof that they don't want English speakers . Paranoid idiot

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Centreville and the rest of the greater Fairfaxland area (can't tell where any portion begins or ends) are indeed boring and ugly. It's endless generic, ugly suburban sprawl, disorientingly the same for miles. I drive around Centreville, Chantilly, and general "Fairfax" daily. It feels like those old cartoons, where the background runs in a short, repeating loop.

You have to drive (in perpetually heavy traffic) to do anything. People go shopping at big box chain stores as the main entertainment. You can also drive to a park to walk around.

There are a lot of people who live in Centreville and the rest of Fairfaxland because cookie cutter vinyl developments and chain restaurants really appeal to them. If these are your people, you will like it here very much. It's safe.

Pray tell, where do the condescending snobs live?

Upper Nw DC , Chevy chase, Potomac , Bethesda , Capitol Hill and to a certain extent McLean.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Centreville and the rest of the greater Fairfaxland area (can't tell where any portion begins or ends) are indeed boring and ugly. It's endless generic, ugly suburban sprawl, disorientingly the same for miles. I drive around Centreville, Chantilly, and general "Fairfax" daily. It feels like those old cartoons, where the background runs in a short, repeating loop.

You have to drive (in perpetually heavy traffic) to do anything. People go shopping at big box chain stores as the main entertainment. You can also drive to a park to walk around.

There are a lot of people who live in Centreville and the rest of Fairfaxland because cookie cutter vinyl developments and chain restaurants really appeal to them. If these are your people, you will like it here very much. It's safe.

My husband and I are educated, well travelled people. Before kids, we resided in various cities (Manhattan, London, DC), walking distance to everywhere. We loved it! Now we have children, and we absolutely LOVE our Fairfax neighborhood. I guess for you it is cookie cutter, for me it is beautiful, full of trees and families like us. I wouldn't trade our safe cul-de-sac for the city at this point in our lives. For us, as well as for most of our friends, who I think are very interesting people ("these are our people"), this is the right and perfect place to be with our children. You can't beat good schools, tons of neighborhood friends (play date who?), and the safety. When our kids are in high school, we have discussed spending a year or two abroad, but that is much later down the road.

Manhattan is not a city

[Anonymous]

It does seem to be one of the few places a family can live on a middle class salary in a single family home in good school districts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Too many Koreans and Indians. Next Annandale. Stay away.

Let me guess: you have a Trump sticker on your car. And/or a confederate flag.

Have you been to Centreville? There are entire shopping centers that have their signs up only in Korean. They do not want English speaking customers.

NP.Please provide proof that they don't want English speakers . Paranoid idiot

The number of stores in Centreville that don't have signs in English is few and far between.