Ashburn is going crazy

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Anonymous wrote:FCPS has better schools. I live in Ashburn and have always called it AlmostWV. If you have a child in special ed, FFX or MC are definitely better. Racism is an issue at our schools.

That's the problem with the exurbs for me. We are AA and bought in NW DC, but also considered close-in MoCo suburbs. Exurbs in VA? No way.

Racism? I thought Ashburn is like 70 percent Indian.

17%, but very close.

I'm actually AA and live in Ashburn and it seems that given all the racist disparaging comments on this thread against Indians, that all the racism is closer in. I love my neighborhood and quite honestly it's been a huge blessing during this pandemic to live in a young social neighborhood. At least once or twice a week someone has a firepit going and we all sit around taking while the kids play. I've determined black people sit on the porch, white people like their firepits 🤣

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I can understand the frustration with certain public school districts, and the immediate desire to relocate to a place where the schools haven't closed...

but...

...COVID-19 isn't going to last forever. Every school around here will reopen for in-person learning. Life will return to some semblance of normalcy. When that happens, I wouldn't want to find myself in a builders-grade vinyl box that I significantly overpaid for sitting 40+ miles away from D.C.

It's not just the pandemic and schools that are temporarily closed (although we're in DC and Washington Teachers Union seems like they never want to return to work). For us, we no longer have confidence in DCPS because of WTU and the mayor's lack of willingness to reopen schools anyway. It's showed us how dysfunctional the school system is due to the entrenched teachers and politics. There are also other benefits such as VA state colleges/in-state tuition, better high school, etc. For some of us, the pandemic showed us how bad DCPS is and we can't unsee that.

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Anonymous wrote:Some PPs make Ashburn sound like deliverance. I mean, really? I grew up there, and have since lived in NYC, DC, and Boston. Ashburn is suburbia, no question about it. But it has access to big city amenities at a more affordable price point. It’s one of the few Northeast burbs that has Sunbelt-like prices. And it’s the most diverse place I’ve lived.

That's a joke. There are very few black families here although we do have a large population of asians. I live in a mostly asian neighborhood and love it. My neighbors are nice and the schools are overcrowded but acceptable. Because of the growth here, LCPS is desperate to hire and we definitely have teachers who should not be teaching.

Do you realize that you contradicted yourself?

Diversity doesn’t just mean black people. C’mon.

Being diverse does mean we would have black families here. My point is black people seem not to be comfortable here.

If more AA worked in those tech jobs in Loudoun and Dulles through Tysons more AA would be living in western FX-Reston/Great Falls through Ashburn. The squeeze on tech -stem jobs by the H 1 B industry has impacted employment. Lack of steering into stem by FCPS and other large local school districts over decades has created the demographics of Ashburn.

Here is the secret. Black people won’t move anywhere unless they see a good portion of other black people living somewhere. My friends and I would totally live in Ashburn but we don’t see enough of that so it’s not an option. Also we need black businesses. Easy example - If there aren’t a good amount of black hair salons for me I’m not going. Which is why many of us live in Alexandria, Maryland, Montgomery county, Woodbridge. If we don’t see people like us we probably won’t be there at the level Asians are moving there. My family actually lived on plantations out there during slave times but migrated into the DC area for better opportunity.

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Ashburn is ironic to say the least. Where dark skinned Asians first generation folks strive to live on former plantations.

Actually African Americans know better and stay in Maryland or DC

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Other draw back is the extreme weather it has as compared to other closer in counties. More storms and snow falls there. Toll road is no good in ice and snow especially if you work in DC, Tysons. It’s just too dam@ far out.

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Anonymous wrote:Other draw back is the extreme weather it has as compared to other closer in counties. More storms and snow falls there. Toll road is no good in ice and snow especially if you work in DC, Tysons. It’s just too dam@ far out.

I had a nice women with kids working for me from Ashburn. It was a Ashburn to Bethesda commute. I told her we work from home in Friday’s. Ok to WFH if school closed due to snow and could work 8-4 to avoid traffic. Plus we got four weeks vacation and two weeks holidays

So we are talking 46 weeks worth of four day workweeks. Over time she was late 815 to 845 but still left in time. Then became can I skip lunch and leave 345. Then us an issue at home take the day as even if had to wait for hvac guy was an issue.

Wfh is fine but we have meetings in person she would flip last minute. Meaning she call two people to a conference room for a nine an meeting then dial in to her own in person meeting.

The tolls and gas was huge. She lasted 12 months and apologized when she left. Meanwhile another guy lived same distance from work way out by Seneca which is past outer Potomac. But his drive was long but predictable with no tolls. Here was long but widely unpredictable with time of tolls.

It also caused a bit of grief as she was highest paid mom in the entire dept and had the closer in moms picking up her slack. One connected why am I doing her work for less pay so she can live in a 7,000 square foot house while I live in a Rockville townhome

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Anonymous wrote:Other draw back is the extreme weather it has as compared to other closer in counties. More storms and snow falls there. Toll road is no good in ice and snow especially if you work in DC, Tysons. It’s just too dam@ far out.

Yeah Loudoun gets colder and gets more snow. It’s even worse out in Purcellville, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Other draw back is the extreme weather it has as compared to other closer in counties. More storms and snow falls there. Toll road is no good in ice and snow especially if you work in DC, Tysons. It’s just too dam@ far out.

I had a nice women with kids working for me from Ashburn. It was a Ashburn to Bethesda commute. I told her we work from home in Friday’s. Ok to WFH if school closed due to snow and could work 8-4 to avoid traffic. Plus we got four weeks vacation and two weeks holidays

So we are talking 46 weeks worth of four day workweeks. Over time she was late 815 to 845 but still left in time. Then became can I skip lunch and leave 345. Then us an issue at home take the day as even if had to wait for hvac guy was an issue.

Wfh is fine but we have meetings in person she would flip last minute. Meaning she call two people to a conference room for a nine an meeting then dial in to her own in person meeting.

The tolls and gas was huge. She lasted 12 months and apologized when she left. Meanwhile another guy lived same distance from work way out by Seneca which is past outer Potomac. But his drive was long but predictable with no tolls. Here was long but widely unpredictable with time of tolls.

It also caused a bit of grief as she was highest paid mom in the entire dept and had the closer in moms picking up her slack. One connected why am I doing her work for less pay so she can live in a 7,000 square foot house while I live in a Rockville townhome

How is her being a mom or woman or the other person a man relevant to this?

[Anonymous]

Where the he$$ is Ashburn. Isn’t this near the airport where Redskins (yes I still call them the redskins) train? As one of the PP posted, land of the vast vinyl homes with zero mature trees! Yuck!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Other draw back is the extreme weather it has as compared to other closer in counties. More storms and snow falls there. Toll road is no good in ice and snow especially if you work in DC, Tysons. It’s just too dam@ far out.

I had a nice women with kids working for me from Ashburn. It was a Ashburn to Bethesda commute. I told her we work from home in Friday’s. Ok to WFH if school closed due to snow and could work 8-4 to avoid traffic. Plus we got four weeks vacation and two weeks holidays

So we are talking 46 weeks worth of four day workweeks. Over time she was late 815 to 845 but still left in time. Then became can I skip lunch and leave 345. Then us an issue at home take the day as even if had to wait for hvac guy was an issue.

Wfh is fine but we have meetings in person she would flip last minute. Meaning she call two people to a conference room for a nine an meeting then dial in to her own in person meeting.

The tolls and gas was huge. She lasted 12 months and apologized when she left. Meanwhile another guy lived same distance from work way out by Seneca which is past outer Potomac. But his drive was long but predictable with no tolls. Here was long but widely unpredictable with time of tolls.

It also caused a bit of grief as she was highest paid mom in the entire dept and had the closer in moms picking up her slack. One connected why am I doing her work for less pay so she can live in a 7,000 square foot house while I live in a Rockville townhome

How is her being a mom or woman or the other person a man relevant to this?

In this case if you most know all three women with kids were Asian. All three had husbands who barely did any child care responsibilities. All three of there husbands focused on there jobs. Every snow day and bus drop off and sick kid wife got stuck with. All three were “off the boat” two even had to take care if their in-laws medical stuff as that is what good daughter in laws do. They were very overwhelmed

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If suburban hellscaoes like that are the answers then I really don't want to know the questions.

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Anonymous wrote:Ashburn is ironic to say the least. Where dark skinned Asians first generation folks strive to live on former plantations.

Actually African Americans know better and stay in Maryland or DC

Lol. Because Maryland’s history regarding slavery is so much better than Virginia’s...

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Anonymous wrote:If suburban hellscaoes like that are the answers then I really don't want to know the questions.

It’s debatable whether the city or exurbs are greater hellscapes these days.

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Anonymous wrote:Where the he$$ is Ashburn. Isn’t this near the airport where Redskins (yes I still call them the redskins) train? As one of the PP posted, land of the vast vinyl homes with zero mature trees! Yuck!!

My Ashburn house sits on 3/4 of an acre. House was built in 1989 so it is older but the trade-off is tons of mature trees. And a lot of space.

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Anonymous wrote:Where the he$$ is Ashburn. Isn’t this near the airport where Redskins (yes I still call them the redskins) train? As one of the PP posted, land of the vast vinyl homes with zero mature trees! Yuck!!

My Ashburn house sits on 3/4 of an acre. House was built in 1989 so it is older but the trade-off is tons of mature trees. And a lot of space.

Mature trees are great until they start dying. And at least on my street on Fairfax, a lot of big trees are dying, and they aren't cheap to take down.