Why home prices are lower in north VA than in MoCo, MD

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Anonymous wrote:I was searching for house on sale using zillow, and noticed that north VA (fairfax, falls church) has more homes for sale and the home prices are more reasonable compare with what you can find in Montgomery county, MD. Both regions are close to DC. I guess the effect of DC on both regions are pretty much the same. I heard of many bad things about Moco, such as increasing property tax rate, sanctuary city controversy, weakening public education system, etc. I also hear good things about north Virginia, like good education qulity, etc. Then why are there more houses on market in north VA, and cheaper? Does this meaning that people are leaving VA. And more people are move in MoCo?

Because more international Asian investors buy in MoCo. They MoCo schools have better reputation
and that creates greater interest among the investors.

So why are SAT scores going up in NoVa and down in MoCo? I know a few schools like Wootton are largely Asian but it seems like there are more Asians in Fairfax (over 207,000 per 2015 Census estimates) than in Montgomery (about 148,000). I hope those "international investors" in MoCo don't get burned.

What are the sat scores for the top 4 schools in MOCo and Fairfax? Be interesting to compare.

I'd. E curious about this as well.

Whitman 1897
Poolesville 1862
Churchill 1851
Wootton 1818
MoCo 1631

TJHSST 2198
Langley 1851
McLean 1821
Madison 1789
FFXCo 1672

Because it is a large magnet, TJ has a bigger impact on the test scores of other schools in FCPS than the Blair/RM magnets have on the scores of other schools in MoCo.

Thomas Jefferson is entirely irrelevant to anything considering that people are moving from Asia
year earlier just to qualify to apply. That does not reflect on how good this school or any other school is
from the perspective of an average person living in FX.

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Anonymous wrote:I was searching for house on sale using zillow, and noticed that north VA (fairfax, falls church) has more homes for sale and the home prices are more reasonable compare with what you can find in Montgomery county, MD. Both regions are close to DC. I guess the effect of DC on both regions are pretty much the same. I heard of many bad things about Moco, such as increasing property tax rate, sanctuary city controversy, weakening public education system, etc. I also hear good things about north Virginia, like good education qulity, etc. Then why are there more houses on market in north VA, and cheaper? Does this meaning that people are leaving VA. And more people are move in MoCo?

Because more international Asian investors buy in MoCo. They MoCo schools have better reputation
and that creates greater interest among the investors.

So why are SAT scores going up in NoVa and down in MoCo? I know a few schools like Wootton are largely Asian but it seems like there are more Asians in Fairfax (over 207,000 per 2015 Census estimates) than in Montgomery (about 148,000). I hope those "international investors" in MoCo don't get burned.

What are the sat scores for the top 4 schools in MOCo and Fairfax? Be interesting to compare.

I'd. E curious about this as well.

Whitman 1897
Poolesville 1862
Churchill 1851
Wootton 1818
MoCo 1631

TJHSST 2198
Langley 1851
McLean 1821
Madison 1789
FFXCo 1672

Because it is a large magnet, TJ has a bigger impact on the test scores of other schools in FCPS than the Blair/RM magnets have on the scores of other schools in MoCo.

Thomas Jefferson is entirely irrelevant to anything considering that people are moving from Asia
year earlier just to qualify to apply. That does not reflect on how good this school or any other school is
from the perspective of an average person living in FX.

Don't you worry about the perspective of average people in NoVa. You already have your hands full being an below-average person in MoCo.

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Anonymous wrote:Blair magnet is the absolute smartest kids in DC /Md or Va

The fun fact: More kids from Blair get into Harvard then from TJ

OMG Blair Troll. There is no source for this. Neither TJ nor Blair publicly report in Harvard admissions for privacy reasons because there are less than 10 from either school most years. I'm a TJ parent and I cannot find out with certainty how many kids got into Harvard last year. It's that way with many Ivys. TJ only consistently hits double digits with "STEM" IVys (MIT, Stanford) and Yale, Columbia and Brown. The rest are mysteries. For some reason a lot of TJ kids get into Yale each each year. Special STEM program? At any rate, TJ kids tend to track top 10 engineering. The are going to Cal Tech, U Illinois Champagne, VA Tech, GA Tech, CWRU etc. in high numbers. Often on scholarship. Which is good it's a STEM school.

But, TJ is doing fine on college admits. I'm sure Blair is too. Never have I seen such hoopla about a program that serves less than 100 kids for the whole county. Sidwell is less obnoxious than Blair.

Oh, there is a plenty a source. Parents of kids who get into Harvard brag about it no end
and if you happen to know people in both - Blair and TJ then you are in the know.

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Anonymous wrote:What the hell is Blair? Some garbage MD thing?

lol... a top STEM magnet program in MoCo, where the kids out perform TJ kids.

So, 400 STEM magnet students subsumed within a chaotic 2,900-student school located at the eastern edge of Silver Spring, halfway between Wheaton and Langley Park, as opposed to a thriving and recently renovated STEM-only magnet with nearly 1800 students that is consistently ranked the nation's top high school.

You can kind of see why the Blair poster is so insecure.

PP here.. my kids don't even go to Blair. I wish they could get in. But they sure do beat TJ kids in many areas. I'm sure if I lived in NoVa, I'd be happy if my kids got into TJ, too. However, I don't want to live in VA.

Thomas Jefferson is one of the top five high schools in the country. Not the COUNTY, the country. As in USA. Blair isn't even sniffing this list. You can cherry pick every little fractal of data you want, it won't make it true.

It is designed to look that way, because they gathered top kids from schools and a lot of them in one place. No other places do that so if you compare TJ to either regular high schools or partial magnets
then what is the big deal? Of course it better be something right?

But from the perspective of a child, not only it does not matter because you can get to a great Ivy from any good high school just the same or better because each Ivy limits amount of kids accepted from one school.
So if you apply to MIT and so does other 300 kids from TJ, do you thin they all get in? Think again.
But if 3 kids apply from a High School, 3 kids get in.

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Anonymous wrote:Anyone think that the Blair troll is also the UMD troll? Sad.

nope.
she/he just stating facts.But what's obvious, you are calling her/him a troll since you cannot give a rebuttal.

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Anonymous wrote:What the hell is Blair? Some garbage MD thing?

lol... a top STEM magnet program in MoCo, where the kids out perform TJ kids.

So, 400 STEM magnet students subsumed within a chaotic 2,900-student school located at the eastern edge of Silver Spring, halfway between Wheaton and Langley Park, as opposed to a thriving and recently renovated STEM-only magnet with nearly 1800 students that is consistently ranked the nation's top high school.

You can kind of see why the Blair poster is so insecure.

PP here.. my kids don't even go to Blair. I wish they could get in. But they sure do beat TJ kids in many areas. I'm sure if I lived in NoVa, I'd be happy if my kids got into TJ, too. However, I don't want to live in VA.

Thomas Jefferson is one of the top five high schools in the country. Not the COUNTY, the country. As in USA. Blair isn't even sniffing this list. You can cherry pick every little fractal of data you want, it won't make it true.

Many kids who transferred from Blair magnet to TJ, who were average or bottom students at Blair magnet
they were instantly at the top of the class at TJ without a slightest effort.

Eat your shorts!

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I never hear anyone associated with TJ worry about they're perceived, or how they stack up against other schools. I think Blair is showing its insecurity

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I am wondering if anybody pointed out the "nobody wants to say it out loud" because it might be politically incorrect to say such things but the reason NoVa might have lower housing costs, I say might, because I am not sure it that is actually true is that it has much larger Middle Eastern population than MoCo county. This country is what it is and this is sadly how things work.

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Anonymous wrote:I am wondering if anybody pointed out the "nobody wants to say it out loud" because it might be politically incorrect to say such things but the reason NoVa might have lower housing costs, I say might, because I am not sure it that is actually true is that it has much larger Middle Eastern population than MoCo county. This country is what it is and this is sadly how things work.

You think an influx of middle easterns is more detrimental than South Americans?

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Anonymous wrote:I am wondering if anybody pointed out the "nobody wants to say it out loud" because it might be politically incorrect to say such things but the reason NoVa might have lower housing costs, I say might, because I am not sure it that is actually true is that it has much larger Middle Eastern population than MoCo county. This country is what it is and this is sadly how things work.

NoVa has higher housing costs than MoCo and there are more Middle Eastern people with money there than there are Jews with money in MoCo. Not that there aren't also a lot of Iranians in Potomac.

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Anonymous wrote:I am wondering if anybody pointed out the "nobody wants to say it out loud" because it might be politically incorrect to say such things but the reason NoVa might have lower housing costs, I say might, because I am not sure it that is actually true is that it has much larger Middle Eastern population than MoCo county. This country is what it is and this is sadly how things work.

You think an influx of middle easterns is more detrimental than South Americans?

I don't think any influx is detrimental. I am an immigrant myself. But, yes, I would say that it is my impression that middle class Americans avoid areas with any immigrant population, especially Muslim. I am not justifying it or saying it is right, just that it is a reality.

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Anonymous wrote:I am wondering if anybody pointed out the "nobody wants to say it out loud" because it might be politically incorrect to say such things but the reason NoVa might have lower housing costs, I say might, because I am not sure it that is actually true is that it has much larger Middle Eastern population than MoCo county. This country is what it is and this is sadly how things work.

You think an influx of middle easterns is more detrimental than South Americans?

I don't think any influx is detrimental. I am an immigrant myself. But, yes, I would say that it is my impression that middle class Americans avoid areas with any immigrant population, especially Muslim. I am not justifying it or saying it is right, just that it is a reality.

NoVa isn't white bread middle class and hasn't been for a long time.

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Anonymous wrote:I am wondering if anybody pointed out the "nobody wants to say it out loud" because it might be politically incorrect to say such things but the reason NoVa might have lower housing costs, I say might, because I am not sure it that is actually true is that it has much larger Middle Eastern population than MoCo county. This country is what it is and this is sadly how things work.

You think an influx of middle easterns is more detrimental than South Americans?

I don't think any influx is detrimental. I am an immigrant myself. But, yes, I would say that it is my impression that middle class Americans avoid areas with any immigrant population, especially Muslim. I am not justifying it or saying it is right, just that it is a reality.

NoVa isn't white bread middle class and hasn't been for a long time.

Yah nothing white bread about McLean, Vienna or Oakton.... oh wait

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Anonymous wrote:I am wondering if anybody pointed out the "nobody wants to say it out loud" because it might be politically incorrect to say such things but the reason NoVa might have lower housing costs, I say might, because I am not sure it that is actually true is that it has much larger Middle Eastern population than MoCo county. This country is what it is and this is sadly how things work.

You think an influx of middle easterns is more detrimental than South Americans?

I don't think any influx is detrimental. I am an immigrant myself. But, yes, I would say that it is my impression that middle class Americans avoid areas with any immigrant population, especially Muslim. I am not justifying it or saying it is right, just that it is a reality.

NoVa isn't white bread middle class and hasn't been for a long time.

Yah nothing white bread about McLean, Vienna or Oakton.... oh wait

These areas are not remotely middle class. UMC professionals in Fairfax welcome anyone who can afford their neighborhoods, including Muslims or others from the Middle East.