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

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Anonymous wrote:MoCo has a huge biotech sector

Lol. No it doesn't..

At that would be Frederick county.

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Anonymous wrote:In defense of NoVa…. Northern Virginia OVERWHELMINGLY did not vote for Youngkin. And the more dems we get to move to NoVa from DC, the more likely we can fully turn Virginia blue. So any Democrats considering moving to NoVa but turned off by our horrifying governor should know that a) they would not be surrounded by conservatives and b) they’d be doing a “good deed” for the Democratic Party by moving here and voting Democratic!!!

And making it a People’s Republic like Moco?

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Anonymous wrote:In defense of NoVa…. Northern Virginia OVERWHELMINGLY did not vote for Youngkin. And the more dems we get to move to NoVa from DC, the more likely we can fully turn Virginia blue. So any Democrats considering moving to NoVa but turned off by our horrifying governor should know that a) they would not be surrounded by conservatives and b) they’d be doing a “good deed” for the Democratic Party by moving here and voting Democratic!!!

Short sighted as his policies are what props Fairfax county business friendly and wealth

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Last week's Politics Hour covered this a bit: https://wamu.org/story/22/03/04/the-politics-hour-march-4-2022/

I'm in NOVA and was also surprised at Marc Erlich's response to how he interacts with business. I'm paraphrasing, but he was asked if he ever reaches out to bring in more business, and his response was that he returns phone calls, but doesn't proactively reach out. This is actually very different than how I see nova handling it, where our leaders actively court and recruit new business to the area. The reasoning we've been given is that it lowers the tax rate for residents, but who knows, taxes seem pretty high here?

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Those companies in Nova are leaving because of Youngkin. He and other republicans hate Nova.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MoCo has a huge biotech sector

Lol. No it doesn't..

Yes, it does. My husband has spent his entire career working for private sector biotech companies in MoCo.

When people think Biotech, hardly anyone ever thinks about MoCo, MD. Biotech hubs are in Boston, SF, and Seattle. There is only 1 employer on that list in biotech - MedImmune. Wow, big whoop, biotech in MoCo means a whole bunch of startups with low salaries or companies that have entirely pre-market pipelines in development that can go belly up in an instant if they ever get a setback in clinical development. MoCo's biotech prowess is always extremely overrated by MoConites.

Biotech also doesn't even pay that well compared to many other industries.

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Anonymous wrote:Last week's Politics Hour covered this a bit: https://wamu.org/story/22/03/04/the-politics-hour-march-4-2022/

I'm in NOVA and was also surprised at Marc Erlich's response to how he interacts with business. I'm paraphrasing, but he was asked if he ever reaches out to bring in more business, and his response was that he returns phone calls, but doesn't proactively reach out. This is actually very different than how I see nova handling it, where our leaders actively court and recruit new business to the area. The reasoning we've been given is that it lowers the tax rate for residents, but who knows, taxes seem pretty high here?

Yeah I mean the Virginia highway border sign says “open for business”.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MoCo has a huge biotech sector

Lol. No it doesn't..

Yes, it does. My husband has spent his entire career working for private sector biotech companies in MoCo.

When people think Biotech, hardly anyone ever thinks about MoCo, MD. Biotech hubs are in Boston, SF, and Seattle. There is only 1 employer on that list in biotech - MedImmune. Wow, big whoop, biotech in MoCo means a whole bunch of startups with low salaries or companies that have entirely pre-market pipelines in development that can go belly up in an instant if they ever get a setback in clinical development. MoCo's biotech prowess is always extremely overrated by MoConites.

Biotech also doesn't even pay that well compared to many other industries.

Tell me I don’t know biotech and pharma without saying it^^^

Of course Boston

New Jersey, Philly, San Diego, Chicago and yes DC/moco.

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Anonymous wrote:In defense of NoVa…. Northern Virginia OVERWHELMINGLY did not vote for Youngkin. And the more dems we get to move to NoVa from DC, the more likely we can fully turn Virginia blue. So any Democrats considering moving to NoVa but turned off by our horrifying governor should know that a) they would not be surrounded by conservatives and b) they’d be doing a “good deed” for the Democratic Party by moving here and voting Democratic!!!

Virginia works because it's purple and pragmatic. I don't want a blue or a red state, I want a state where both parties have a legitimate chance of winning and thus have to care about moderate voters.

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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.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MoCo has a huge biotech sector

Lol. No it doesn't..

Yes, it does. My husband has spent his entire career working for private sector biotech companies in MoCo.

When people think Biotech, hardly anyone ever thinks about MoCo, MD. Biotech hubs are in Boston, SF, and Seattle. There is only 1 employer on that list in biotech - MedImmune. Wow, big whoop, biotech in MoCo means a whole bunch of startups with low salaries or companies that have entirely pre-market pipelines in development that can go belly up in an instant if they ever get a setback in clinical development. MoCo's biotech prowess is always extremely overrated by MoConites.

Biotech also doesn't even pay that well compared to many other industries.

Tell me I don’t know biotech and pharma without saying it^^^

Of course Boston

New Jersey, Philly, San Diego, Chicago and yes DC/moco.

Lmao.

Only one company in biotech on the list of top employers in MoCo. So much for that highly vaunted biotech industry in moco, lol. whoop dee doo....a bunch of biotech startups paying $60k per year. Peanuts compared to what the companies in NoVa pay. The fact that you even try to parlay MoCo's joke biotech scene to the massive and best companies in the world in NoVa is laughable. So much more money and wealth in NoVa.

MoCo's biotech....So.Over.Rated.

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Go to Tysons and see how many cars with MD license plates clog the roads. There's a huge influx of people commuting from MD to NoVA daily and it makes the traffic horrible. WFH needs to stay long term, at least for infrastructure purposes.

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Anonymous wrote:Go to Tysons and see how many cars with MD license plates clog the roads. There's a huge influx of people commuting from MD to NoVA daily and it makes the traffic horrible. WFH needs to stay long term, at least for infrastructure purposes.

Which just re-iterates the point that MD is just the apartment complex grounds/bedroom for NoVa. MD doesn't get corporate taxes from businesses located in Va though.

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That is why housing so so expensive in NoVa. The good jobs are here and no one wants to commute over the AmLeg bridge and the Metro trip is too long from MoCo

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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.