Panhandle West Virginia: Becoming an exurb of DC?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My patient today at a K st. medical office commutes to her DC job from WV. Somehow.

I can't help but think that maybe less time seated on a bus / train / car every day would only help her hypertension

The MARC runs all the way to Martinsburg.

[Anonymous]

We bought a place in Shepherdstown. We have met many people here who commute to NOVA and DC. It’s very common apparently.

[Anonymous]

It’s been a far exurb of DC for years now. Decades, even. MARC runs all the way to Martinsburg and Harpers Ferry, so it makes for a pretty easy train commute to places in MoCo. Or you could drive or take the commuter buses into the VA suburbs. It would be a very long commute all the way into DC but most people living out that far work in the suburbs anyway. I’m also pretty sure those areas in the WV panhandle get DC television stations.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We bought a place in Shepherdstown. We have met many people here who commute to NOVA and DC. It’s very common apparently.

Primary home or second home?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you cannot commute from there to a downtown office daily in less than 45 minutes, then no. Most of the places you list also are not exurbs of DC.

You can commute to MoCo and more importantly NoVA. That’s where all the jobs are anyway. Work in Loudon and live in WVa can work.

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Very few people I know commute to DC for work - the jobs are all in VA. Reston, Tysons, Vienna, McLean, Chantilly, Dulles area... you could definitely live in Loudoun and further west.

[Anonymous]

The panhandle will become a unique part of WV like northern virginia is to Virginia, it will eventually fade from being culturally similar to the rest of the state, racially, politically, industrially, etc.

[Anonymous]

The government considers WV part of the Washington, DC Metropolitan Statistical Area

[Anonymous]

In 08 Jefferson County went for Obama. Harper’s Ferry is one of the most beautiful areas in America. It’s the next Loudoun County/Middleburg. Charles Town is the perfect small town. Bought a home there and retire in five years. Nice people, great recreational opportunities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:People have been commuting from WV for over a decade. Hard to imaging DMV being called something else.

When I moved to Arlington in the 90s, I had several colleague who came to Roselyn and later Suitland from Leesburg and West Virginia. Also, many also came from Stafford. So they have been an exurb longer than so many of you newbies and snobs realize. the in-fill communities are newer and closer but those places you people like to exclude from the definition of DC metro area were actually part of DMV first.

[Anonymous]

Since when has that part of WV not been part the metro DC area?

[Anonymous]

There needs to be more interchanges and highways out that way

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In 08 Jefferson County went for Obama. Harper’s Ferry is one of the most beautiful areas in America. It’s the next Loudoun County/Middleburg. Charles Town is the perfect small town. Bought a home there and retire in five years. Nice people, great recreational opportunities.

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It really is beautiful out there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In 08 Jefferson County went for Obama. Harper’s Ferry is one of the most beautiful areas in America. It’s the next Loudoun County/Middleburg. Charles Town is the perfect small town. Bought a home there and retire in five years. Nice people, great recreational opportunities.

It's nice but you could say this about hundreds of places.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In 08 Jefferson County went for Obama. Harper’s Ferry is one of the most beautiful areas in America. It’s the next Loudoun County/Middleburg. Charles Town is the perfect small town. Bought a home there and retire in five years. Nice people, great recreational opportunities.

It's nice but you could say this about hundreds of places.

DP. Not sure what your point is here...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The panhandle will become a unique part of WV like northern virginia is to Virginia, it will eventually fade from being culturally similar to the rest of the state, racially, politically, industrially, etc.

Eventually? It’s been that way for 50 + years. We only got DC news growing up, except one Hagerstown station that has since moved to DC. People have commuted here to DC all my life. We took school field trips to DC and Baltimore at least 5 times growing up. The idea that you think this is new amuses me. It’s always been culturally similar to DC but still has WV ways. Don’t roll up in neighborhoods you don’t know anytime but especially after dark, neighbors watch out for neighbors, people open constitutional carry, concealed carry is pretty easy to get, we protect our neighbors, stand your ground laws apply, conservative overall but nobody cares if you’re liberal as long as you don’t care if someone else isn’t. Don’t act like a d in general or be a bad neighbor, myob, respect people they respect you. Don’t freak out by target practice, deer hunting, big trucks, barking dogs, 4 wheelers, horses on roads, and don’t drive like you do in DC - you’ll likely kill your self or someone else driving old horse and buggy roads like that.