What are the best and worst exurbs?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Elliott City, MD.

I find downtown Ellicott City depressing. I don't understand why people like it. Frederick is much better.

EC is depressing partially because it’s prone to devastating floods

[Anonymous]

Ashburn/Leesburg has to be the worst. Soulless, lacks charm, flat, spread out, cookie-cutter manufactured suburbia. The wine country to the west is nice but I'm fine making the longer drive further out there when I need to.

[Anonymous]

I like “downtown” Middleburg

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ashburn/Leesburg has to be the worst. Soulless, lacks charm, flat, spread out, cookie-cutter manufactured suburbia. The wine country to the west is nice but I'm fine making the longer drive further out there when I need to.

So you havent been to Leesburg then? Adorable historic town.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ashburn/Leesburg has to be the worst. Soulless, lacks charm, flat, spread out, cookie-cutter manufactured suburbia. The wine country to the west is nice but I'm fine making the longer drive further out there when I need to.

Ashburn and Leesburg aren’t exurbs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most people in this thread have no idea what an exurb is.

exurb
ĕk′sûrb″
noun
A semirural region lying just beyond the suburbs of a city.


Places like Fairfax, Leesburg, Ashburn, Frederick exurbs is just ridiculous. There’s hardly any rural land in any of these places. Those are the definition of suburb. Even Woodbridge is a suburb not exurb.

+1

None of the places listed are semi-rural. They’re all strip malls and cookie cutter houses.

People need to educate themselves on what an exurb is. This thread is embarrassing.

[Anonymous]

Kent Island/ Queen Annes County or Southern Anne Arundel are probably pretty good options depending on the lifestype you want.

I was going to say Annapolis initially, but the "not exurb" scolds convinced me that's not the case.

[Anonymous]

A basic 5 minute google of DC exurbs found references to Loudoun County, Fauquier County, and Frederick as exurbs of DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A basic 5 minute google of DC exurbs found references to Loudoun County, Fauquier County, and Frederick as exurbs of DC.

And Prince William county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ashburn/Leesburg has to be the worst. Soulless, lacks charm, flat, spread out, cookie-cutter manufactured suburbia. The wine country to the west is nice but I'm fine making the longer drive further out there when I need to.

Leesburg is very nice. And there are several nice towns nearby.

[Anonymous]

I like the old town area of Fredericksburg and it has easy train access to DC.

[Anonymous]

Frederick isn’t really an exurb. It’s more if it’s own city that has been sucked into the commuting area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I like the old town area of Fredericksburg and it has easy train access to DC.

Same

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ashburn/Leesburg has to be the worst. Soulless, lacks charm, flat, spread out, cookie-cutter manufactured suburbia. The wine country to the west is nice but I'm fine making the longer drive further out there when I need to.

But Vienna and Reston are the epitome of charm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Most people in this thread have no idea what an exurb is.

exurb
ĕk′sûrb″
noun
A semirural region lying just beyond the suburbs of a city.


Places like Fairfax, Leesburg, Ashburn, Frederick exurbs is just ridiculous. There’s hardly any rural land in any of these places. Those are the definition of suburb. Even Woodbridge is a suburb not exurb.

+1

None of the places listed are semi-rural. They’re all strip malls and cookie cutter houses.

People need to educate themselves on what an exurb is. This thread is embarrassing.

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