Will Springfield ever gentrify? Or permanent Bootyhole status?

[Anonymous]

What is this boards obsession with Springfield? The area is fine. All of the people commenting negative things - do you even live here or close enough where you regularly are in the area? Why do you care so much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PS I wouldn’t buy here for investments. We dont’ want you to. Let’s keep it for the poor actual middle class people.

Dayum! 😩

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Permanent bootyhole. The rich areas keep getting more desirable, and the poor areas keep getting more undesirable.

I don't think this is true. I was in Annandale and Falls Church recently. They were not desirable areas 25 years ago, and the areas I was in were fairly nice. People still don't use public schools as much though.

I don’t see what people find so great about Annandale or Falls Church either. They don’t look or feel any different than downtown Springfield.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who cares? Newer Whole Foods, 2 Trader Joe’s, 3 great American restaurants, some good mom and pop Thai, Peruvian chicken places and free parking without garages. A great park and trails. We love the area!

Don’t forget the Swiss Bakery which is on Braddock!!!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Nowhere in NOVA has gotten better since I moved here in 2001. Not a single area has "gentrified." Some have gotten worse especially in PWC.

Route 1 no longer has street walkers. Most of the time.

and the Huntsman Motel is long gone... True story, one of my coworkers at a high security facility used to sneak out with another employee to get it on at lunch. It didn't bother her at all that he was engaged and getting married soon. He was gross. She was desperate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who cares? Newer Whole Foods, 2 Trader Joe’s, 3 great American restaurants, some good mom and pop Thai, Peruvian chicken places and free parking without garages. A great park and trails. We love the area!

We lived there when first married and loved it. Our condo community was walkable to a gorgeous park, Whole Foods, restaurants. Great place!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Permanent bootyhole. The rich areas keep getting more desirable, and the poor areas keep getting more undesirable.

I don't think this is true. I was in Annandale and Falls Church recently. They were not desirable areas 25 years ago, and the areas I was in were fairly nice. People still don't use public schools as much though.

I don’t see what people find so great about Annandale or Falls Church either. They don’t look or feel any different than downtown Springfield.

Falls Church is so much nicer than Springfield.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Permanent bootyhole. The rich areas keep getting more desirable, and the poor areas keep getting more undesirable.

I don't think this is true. I was in Annandale and Falls Church recently. They were not desirable areas 25 years ago, and the areas I was in were fairly nice. People still don't use public schools as much though.

I don’t see what people find so great about Annandale or Falls Church either. They don’t look or feel any different than downtown Springfield.

Falls Church is so much nicer than Springfield.

Falls Church is quite large and many, many parts of it are not nice at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Permanent bootyhole. The rich areas keep getting more desirable, and the poor areas keep getting more undesirable.

I don't think this is true. I was in Annandale and Falls Church recently. They were not desirable areas 25 years ago, and the areas I was in were fairly nice. People still don't use public schools as much though.

Public schools are usually the last and slowest to improve which often leads to underenrollment (no one wants to send kids to a bad school) and eventual closure rather than improvement. Seeing it in bad neighborhoods of the sf Bay Area. Decent people moving in but the school is still a dump

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Nowhere in NOVA has gotten better since I moved here in 2001. Not a single area has "gentrified." Some have gotten worse especially in PWC.

Route 1 no longer has street walkers. Most of the time.

No they do!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Permanent bootyhole. The rich areas keep getting more desirable, and the poor areas keep getting more undesirable.

I don't think this is true. I was in Annandale and Falls Church recently. They were not desirable areas 25 years ago, and the areas I was in were fairly nice. People still don't use public schools as much though.

I don’t see what people find so great about Annandale or Falls Church either. They don’t look or feel any different than downtown Springfield.

Falls Church is so much nicer than Springfield.

Falls Church is quite large and many, many parts of it are not nice at all.

I assume you are referring to FCC, which is its own thing, Falls Church zoned to McLean, which is desirable and nice but still more affordable than FCC and McLean due its lack of walkability, and the parts of FC Fairfax that are zoned to Justice.

I think the last one is the last bastion of relative affordability inside the Beltway but not for long. Prices have gone up quite a bit since I first moved here. I hate Trump but if he manages to get the criminal illegal element out (dubious given their incompetence but most people do support MS13 getting shipped out), that area has no where to go but up. It’s very convenient for commuting to Tyson’s and down the silver line and still not bad for DC, and the housing lots and stock are pretty generously sized for the price and location.

[Anonymous]

I don't know how springfield is any different than any other part of northern VA. I would nominate Alexandria as the butthole. Specifically the Hybla Valley/Rt 1 area. More than half of inside the Beltway is a total shithole... and I don't think Springfield is worse than Lorton, Annandale, Baileys' Crossroads, Seven Corners, and significant parts of Falls Church, Arlington, and Alexandria.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Permanent bootyhole. The rich areas keep getting more desirable, and the poor areas keep getting more undesirable.

I don't think this is true. I was in Annandale and Falls Church recently. They were not desirable areas 25 years ago, and the areas I was in were fairly nice. People still don't use public schools as much though.

I don’t see what people find so great about Annandale or Falls Church either. They don’t look or feel any different than downtown Springfield.

Falls Church is so much nicer than Springfield.

Falls Church is quite large and many, many parts of it are not nice at all.

I assume you are referring to FCC, which is its own thing, Falls Church zoned to McLean, which is desirable and nice but still more affordable than FCC and McLean due its lack of walkability, and the parts of FC Fairfax that are zoned to Justice.

I think the last one is the last bastion of relative affordability inside the Beltway but not for long. Prices have gone up quite a bit since I first moved here. I hate Trump but if he manages to get the criminal illegal element out (dubious given their incompetence but most people do support MS13 getting shipped out), that area has no where to go but up. It’s very convenient for commuting to Tyson’s and down the silver line and still not bad for DC, and the housing lots and stock are pretty generously sized for the price and location.

Average price of a single-family home sold over the past 12 months in Falls Church zoned to McLean per Redfin: $1.825 million

Average price of a single-family home sold over the past 12 months in Falls Church City per Redfin: $1.400 million

Average price of a single-family home sold over the past 12 months in McLean per Redfin: $2.050 million

Also, there are other parts of Falls Church in Fairfax County besides those zoned to McLean or Justice. Those areas go to Marshall or Falls Church.

[Anonymous]

Springfield is ugly because of the same reason the rest of Arlington is ugly: unburied power lines everywhere, stroads, ugly stores. Nobody has good taste

[Anonymous]

I think it depends on what part of Springfield (it is a big area). Like- North Springfield is the better location and has potential but it is not great. West Springfield has the typical NOVA neighborhoods with big trees and the neighborhood pools.