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

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"My tired suburb is better that your tired suburb!"

"No MY tired suburb is better than your tired suburb!!"

"But I don't know anyone who lives in my suburb and drives to your suburb, so my suburb really is best"

"Well your suburb is stoopid"

"Well your suburb is a poopy head!"

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Anonymous wrote: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

Maybe we can't get a bridge, but can we get a metro line from MoCo to Reston?
At Bles Park in Ashburn, the Potomac is narrower than many houses.

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Anonymous wrote: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

Maybe we can't get a bridge, but can we get a metro line from MoCo to Reston?
At Bles Park in Ashburn, the Potomac is narrower than many houses.

A bridge would be cheaper and more practical.

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Anonymous wrote: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

Maybe we can't get a bridge, but can we get a metro line from MoCo to Reston?
At Bles Park in Ashburn, the Potomac is narrower than many houses.

A bridge would be cheaper and more practical.

MD has no interest in improving connections to VA. It's a dumb stance that ends up only hurting MD more, especially MoCo.

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Anonymous wrote: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

Maybe we can't get a bridge, but can we get a metro line from MoCo to Reston?
At Bles Park in Ashburn, the Potomac is narrower than many houses.

A bridge would be cheaper and more practical.

MD has no interest in improving connections to VA. It's a dumb stance that ends up only hurting MD more, especially MoCo.

If they built the bridge, there could be better access to Dulles Airport from MC. More business may want to move to MC. It’s too late for attracting business but there is still room to improve commute between NoVa and MC. We need tax paying residents in MC to support UBi.

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Why are there so many posts about DC? This discussion isn't about DC.

Regarding MOCO and Fairfax, I've started to see recently movement by Fairfax politically to follow MOCO down the drain, so I'm not convinced Fairfax relative success will continue much longer.

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New Yorkers don't spend all their time pissing about whether they live in New Jersey or Westchester or Queens.

There is something deeply toxic about the DMV. It shouldn't be a freaking contest. This is one metropolitan area spread over two states and the District. To pit one section against another is stupid.

That being said, I would never live in Nova because it is a series of traffic islands surrounding hideous new builds and strip malls.

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

If he attempts anything with abortion, then me and my woman-owned business are out of here.

-VA resident

Why don't you give your employees free birth control so that they will not need so many abortions?

All women have the right to bodily autonomy and safe abortions.

That's right but why do you hire such irresponsible that they do not exercise their right to bodily autonomy and become impregnated by randos?

There are many reasons why a woman may want to end her pregnancy. It doesn’t matter what misogynistic POSs like you think because it her decision - not yours.

When one human decides to kill another human, it is always the killer's decision, that's true. It just that in one case its called abortion, and the other murder. Don't get me wrong, prior to the 3rd trimester its not a viable human, so the term abortion is acceptable (it is not murder) and it is the woman's choice. Agreed. I also fully support a woman's right to chose to have unprotected sex with me. I may refuse, but they have the right to accept (or offer) if I am interested.

Question, does a woman have the right to have sex for money or pose nude or pose in a swimsuit or underwear? Why or why not? I think they should. It is their body and their choice. Why do many of the same people that argue for a woman's right to choose then act like a woman shouldn't have the right to sell their body/looks for money? Very inconsistent and hypocritical. Once a woman is an adult they should be able to do whatever they want with their body.

Do you agree or not and why? (Again, assuming the woman is not being forced to sell their body)

Dude, that is one creepy segue, and you are making some odd assumptions about women that make me question how much proximity you've ever had to any.

1.) Third term abortions are staggeringly rare. When done, there's usually a terrible tragic reason that is none of your damned business.

2.) There is no correlation whatsoever between being anti sex work and pro choice. Those are two different topics. I think you have some kind of mythical "feminist" in your head you think you are speaking to? She does not exist.

3.) It was a creepy segue, again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"My tired suburb is better that your tired suburb!"

"No MY tired suburb is better than your tired suburb!!"

"But I don't know anyone who lives in my suburb and drives to your suburb, so my suburb really is best"

"Well your suburb is stoopid"

"Well your suburb is a poopy head!"

Chef's kiss

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Anonymous wrote:Virginians being weirdly obsessed with hating Maryland was by far the most random and strange thing I encountered when moving here. I truly don’t get it…. People in Maryland don’t care about VA one way or another. They’re just… there. I’ve also noticed a hyper focus of NOVA people on what people do for a living - so I guess I can understand this post.

DC people are also obsessed with hating Maryland. When we first moved here we lived three blocks from the Maryland border. Like all of our neighbors, we did most of our shopping for groceries, etc. In Maryland.

The neighborhood listerve was full of complaints about how people from Maryland dared drive through our neighborhood, how badly they drove in general, how much crime they brought with them, how we should not have any businesses near our neighborhood because it might encourage more of them to come.

And then there was the obsession about Maryland people attending DC schools....

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Anonymous wrote:New Yorkers don't spend all their time pissing about whether they live in New Jersey or Westchester or Queens.

There is something deeply toxic about the DMV. It shouldn't be a freaking contest. This is one metropolitan area spread over two states and the District. To pit one section against another is stupid.

That being said, I would never live in Nova because it is a series of traffic islands surrounding hideous new builds and strip malls.

What an idiotic post. People in the Tri-State area are even more competitive about where they live and came up with all sorts of put-downs, such as referring to people who don’t live in Manhattan or Westchester as the “bridge and tunnel crowd.”

That being acknowledged, MoCo hasn’t kept up with NoVa, and it’s dissatisfied residents upset with Elrich who tend to point out the growing disparities the most.

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Anonymous wrote:"My tired suburb is better that your tired suburb!"

"No MY tired suburb is better than your tired suburb!!"

"But I don't know anyone who lives in my suburb and drives to your suburb, so my suburb really is best"

"Well your suburb is stoopid"

"Well your suburb is a poopy head!"

Chef's kiss

It's actually a really stupid post when you're talking about some of the wealthiest counties in the country and therefore the world

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Anonymous wrote: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

Maybe we can't get a bridge, but can we get a metro line from MoCo to Reston?
At Bles Park in Ashburn, the Potomac is narrower than many houses.

A bridge would be cheaper and more practical.

MD has no interest in improving connections to VA. It's a dumb stance that ends up only hurting MD more, especially MoCo.

+1 MoCo resident


MoCo cares too much about that ag preserve rather than bringing in high paying jobs . If they can't bring in the high paying jobs, at least provide better infrastructure so that people can get to FFX to their jobs a bit more easily. Mass transit over the one bridge to FFX is not tenable. Taking metro to FFX is even worse. There needs to be another bridge.

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Anonymous wrote:Top employers in MoCo:

https://commerce.maryland.gov/Documents/ResearchDocument/MajorEmployersInMontgomeryCounty.pdf

Top employers in Fairfax:

https://www.fairfaxcountyeda.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Major-Employers.pdf

So basically, MoCo relies entirely on govt jobs and some crappy low paying service sector jobs at places like Giant, Safeway, and Target. Meanwhile in NoVa, the top employers are major banks, super high end tech and software companies, top consulting firms, and other major professional services firms. I never knew MoCo was getting its lunch eaten this bad. NoVa has way, way better jobs and a far better diversity of jobs/firms. MoCo relies entirely on govt, clearly has a severe lack of innovative firms that pay high salaries when compared to NoVa, and a large portion of their residents working in very low quality service sector jobs that probably pay just over minimum wage. How is MoCo not doomed with this flimsy of a tax and employer base?

The fact that every third car coming down/back on Georgetown Pike has MD plates told me this a long time ago. That and the traffic from same cars on back roads near the beltway in McLean

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If the MD drivers would just learn to drive, it would (partially) make up for them clogging VA roads.

The worst traffic accident that closed the bridge was caused by a VA driver. Just sayin'

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Anonymous wrote:Top employers in MoCo:

https://commerce.maryland.gov/Documents/ResearchDocument/MajorEmployersInMontgomeryCounty.pdf

Top employers in Fairfax:

https://www.fairfaxcountyeda.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Major-Employers.pdf

So basically, MoCo relies entirely on govt jobs and some crappy low paying service sector jobs at places like Giant, Safeway, and Target. Meanwhile in NoVa, the top employers are major banks, super high end tech and software companies, top consulting firms, and other major professional services firms. I never knew MoCo was getting its lunch eaten this bad. NoVa has way, way better jobs and a far better diversity of jobs/firms. MoCo relies entirely on govt, clearly has a severe lack of innovative firms that pay high salaries when compared to NoVa, and a large portion of their residents working in very low quality service sector jobs that probably pay just over minimum wage. How is MoCo not doomed with this flimsy of a tax and employer base?

The fact that every third car coming down/back on Georgetown Pike has MD plates told me this a long time ago. That and the traffic from same cars on back roads near the beltway in McLean

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If the MD drivers would just learn to drive, it would (partially) make up for them clogging VA roads.

The worst traffic accident that closed the bridge was caused by a VA driver. Just sayin'

Using 2019 data, the car crash rate per capita in both MoCo and Fairfax is approximately 1.1%