NoVa area prestige ranking
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Anonymous
22309 here. I am waiting for the board of supervisors to put some pressure on the trailer parks. That's when it will become interesting. That signaled the beginning of the end for Penn Daw, now called King's Crossing. https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/planning-development/sites/planning-development/files/Assets/Documents/compplanamend/manufactured-housing/Penn-Daw-one-pager.pdf |
Anonymous
Penn daw trailer park is gone!? |
Anonymous
Not yet, but the county has a "plan" to help them relocate. |
Anonymous
The garden apartments are suppose to be torn down along with the old motels. |
Anonymous
Why are they trying to preserve a trailer park, that is the dumbest idea I have heard of and clearly people supporting this policy know nothing about trailer parks. This sounds like something out of a Portlandia episode rather than a real policy from Fairfax County. Trailer parks are basically financial traps for low income people where they are stuck paying increasing rent for land on a prefabricated house (they own) which is usually unable to be moved. It is a financially worse deal than either renting or buying something where you actually own the land under your home. |
Anonymous
| City of Fairfax below Manassas??? What? Just look at the average income of residents in each. |
Anonymous
If just income, just use the census information to order the communities. This thread is really stupid and reflects the insecurity of the posters. I like my home and it is in one of the lesser communities according to this list. But it is quiet, low-crime, and backs to parkland. Quite nice. All the things I need are nearby. Reasonable commute. |
Anonymous
22101 segmentation needs to be more refined. 1. Compound country (north of GW Parkway along Chain Bridge Road---foreign diplomats, Sunday morning talk show crowd, intelligence safe houses) 2. Real Langley (Hickory Hill - south of the Pike and north of Dolly Madison---old money Mclean--limited housing stock) 3. Salona Village / Potomac School (CEOs and law firm managing partners) 4. Other Langley (north of Pike and east of Ridge -transition area with scraper lots and new building stock for parents seeking Langley HS access) 5. East Mclean (east of Kirby and close to Glebe ---goal is to be near Chain Bridge for DC private school access) 6. Churchill Road area south of the Pike (mixed bag but improving ---Langley starter houses) 7. Central Mclean (south of Chain Bridge road, west of Kirby and east of Old Dominion ---lots of scraping and rebuild with high variation in house styles) |
Anonymous
Cheap, relatively high density housing, close to higher paying employment. I don’t want to pay my landscaper, housekeeper, trash man, or cafeteria worker to commute 2 hours from some far flung place (that very well could also be a trailer park). Having them closer maximizes their take home pay and keeps costs lower. |
Anonymous
It's part of the broader conspiracy to denigrate all neighborhoods South of Rte 50 which was historically the dividing line between white and black areas. This idiotic exercise is a dog whistle for whites-only neighborhoods. |
Anonymous
This comment is precious. Show me one zip code inside the beltway that is 50% or more Latino. They don't exist. Streets, neighborhoods, and communities with Latino residents--yes. Westover in Arlington is literally a mix of multimillion dollar homes and low income garden apartments and duplexes and people are fighting to live there. Everyone on DCUM disparages Lake Barcroft like it's in the middle of Compton or Watts, but that's far from true. I think the reality is that whites here want to be with other whites, and they tolerate wealthy, educated Indians despite massive cultural differences, caste prejudices, and rampant misogyny. |
Anonymous
22304 and 22204 are both majority minority and very expansive zip codes |
Anonymous
Del ray and route 50 have little to no connection. Also, most of Del ray is a historically white area. Interestingly, a lot of what is regarded as old town now was historically black and very poor. Old timers in Alexandria took a LONG time, maybe the 80s before warming up to the idea that old town had changed. |
Anonymous
The PP posed this question: Have you put your money where your mouth is and invested in real estate in neighborhoods with 50-75%+ Latino and Black populations? The only possible areas to hit that threshold of 50-75% Latino and Black might be somewhere in Alexandria outside of Old Town. |
Anonymous
Del Ray is South of Rte 50 last time I checked. |