Why do Marylanders think Virginia sucks?

[Anonymous]

That goes the same for: Why do Virginians think VA is better than MD.

To me, there are both goods and bad about each. People just hate the traffic altogether because the whole area is congested. But, with VA, there are options when you get stuck because the state is huge. In MD, when you are stuck on 270, 95 or 495, you have limited alternatives.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We live in MD now, but when we were house hunting, we definitely considered NOVA. DH and I are from MN so we really had no context of VA vs. MD. We found VA to have lots of very nice parts. Cheaper taxes. Way more development than MD. We actually found NOVA in generally to have a better stock of newer homes and better options for schools and house space for better prices then MD.

Can't put my finger on it, but we really just did not feel comfortable in VA and did not want our kids, who are biracial, to go to school there. While house hunting and talking with people who lived in the neighborhoods we searched (Vienna, Mclean, North Arlington, Falls Church, Loudon, Alexandria), we really got an underlying sense that we were not really wanted there. It was perplexing b/c we know plenty of minorities who live throughout NOVA and they never expressed this sentiment. At least not explicitly.

+1 Originally from CA, now live in MD with biracial children. We also talked about NoVa area, but settled in MoCo. I get the sense that MoCo has more variety in the types of people: from the conservative to uber liberals; Muslims, Jews, Protestants; hipsters to hippies. Just my opinion.

[Anonymous]

Because driving in VA sucks. People are assholes and I get lost every damn time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't read the above but these are my reasons. I hate the spaghetti bowl concrete maze of highways in VA. That whole area between DC and IAD seems soulless. VA has and always has had very conservative, punitive policies, rooted in the history of settlement of VA way back when. They handcuffed an autistic child having a tantrum at school and charged him with assault. I think he was 12. Some perverts in the legal system in VA (I wanna say a magistrate judge and a prosecutor?) threatened to force a teenage boy to have an erection and photograph it so they could compare with the sexted photographs he was being accused of sending to his girlfriend. Need I say more? Those people are crazy and I would avoid living there at all costs. Would not want to raise a child there. Some pretty countryside though.

I guess you'd rather see if Larry Hogan can change the decades old culture of corruption in Maryland?

I'd rather not see Hogan at all, but honestly I'd prefer a little political corruption to institutionalized pedophilia and extreme punitiveness in the judicial system and culture.

You're just a wacko to characterize an entire state that way.

[Anonymous]

Moved here several years ago and choose Montgomery county after really wanting to live in NoVa at first. I thought taxes were lower and husband worked in Arlington. But I found Fairfax county and Arlington pretty strange layouts, I looked in PG county as well. Now I prefer MD but a few things shaped my opinion during the house search. All the houses I went to see in VA had their homeowners there and knowing I was coming houses were dirty and gross and one mom was yelling at her kids and just it was gross experience. One townhome in Falls Church had the home owner act like he was confused why my realtor and I were there and again it was disguising, I mean dirty pots and I am sure there were rats.... I am not talking cheap places either. In MD only one home had homeowners in it, and yes that one was gross with cat pee and poo everywhere, but all the others were nice, no home owners were present and houses were decently maintained. Then during the visit to Four Star Hotel in NoVa I was talking with some rich white woman from McLean and told her I looked everywhere, and when I mentioned PG County she expressed her opinion that you have to be crazy to live there. I work in PG county and find that people are more genuine, even though I am aware there are parts that have issues. So based on that lady I of course made the opinion that people in VA are racist, just joking, but that is all why I like MD better, all based on my own experience. I might like Richmond or other towns in VA more if I knew more about life there.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moved here several years ago and choose Montgomery county after really wanting to live in NoVa at first. I thought taxes were lower and husband worked in Arlington. But I found Fairfax county and Arlington pretty strange layouts, I looked in PG county as well. Now I prefer MD but a few things shaped my opinion during the house search. All the houses I went to see in VA had their homeowners there and knowing I was coming houses were dirty and gross and one mom was yelling at her kids and just it was gross experience. One townhome in Falls Church had the home owner act like he was confused why my realtor and I were there and again it was disguising, I mean dirty pots and I am sure there were rats.... I am not talking cheap places either. In MD only one home had homeowners in it, and yes that one was gross with cat pee and poo everywhere, but all the others were nice, no home owners were present and houses were decently maintained. Then during the visit to Four Star Hotel in NoVa I was talking with some rich white woman from McLean and told her I looked everywhere, and when I mentioned PG County she expressed her opinion that you have to be crazy to live there. I work in PG county and find that people are more genuine, even though I am aware there are parts that have issues. So based on that lady I of course made the opinion that people in VA are racist, just joking, but that is all why I like MD better, all based on my own experience. I might like Richmond or other towns in VA more if I knew more about life there.

As far as I'm concerned, once you leave NOVA, the rest of VA might as well be Mississippi or Georgia. I say the same thing for the central MD as well. Couldn't count how many confederate flags we passed heading to western PA through MD.

[Anonymous]

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As far as I'm concerned, once you leave NOVA, the rest of VA might as well be Mississippi or Georgia. I say the same thing for the central MD as well. Couldn't count how many confederate flags we passed heading to western PA through MD.

As an Asian American, if I *had* to choose, I would probably pick rural MD over rural VA. I've driven through both, and IMO, rural MD seems less red necky. Just my opinion. Plus, state politics in MD lean a bit more liberal than VA, though it doesn't really impact day to day life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Moved here several years ago and choose Montgomery county after really wanting to live in NoVa at first. I thought taxes were lower and husband worked in Arlington. But I found Fairfax county and Arlington pretty strange layouts, I looked in PG county as well. Now I prefer MD but a few things shaped my opinion during the house search. All the houses I went to see in VA had their homeowners there and knowing I was coming houses were dirty and gross and one mom was yelling at her kids and just it was gross experience. One townhome in Falls Church had the home owner act like he was confused why my realtor and I were there and again it was disguising, I mean dirty pots and I am sure there were rats.... I am not talking cheap places either. In MD only one home had homeowners in it, and yes that one was gross with cat pee and poo everywhere, but all the others were nice, no home owners were present and houses were decently maintained. Then during the visit to Four Star Hotel in NoVa I was talking with some rich white woman from McLean and told her I looked everywhere, and when I mentioned PG County she expressed her opinion that you have to be crazy to live there. I work in PG county and find that people are more genuine, even though I am aware there are parts that have issues. So based on that lady I of course made the opinion that people in VA are racist, just joking, but that is all why I like MD better, all based on my own experience. I might like Richmond or other towns in VA more if I knew more about life there.

Where are you from originally? Richmond is like the 1860s compared to McLean in terms of racism.

[Anonymous]

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As far as I'm concerned, once you leave NOVA, the rest of VA might as well be Mississippi or Georgia. I say the same thing for the central MD as well. Couldn't count how many confederate flags we passed heading to western PA through MD.

As an Asian American, if I *had* to choose, I would probably pick rural MD over rural VA. I've driven through both, and IMO, rural MD seems less red necky. Just my opinion. Plus, state politics in MD lean a bit more liberal than VA, though it doesn't really impact day to day life.

The many Asian communities in NoVA would disagree with you. Love the Vietnamese community in Falls Church, to name just one in NoVA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

As far as I'm concerned, once you leave NOVA, the rest of VA might as well be Mississippi or Georgia. I say the same thing for the central MD as well. Couldn't count how many confederate flags we passed heading to western PA through MD.

As an Asian American, if I *had* to choose, I would probably pick rural MD over rural VA. I've driven through both, and IMO, rural MD seems less red necky. Just my opinion. Plus, state politics in MD lean a bit more liberal than VA, though it doesn't really impact day to day life.

Agreed. As a person of color, my lynch-o-meter goes outside of NOVA. I'm actually more fearful of driving through rural VA than I am of walking in Baltimore at night, with the highest fear factor being rural VA police.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in Virginia, but I'm not from here. I like it a pretty good deal, so I can never understand why it is that Marylanders come on here and trash Virginia. Don't flame me! I'm not trying to start a war. I just want to understand why Marylanders hate Virginia so much because they seem pretty similar to me.

Two words: THE PEOPLE.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Moved here several years ago and choose Montgomery county after really wanting to live in NoVa at first. I thought taxes were lower and husband worked in Arlington. But I found Fairfax county and Arlington pretty strange layouts, I looked in PG county as well. Now I prefer MD but a few things shaped my opinion during the house search. All the houses I went to see in VA had their homeowners there and knowing I was coming houses were dirty and gross and one mom was yelling at her kids and just it was gross experience. One townhome in Falls Church had the home owner act like he was confused why my realtor and I were there and again it was disguising, I mean dirty pots and I am sure there were rats.... I am not talking cheap places either. In MD only one home had homeowners in it, and yes that one was gross with cat pee and poo everywhere, but all the others were nice, no home owners were present and houses were decently maintained. Then during the visit to Four Star Hotel in NoVa I was talking with some rich white woman from McLean and told her I looked everywhere, and when I mentioned PG County she expressed her opinion that you have to be crazy to live there. I work in PG county and find that people are more genuine, even though I am aware there are parts that have issues. So based on that lady I of course made the opinion that people in VA are racist, just joking, but that is all why I like MD better, all based on my own experience. I might like Richmond or other towns in VA more if I knew more about life there.

Where are you from originally? Richmond is like the 1860s compared to McLean in terms of racism.

From Colorado, but lived in Africa for a long time.

[Anonymous]

Before I saw it in person, I thought I'd love old town Alexandria.

Then we went there and discovered it had more chain stores than downtown silver spring. And that is saying something. A lovely, historic neighborhood loses a lot when le pain quotidien is their idea of an upscale cafe.

[Anonymous]

Every time I go to VA I get stuck in traffic.

Every. Single. Time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Every time I go to VA I get stuck in traffic.

Every. Single. Time.

Tysons Corner. That area seems to always have traffic, even during off peak traffic hours.