Northern Virginia exodus pulls down Virginia’s income
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Anonymous
Just Virginians huh? |
Anonymous
They aren’t that kind of immigrant or at least not out in our area of Loudoun County. The influx out here has a lot of money. |
Anonymous
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Roads here are clogged and housing is unaffordable with interest rates.
Some of the school systems have become very administratively heavy and parents aren't liking what they're hearing in Fairfax, especially those who value academics over indoctrination. Plus, people come here to NOVA to boost their pay (you can't swing a dead cat without hitting an GS-14+ or an IT worker selling wares to .gov and making great coin). But the pace here is fast and very career oriented, so at some point, people want to chill. I think you actually see some people moving overseas to make the most of their gains. |
Anonymous
Hardly. Lower test scores, fewer top scholars, and more violent, out-of-control kids in MCPS making teachers’ lives miserable. |
Anonymous
Honestly, test scores don't mean much anymore. They're eliminating the standards, letting test takers retake after a fail, making tests open book, making tests pass/fail, making testing optional (heck, making some homework optional), and grading on a super curve because the numbers are so bad. They're even making the LSAT and SAT optional for many universities. It's not about merit anymore. It's about avoiding hurt feelings and not damaging self-esteem. Everyone is getting a prize and a third to half the class is graduating with honors. |
Anonymous
What do you make of this, from the same author? https://cardinalnews.org/2023/03/15/moving-companies-say-virginia-net-out-migration-has-stopped-but-other-data-says-its-accelerating/ |
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Really interesting study:
https://www.unitedvanlines.com/newsroom/movers-study-2022 |
Anonymous
You know we switched schools last year and the new school is so much better than the old one. If we had started in this school at K, I would never have had any complaints of about FCPS. It is just so dependent on the school. I'll be honest that in our case we switched from a mixed SES school with a large ESOL population to a high SES school with like a 0.5% ESOL population, so the focus is 100% on all the children in the class instead of a small subset and it has made a world of difference. This is was people got in 2009, it's still here in most schools. |
Anonymous
I want MCPS marketing department. My Va buddies also repeat this fallacy. Just barely anyone in the county repeats it anymore. (28 year former Moco resident who came and then departed for quality of schools - or lack there of) |
Anonymous
Out of frying pan into the fire! Our wannabe Obama governor is too busy with Presidential press conferences because Biden likely needs to be in bed by 9. |
Anonymous
Salvador II. The book Th Clash of civilizations from 25 years ago was very prescient take. |
Anonymous
Ironically, this is a dumb and stupid post. Youngkin will be gone by 2025 thanks to term limits. Equally laughable is the notion that HHI earners are leaving NoVa for…Maryland. NoVa families are leaving for places with lower COLs. They’re certainly not flocking to the likes of MoCo or PG County… |
Anonymous
| Simple reasons, Democratic school boards are out of control, and people care about education. Add the quest to build a lot of multifamily housing in traditional single family home neighborhoods putting more traffic on already clogged roads and the fact that many people are retiring and what to move to safer, lower tax locations and you get the start of what will be a growing exodus in the decade ahead. |
Anonymous
Same here! Our youngest graduates next year and we are out of here. |
Anonymous
Oh my, such delusion going on here. |