Black Families in Fairfax City

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there any? I moved here from Alexandria and it's been a culture shock. I'm glad the area is more progressive than it used to be but I'm having a really hard time finding other Black families. I'm a single mom and my time is very limited. I'd rather not drive 45 minutes (with traffic) out of town but we will if we have to, I guess. I'd love to know of any nearby club or organization.

I live in Fairfax City. It's more of an even split than pretty much anywhere I've lived, OP. I'm a black single mom, too, and even my church is more mixed experience -- 20 percent black, 30 percent Hispanic, 30 percent or so white (I think?) and 10 percent Asian. It seems to mirror my kids school and other spaces like the city's youth sports league (which is pretty great and affordable).

https://www.fpycsports.com/

The city's camps program for the summer is AMAZING and cheap. The city's services are wonderful considering the value.

And pricing wise, I bought a tiny, small house for 450K five years ago. Yes, the owner was old and didn't do the best job maintaining the place, but I've spent time slowly fixing things and it's worth much, much more now and I cannot express the freedom of owning my own single family home.

I moved here from Laurel and found it to be pretty great, net-net. I do work in Herdon, so the commute was really the main driver. I've changed jobs and easily found a new one in the Herdon/Reston area easily (another reason I moved over here).

Isn’t it great to commute against traffic? Major time savings

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I live in the city. My across the street neighbors are Black, but their kids are grown. My next door neighbors are also Black, but recent immigrants from Côte d'Ivoire, so different cultural experience.There are also young Black grad students down the block from me. At least in my neighborhood, we’ve got a mix- the above neighbors are just the black folk I know personally.

Why are you capitalizing black?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live in the city. My across the street neighbors are Black, but their kids are grown. My next door neighbors are also Black, but recent immigrants from Côte d'Ivoire, so different cultural experience.There are also young Black grad students down the block from me. At least in my neighborhood, we’ve got a mix- the above neighbors are just the black folk I know personally.

Why are you capitalizing black?

You don’t know? Do a little bit of research

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:School Street by GMU.

Yeah maybe 50 years ago. There was also a large Black neighborhood off Braddock Road too, but most of the Blacks are moving away from there too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School Street by GMU.

Yeah maybe 50 years ago. There was also a large Black neighborhood off Braddock Road too, but most of the Blacks are moving away from there too.

You will still find the Black churches around those areas though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Beware. Fairfax City is still a very racist and dangerous place for Black families.

The whole state is racist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Beware. Fairfax City is still a very racist and dangerous place for Black families.

The whole state is racist.

How helpful you are on a weekend morning!

[Anonymous]

Fairfax City is very inclusive.

[Anonymous]

I live in the city, I am white, but can tell you I see black families at van dyck park, the splash pad in the summer, and rock the block.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Are there any? I moved here from Alexandria and it's been a culture shock. I'm glad the area is more progressive than it used to be but I'm having a really hard time finding other Black families. I'm a single mom and my time is very limited. I'd rather not drive 45 minutes (with traffic) out of town but we will if we have to, I guess. I'd love to know of any nearby club or organization.

The Alexandria section of Fairfax has a lot of black families.

Alexandria is nowhere near Fairfax City.

[Anonymous]

What's the obsession with having more black people, the kids don't see color and work well with all races

[Anonymous]

I live in a Fairfax neighborhood that is about 50 feet from the city proper border. There is one black family in our neighborhood, maybe 3-4 Asian families, and 2-3 Latino out of almost 100 residences. A few other ethnicities mixed in there too, but overall it's pretty white.