Woodbridge is hell on earth

[Anonymous]

It’s the prince william county of nova

[Anonymous]

Ah, the armpit of Northern Virginia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean ... I don't know about "hell on earth," but it's pretty bad lol.

We just moved here from Falls Church and it is culture shock. Want to head out for a quick dinner? Ugh -- Longhorn Steakhouse or IHOP. Today I noticed that the glass door at the Safeway is shattered, but has been left there. Probably for a while? A good 1/3 of the stuff at the CVS is under lock and key (the people who work there are super nice though and easy to find and will get stuff out of the locked case for you). And I keep seeing in the news that someone got shot or something ... and it'll be nearby.

On the upside, everything is so much cheaper out here. I remember the first time I went to get my nails done I saw that it was costing me significantly less than it did in FCC and Vienna, and then they brought me a warm neck wrap, and then they brought me iced tea with fruit in it, and then they brought me a snack platter, lol, and I was like "I could get used to this."

We are on a decent sized piece of property on the Occoquan between Woodbridge and Manassas (we have a Woodbridge address, but the shopping center right up the road is a Manassas one) and got a gorgeous house we could never have afforded in our old neighborhood. It has made sense for us. But I don't love it here.

Oh, and the commute truly is hell.

What happened in your life that was so significant that it required a move from falls church to hoodbridge?

[Anonymous]

Across the river we hate every one of you in Va. learn to drive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s nicknamed hood bridge for a reason.

This is the comment I was looking for. Say the quiet part out loud!

Someone on my team at a fed agency lives there. Seems fine for her 🤷🏾‍♀️

Better than Dumfries and Manassas nickname “Dumassas”

1st of all its "Hoodbridge".
Also its " Dump-fries".
Lastly Manassas is inhabited/ infested by " Mana$$holes".
Yer welcome!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It honestly should be studied. What type of person lives there?

I take it you've never been to Prince Gee-Oh-Jaages" county?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean, you went there, OP.

Seriously.

But I guess OP is better than everyone else who consciously accepted the same tradeoffs that she did.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It honestly should be studied. What type of person lives there?

I take it you've never been to Prince Gee-Oh-Jaages" county?

I’ve been to College Park several times, and to a redskins game once. But other than that, no I haven’t.

[Anonymous]

Agreed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It honestly should be studied. What type of person lives there?

People who can only afford 3-400k also need somewhere to live.

[Anonymous]

The poorer "undocumented citizens" of Fairfax County were pushed put to Woodbridge. It's full of desperate people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just a few decades ago, there was a single murder in Woodbridge, and it was a big, big deal. This simply did not happen back then. Woodbridge was a very safe, bucolic, quiet haven of a community.

D.C. gentrification pushed out a lot of the poor folks in D.C. Also, a lot of people left because they didn't want to live in the murder capital of the world.

My next door neighbors were among those folks who left D.C. They were nice, and we got along great. However, a whole bunch of their relatives drifted into their little place, packing it full of people. A significant portion of them had done time in jail and had recently got out of jail. Those people were not nice, and they were horrible neighbors. They started dealing drugs. The troubles began. We moved.

That's what happened to Woodbridge. A lot of rough characters moved out there. I'm sure the law abiding former D.C. denizens felt as much dismay as we did that crime followed some of the new residents.

The county has approved dozens of low income housing developments in the area since it then. Look at a map of murders over the past 5-10 years in PWC and compare with a map of LIHTC properties in the county. There is a very tight correlation between proximity to these properties and where murders occur. Unfortunately, violent crime and poverty are strongly correlated. Invite poverty into your community and crime rates will go up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Woodbridge, Manassas, Gainesville and Haymarket have always been on the questionable side. I always side eye anyone who lives there...particularly if they have children attending the public school. London county is far better.

Gainesville and Haymarket? When?

And where is "London county?"

[Anonymous]

Way to be a snob. You moved there.

[Anonymous]

It was called Hoodbridge when I moved here 25 years ago. It really hasn't changed that much, although Potomac Mills has gone to hell.

Honestly, it isn't that bad. It may be bad relative to other parts of NOVA, but it is paradise compared to most of the world, of which I've seen plenty. I just got back from what I consider to be an anti-human, dystopian, living hell, a certain city in SE Asia I won't name. So consider yourself lucky. Most cities in the world are horrible.