Fairfax or Montgomery?

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Anonymous wrote:Fairfax is still VA. Definitely go with Moco. I never understand these posters who think they live in some “diverse” place in VA.

You need to leave your basement, house, or whatever bubble you reside in and open your eyes.

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No school system is without its challenges but MCPS is in serious decline and MoCo has been losing ground to NoVa for decades.

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Anonymous wrote:There are plenty of areas in FFX where tear downs are going for close to (or more than) $1 million. I don't know MD, but I'd assume that is also true there. Also, there is never not traffic in this area. Why are you moving to the DC area? To escape having your kids in a school in central VA? You probably want to take a close look at real estate in terms of the various markets.

I would go with FCPS. There are far more good schools for your needs--diverse, inclusive and high academic achievement-- than those listed. If you're considering West Springfield and Chantilly, I would also add in Woodson, Robinson, Lake Braddock, Fairfax, and Westfield. These are all suburban communities though. You can find reasonable houses within your budget there.

Really? With all the gun nuts and white nationalists rallies in VA, as a POC I'd avoid it.

NoVA is D-M-V. MCPS and FCPS are really very, very similar demographically and politically. But MCPS would be an impossible commute--even infrequently--for OP.

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Anonymous wrote:Fairfax is still VA. Definitely go with Moco. I never understand these posters who think they live in some “diverse” place in VA.

Both are FCPS and MCPS are minority majority schools systems. They are both very diverse compared the the rest of the county and are close to each other in variety.

DP... agree that FCPS and MCPS are more diverse than the rest of the country, but FCPS is not as diverse as MCPS. NoVa has just one city in the top 30 most diverse cities: Alexandria; whereas MoCo - a single county - has something like four cities in the top 30. Even Richmond, VA is more diverse than most of NoVa.

NoVA for the most part isn't as oriented into cities.

Germantown, which is on the most diverse city list, is also not an incorporated city. I don't think that list differentiates between incorporated and non incorporated cities.

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Anonymous wrote:Fairfax is still VA. Definitely go with Moco. I never understand these posters who think they live in some “diverse” place in VA.

Both are FCPS and MCPS are minority majority schools systems. They are both very diverse compared the the rest of the county and are close to each other in variety.

DP... agree that FCPS and MCPS are more diverse than the rest of the country, but FCPS is not as diverse as MCPS. NoVa has just one city in the top 30 most diverse cities: Alexandria; whereas MoCo - a single county - has something like four cities in the top 30. Even Richmond, VA is more diverse than most of NoVa.

NoVA for the most part isn't as oriented into cities.

Germantown, which is on the most diverse city list, is also not an incorporated city. I don't think that list differentiates between incorporated and non incorporated cities.

Sigh - tired of MoCo posters treating click-bait articles as if they are somehow authoritative.

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Anonymous wrote:Fairfax is still VA. Definitely go with Moco. I never understand these posters who think they live in some “diverse” place in VA.

Both are FCPS and MCPS are minority majority schools systems. They are both very diverse compared the the rest of the county and are close to each other in variety.

DP... agree that FCPS and MCPS are more diverse than the rest of the country, but FCPS is not as diverse as MCPS. NoVa has just one city in the top 30 most diverse cities: Alexandria; whereas MoCo - a single county - has something like four cities in the top 30. Even Richmond, VA is more diverse than most of NoVa.

NoVA for the most part isn't as oriented into cities.

Germantown, which is on the most diverse city list, is also not an incorporated city. I don't think that list differentiates between incorporated and non incorporated cities.

FCPS demographics: 38.5 percent of FCPS students are White, 25.9 percent are Hispanic/Latinx, 19.6 percent are Asian, 10 percent are Black, 5.5 percent are two or more races, 0.2 are American Indian and 0.1 percent are Native Hawaiian

MCPS: 26.9 White, 32.4 Hispanic/Latinx, 21.4 Black, 14.1 Asian, 4.9 two or more races.

Both are diverse public school systems, though MCPS has more diversity. However, MCPS boundary area has more private school enrollment than FCPS.

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Anonymous wrote:No school system is without its challenges but MCPS is in serious decline and MoCo has been losing ground to NoVa for decades.

+100. Stay away from MCPS. It is not a place I'd want to be.

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Anonymous wrote:Fairfax is still VA. Definitely go with Moco. I never understand these posters who think they live in some “diverse” place in VA.

Both are FCPS and MCPS are minority majority schools systems. They are both very diverse compared the the rest of the county and are close to each other in variety.

DP... agree that FCPS and MCPS are more diverse than the rest of the country, but FCPS is not as diverse as MCPS. NoVa has just one city in the top 30 most diverse cities: Alexandria; whereas MoCo - a single county - has something like four cities in the top 30. Even Richmond, VA is more diverse than most of NoVa.

NoVA for the most part isn't as oriented into cities.

Germantown, which is on the most diverse city list, is also not an incorporated city. I don't think that list differentiates between incorporated and non incorporated cities.

FCPS demographics: 38.5 percent of FCPS students are White, 25.9 percent are Hispanic/Latinx, 19.6 percent are Asian, 10 percent are Black, 5.5 percent are two or more races, 0.2 are American Indian and 0.1 percent are Native Hawaiian

MCPS: 26.9 White, 32.4 Hispanic/Latinx, 21.4 Black, 14.1 Asian, 4.9 two or more races.

Both are diverse public school systems, though MCPS has more diversity. However, MCPS boundary area has more private school enrollment than FCPS.

Would anyone really pick MCPS over another of the region’s diverse suburban school systems because it’s had more white flight?

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Anonymous wrote:Fairfax is still VA. Definitely go with Moco. I never understand these posters who think they live in some “diverse” place in VA.

Both are FCPS and MCPS are minority majority schools systems. They are both very diverse compared the the rest of the county and are close to each other in variety.

DP... agree that FCPS and MCPS are more diverse than the rest of the country, but FCPS is not as diverse as MCPS. NoVa has just one city in the top 30 most diverse cities: Alexandria; whereas MoCo - a single county - has something like four cities in the top 30. Even Richmond, VA is more diverse than most of NoVa.

NoVA for the most part isn't as oriented into cities.

Germantown, which is on the most diverse city list, is also not an incorporated city. I don't think that list differentiates between incorporated and non incorporated cities.

FCPS demographics: 38.5 percent of FCPS students are White, 25.9 percent are Hispanic/Latinx, 19.6 percent are Asian, 10 percent are Black, 5.5 percent are two or more races, 0.2 are American Indian and 0.1 percent are Native Hawaiian

MCPS: 26.9 White, 32.4 Hispanic/Latinx, 21.4 Black, 14.1 Asian, 4.9 two or more races.

Both are diverse public school systems, though MCPS has more diversity. However, MCPS boundary area has more private school enrollment than FCPS.

Would anyone really pick MCPS over another of the region’s diverse suburban school systems because it’s had more white flight?

I guess if you're really racist that may be an issue but overall MCPS schools just seem strong than FCPS (I graduated from Langley).

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Anonymous wrote:Fairfax is still VA. Definitely go with Moco. I never understand these posters who think they live in some “diverse” place in VA.

Both are FCPS and MCPS are minority majority schools systems. They are both very diverse compared the the rest of the county and are close to each other in variety.

DP... agree that FCPS and MCPS are more diverse than the rest of the country, but FCPS is not as diverse as MCPS. NoVa has just one city in the top 30 most diverse cities: Alexandria; whereas MoCo - a single county - has something like four cities in the top 30. Even Richmond, VA is more diverse than most of NoVa.

NoVA for the most part isn't as oriented into cities.

Germantown, which is on the most diverse city list, is also not an incorporated city. I don't think that list differentiates between incorporated and non incorporated cities.

Sigh - tired of MoCo posters treating click-bait articles as if they are somehow authoritative.

lol.. why do I have the feeling that VA posters would be posting this link if it showed the opposite.

So, what "authoritative" link shows FFX county is more diverse?

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Anonymous wrote:Fairfax is still VA. Definitely go with Moco. I never understand these posters who think they live in some “diverse” place in VA.

Both are FCPS and MCPS are minority majority schools systems. They are both very diverse compared the the rest of the county and are close to each other in variety.

DP... agree that FCPS and MCPS are more diverse than the rest of the country, but FCPS is not as diverse as MCPS. NoVa has just one city in the top 30 most diverse cities: Alexandria; whereas MoCo - a single county - has something like four cities in the top 30. Even Richmond, VA is more diverse than most of NoVa.

NoVA for the most part isn't as oriented into cities.

Germantown, which is on the most diverse city list, is also not an incorporated city. I don't think that list differentiates between incorporated and non incorporated cities.

FCPS demographics: 38.5 percent of FCPS students are White, 25.9 percent are Hispanic/Latinx, 19.6 percent are Asian, 10 percent are Black, 5.5 percent are two or more races, 0.2 are American Indian and 0.1 percent are Native Hawaiian

MCPS: 26.9 White, 32.4 Hispanic/Latinx, 21.4 Black, 14.1 Asian, 4.9 two or more races.

Both are diverse public school systems, though MCPS has more diversity. However, MCPS boundary area has more private school enrollment than FCPS.

Would anyone really pick MCPS over another of the region’s diverse suburban school systems because it’s had more white flight?

I guess if you're really racist that may be an issue but overall MCPS schools just seem strong than FCPS (I graduated from Langley).

Very few people share that opinion, and those who do tend to be like PP, who sail through life always having to believe they are/have the best.

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VA isn't like MD -- we have city/county separation so the PP thinking Fairfax County isn't diverse because it doesn't have cities listed is just ignorant. Alexandria City is separate from Fairfax County. Fairfax County is its own entity.

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Anonymous wrote:VA isn't like MD -- we have city/county separation so the PP thinking Fairfax County isn't diverse because it doesn't have cities listed is just ignorant. Alexandria City is separate from Fairfax County. Fairfax County is its own entity.

DP- if someone lives in McLean or Vienna, what do they put down as their cities?
Silver Spring and Germantown are not cities either but they make the list.
When they list the most diverse "cities ", they are talking about incorporate , unincorporated cities/municipalities, places, towns, villages etc... if McLean and Vienna were diverse, they would have made the list

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So many great things are happening in MCPS these days! Just read the Twitter feed of Kevin Lewis of WJLA.

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Anonymous wrote:VA isn't like MD -- we have city/county separation so the PP thinking Fairfax County isn't diverse because it doesn't have cities listed is just ignorant. Alexandria City is separate from Fairfax County. Fairfax County is its own entity.

DP- if someone lives in McLean or Vienna, what do they put down as their cities?
Silver Spring and Germantown are not cities either but they make the list.
When they list the most diverse "cities ", they are talking about incorporate , unincorporated cities/municipalities, places, towns, villages etc... if McLean and Vienna were diverse, they would have made the list

McLean and Town of Vienna are included in Fairfax County; Fairfax City uses FCPS schools. Arlington, City of Falls Church, and Alexandria have their own school systems (but parts that have "Alexandria" addresses are FFX not City of Alexandria, just like there are Vienna addresses outside TOV limits).

What you write down depends on what you're filling out. Address? Vienna. Tax forms? Fairfax County, since we are outside Town limits.