Is Aldie done?

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Anonymous wrote:Let’s settle down ladies! We’re all friends here.

You a noob? This is Thunderdome, hun!

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Anonymous wrote:The folks who can’t afford a good location are moving to aldie, leesburg, etc. No one actually wants to live out there.

There are plenty of us who just do not enjoy city life or life in the close in suburbs. I live in an exurb and cannot image a circumstance in which I would move back to the close in suburbs.

It’s all the same “life” regardless of your distance from dc. What changes are schools, commute, demographics, cost of living, and amenities. They all improve close in and that comes with a cost that’s unaffordable or not worth it for some.

I don’t think anyone is comparing Aldie to living in DC.

No, it’s not the same “life”, my day to day life is drastically different in my exurb 40 miles out than it was when I lived 5 miles from the DC line. All those things you mentioned make up a life. The schools my kids are at now are better than where they were in MCPS, the cost of living out here is much better, and I have access to all the amenities that are important to me. It’s fine that others don’t have the same priorities that I do when it comes to quality of life, but for me and my family our quality of life was much worse closer in than it is now.

🤷🏻‍♂️ You upgraded from a bad part of MD to less bad part of VA. Google the school rankings for Aldie, they’re nothing to write home about.

I am not actually in Aldie but am in the VA exurbs. I don’t begrudge people their love of DC and the wealthy close-in suburbs, but it just wasn’t for me. The issues that cropped up in my kids’ MCPS ES (you can check out the MoCo schools thread for a sampling of the issues there) have not been present in our exurban ES. I don’t worry about crime ever. I am in a large comfortable home with easy access to Shenandoah, wineries and breweries. There is a sense of community and neighborliness that I didn’t experience in MoCo. YMMV, but the pros of being close-in were easily outweighed by the cons for me.

Aldie is Va exurbs, it takes easily an hour and a half from downtown DC to get there. If you live in 540 loudoun (western) or anywhere else with a 540 area code (stafford, clarke, fauquier, etc.) then you’re in the countryside honey.

Sweetie, I am happily in the VA exurbs. I’m in a 540 area code and it takes me 1 hour 10 minutes to get to my DC office.

you must drive during unconventional hours. during rush hour it takes 30 minutes to get across the river into virginia.

No, you just don’t live out here so are talking out of your @ss. I take 66 all the way in, and with the money I’m saving by living out here I pay the HOT lane toll. It’s the easiest commute, especially since I only come in Monday and Friday.

Sorry, my farm is in lovettesville, not aldie. point still stands, during rush our it takes 30 mins just to get out of downtown dc across the river. you must work in the suburbs.

Nope, I do work right off of 395 though, which helps.

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Anonymous wrote:Only an hour and 15 minutes? That sounds terrible.

Do the math for how much of your life will be driving to and from work cause you live in the sticks.

So to answer the question, yes Aldie is done.

I used to live 5 miles outside of DC and when I drove, it was routinely 50 minutes to an hour door to door. When I took metro, including driving to the station, parking, getting to the platform and then getting off and walking to my office it was also 50 minutes to an hour, with the added bonus of keeping my head on a swivel for mentally ill homeless people or teens looking to rob people, or not having a seat and being squished in like a sardine. So yeah, I will take the extra 40 minutes a day of generally relaxing travel time where I’m just listening to a podcast in my bubble. I know it makes you feel superior about your 1.2 million dollar shack in Arlington to think that living in the “sticks” means a monstrous commute and a terrible quality of life, but that just isn’t the case.

+100000

So funny seeing the insecure beltway people always taking these shots. Besides, if you’re moving to somewhere like Aldie, you’re not commuting to DC for work. You’re most likely working in Reston or Herndon. Not DC.

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Anonymous wrote:Only an hour and 15 minutes? That sounds terrible.

Do the math for how much of your life will be driving to and from work cause you live in the sticks.

So to answer the question, yes Aldie is done.

I used to live 5 miles outside of DC and when I drove, it was routinely 50 minutes to an hour door to door. When I took metro, including driving to the station, parking, getting to the platform and then getting off and walking to my office it was also 50 minutes to an hour, with the added bonus of keeping my head on a swivel for mentally ill homeless people or teens looking to rob people, or not having a seat and being squished in like a sardine. So yeah, I will take the extra 40 minutes a day of generally relaxing travel time where I’m just listening to a podcast in my bubble. I know it makes you feel superior about your 1.2 million dollar shack in Arlington to think that living in the “sticks” means a monstrous commute and a terrible quality of life, but that just isn’t the case.

just say you couldn’t afford mclean or great falls, so you choose to live in the middle of nowhere. nothing wrong with a little cowgirl action.

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Anonymous wrote:Only an hour and 15 minutes? That sounds terrible.

Do the math for how much of your life will be driving to and from work cause you live in the sticks.

So to answer the question, yes Aldie is done.

I used to live 5 miles outside of DC and when I drove, it was routinely 50 minutes to an hour door to door. When I took metro, including driving to the station, parking, getting to the platform and then getting off and walking to my office it was also 50 minutes to an hour, with the added bonus of keeping my head on a swivel for mentally ill homeless people or teens looking to rob people, or not having a seat and being squished in like a sardine. So yeah, I will take the extra 40 minutes a day of generally relaxing travel time where I’m just listening to a podcast in my bubble. I know it makes you feel superior about your 1.2 million dollar shack in Arlington to think that living in the “sticks” means a monstrous commute and a terrible quality of life, but that just isn’t the case.

just say you couldn’t afford mclean or great falls, so you choose to live in the middle of nowhere. nothing wrong with a little cowgirl action.

clearly you've never met the average Willowsford resident

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Anonymous wrote:Only an hour and 15 minutes? That sounds terrible.

Do the math for how much of your life will be driving to and from work cause you live in the sticks.

So to answer the question, yes Aldie is done.

I used to live 5 miles outside of DC and when I drove, it was routinely 50 minutes to an hour door to door. When I took metro, including driving to the station, parking, getting to the platform and then getting off and walking to my office it was also 50 minutes to an hour, with the added bonus of keeping my head on a swivel for mentally ill homeless people or teens looking to rob people, or not having a seat and being squished in like a sardine. So yeah, I will take the extra 40 minutes a day of generally relaxing travel time where I’m just listening to a podcast in my bubble. I know it makes you feel superior about your 1.2 million dollar shack in Arlington to think that living in the “sticks” means a monstrous commute and a terrible quality of life, but that just isn’t the case.

just say you couldn’t afford mclean or great falls, so you choose to live in the middle of nowhere. nothing wrong with a little cowgirl action.

clearly you've never met the average Willowsford resident

i remember many of my friends in my great falls neighborhood moving to landowne to buy a bigger house because they were priced out. their kids now go to riverside

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Anonymous wrote:Only an hour and 15 minutes? That sounds terrible.

Do the math for how much of your life will be driving to and from work cause you live in the sticks.

So to answer the question, yes Aldie is done.

I used to live 5 miles outside of DC and when I drove, it was routinely 50 minutes to an hour door to door. When I took metro, including driving to the station, parking, getting to the platform and then getting off and walking to my office it was also 50 minutes to an hour, with the added bonus of keeping my head on a swivel for mentally ill homeless people or teens looking to rob people, or not having a seat and being squished in like a sardine. So yeah, I will take the extra 40 minutes a day of generally relaxing travel time where I’m just listening to a podcast in my bubble. I know it makes you feel superior about your 1.2 million dollar shack in Arlington to think that living in the “sticks” means a monstrous commute and a terrible quality of life, but that just isn’t the case.

just say you couldn’t afford mclean or great falls, so you choose to live in the middle of nowhere. nothing wrong with a little cowgirl action.

DCUM at its finest. If you’re not in McLean or Great Falls you’re “poor”. I can’t imagine why people wouldn’t want to live in neighborhoods populated with people like you.

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I can only offer the anecdotal information that four houses in my Aldie neighborhood went on the market in the last two weeks at approximately $1M each and two are pending/under contract with the other two noted as "hot homes" by Redfin (for whatever that's worth). The handful of condos and townhouses have gone under contract at around $450k and $700k, respectively, within days of listing.

Don't think it's over, but what would I know? I just live here and commute to Ballston twice a week, 40-45 min going in, 45-50 min coming home.

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Anonymous wrote:I can only offer the anecdotal information that four houses in my Aldie neighborhood went on the market in the last two weeks at approximately $1M each and two are pending/under contract with the other two noted as "hot homes" by Redfin (for whatever that's worth). The handful of condos and townhouses have gone under contract at around $450k and $700k, respectively, within days of listing.

Don't think it's over, but what would I know? I just live here and commute to Ballston twice a week, 40-45 min going in, 45-50 min coming home.

Lol, your commute from Aldie to Ballston is not 45 minutes on a weekday. The current driving time on a sleepy Sunday afternoon is 45 minutes.

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Anonymous wrote:I can only offer the anecdotal information that four houses in my Aldie neighborhood went on the market in the last two weeks at approximately $1M each and two are pending/under contract with the other two noted as "hot homes" by Redfin (for whatever that's worth). The handful of condos and townhouses have gone under contract at around $450k and $700k, respectively, within days of listing.

Don't think it's over, but what would I know? I just live here and commute to Ballston twice a week, 40-45 min going in, 45-50 min coming home.

thank you for living in a rural county like loudoun, and contributing to our great agrarian society. god bless loudoun farmers.

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Anonymous wrote:Only an hour and 15 minutes? That sounds terrible.

Do the math for how much of your life will be driving to and from work cause you live in the sticks.

So to answer the question, yes Aldie is done.

I used to live 5 miles outside of DC and when I drove, it was routinely 50 minutes to an hour door to door. When I took metro, including driving to the station, parking, getting to the platform and then getting off and walking to my office it was also 50 minutes to an hour, with the added bonus of keeping my head on a swivel for mentally ill homeless people or teens looking to rob people, or not having a seat and being squished in like a sardine. So yeah, I will take the extra 40 minutes a day of generally relaxing travel time where I’m just listening to a podcast in my bubble. I know it makes you feel superior about your 1.2 million dollar shack in Arlington to think that living in the “sticks” means a monstrous commute and a terrible quality of life, but that just isn’t the case.

just say you couldn’t afford mclean or great falls, so you choose to live in the middle of nowhere. nothing wrong with a little cowgirl action.

clearly you've never met the average Willowsford resident

I don’t think anyone has since they live in Aldie, but based on a quick google search, I don’t think we’re missing anything.

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Threads like this one are always funny. The insecurity of both the close in DC residents and the insecurity of the Loudoun folks ALWAYS comes out.

Why do people care if it takes an hour plus to get to DC? These people have clearly thought that out prior to closing on a house out there.

And no OP, Aldie is not dead. I don’t even live out there and know it’s a growing community of suburban sprawl.

Just weird that people care so much about an area that they’ll never live in.

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All of the jobs in tech that are in Reston, Dulles, and Tysons keep Loudoun alive. Ppl who have to pay millions for an under 30 minute commute downtown (mostly feds/big law) are salty about their McMansions on postage stamp lots with run down schools and roads bc they think they made better choices, while they’re now watching the explosion of jobs and real estate outside their bubble (and nicer houses on larger lots).

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Anonymous wrote:All of the jobs in tech that are in Reston, Dulles, and Tysons keep Loudoun alive. Ppl who have to pay millions for an under 30 minute commute downtown (mostly feds/big law) are salty about their McMansions on postage stamp lots with run down schools and roads bc they think they made better choices, while they’re now watching the explosion of jobs and real estate outside their bubble (and nicer houses on larger lots).

This is basically what it’s all about. I never understood the hate for homes further out.

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Anonymous wrote:All of the jobs in tech that are in Reston, Dulles, and Tysons keep Loudoun alive. Ppl who have to pay millions for an under 30 minute commute downtown (mostly feds/big law) are salty about their McMansions on postage stamp lots with run down schools and roads bc they think they made better choices, while they’re now watching the explosion of jobs and real estate outside their bubble (and nicer houses on larger lots).

factual. we are proud rural republican virginians. please don’t associate loudoun with fairfax ever again.