What’s wrong with Ashburn?
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Anonymous
| Who else remembers when Disney was (very briefly) scouting Assburn? |
Anonymous
| Boring. Too far out. Might be okay with kids though. |
Anonymous
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It's bland and boring. Cookie cutter developments, car-oriented, and strip malls with mostly chain stores/restaurants.
Nothing wrong with that, just there's no character. You're really not close to DC -- not like you're going to pop in for a quick coffee at a cafe in Georgetown for example. So if you're not close to DC, might as well move even further out if the goal is to find inexpensive housing. Leesburg, Winchester, etc. All have plenty of cookie cutter developments and strip malls. You go to to a place like Arlington or Silver Spring you get an actual downtown and real character, and you are actually close to DC. But, you're gonna pay for it. |
Anonymous
It's still covid times and no it's not 40 mins. Not during the week. |
Anonymous
| Boring matching houses - yes they are big but they look exactly the same and have about .0003 of a yard. Oh and I've had enough panaera, chik-fil-a, and ulta cosmetics to last me a life time. |
Anonymous
It was in Manassas. They wanted to do a history themed theme park. |
Anonymous
Really? That sounds cool. I never heard of this. |
Anonymous
| Listen, I don’t know anyone in Ashburn who thinks they’re living in CC, Cleveland Park, or McLean. If anything, some of these comments speak to the insecurities of those paying a premium to live in those areas. The people in Ashburn know that Ashburn is what they can afford. And they’re okay with that. Easy access to Whole Foods, Wegmans, and TJs, lots of parks, good schools, wineries, walkable downtown Leesburg and One Loudoun, and pretty quick access to DC for a night out or day at the museums. Not to mention, there are lots of jobs in the Dulles corridor. Not everyone can live in Fairfield, Westchester, Wellesley, or Mercer Island. So for the rest of us, Ashburn works just fine. |
Anonymous
It was in Haymarket off of 15. Big horse money won out and shot it down. |
Anonymous
Jfc There are actually poor people in Arlington you know that right? You seem like a gross kind of human |
Anonymous
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If you like Ashburn good for you!
I hate it. I like tree canopy and old houses. I also hate Howard County new builds and would hate my life if I had to live on places like “Paternal Gift Dr.” (This is seriously road with a farm crop of McMansion s in Howard County). Green spaces do more for your well being than having money at a certain point: https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/03/17/the-picture-of-health/ https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/what-is-a-tree-worth |
Anonymous
+1 |
Anonymous
There was also controversy because Disney wanted to build on top of a Civil War battlefield. |
Anonymous
They wanted to portray slavery too. However, some people, white and AA, expressed dismay over it and academic historians were not in favor as no amusement part would do the justice. Meaning that we do not have an accurate portrayal of what it was like back then. The phrase Past is a Foreign Country is accurate here. It was not just that white people were upset that they would be shown potentially in a negative light. A few staged events at another public history site showed that when slavery was accurately portrayed, black Americans were visibly upset and it affected them to the degree that they did not think it was something actors that are AA should endure. Even white actors in other settings portraying very racists owners say that such historical play acting where their job is to scream and pretend to beat AA actors is deeply disturbing on a daily basis. It was a terribly idea for all involved and hence abandoned. |
Anonymous
Ashburn: not sure if it's Manassas, Haymarket, or what. Super lovely memorable place. |