Woodbridge is hell on earth

[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.

You moved to MAGA moronland and you are surprised it's a hell hole?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You moved to MAGA moronland and you are surprised it's a hell hole?

Are you stupid, or just uninformed? Woodbridge is 20% white. The largest ethnic group is Hispanic at 45%. How exactly does MAGA relate to Woodbridge in any way?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You moved to MAGA moronland and you are surprised it's a hell hole?

Are you stupid, or just uninformed? Woodbridge is 20% white. The largest ethnic group is Hispanic at 45%. How exactly does MAGA relate to Woodbridge in any way?

I think the PP assumes Woodbridge is the same as it was in 1988. Solidly republican and very conservative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

You moved to MAGA moronland and you are surprised it's a hell hole?

Are you stupid, or just uninformed? Woodbridge is 20% white. The largest ethnic group is Hispanic at 45%. How exactly does MAGA relate to Woodbridge in any way?

I think the PP assumes Woodbridge is the same as it was in 1988. Solidly republican and very conservative.

lol. Even Dumfries is only 25-30% white, with a Hispanic majority. The whole of Prince William county is anything but MAGA in 2025 — need to go another 45 minutes south at this point.

[Anonymous]

It is the Bronx of NOVA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is the Bronx of NOVA.

No not the Bronx. Not even close. More like sprawling Moreno Valley Calif. The nearby military presence, political evolution, suburban sprawl, and demographic changes track the exact same.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is the Bronx of NOVA.

No not the Bronx. Not even close. More like sprawling Moreno Valley Calif. The nearby military presence, political evolution, suburban sprawl, and demographic changes track the exact same.

The Bronx has character and is part of the best city in the country. Woodbridge is a depressing network of crappy strip malls, a crappy outlet mall, and poorly constructed townhomes and apartments that’s almost an hour drive from DC on most weekends because of the traffic on 395.

[Anonymous]

Homes you will not find in Woodbridge

https://www.redfin.com/NY/Bronx/4500-Fieldston-Rd-10471/home/44797578

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I invite you to join the army and see how many worse places across the globe you can live in.

Yeah, well. No thanks. I won't be joining the army.

The Army would not take you. You are of a certain undesirable sort.

[Anonymous]

"Woodbridge, when Manassas is too expensive."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is the Bronx of NOVA.

No not the Bronx. Not even close. More like sprawling Moreno Valley Calif. The nearby military presence, political evolution, suburban sprawl, and demographic changes track the exact same.

The Bronx has character and is part of the best city in the country. Woodbridge is a depressing network of crappy strip malls, a crappy outlet mall, and poorly constructed townhomes and apartments that’s almost an hour drive from DC on most weekends because of the traffic on 395.

A lot of America is like this. I have no idea why we tolerate it. No wonder rates of obesity and depression are so high. I agree it’s hell on earth.

[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.

DC has some areas that need to improve, especially EOTR but Woodbridge is even worse than all of that right now. Go further down south to Stafford.

[Anonymous]

My ex BF lived between manassas, Woodbridge and occoquan. Downtown manassas is super cute and has lots of places to hang out. Occoquan is cute and has a couple decent places. Woodbridge is... not the greatest. You're either at harbour grill or electric palm. Yikes. So my pick would be close to downtown manassas. (I live in Arlington and I'll stick with that, but man, the house I could buy down there.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is the Bronx of NOVA.

No not the Bronx. Not even close. More like sprawling Moreno Valley Calif. The nearby military presence, political evolution, suburban sprawl, and demographic changes track the exact same.

NP—Moreno Valley and San Bernardino, CA are good comparisons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Potomac mills has been going downhill for a while. it had its heyday in the 80s and 90s and then since about the mid-2000s it has been known as Potty Mills.