VA residents - I had no idea house prices were this high!

[Anonymous]

I grew up in MD and now live in NoVA. I love both states, but actually prefer VA's politics (and I'm a democrat!). Here's why:

1. Conformity breeds corruption. MD is a one party state and is therefore run by un-elected party bosses. Hogan has been a pleasant exception to the rule.

2. My vote is VA actually counts for something. MD will never matter in national politics.

3. There are interesting and important conversations happening in VA that I want to be part of. Maryland politics feel settled.

Anyway, politics aside, both states are diverse, full of smart people, cool cities,and beautiful vistas. Can't we come together as the DMV and just agree that we're all better than Pennsylvanians?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get why everyone likes maryland on these boards.

I don't get it either grew up in Fairfax and Maryland was deemed ghetto right or wrong that's been imbedded in my head all my life. Furthermore everywhere I've been to in MD is dirty and nasty. I don't get it at all.

I'm sorry you were raised in a racist household, that sure is tough to get out of your head, try and do better with your kids. Maryland has real people with character, VA is cookiecutter and if you want to live where everyone is like you and you feel extra safe please stay in VA. That VA sprawl seems like hell to some of us, where it feels like a secure blanket to others.

+100. Shoddy new construction, cookie-cutter developments, long commutes on the highway to anything interesting—Loudoun booster can keep it.

(And let’s be clear. I wouldn’t be trashing Loudoun if he didn’t routinely trash MoCo on every thread where he can slip it in.)

So you insult thousands of people who happen not to be the obnoxious booster to score a point? I don’t live in any of the places being discussed but I always think about the people who read these posts, who worked really hard to afford their homes in this expensive region and then have them get trashed by others. It’s mean-spritited.

The whole premise of the thread is to give the same few Maryland posters a pretext to trash NoVa again. It will never satisfy them because the next day arrives and they still are confronted with where the jobs are moving and where the housing has become more expensive.

Please. Don’t pretend you guys—Loudoun agent and tax guy, who maybe even be the same guy—don’t start it. Every time. Post a link to a house in Takoma Park or Silver Spring and they’ll come on here to tell you that MS-13 is having gang fights right on Carroll Avenue.

Some of us are sick of it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't get why everyone likes maryland on these boards.

Oh look, here’s the first shot across the bow, 11th on the thread, on page 1. And it comes from a VA poster.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get why everyone likes maryland on these boards.

Oh look, here’s the first shot across the bow, 11th on the thread, on page 1. And it comes from a VA poster.

* 11th post on the thread

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Virginia is a lot cleaner. Maryland is is a mess.

Maryland is discusting.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get why everyone likes maryland on these boards.

I don't get it either grew up in Fairfax and Maryland was deemed ghetto right or wrong that's been imbedded in my head all my life. Furthermore everywhere I've been to in MD is dirty and nasty. I don't get it at all.

Or this moron, also on page 1.

What a great advertisement for Fairfax. Really makes me want to move to Fairfax to have BBQs with the likes of him in his cookie cutter development.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get why everyone likes maryland on these boards.

I don't get it either grew up in Fairfax and Maryland was deemed ghetto right or wrong that's been imbedded in my head all my life. Furthermore everywhere I've been to in MD is dirty and nasty. I don't get it at all.

I'm sorry you were raised in a racist household, that sure is tough to get out of your head, try and do better with your kids. Maryland has real people with character, VA is cookiecutter and if you want to live where everyone is like you and you feel extra safe please stay in VA. That VA sprawl seems like hell to some of us, where it feels like a secure blanket to others.

+100. Shoddy new construction, cookie-cutter developments, long commutes on the highway to anything interesting—Loudoun booster can keep it.

(And let’s be clear. I wouldn’t be trashing Loudoun if he didn’t routinely trash MoCo on every thread where he can slip it in.)

So you insult thousands of people who happen not to be the obnoxious booster to score a point? I don’t live in any of the places being discussed but I always think about the people who read these posts, who worked really hard to afford their homes in this expensive region and then have them get trashed by others. It’s mean-spritited.

So you didn’t the poster who called MoCo ghetto early on on the thread?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Virginia is a lot cleaner. Maryland is is a mess.

Maryland is discusting.

Tweedle Dee Fairfax agent and Tweedle Dum tax guy in their little echo chamber. How cute.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get why everyone likes maryland on these boards.

I don't get it either grew up in Fairfax and Maryland was deemed ghetto right or wrong that's been imbedded in my head all my life. Furthermore everywhere I've been to in MD is dirty and nasty. I don't get it at all.

Or this moron, also on page 1.

What a great advertisement for Fairfax. Really makes me want to move to Fairfax to have BBQs with the likes of him in his cookie cutter development.

I agree with the original one, Maryland has always been tagged ghetto. Just walk around and you can see why.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get why everyone likes maryland on these boards.

Oh look, here’s the first shot across the bow, 11th on the thread, on page 1. And it comes from a VA poster.

Nope. The "first shot" was OP's snide comment by the OP about "mediocre housing" in VA. You all never shut up, nor will you, because you can't handle NoVa's having surpassed suburban Maryland when it comes to jobs, incomes, and housing values.

[Anonymous]

Let me try and answer this from an unbiased standpoint because it seems that this is becoming really biased bickering.

Both MD and Virginia have both good and bad, and both beautiful and ugly places, both good schools and bad schools, both good and bad everything — and it comes down to preference at the end of the day (and stuff like commute needless to say). Anyone pretending otherwise is highly, highly biased and you should disregard their post in my opinion. For instance, CC village or Historic Kensington or Edgewoor or name another fantastic MoCo are undeniably amazing places to live. Conversely, Country Club Hills or Langley Forest or Belle Haven or whatever other fantastic NoVa neighborhood are undeniably amazing places to live as well. Or as another example, Langley is a fantastic school and so is Whitman. You get my point. Both are nice overall and both have good and bad spots within them.

The two things that get people really sensitive on here and causes these arguments to break out where you really see people’s biases and prejudices show are the following:
-politics
-economic growth

As it relates to the former, I don’t follow politics but people here say VA is a more red state or at least is locally more red than MoCo / PG — this is the perception and if you’re more democrat that’s a ding against VA and a plus for MD and if you’re a republican it’s the opposite. Politics is polarizing right now and that’s why these threads devolve into arguments.

As it relates to the latter, NoVA is growing at a faster rate economically than MoCo / PG. Not much to discuss here, it just is what it is — they got Amazon, Raytheon, Boeing, and just overall seem to have more corporate prescience and job growth. Plus seeing Tysons become a city and Pentagon city become a city doesn’t really have parallels in Maryland. MD becoming more of a bedroom community, NoVa becoming more of a job center. If you prefer more of a quieter bedroom community with less sprawl, Maryland probably better. If you prefer more of a job center with more young folks in certain clusters and more sprawl as a result, Virginia probably better.

Again, comes down to preference and commute. Ignore all of the bickering on here.

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Anyway, politics aside, both states are diverse, full of smart people, cool cities,and beautiful vistas. Can't we come together as the DMV and just agree that we're all better than Pennsylvanians?

I'm sorry you didn't get more love for this, PP. Made me chuckle. I've lived in both states and find a lot to like about both. A lot to explore in both once you get out of the close-in suburbs in both as well, though VA is (obviously) better.

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Anyway, politics aside, both states are diverse, full of smart people, cool cities,and beautiful vistas. Can't we come together as the DMV and just agree that we're all better than Pennsylvanians?

I'm sorry you didn't get more love for this, PP. Made me chuckle. I've lived in both states and find a lot to like about both. A lot to explore in both once you get out of the close-in suburbs in both as well, though VA is (obviously) better.

Bigger not better! Eeek!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP. Loudon booster has entered the room. “Come buy a house here, I need the agent’s commission.” He’s like a broken record.

You couldn’t pay me to live in one of the soulless VA developments mushrooming all over Loudon and Fairfax. And yes, I can afford it.

LOL pretending like your old 1960s rambler in Germantown is so much better. Enjoy your strip mall and Applebees.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't get why everyone likes maryland on these boards.

I don't get it either grew up in Fairfax and Maryland was deemed ghetto right or wrong that's been imbedded in my head all my life. Furthermore everywhere I've been to in MD is dirty and nasty. I don't get it at all.

Or this moron, also on page 1.

What a great advertisement for Fairfax. Really makes me want to move to Fairfax to have BBQs with the likes of him in his cookie cutter development.

I agree with the original one, Maryland has always been tagged ghetto. Just walk around and you can see why.

I agree its almost comical people on here trying to sell Maryland to others. Not gonna happen lol.