Leaving Brambleton and NoVa behind

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you think NOVA is bad, you wouldn't believe the nanny state hellhole Maryland has become. The state doesn't even resemble what it was 10 years ago, and not in a good way.

I saw the ads on the news, birth tax, rain tax, right up there with Meal tax!

Visit Maryland, when a communist country is too far away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, if I lived in Brambleton (not quite sure where that is) and never came into DC, I'd don't think I'd leave this area with an overall high impression. So...you might be justified in that.

We live in Arlington, work in DC, and poke around museums, go to shows, and try new restaurants on the weekends. We love living in NOVA.

Don't get me started on the food either!

Seriously, to me, it is all bland, no taste and not spicey when needed! With the exception of Cyclone's in FairFax, all the mexican food places taste like crap. Being from Texas, the food here is like nachos at 7-11.

Seafood is a joke here too, went to Fords fish place and Bonefish, their menus were like Long John Silvers. no gumbo, no Soft Shell Crabs, no Etouffee of any type, no crawfish, bacon wrapped jalapeno gulf shrimp, no nothing! Miss Texas cajun seafood, hell, even california has better mexican and seafood then NoVa.

Someone took me to a steak place recently, DC Prime I think and it was actually decent, but again, Texas is the steak capital of the world. Also no BBQ places around here worth talking about.

Lost 17lbs just being here due to nothing good to eat and I didn't need to lose weight. I resigned myself to cooking for us more than eating out, thus robbing the commuity of that money! But at least I avoid the meat tax.

Glad you like it, really, I don't but, but that is just me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, if I lived in Brambleton (not quite sure where that is) and never came into DC, I'd don't think I'd leave this area with an overall high impression. So...you might be justified in that.

We live in Arlington, work in DC, and poke around museums, go to shows, and try new restaurants on the weekends. We love living in NOVA.

Hate to tell you, but OP hasn't said anything, in his dismissal of Brambleton, to suggest he'd be happy if only he were living in Arlington. He probably wants a lake, a good place to go tubing, a yard big enough to park two trucks, low taxes, and neighbors who think Hillary Clinton belongs in jail. None of which you'll find in Arlington.

But nice try to treat his posts as an excuse to talk about Arlington.

Weird response. My only point was that at least Arlington is proximal to something. Not out west with the tumbleweed.

No tubing for me, prefer relaxing on a CLEAN lake and beach and swiming, kaying, jet skiis in the summer! And in the winter skiing, snowmobiling and sledding and they actual know how to clear the roads and don't cancel school at the signt of an ice cube in the road.

No trucks for me, have a jeep and a subaru, but only due to the stupid taxes I traded in my benz and lexus, will replace when I get out of here.

Don't care about Hilary, and couldn't care less whether she is in jail or not, glad she is not president though, she was was the worst of the two evils who ran.

I knew it! I knew this was how OP rolled! .

[Anonymous]

Why would you expect to find Spanish and Mediterranean style homes in VA and DC?? WTF?

Somebody erected one (in peachy pink no less) in our 1920s colonial neighborhood and it looks ridiculous.

Would you expect so see them amongst the Federal-style 1800 homes in Oldtown and Georgetown?

The houses only look all alike if you bought into a builder's subdivision. Frankly, then they look like all the other homes all over the Midwest and beyond. "model homes'.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh, and calling people in who are cheating on the car tax by not registering their cars in Va sounds logical to me. Otherwise the cost falls on the rest of us. Sounds like OP preferred that. OP does not sound terribly community minded or socially conscious?

You sound really pleasant. That's behavior I'd expect in Bethesda but not in NOVA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would you expect to find Spanish and Mediterranean style homes in VA and DC?? WTF?

Somebody erected one (in peachy pink no less) in our 1920s colonial neighborhood and it looks ridiculous.

Would you expect so see them amongst the Federal-style 1800 homes in Oldtown and Georgetown?

The houses only look all alike if you bought into a builder's subdivision. Frankly, then they look like all the other homes all over the Midwest and beyond. "model homes'.

OP is right. DC area has boring and uniform housing stock. So many silly looking columns on the front of houses, etc. (poor man's "federalist" style). Very very few modern homes here. Many regions of the country have more diverse and interesting architecture.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would you expect to find Spanish and Mediterranean style homes in VA and DC?? WTF?

Somebody erected one (in peachy pink no less) in our 1920s colonial neighborhood and it looks ridiculous.

Would you expect so see them amongst the Federal-style 1800 homes in Oldtown and Georgetown?

The houses only look all alike if you bought into a builder's subdivision. Frankly, then they look like all the other homes all over the Midwest and beyond. "model homes'.

OP is right. DC area has boring and uniform housing stock. So many silly looking columns on the front of houses, etc. (poor man's "federalist" style). Very very few modern homes here. Many regions of the country have more diverse and interesting architecture.

yes, booring as one can see, looks more depressing when flying over in/out of Dulles.

[Anonymous]

OP The grass is not always greener! So the way you are complaining now, I am sure you will find plenty to complain about wherever you go next.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP The grass is not always greener! So the way you are complaining now, I am sure you will find plenty to complain about wherever you go next.

Nope, having lived in both Texas and Nevada, I know what to expect. Again, they are not pefect by any means, but IMO, much better.

[Anonymous]

It's weird OP is even comparing an urban job center (Dulles Corridor/DC) to a vacation destination with at best seasonal tourist jobs, with nearest city being seedy, sad Reno.

Are you retiring OP?

And that blue lake? Likely between your jet ski, snowmobile, and the Orange one you voted, it will turn a sad grey-green with an oil sheen soon enough.

[Anonymous]

Brambleton sucks, McLean or Bethesda are the best moron

[Anonymous]

I want to move to Vermont, burlington specifically

great people, mountains, good beer, and of course some common sense in gov

http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/04/us/vermont-marijuana-pardons.html?module=WatchingPortal®ion=c-column-middle-span-region&pgType=Homepage&action=click&mediaId=thumb_square&state=standard&contentPlacement=10&version=internal&contentCollection=www.nytimes.com&contentId=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2017%2F01%2F04%2Fus%2Fvermont-marijuana-pardons.html&eventName=Watching-article-click

as opposed to Virginia and Edwin C. Roessler Jr. , one of the most repressive states, 1/2 oz marijuana possession is a felony, and Chief Roessler is tripling arrests of marijuana users in last few years, all to increase cash for his police department on the backs on people.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did someone turn you in for having out of state plates, OP? You sound particularly crazy about that.

The Watch Dog program at schools is free and volunteer-oriented...I'm sure the PTA paid for food/drinks for the meeting.

Let me guess...you're new place is going to be much deeper into Reno than towards Tahoe.

No one turned me in, but I admit, I waited a good year and change to change lic plates on my cars.

two places I am looking at, one is at the base of Mt. Rose in Galena park and the other is in Incline Village. Galena park is a new build and IV is about 10 years old, with a remodel in the last 2 years, top to bottom.

OK - so registering your car is a way the state funds items. State law is you register your car in a specific period after you are a resident. Clearly you want to live in a place with no rules, no taxes, but services.

Good luck. Check out Alaska.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Did someone turn you in for having out of state plates, OP? You sound particularly crazy about that.

The Watch Dog program at schools is free and volunteer-oriented...I'm sure the PTA paid for food/drinks for the meeting.

Let me guess...you're new place is going to be much deeper into Reno than towards Tahoe.

No one turned me in, but I admit, I waited a good year and change to change lic plates on my cars.

two places I am looking at, one is at the base of Mt. Rose in Galena park and the other is in Incline Village. Galena park is a new build and IV is about 10 years old, with a remodel in the last 2 years, top to bottom.

OK - so registering your car is a way the state funds items. State law is you register your car in a specific period after you are a resident. Clearly you want to live in a place with no rules, no taxes, but services.

Good luck. Check out Alaska.

Alaska is nice btw. And technically, I still owned a house in Texas and was traveling between the two.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a bit of a cliche, but in this case well-deserved: don't let the door hit you on the way out.

+ a million