Is there a reason real estate has appreciated so much more in VA than MD and DC?

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe there is even a comparison. MD counties have dropped so low that all the high earners are moving towards VA. Taxes are high in MD too and it is becoming a ghetto. You can see how difficult it is to do business in MD and that shows everything.

Oh dear. Outside of McLean, Virginia is a disaster -- you must live in a bubble if you don't see how entire areas have been taken over by illegal immigrants. And every area seems to be endless strip malls with no planning whatsoever. Meanwhile, MD is full of high-income earners in beautiful neighborhoods throughout CC, Bethesda, and Potomac.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe there is even a comparison. MD counties have dropped so low that all the high earners are moving towards VA. Taxes are high in MD too and it is becoming a ghetto. You can see how difficult it is to do business in MD and that shows everything.

Oh dear. Outside of McLean, Virginia is a disaster -- you must live in a bubble if you don't see how entire areas have been taken over by illegal immigrants. And every area seems to be endless strip malls with no planning whatsoever. Meanwhile, MD is full of high-income earners in beautiful neighborhoods throughout CC, Bethesda, and Potomac.

Sure, that's why companies are moving out and barely 1-2 Fortune 500 companies and taxes are going up, along with crime. what else?

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe there is even a comparison. MD counties have dropped so low that all the high earners are moving towards VA. Taxes are high in MD too and it is becoming a ghetto. You can see how difficult it is to do business in MD and that shows everything.

Oh dear. Outside of McLean, Virginia is a disaster -- you must live in a bubble if you don't see how entire areas have been taken over by illegal immigrants. And every area seems to be endless strip malls with no planning whatsoever. Meanwhile, MD is full of high-income earners in beautiful neighborhoods throughout CC, Bethesda, and Potomac.

Half of Bethesda and Chevy are ugly and just waiting for the right buyer or builder to be torn down and replaced with new construction

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe there is even a comparison. MD counties have dropped so low that all the high earners are moving towards VA. Taxes are high in MD too and it is becoming a ghetto. You can see how difficult it is to do business in MD and that shows everything.

Oh dear. Outside of McLean, Virginia is a disaster -- you must live in a bubble if you don't see how entire areas have been taken over by illegal immigrants. And every area seems to be endless strip malls with no planning whatsoever. Meanwhile, MD is full of high-income earners in beautiful neighborhoods throughout CC, Bethesda, and Potomac.

Half of Bethesda and Chevy are ugly and just waiting for the right buyer or builder to be torn down and replaced with new construction

no way I am moving to MD

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Anonymous wrote:VA has fewer blacks, and blacks tend to drag down property values.

Well, it doesn’t seems true for MD, because average housing price is much higher in MD than VA.

Look at Baltimore and bad areas of DC. The property values will continue to go down if there is a good amount of voucher housing and a lot of them go to Blacks.

Oh no, those areas are very bad. Even educated and well-off African American folks don't dare to live there. That says it all!

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe there is even a comparison. MD counties have dropped so low that all the high earners are moving towards VA. Taxes are high in MD too and it is becoming a ghetto. You can see how difficult it is to do business in MD and that shows everything.

Oh dear. Outside of McLean, Virginia is a disaster -- you must live in a bubble if you don't see how entire areas have been taken over by illegal immigrants. And every area seems to be endless strip malls with no planning whatsoever. Meanwhile, MD is full of high-income earners in beautiful neighborhoods throughout CC, Bethesda, and Potomac.

Half of Bethesda and Chevy are ugly and just waiting for the right buyer or builder to be torn down and replaced with new construction

This is true for about 80% of NoVa. Except in NoVa they'll just turn it into data centers.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't believe there is even a comparison. MD counties have dropped so low that all the high earners are moving towards VA. Taxes are high in MD too and it is becoming a ghetto. You can see how difficult it is to do business in MD and that shows everything.

Oh dear. Outside of McLean, Virginia is a disaster -- you must live in a bubble if you don't see how entire areas have been taken over by illegal immigrants. And every area seems to be endless strip malls with no planning whatsoever. Meanwhile, MD is full of high-income earners in beautiful neighborhoods throughout CC, Bethesda, and Potomac.

Half of Bethesda and Chevy are ugly and just waiting for the right buyer or builder to be torn down and replaced with new construction

This is true for about 80% of NoVa. Except in NoVa they'll just turn it into data centers.

Hardly the case. Construction in NoVA is not as dated, especially when you include Loudon county.

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Anonymous wrote:I can't believe there is even a comparison. MD counties have dropped so low that all the high earners are moving towards VA. Taxes are high in MD too and it is becoming a ghetto. You can see how difficult it is to do business in MD and that shows everything.

Oh dear. Outside of McLean, Virginia is a disaster -- you must live in a bubble if you don't see how entire areas have been taken over by illegal immigrants. And every area seems to be endless strip malls with no planning whatsoever. Meanwhile, MD is full of high-income earners in beautiful neighborhoods throughout CC, Bethesda, and Potomac.

Half of Bethesda and Chevy are ugly and just waiting for the right buyer or builder to be torn down and replaced with new construction

This is true for about 80% of NoVa. Except in NoVa they'll just turn it into data centers.

+1. Nova loves its data centers. So much so that residents will pay double for electricity costs and deal with constant outages in the not-too-distant future:

https://www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/data-centers-expected-to-spike-electricity-costs/article_9b8054da-0afe-53d4-953f-f79cd09453a8.html

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/northern-virginia/virginia-cant-keep-up-with-unconstrained-data-center-growth-report-warns/3788912/

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Anonymous wrote:The "nice areas" of Maryland like Bethesda and Chevy Chase lack diversity and are full of racists and bigots

Well, everywhere in VA lack diversity and full of racists and bigots
Check post 18:34. Typical comment from VA folks.

NoVA is one of the most diverse places in the country.

None of Nova's cities/places make the top 10 or 20 of the most diverse places in the country. MoCo by itself has 4 in the top 20, 3 in the top 10.

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Anonymous wrote:VA has fewer blacks, and blacks tend to drag down property values.

Well, it doesn’t seems true for MD, because average housing price is much higher in MD than VA.

Look at Baltimore and bad areas of DC. The property values will continue to go down if there is a good amount of voucher housing and a lot of them go to Blacks.

But , they are still higher than the trailer parks of VA

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Anonymous wrote:The "nice areas" of Maryland like Bethesda and Chevy Chase lack diversity and are full of racists and bigots

Well, everywhere in VA lack diversity and full of racists and bigots
Check post 18:34. Typical comment from VA folks.

NoVA is one of the most diverse places in the country.

None of Nova's cities/places make the top 10 or 20 of the most diverse places in the country. MoCo by itself has 4 in the top 20, 3 in the top 10.

https://patch.com/virginia/greateralexandria/2-northern-va-cities-rank-among-most-ethnically-diverse-u-s

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I live in Moco and our house has appreciated 20 percent since 2020. But I also think you should just live where you want to live and not stress about making top dollar on it. Houses are for living in.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The "nice areas" of Maryland like Bethesda and Chevy Chase lack diversity and are full of racists and bigots

Well, everywhere in VA lack diversity and full of racists and bigots
Check post 18:34. Typical comment from VA folks.

NoVA is one of the most diverse places in the country.

None of Nova's cities/places make the top 10 or 20 of the most diverse places in the country. MoCo by itself has 4 in the top 20, 3 in the top 10.

https://patch.com/virginia/greateralexandria/2-northern-va-cities-rank-among-most-ethnically-diverse-u-s

Sigh.
Did you see any in the top 10? Or top 20?
Do you know how to read?

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Nova is just overall more affluent. 4 of their counties are in the top 10 median household incomes in the US. It's actually not Montgomery County but Howard County (which is much nicer) that is the only one from Maryland in the top 10.

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Anonymous wrote:Nova is just overall more affluent. 4 of their counties are in the top 10 median household incomes in the US. It's actually not Montgomery County but Howard County (which is much nicer) that is the only one from Maryland in the top 10.

Why the cutoff at top 10, rather than top 20 (where many MD counties are)? And even more importantly, who in their right mind picks a place to live based on it being in the top 10 median income? Only status-obsessed people think this way.