NoVa area prestige ranking

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Anonymous wrote:Del Ray used to be cool and arty and then it sold out. Now it is a wanna-be old town and as boring as a suburb but with poorer schools.

Is there a grand conspiracy going on where every thread about NoVA somehow turns into a Del Ray hate fest?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Amazing how many part of Fairfax County were left off of this. Ok...I guess my amazing neighborhood will continue to be an insider's secret for a bit longer.

On a different note, I would love to watch the SAHMs from all of these neighborhoods in a bracket-type take down.

Mantua?

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Anonymous wrote:Langley is part of McLean. Why did you list is with great falls.

Maybe it’s a part of GF zoned for Langley but not parts zoned for other schools? Is all GF zoned for Langley?

Yes. All of GF is zoned for Langley.

Langley high school is not “Langley”

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Homes in Del Ray and Old Town run about half a million dollars more than the crap in Burke and Fairfax. Is that because they are less desirable? Some of you need to swallow your pride and ego. You're just not good enough for the better areas.

If Del Ray and Old Town are filled with snobby people like this, I’ll happily stay put in my lower ranked suburb with good schools and nice neighbors. Not all of us want to live in that kind of density and it’s not about the price point.

Quality of life is much more pleasant in Burke.

[Anonymous]

This is the most accurate list from a NoVa expert (a literal NoVa God -- I don't make the rules, I was born this way)

1. McLean / Great Falls

2. N Arlington / Old Town / *waterfront houses in MtVernon (must be waterfront)

3. Middleburg / Delaplane / The Plains / *waterfront houses in Mason Neck (must be waterfront)

4. Vienna/Del Ray/Rosemont/Belle Haven/FCC

5. Oakton / Fort Hunt

6. Fairfax Station / Clifton / Fairfax City / Reston / South Arlington

7. Burke / West Springfield / Lorton / Leesburg / By the water but not waterfront Mount Vernon

8. Ashburn / Chantilly / Centreville / Franconia-Kingstowne

Almost sh*t tier: Springfield/Sterling/Herndon/Annandale/Mount Vernon North of Richmond hwy/Groveton
Sh*t tier: Woodbridge / Dumfries / Manassas

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:West Falls Church is incredible for a middle class family.

That's not prestige that's mid

[Anonymous]

Western Loudoun and Northern Fauquier aren’t part of Northern Virginia socially, only geographically. Keep us off your lists. It’s a hellscape here and no one should ever visit, let alone live here. Stay far away.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Amazing how many part of Fairfax County were left off of this. Ok...I guess my amazing neighborhood will continue to be an insider's secret for a bit longer.

On a different note, I would love to watch the SAHMs from all of these neighborhoods in a bracket-type take down.

Mantua?

Mantua really doesn’t register to anyone

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Alexandria (outside of Old Town) is definitely not the higher than Burke. You are talking about the areas off Route 1 going south, right?

Who the hell would ever pick some Toll Brothers POS in some HOA in Burke over Del Ray?

NP. One reason is the public schools. Del Ray is ACPS, which is an educational disaster. Burke is FCPS, maybe not as great as 20 years ago, but at least the FCPS students will be physically safe.

Uhhh, wasn't there just a near fatal stabbing in West Potomac like two weeks ago?

FCPS does not keep a body count of students killing other students. ACPS does. So far this year, I think 3 ACPS students have been killed by other students. Oh, and FCPS is wildly larger by # of students, so the ACPS death rate is even worse.

[Anonymous]

If Del Ray were not in ACPS, it would be a lot more desirable -- regardless of where one ranks it this minute as is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:West Falls Church is incredible for a middle class family.

That's not prestige that's mid

Note I said middle class family.

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Anonymous wrote:I truly don't get the worship of Mclean. It is ugly and soulless and dominated by a monstrous mall and horrendous traffic. Absolutely nothing charming. If it's all about Langley high school, thats just stupid. And good luck getting your "super star" kid from LHS into a top 25 college anymore. Not to mention the drugs and pressure cooker, entitled social scene. I'll pass.

I see 3 Langley kids headed to Stanford next year and plenty of other good college destinations. Guess they had good luck.

ACHS (TC Williams) is sending tons of kids (like 30+) to Brown, Stanford, UPenn, Harvard, Yale, Berkeley, Duke and then gazillions to UVA, UNC, BC, Northwestern, GTown, W&M, etc but that doesn't stop the angry, poor, jealous and racist losers from popping off any time it comes up. Anger is so ugly and revealing.

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Anonymous wrote:Homes in Del Ray and Old Town run about half a million dollars more than the crap in Burke and Fairfax. Is that because they are less desirable? Some of you need to swallow your pride and ego. You're just not good enough for the better areas.

If Del Ray and Old Town are filled with snobby people like this, I’ll happily stay put in my lower ranked suburb with good schools and nice neighbors. Not all of us want to live in that kind of density and it’s not about the price point.

Quality of life is much more pleasant in Burke.

No way. You live in your car.

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Alexandria (outside of Old Town) is definitely not the higher than Burke. You are talking about the areas off Route 1 going south, right?

Who the hell would ever pick some Toll Brothers POS in some HOA in Burke over Del Ray?

NP. One reason is the public schools. Del Ray is ACPS, which is an educational disaster. Burke is FCPS, maybe not as great as 20 years ago, but at least the FCPS students will be physically safe.

Uhhh, wasn't there just a near fatal stabbing in West Potomac like two weeks ago?

FCPS does not keep a body count of students killing other students. ACPS does. So far this year, I think 3 ACPS students have been killed by other students. Oh, and FCPS is wildly larger by # of students, so the ACPS death rate is even worse.

More lies. There hasn't been a single student killed this year. But we knew you'd show up. You must be the mom of some loser kid who got bullied in ACPS. Your obsession is wild.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is the most accurate list from a NoVa expert (a literal NoVa God -- I don't make the rules, I was born this way)

1. McLean / Great Falls

2. N Arlington / Old Town / *waterfront houses in MtVernon (must be waterfront)

3. Middleburg / Delaplane / The Plains / *waterfront houses in Mason Neck (must be waterfront)

4. Vienna/Del Ray/Rosemont/Belle Haven/FCC

5. Oakton / Fort Hunt

6. Fairfax Station / Clifton / Fairfax City / Reston / South Arlington

7. Burke / West Springfield / Lorton / Leesburg / By the water but not waterfront Mount Vernon

8. Ashburn / Chantilly / Centreville / Franconia-Kingstowne

Almost sh*t tier: Springfield/Sterling/Herndon/Annandale/Mount Vernon North of Richmond hwy/Groveton
Sh*t tier: Woodbridge / Dumfries / Manassas

Least diverse to most diverse. Got it.