The District is now a suburb of Tysons

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What's the name of this website again? Why isn't it call TCsuburbanmom.com?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's the name of this website again? Why isn't it call TCsuburbanmom.com?

Probably because the TC suburban moms don't need as much hand-holding that it "will all be OK, really" if they stay where they are and send their kids to the local schools?

Just a guess.

[Anonymous]

I find it ironic how all of the Pro-DC people are so quick to look down at us FFX residents as corporate slugs who only shop at Target, eat at chain restaurants, workout at Gold's Gym, and sip of morning Starbucks.

...... since I'm so sure that none of the DC residents ever go to Starbucks, shop at the Gap, workout at a chain gym, or work in a big glass, steel and concrete corporate building.

Give me a break!!!!!!

Times are changing, DC is a cute museum, that's about it. Progress is refocusing our sights on areas like Tysons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find it ironic how all of the Pro-DC people are so quick to look down at us FFX residents as corporate slugs who only shop at Target, eat at chain restaurants, workout at Gold's Gym, and sip of morning Starbucks.

...... since I'm so sure that none of the DC residents ever go to Starbucks, shop at the Gap, workout at a chain gym, or work in a big glass, steel and concrete corporate building.

Give me a break!!!!!!

Times are changing, DC is a cute museum, that's about it. Progress is refocusing our sights on areas like Tysons.

+1
I agree, so many people are stuck in the past. Progress is changing everything.

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Anonymous wrote:The difference between DC and tysons is that DC has a very poor indigenous population that requires massive tax subsidies to keep a float. These indigenous people continue to vote in horrible leaders to preserve their self interest and refuse to gentrify. Tyson's does not have this and virginia is very pro landlord, free market and low tax. The positive formula is there for massive growth in Tyson's. Economically speaking it doesn't make sense to open or base your business in DC.

A good example is the current, corrupt Mayor and his dumb-as-nails press spokesman from Portugal. He's got the designer eyewear down flat, but doesn't even know where the Silver Line is being built.

He probably should know that the DC airport authority is building a rail line with 10,000 parking spaces to deliver more commuters into DC and allow an easier connection to one of his 3 airports.

And as an ex-DC and current inner ring suburb resident, I do get Starbucks, but I also eat at Two Amy's, remember when DC Chophouse was the only Chinatown restaurant worth visiting for dinner, and love my 10 minute drive to the zoo. Hanging at the mall is cool, difft strokes for difft folks!

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Anonymous wrote:I'm totally looking forward to the silver line going out to Tysons. I haven't been out there in years because the traffic's so bad and once the metro goes out there, I will probably take a day trip and check it out once more.

And then probably not go back.

Pp again. I realized later I should qualify this statement. If I were to get a good job working out in Tysons near a metro stop, I would be happy to go there every day. Right now I live in the District and commute to the burbs to work. A lot of companies in my industry are in the burbs and not enough of them are actually near metro stops so I've avoided making a move. But I sure will be looking out Tysons way once the metro is in place. Would rather be working downtown but, hey, give me a metro line and I'll be there.

But for shopping and entertainment, I don't think so.

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Anonymous wrote:

What's "the district?" (I'm from here).

When you say "here," what to you mean exactly?

I'm a 3rd generation Washingtonian - or maybe 2nd (my grandparents all moved here).

Need more specifics?

My parents are from Takoma Park, Maryland. I was born there too. My parents met at a protest in Dupont though.

We moved to Silver Spring when I was 2.

Now I live in Tysons - been here 7 years.

I know Tysons is not a quaint, old, walkable city like Old Town Alexandria or DC - plus downtown DC is much, much bigger. But to me, Tysons is like civilization. It's difficult to do things in DC. Like, if I need to go to the hardware store, I have 2 small town ones within 2 miles, or I can drive maybe 4 miles to Home Depot. I can be at Giant, Safeway, Whole Foods, Trader Joes, and a handful of organic/gourmet groceries in 5 minutes. I can be at Target, Walmart, Petsmart, etc. in 15 minutes. I can be at Chanel and all the high end shops in 5 minutes - the best shopping outside of lower Manhattan. I have an infant/toddler toy store 10 minutes away - and 2 other neighborhood ones. There's a plethora of great restaurants here, local coffee shops too. I really have no reason to leave this area for anything but for the fact I work downtown for the government. And if I have to go downtown, I'm there on 66 in 15 minutes. Rush hour, 45 minutes. I'm racking my brain trying to think of something DC has more of - all I can think of is good bars, more restaurants, law firms, and the government. and transplants. Certainly, for a 20-something, more bars and restaurants means a lot. Actually, Tysons has almost no bars except in the mall. But in my 30s, Tysons is much better.

Theater. But that's more of a 40- or 50-something thing.

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Anonymous wrote:Tysons blows! We are being relocated by our company to effing TYSONS because there is a ton of office space there.

And we currently live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, so you can imagine the shock. Obv we aren't going to live there. MAYBE I can swing Clarendon, but not mclean, not fucking "crystal city", and def not TYSONS CORNER.

Go to Paris or Berlin, then go to tysons. You will think americans are the biggest idiots on the planet. Then you will want to shoot yourself in the face!

Condolences, pp!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find it ironic how all of the Pro-DC people are so quick to look down at us FFX residents as corporate slugs who only shop at Target, eat at chain restaurants, workout at Gold's Gym, and sip of morning Starbucks.

...... since I'm so sure that none of the DC residents ever go to Starbucks, shop at the Gap, workout at a chain gym, or work in a big glass, steel and concrete corporate building.

Give me a break!!!!!!

Times are changing, DC is a cute museum, that's about it. Progress is refocusing our sights on areas like Tysons.

dc resident here, and while I like my starbucks, t-shirts from gap, and do love a good target trip, I also like being able to walk to the local park, grocery store, and plenty of non-chain restaurants and stores as well. Progress happens everywhere, hell, even wal-mart is building stores in dc (although I still would avoid them for other reasons).

While the metro and new development plans for tysons will hopefully make it better than what it is now, you cannot deny that tysons will never be anything more than a car-oriented edge city. You couldn't even put the metro undergound! If progress means building lexus lanes just to be able to get to tysons, you can have it. I'll keep working downtown and enjoying the city along with everybody else in the district, and it sure will be super convenient once all the va cars stop invading the city every day as well.

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Anonymous wrote:All this hype about the development of Tysons Corner is comical. I would be glad if it had a chance of being great because I live between Tysons and DC but really it's just a good shopping mall with some spread out offices and car dealerships. Sorry developers but the major problem you're going to have is that young people have zero interest in living there and that's not changing.

+1

The thing is that the same could be said about DC 25 years ago. All except for Georgetown and parts of NW. I DID grow up in DC and was actually born in DC (anyone else?) and we all went to private school and it was the murder capital of the country. It is fantastic that so much of DC has rebounded and that so many young people and families live there now. Just don't assume the same won't happen to Tysons (and it is starting from a far better place than murder capital of the country with bad schools). I agree with many comments that Tysons and the surrounding areas are great, especially for jobs, shopping, family life and schools. That won't appeal to a 20-something who is living it up in the D.C. But when he/she has to reverse commute to a job in VA or MD or when he/she gets married and has kids, the suburbs start to look pretty appealing. Doubt it all you want but that won't change that suburban life is a preference for many people when they reach a certain stage in their lives.

Unless you grew up in the 1.5 square mile area where Rayful Edmonds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayful_Edmond and his crew had their wars, I seriously doubt you had any interaction with the "murder capital" aspects of DC growing up, ever. Urban centers are not about to be displaced by suburban sprawl, dearie, no matter how much you wish it were so. Manhattan, NY, Mission District, SF, Hyde Park, CHI, Adams Morgan, Shaw, Dupont, in DC and so on are the hot urban places to live. Money continues to flood those areas. Real estate prices have never gone down in those areas. They're not suburbs of anything. That's idiotic. It's really apples and oranges

I read an article not too long ago saying that some businesses are trying to locate in urban areas because young workers don't want to live in the suburbs. But it was one article - haven't heard that anywhere else just yet.

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dc resident here, and while I like my starbucks, t-shirts from gap, and do love a good target trip, I also like being able to walk to the local park, grocery store, and plenty of non-chain restaurants and stores as well. Progress happens everywhere, hell, even wal-mart is building stores in dc (although I still would avoid them for other reasons).

While the metro and new development plans for tysons will hopefully make it better than what it is now, you cannot deny that tysons will never be anything more than a car-oriented edge city. You couldn't even put the metro undergound! If progress means building lexus lanes just to be able to get to tysons, you can have it. I'll keep working downtown and enjoying the city along with everybody else in the district, and it sure will be super convenient once all the va cars stop invading the city every day as well.

People who live in Tysons can already walk to a local park, grocery store (Harris Teeter) and plenty of non-chain restaurants. It will only get better. NoVa has been outpacing DC for a long time and that's not going to change. Nice homes, award-winning schools and a pro-business mindset count for more than underground Metro stations.

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Anonymous wrote:What's the name of this website again? Why isn't it call TCsuburbanmom.com?

Probably because the TC suburban moms don't need as much hand-holding that it "will all be OK, really" if they stay where they are and send their kids to the local schools?

Just a guess.

Or discussion about the rash of petty crime in TC.

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Anonymous wrote:Tysons blows! We are being relocated by our company to effing TYSONS because there is a ton of office space there.

And we currently live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, so you can imagine the shock. Obv we aren't going to live there. MAYBE I can swing Clarendon, but not mclean, not fucking "crystal city", and def not TYSONS CORNER.

Go to Paris or Berlin, then go to tysons. You will think americans are the biggest idiots on the planet. Then you will want to shoot yourself in the face!

Condolences, pp!

oh yes, you poor thing you. it's so "amazing" in williamsburg. everyone trying so hard to be so cool, so amazing and so unique. it's as banal as tyson's itself.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tysons blows! We are being relocated by our company to effing TYSONS because there is a ton of office space there.

And we currently live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, so you can imagine the shock. Obv we aren't going to live there. MAYBE I can swing Clarendon, but not mclean, not fucking "crystal city", and def not TYSONS CORNER.

Go to Paris or Berlin, then go to tysons. You will think americans are the biggest idiots on the planet. Then you will want to shoot yourself in the face!

Condolences, pp!

oh yes, you poor thing you. it's so "amazing" in williamsburg. everyone trying so hard to be so cool, so amazing and so unique. it's as banal as tyson's itself.

why are people so lame on dcum? seriously, i bet this woman is over 50 and never leaves the 'burbs.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tysons blows! We are being relocated by our company to effing TYSONS because there is a ton of office space there.

And we currently live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, so you can imagine the shock. Obv we aren't going to live there. MAYBE I can swing Clarendon, but not mclean, not fucking "crystal city", and def not TYSONS CORNER.

Go to Paris or Berlin, then go to tysons. You will think americans are the biggest idiots on the planet. Then you will want to shoot yourself in the face!

Condolences, pp!

oh yes, you poor thing you. it's so "amazing" in williamsburg. everyone trying so hard to be so cool, so amazing and so unique. it's as banal as tyson's itself.

+100000!!

THat is exactly the way I feel about that the people who live in that area!