Yikes, should we sell our MoCo home and move to NoVA?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I see decades of NoVa having an inferiority complex doesn’t shake easily even with a cycle of prosperity

Well, it's more like decades of prosperity, and enough to lead MoCo to pay consultants to advise the county on how to catch up to Fairfax.

The last time Fairfax paid any attention to MoCo was back in the 1970s.

But yet the DCUM NoVa people can't seem to stop talking about MoCo on here.

[Anonymous]

I also believe the OP is a troll.

Idk why DCUM lets bored housewives and discontent attorneys start this BS all the time.

[Anonymous]

Troll or not, it is a real issue. MoCo is a country club where the dues (relative to Virginia) are an additional 3% of your income. To the extent that lower paying members are growing as a percent of the total, services and overall quality will decline. So for a family making $300K buying a $1.2mm house, it’s like “live in MoCo, pay $9K / year more in state and local, potentially experience an appreciation differential of $20-$40K/ year or whatever. That’s real money.m, even if MoCo is an objectively higher quality of life.

I expect to become wealthy despite living here, not because of it.Anyone making a purekg economic decision with a decent income is highly incentivized to choose Virginia. It is the complacency of my fellow MoCo’ers on here that’s the problem. Maryland as a state is in a much worse fiscal position as well.

Why would a business actively choose to be here vs Virginia? Maybe if related to NIH/ healthcare?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Troll or not, it is a real issue. MoCo is a country club where the dues (relative to Virginia) are an additional 3% of your income. To the extent that lower paying members are growing as a percent of the total, services and overall quality will decline. So for a family making $300K buying a $1.2mm house, it’s like “live in MoCo, pay $9K / year more in state and local, potentially experience an appreciation differential of $20-$40K/ year or whatever. That’s real money.m, even if MoCo is an objectively higher quality of life.

I expect to become wealthy despite living here, not because of it.Anyone making a purekg economic decision with a decent income is highly incentivized to choose Virginia. It is the complacency of my fellow MoCo’ers on here that’s the problem. Maryland as a state is in a much worse fiscal position as well.

Why would a business actively choose to be here vs Virginia? Maybe if related to NIH/ healthcare?

LOL, on what planet does MoCo offer “an objectively higher quality of life”? Thanks for the great laugh, PP! But I do agree with you about the ridiculous taxes!

[Anonymous]

Yes.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/northern-virginia-counties-and-cities-form-alliance-to-lure-companies-and-jobs/2019/09/15/d9e800a0-d667-11e9-9610-fb56c5522e1c_story.html%3foutputType=amp

This will make it that much harder for MoCo to compete.