What’s wrong with Ashburn?

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Anonymous wrote:Because location matters and old growth trees are nice.

+1. We briefly looked at Ashburn about 9 years ago now. Aside from the cookie cutter houses, I couldn’t deal with the lack of trees. There are none. It’s insanely hot and bright in the summer with zero tree shade. There’s also no natural beauty. We have friends who live there and love it, but we ended up buying an older home in larger lot for trees, birds, and sidewalks. Best decision we could’ve made for our family. To each his own, I guess

Such an odd comment. Plenty of trees in Ashburn. Plenty of birds too. Walking/biking paths everywhere. Regularly see bluebirds, cardinals, goldfinches, hawks, great blue herons, and many others, with an occasional bald eagle sighting, as I’m walking or biking around Ashburn.

[Anonymous]

My living choices rather be if work in DC
1) Maryland if kids in public schools
2) DC if can afford private schools just in case
3) Close in Virginia of high taxes

If rich I be in a foggy bottom or geogetown single family home with parking.

Ashburn is the worst if everything.
Bad schools
Bad Commute
Expensive as if you commute tolls will kill you. Plus you need two cars if commuting and car tax.

By compassion just by in Rockville md if you make under 200k and commute to DC. The legendary MoCo tax for families under 200k not bad and schools good.

Or silver springs or Takoma park.

I drove to manasas and ashburn and the tolls and ugliness of commute and with 95, Tysons and airport traffic commuting is hard.

Don’t laugh, please don’t. My wife made me buy close in Potomac over close in VA, Bethesda. Chevy chase or DC as she views her home as a Sanctuary. Meaning as soon as off 270 or 95 a calm hits. There is no calm over there

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My living choices rather be if work in DC
1) Maryland if kids in public schools
2) DC if can afford private schools just in case
3) Close in Virginia of high taxes

If rich I be in a foggy bottom or geogetown single family home with parking.

Ashburn is the worst if everything.
Bad schools
Bad Commute
Expensive as if you commute tolls will kill you. Plus you need two cars if commuting and car tax.

By compassion just by in Rockville md if you make under 200k and commute to DC. The legendary MoCo tax for families under 200k not bad and schools good.

Or silver springs or Takoma park.

I drove to manasas and ashburn and the tolls and ugliness of commute and with 95, Tysons and airport traffic commuting is hard.

Don’t laugh, please don’t. My wife made me buy close in Potomac over close in VA, Bethesda. Chevy chase or DC as she views her home as a Sanctuary. Meaning as soon as off 270 or 95 a calm hits. There is no calm over there

Um, OK, but get an editor before you ask anyone to give a crap about what you think.

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Anonymous wrote:About 30 min from Ryan Rd to Kalorama. You should try it.

Hilarious!

In Covid, you could do this easily in 35-40. The Greenway / Toll Road are fast.

It's still covid times and no it's not 40 mins. Not during the week.

It’s 7:30 on a Sunday, during COVID, and google maps says it’s 45 minutes + tolls to get from Ryan Road to Kalorama Park. This is just never a 30 minute drive.

I will never understand why people who live 45 minutes from the western edge of DC think they live close to DC. You really don’t.

This is why I moved to waterfront Anne Arundel. If my commute is going to be an hour I’m going to also own a boat. Blows my mind that anyone would rather live in Ashburn than here.

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Little mumbai

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A couple of people here said schools in Ashburn are bad.. It never occurred to me that Loudoun schools are bad- is it really?

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Some big time obnoxiousness on display in this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My living choices rather be if work in DC
1) Maryland if kids in public schools
2) DC if can afford private schools just in case
3) Close in Virginia of high taxes

If rich I be in a foggy bottom or geogetown single family home with parking.

Ashburn is the worst if everything.
Bad schools
Bad Commute
Expensive as if you commute tolls will kill you. Plus you need two cars if commuting and car tax.

By compassion just by in Rockville md if you make under 200k and commute to DC. The legendary MoCo tax for families under 200k not bad and schools good.

Or silver springs or Takoma park.

I drove to manasas and ashburn and the tolls and ugliness of commute and with 95, Tysons and airport traffic commuting is hard.

Don’t laugh, please don’t. My wife made me buy close in Potomac over close in VA, Bethesda. Chevy chase or DC as she views her home as a Sanctuary. Meaning as soon as off 270 or 95 a calm hits. There is no calm over there

Umm...what? I need a translator

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A couple of people here said schools in Ashburn are bad.. It never occurred to me that Loudoun schools are bad- is it really?

the hoodlums on the football teams have been all over the news, the drunk teachers have been all over the news, lowest scores - yes it's bad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ashburn- very Stepford wives, cookie cutter, suburban on STEROIDS- no culture or charm. Lived there for three years and had to move back to Fairfax. Very, very boring. No good restaurants (unless you like chain restaurants). Moved back to Fairfax County and enjoying the diversity, restaurants, amenities, and being closer to the city.

Seriously cookie cutter. Every single house looks the same in neighborhoods. And the traffic is the worst!

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Anonymous wrote:Why do so many on DCUM look down on Ashburn? It has great schools, beautiful houses, amenities, and it’s a quick 20-25 min from downtown DC. It has it all!

I live in Shirlington and can barely make it down town under 30 minutes. It's 6 miles TOTAL for me. You are full of sh*t.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Because location matters and old growth trees are nice.

+1. We briefly looked at Ashburn about 9 years ago now. Aside from the cookie cutter houses, I couldn’t deal with the lack of trees. There are none. It’s insanely hot and bright in the summer with zero tree shade. There’s also no natural beauty. We have friends who live there and love it, but we ended up buying an older home in larger lot for trees, birds, and sidewalks. Best decision we could’ve made for our family. To each his own, I guess

Such an odd comment. Plenty of trees in Ashburn. Plenty of birds too. Walking/biking paths everywhere. Regularly see bluebirds, cardinals, goldfinches, hawks, great blue herons, and many others, with an occasional bald eagle sighting, as I’m walking or biking around Ashburn.

Hah, I pulled up a few new build areas in Ashburn and was going to Google Street View them, but so much of Ashburn is new that Google hasn't even driven by the residentials roads yet. Couldn't even get any street views of residential roads.

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Perhaps there are people who do not need to commute to DC
Imagine that

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What is this obsession with trees?

I grew up in the woods. I actually find many older neighborhoods have too many trees and they make neighborhoods look dark and unkept. Some of the houses have moss and mold, or you can barely see the house until a large branch or the tree itself falls on the house and ruins it.

My current neighborhood has some trees but I cheer every time someone takes down one of these ugly old oaks.

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we could have moved to ashburn 10 years ago when my husband was working there. We chose to stay in an older neighborhood in Fairfax (near Chantilly HS)

Our house is smaller than we would have gotten there, but I do like the older neighborhood feel and yes....trees. Some lovely trees and yards in our neighborhood. We have nice shade trees in our yard and some flowers that the previous owners planted.