Virginia Residents Only.

[Anonymous]

For all of you who live in VA:

1........Where did you move from (NY, California, Boston)?

2.......Why did you decide to move from there? (Lack of jobs, high taxes, poor schools)?


3.........Why did you move to the DC area?

4..........Why did you pick Northern VA to live in instead of MD or DC?

[Anonymous]

1. NY
2. Specific job opportunity - I wasn’t looking at the DC area before this opportunity
3. Specific job
4. Job was in VA

[Anonymous]

I grew up in Northestern MD/Northern DE. I came here after college in nc because I was a politics major and going home to de made no sense. Initially, I moved to NoVA because that was where my roommates (who were friends of mine who graduated from gw) found us an apartment. I’ve stayed because my husband and I work in VA - no issues with MD, though. My mom and dad met in Montgomery county and I still have family in MD.

[Anonymous]

1. MD
2. New job
3. Job is here
4. Job is here

[Anonymous]

1.NJ-MD-VA
2. Taxes, jobs, gun laws, at the time overly high house prices in NJ.
3. taxes, jobs, gun laws, insurance costs, low house prices (this was 2000-2002, i lived in md from 2000-2002), house prices in NJ at the time were much higher than here, though now they're on par.
4. Montgomery county is the beer wholesaler for the county and had poor selection, VA has better firearms laws, lower property and income taxes, and my car insurance dropped quite a bit. I also preferred the business climate and regulations in VA over MD.

Also most of my coworkers and friends when I lived and worked in MD, lived in VA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1.NJ-MD-VA
2. Taxes, jobs, gun laws, at the time overly high house prices in NJ.
3. taxes, jobs, gun laws, insurance costs, low house prices (this was 2000-2002, i lived in md from 2000-2002), house prices in NJ at the time were much higher than here, though now they're on par.
4. Montgomery county is the beer wholesaler for the county and had poor selection, VA has better firearms laws, lower property and income taxes, and my car insurance dropped quite a bit. I also preferred the business climate and regulations in VA over MD.

Also most of my coworkers and friends when I lived and worked in MD, lived in VA.

I preferred the politics in VA as well, but that has changed quite a bit in the past 16 years since I moved and now it is closer to NJ politics, just with less corruption.

[Anonymous]

1) San Francisco

2) Family

3) Jobs

4) taxes, better in-state colleges, schools

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For all of you who live in VA:

1........Where did you move from (NY, California, Boston)?

2.......Why did you decide to move from there? (Lack of jobs, high taxes, poor schools)?


3.........Why did you move to the DC area?

4..........Why did you pick Northern VA to live in instead of MD or DC?

1)DC (I grew up in Massachusetts but went to Virginia Tech) (I lived in Brookland from 1988-1991)
2)In state tuition for graduate school.
3) 1987 for the DC area, 1991 for VA
4) I wanted in state tuition and Virginia was an easier commute to my job in L'Enfant. May have moved back to DC when I decided not to go to grad school, but met and married a man who already owned a house in Arlington.

[Anonymous]

Where did you move from (NY, California, Boston)?
Central PA (college town)


Why did you decide to move from there? (Lack of jobs, high taxes, poor schools)?
I graduated from grad school and needed a job

Why did you move to the DC area?
This is where the best jobs in my field were

Why did you pick Northern VA to live in instead of MD or DC?
I really don't know. Maybe the apartments were cheaper and the commute seemed easier? Then I just liked it so I stayed.

[Anonymous]

I am from here and I know a lot of people who are also local. It never occurred to me to move to Maryland. I don't even like to drive there.

[Anonymous]

1. Charlottesville (though I am originally from NC and before Cville had been living in various places, most recently Utah)

2. DH (who was then my BF) wasn't able to make much money in Cville and the job market was good for me anywhere so we started looking to move and decided to get married

3. DH applied to grad schools all over but was only accepted at schools in DC, and I had multiple job offers here

4. We couldn't afford anything decent in DC proper at that time (2006) and the commute from NoVa into DC looked better than anywhere else.

[Anonymous]

1. D.C.
2. I was tired of the failing government and terrible social services of D.C.
3 Jobs.
4. MD is a nanny state and D.C. is basically a failed junior high social experiment in far-leftist ideology. MoCo isn't far behind.

[Anonymous]

1. Southern state
2. Lack of good high tech jobs at the time and not wanting to raise kids in the South
3. Jobs, kids education, raising kids in a diverse environment.
4. DCPS suck, and MD wasn’t on the table b/c one person working in VA. Also, FCPS AAP, access to TJ (kid is now there), uVA/WM/VT in state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:1. NY
2. Specific job opportunity - I wasn’t looking at the DC area before this opportunity
3. Specific job
4. Job was in VA

This is exactly us as well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For all of you who live in VA:

1........Where did you move from (NY, California, Boston)?

2.......Why did you decide to move from there? (Lack of jobs, high taxes, poor schools)?


3.........Why did you move to the DC area?

4..........Why did you pick Northern VA to live in instead of MD or DC?

1. CA
2. I needed a job after finishing college
3. I landed a job here and none of my other prospects in CA were coming through, so...
4. The job's in VA