Chantilly High or Langley?

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Any advice on which route we should take?

If DC are going to be boy-crazy (or be a hot guy) and make friends and intensely into things like cheer, Chantilly all the way! If DC want to marry someone who "comes from money" and want to delegate employees/start a business and don't care about having a good time at their reunion, Langley it is!

What an idiotic response.

Why is everything that reads experiential troll or idiotic?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All you people who assume the asian immigrants in chantilly are somehow lower class than langley have absolutely no clue about the social status of the immigrant families in their countries in Asia. They are very often of way higher social class than the local american langley families. To the OP you are really deluded and making a mistaken assumption about class and income and are ignoring the role of immigration from asian countries.

Sorry, but if they are in America and living in Chantilly they are lower social class than Langley residents. No one here cares whether their great grandfather was considered upper class in some Asian country. Surely you’d figured that out by now.

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OK go on being blind - it's not about their great grandparents but about they themselvee and their parents - they are just in capital accumulation mode - and their trajectories are going up at a much faster pace than the arriviste class in langley - but you don't need to know so keep believing what you want

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:
Any advice on which route we should take?

If DC are going to be boy-crazy (or be a hot guy) and make friends and intensely into things like cheer, Chantilly all the way! If DC want to marry someone who "comes from money" and want to delegate employees/start a business and don't care about having a good time at their reunion, Langley it is!

What an idiotic response.

Why is everything that reads experiential troll or idiotic?

Because none of the above are "experiential." Those are simply scenarios made up by someone who hasn't a clue about either school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All you people who assume the asian immigrants in chantilly are somehow lower class than langley have absolutely no clue about the social status of the immigrant families in their countries in Asia. They are very often of way higher social class than the local american langley families. To the OP you are really deluded and making a mistaken assumption about class and income and are ignoring the role of immigration from asian countries.

Wow - this is some serious pretzel twisting! Respectfully, no one cares about what class you were in Asia, or what class you are now. This is so incredibly absurd.

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Any advice on which route we should take?

If DC are going to be boy-crazy (or be a hot guy) and make friends and intensely into things like cheer, Chantilly all the way! If DC want to marry someone who "comes from money" and want to delegate employees/start a business and don't care about having a good time at their reunion, Langley it is!

What an idiotic response.

Why is everything that reads experiential troll or idiotic?

Because none of the above are "experiential." Those are simply scenarios made up by someone who hasn't a clue about either school.

Or someone who went to Chantilly and lives in the Langley district now. If you NEED BADLY for someone not to have actual facts and experiences, fine. But why aren't you letting OP hear varied perspectives?

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Anonymous wrote:I was going to say Chantilly until your post about your social status. Please stay away.

Exactly - on middle class people actually worry about their social status being signaled through their neighborhood choice or public school - actually Chantilly has way strong STEM and a better cohort of physics-oriented students - so why would you go to Langley?

The truly rich people who can afford any house would stay where they feel the most comfortable and among people they enjoy.

There are way more convenient asian grocery stores near Chantilly than there are near Langley - why would an asian american who was secure enough in their wealth want to stay in Langley?

There's only one grocery store in the Langley area, a Safeway at Great Falls Village. You have to drive miles for anything.

Please don't bother posting if you can't stick to the truth. There is that Safeway, a Giant in McLean, a Harris Teeter near Tysons, and a Lidl coming to McLean.

Isn't the GFV Safeway is the only grocery store within Langley's boundaries? Other stores are in areas zoned to other schools.

Does FCPS monitor to make sure that you only go to a grocery store in your boundary?

(We shop at the Great Falls Safeway. It is more than adequate. And extremely convenient for those of us who live in GF. If we ever need a bigger or more unique store, there are plenty that are only a short drive away on Leesburg Pike or in Reston.)

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So bizarre.

I love Safeway so much I have an annual freshpass. However, here are some items I buy elsewhere:
50cfu biokefir-whole foods
pau d'arco tea-vitamin/moms
opo squash,bittermelon, fermented blackbean-Aditi/GreatWall/H-mart
powder laundry-Sierra
1 gr sugar ricotta-Italian Store/Rest. depot
non-Korean pignoli-Sfizi, Italian Store
blood&tongue/zeigenwurst-German Gourmet
flax ricecakes-Giant
juniper-fresh market/moms
bell&evans whole-balduccis/whole foods
adirondack ice cream/low sugar high fat (custard style) -balduccis/german gourmet

Tysons/Vienna/W. McLean/N. Merrifield is close to these plus Harris Teeter(great baby back). Great Falls is doable to these, but slightly more of a hike and on lonely roads. Those living in Great Falls, where do you get low sugar/ethnic foods like these?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Any advice on which route we should take?

If DC are going to be boy-crazy (or be a hot guy) and make friends and intensely into things like cheer, Chantilly all the way! If DC want to marry someone who "comes from money" and want to delegate employees/start a business and don't care about having a good time at their reunion, Langley it is!

What an idiotic response.

Why is everything that reads experiential troll or idiotic?

Because none of the above are "experiential." Those are simply scenarios made up by someone who hasn't a clue about either school.

Or someone who went to Chantilly and lives in the Langley district now. If you NEED BADLY for someone not to have actual facts and experiences, fine. But why aren't you letting OP hear varied perspectives?

Because - once again - it's clear that most of these "varied perspectives" are made up. Not sure why you can't admit that.

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Anonymous wrote:I was going to say Chantilly until your post about your social status. Please stay away.

Exactly - on middle class people actually worry about their social status being signaled through their neighborhood choice or public school - actually Chantilly has way strong STEM and a better cohort of physics-oriented students - so why would you go to Langley?

The truly rich people who can afford any house would stay where they feel the most comfortable and among people they enjoy.

There are way more convenient asian grocery stores near Chantilly than there are near Langley - why would an asian american who was secure enough in their wealth want to stay in Langley?

There's only one grocery store in the Langley area, a Safeway at Great Falls Village. You have to drive miles for anything.

Please don't bother posting if you can't stick to the truth. There is that Safeway, a Giant in McLean, a Harris Teeter near Tysons, and a Lidl coming to McLean.

Isn't the GFV Safeway is the only grocery store within Langley's boundaries? Other stores are in areas zoned to other schools.

Does FCPS monitor to make sure that you only go to a grocery store in your boundary?

(We shop at the Great Falls Safeway. It is more than adequate. And extremely convenient for those of us who live in GF. If we ever need a bigger or more unique store, there are plenty that are only a short drive away on Leesburg Pike or in Reston.)

+1
So bizarre.

I love Safeway so much I have an annual freshpass. However, here are some items I buy elsewhere:
50cfu biokefir-whole foods
pau d'arco tea-vitamin/moms
opo squash,bittermelon, fermented blackbean-Aditi/GreatWall/H-mart
powder laundry-Sierra
1 gr sugar ricotta-Italian Store/Rest. depot
non-Korean pignoli-Sfizi, Italian Store
blood&tongue/zeigenwurst-German Gourmet
flax ricecakes-Giant
juniper-fresh market/moms
bell&evans whole-balduccis/whole foods
adirondack ice cream/low sugar high fat (custard style) -balduccis/german gourmet

Tysons/Vienna/W. McLean/N. Merrifield is close to these plus Harris Teeter(great baby back). Great Falls is doable to these, but slightly more of a hike and on lonely roads. Those living in Great Falls, where do you get low sugar/ethnic foods like these?

I admittedly have never bought most of those items, but the Reston Whole Foods is only 15 mins away and there is a Super H Mart and a Mom’s in Herndon (maybe 20 mins away). We also have a great butcher near the Village.

Is there more driving to get certain things? Of course. But Reston, Tyson’s, etc. aren’t really that far away. And there is very little traffic on the main roads to those places (ie Springvale/Baron Cameron to get to Reston; Old Dominion to Spring Hill to get to Tyson’s). We see it as a very small trade off to live in a great, tight-knit community that in many ways feels like a small town.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I was going to say Chantilly until your post about your social status. Please stay away.

Exactly - on middle class people actually worry about their social status being signaled through their neighborhood choice or public school - actually Chantilly has way strong STEM and a better cohort of physics-oriented students - so why would you go to Langley?

The truly rich people who can afford any house would stay where they feel the most comfortable and among people they enjoy.

There are way more convenient asian grocery stores near Chantilly than there are near Langley - why would an asian american who was secure enough in their wealth want to stay in Langley?

There's only one grocery store in the Langley area, a Safeway at Great Falls Village. You have to drive miles for anything.

Please don't bother posting if you can't stick to the truth. There is that Safeway, a Giant in McLean, a Harris Teeter near Tysons, and a Lidl coming to McLean.

Isn't the GFV Safeway is the only grocery store within Langley's boundaries? Other stores are in areas zoned to other schools.

Does FCPS monitor to make sure that you only go to a grocery store in your boundary?

(We shop at the Great Falls Safeway. It is more than adequate. And extremely convenient for those of us who live in GF. If we ever need a bigger or more unique store, there are plenty that are only a short drive away on Leesburg Pike or in Reston.)

+1
So bizarre.

I love Safeway so much I have an annual freshpass. However, here are some items I buy elsewhere:
50cfu biokefir-whole foods
pau d'arco tea-vitamin/moms
opo squash,bittermelon, fermented blackbean-Aditi/GreatWall/H-mart
powder laundry-Sierra
1 gr sugar ricotta-Italian Store/Rest. depot
non-Korean pignoli-Sfizi, Italian Store
blood&tongue/zeigenwurst-German Gourmet
flax ricecakes-Giant
juniper-fresh market/moms
bell&evans whole-balduccis/whole foods
adirondack ice cream/low sugar high fat (custard style) -balduccis/german gourmet

Tysons/Vienna/W. McLean/N. Merrifield is close to these plus Harris Teeter(great baby back). Great Falls is doable to these, but slightly more of a hike and on lonely roads. Those living in Great Falls, where do you get low sugar/ethnic foods like these?

I admittedly have never bought most of those items, but the Reston Whole Foods is only 15 mins away and there is a Super H Mart and a Mom’s in Herndon (maybe 20 mins away). We also have a great butcher near the Village.

Is there more driving to get certain things? Of course. But Reston, Tyson’s, etc. aren’t really that far away. And there is very little traffic on the main roads to those places (ie Springvale/Baron Cameron to get to Reston; Old Dominion to Spring Hill to get to Tyson’s). We see it as a very small trade off to live in a great, tight-knit community that in many ways feels like a small town.

A tight-knit small-town community typically doesn't have huge homes on big lots where people often don't know their neighbors, or send its kids off to a middle school and high school in another part of the county miles away.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was going to say Chantilly until your post about your social status. Please stay away.

Exactly - on middle class people actually worry about their social status being signaled through their neighborhood choice or public school - actually Chantilly has way strong STEM and a better cohort of physics-oriented students - so why would you go to Langley?

The truly rich people who can afford any house would stay where they feel the most comfortable and among people they enjoy.

There are way more convenient asian grocery stores near Chantilly than there are near Langley - why would an asian american who was secure enough in their wealth want to stay in Langley?

There's only one grocery store in the Langley area, a Safeway at Great Falls Village. You have to drive miles for anything.

Please don't bother posting if you can't stick to the truth. There is that Safeway, a Giant in McLean, a Harris Teeter near Tysons, and a Lidl coming to McLean.

Isn't the GFV Safeway is the only grocery store within Langley's boundaries? Other stores are in areas zoned to other schools.

Does FCPS monitor to make sure that you only go to a grocery store in your boundary?

(We shop at the Great Falls Safeway. It is more than adequate. And extremely convenient for those of us who live in GF. If we ever need a bigger or more unique store, there are plenty that are only a short drive away on Leesburg Pike or in Reston.)

+1
So bizarre.

I love Safeway so much I have an annual freshpass. However, here are some items I buy elsewhere:
50cfu biokefir-whole foods
pau d'arco tea-vitamin/moms
opo squash,bittermelon, fermented blackbean-Aditi/GreatWall/H-mart
powder laundry-Sierra
1 gr sugar ricotta-Italian Store/Rest. depot
non-Korean pignoli-Sfizi, Italian Store
blood&tongue/zeigenwurst-German Gourmet
flax ricecakes-Giant
juniper-fresh market/moms
bell&evans whole-balduccis/whole foods
adirondack ice cream/low sugar high fat (custard style) -balduccis/german gourmet

Tysons/Vienna/W. McLean/N. Merrifield is close to these plus Harris Teeter(great baby back). Great Falls is doable to these, but slightly more of a hike and on lonely roads. Those living in Great Falls, where do you get low sugar/ethnic foods like these?

I admittedly have never bought most of those items, but the Reston Whole Foods is only 15 mins away and there is a Super H Mart and a Mom’s in Herndon (maybe 20 mins away). We also have a great butcher near the Village.

Is there more driving to get certain things? Of course. But Reston, Tyson’s, etc. aren’t really that far away. And there is very little traffic on the main roads to those places (ie Springvale/Baron Cameron to get to Reston; Old Dominion to Spring Hill to get to Tyson’s). We see it as a very small trade off to live in a great, tight-knit community that in many ways feels like a small town.

A tight-knit small-town community typically doesn't have huge homes on big lots where people often don't know their neighbors, or send its kids off to a middle school and high school in another part of the county miles away.

Well we live here and we know that it is a tight-knit community (and we are good friends with our neighbors and most others on our street). Added bonus: Lots of families with younger children have moved here in the past year or two, which is great for the kids. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was going to say Chantilly until your post about your social status. Please stay away.

Exactly - on middle class people actually worry about their social status being signaled through their neighborhood choice or public school - actually Chantilly has way strong STEM and a better cohort of physics-oriented students - so why would you go to Langley?

The truly rich people who can afford any house would stay where they feel the most comfortable and among people they enjoy.

There are way more convenient asian grocery stores near Chantilly than there are near Langley - why would an asian american who was secure enough in their wealth want to stay in Langley?

There's only one grocery store in the Langley area, a Safeway at Great Falls Village. You have to drive miles for anything.

Please don't bother posting if you can't stick to the truth. There is that Safeway, a Giant in McLean, a Harris Teeter near Tysons, and a Lidl coming to McLean.

Isn't the GFV Safeway is the only grocery store within Langley's boundaries? Other stores are in areas zoned to other schools.

Does FCPS monitor to make sure that you only go to a grocery store in your boundary?

(We shop at the Great Falls Safeway. It is more than adequate. And extremely convenient for those of us who live in GF. If we ever need a bigger or more unique store, there are plenty that are only a short drive away on Leesburg Pike or in Reston.)

+1
So bizarre.

I love Safeway so much I have an annual freshpass. However, here are some items I buy elsewhere:
50cfu biokefir-whole foods
pau d'arco tea-vitamin/moms
opo squash,bittermelon, fermented blackbean-Aditi/GreatWall/H-mart
powder laundry-Sierra
1 gr sugar ricotta-Italian Store/Rest. depot
non-Korean pignoli-Sfizi, Italian Store
blood&tongue/zeigenwurst-German Gourmet
flax ricecakes-Giant
juniper-fresh market/moms
bell&evans whole-balduccis/whole foods
adirondack ice cream/low sugar high fat (custard style) -balduccis/german gourmet

Tysons/Vienna/W. McLean/N. Merrifield is close to these plus Harris Teeter(great baby back). Great Falls is doable to these, but slightly more of a hike and on lonely roads. Those living in Great Falls, where do you get low sugar/ethnic foods like these?

I admittedly have never bought most of those items, but the Reston Whole Foods is only 15 mins away and there is a Super H Mart and a Mom’s in Herndon (maybe 20 mins away). We also have a great butcher near the Village.

Is there more driving to get certain things? Of course. But Reston, Tyson’s, etc. aren’t really that far away. And there is very little traffic on the main roads to those places (ie Springvale/Baron Cameron to get to Reston; Old Dominion to Spring Hill to get to Tyson’s). We see it as a very small trade off to live in a great, tight-knit community that in many ways feels like a small town.

A tight-knit small-town community typically doesn't have huge homes on big lots where people often don't know their neighbors, or send its kids off to a middle school and high school in another part of the county miles away.

Well we live here and we know that it is a tight-knit community (and we are good friends with our neighbors and most others on our street). Added bonus: Lots of families with younger children have moved here in the past year or two, which is great for the kids. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

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Totally agree with you. The PP, as usual, simply wants to argue.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was going to say Chantilly until your post about your social status. Please stay away.

Exactly - on middle class people actually worry about their social status being signaled through their neighborhood choice or public school - actually Chantilly has way strong STEM and a better cohort of physics-oriented students - so why would you go to Langley?

The truly rich people who can afford any house would stay where they feel the most comfortable and among people they enjoy.

There are way more convenient asian grocery stores near Chantilly than there are near Langley - why would an asian american who was secure enough in their wealth want to stay in Langley?

There's only one grocery store in the Langley area, a Safeway at Great Falls Village. You have to drive miles for anything.

Please don't bother posting if you can't stick to the truth. There is that Safeway, a Giant in McLean, a Harris Teeter near Tysons, and a Lidl coming to McLean.

Isn't the GFV Safeway is the only grocery store within Langley's boundaries? Other stores are in areas zoned to other schools.

Does FCPS monitor to make sure that you only go to a grocery store in your boundary?

(We shop at the Great Falls Safeway. It is more than adequate. And extremely convenient for those of us who live in GF. If we ever need a bigger or more unique store, there are plenty that are only a short drive away on Leesburg Pike or in Reston.)

+1
So bizarre.

I love Safeway so much I have an annual freshpass. However, here are some items I buy elsewhere:
50cfu biokefir-whole foods
pau d'arco tea-vitamin/moms
opo squash,bittermelon, fermented blackbean-Aditi/GreatWall/H-mart
powder laundry-Sierra
1 gr sugar ricotta-Italian Store/Rest. depot
non-Korean pignoli-Sfizi, Italian Store
blood&tongue/zeigenwurst-German Gourmet
flax ricecakes-Giant
juniper-fresh market/moms
bell&evans whole-balduccis/whole foods
adirondack ice cream/low sugar high fat (custard style) -balduccis/german gourmet

Tysons/Vienna/W. McLean/N. Merrifield is close to these plus Harris Teeter(great baby back). Great Falls is doable to these, but slightly more of a hike and on lonely roads. Those living in Great Falls, where do you get low sugar/ethnic foods like these?

I admittedly have never bought most of those items, but the Reston Whole Foods is only 15 mins away and there is a Super H Mart and a Mom’s in Herndon (maybe 20 mins away). We also have a great butcher near the Village.

Is there more driving to get certain things? Of course. But Reston, Tyson’s, etc. aren’t really that far away. And there is very little traffic on the main roads to those places (ie Springvale/Baron Cameron to get to Reston; Old Dominion to Spring Hill to get to Tyson’s). We see it as a very small trade off to live in a great, tight-knit community that in many ways feels like a small town.

A tight-knit small-town community typically doesn't have huge homes on big lots where people often don't know their neighbors, or send its kids off to a middle school and high school in another part of the county miles away.

Well we live here and we know that it is a tight-knit community (and we are good friends with our neighbors and most others on our street). Added bonus: Lots of families with younger children have moved here in the past year or two, which is great for the kids. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

Covid was probably the best thing that happened to Great Falls since the 2008 recession. Of course, as employers return to the office gradually, more people will find out what it's like to have to commute from Great Falls to their jobs.

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Anonymous wrote:I was going to say Chantilly until your post about your social status. Please stay away.

Exactly - on middle class people actually worry about their social status being signaled through their neighborhood choice or public school - actually Chantilly has way strong STEM and a better cohort of physics-oriented students - so why would you go to Langley?

The truly rich people who can afford any house would stay where they feel the most comfortable and among people they enjoy.

There are way more convenient asian grocery stores near Chantilly than there are near Langley - why would an asian american who was secure enough in their wealth want to stay in Langley?

There's only one grocery store in the Langley area, a Safeway at Great Falls Village. You have to drive miles for anything.

Please don't bother posting if you can't stick to the truth. There is that Safeway, a Giant in McLean, a Harris Teeter near Tysons, and a Lidl coming to McLean.

Isn't the GFV Safeway is the only grocery store within Langley's boundaries? Other stores are in areas zoned to other schools.

Does FCPS monitor to make sure that you only go to a grocery store in your boundary?

(We shop at the Great Falls Safeway. It is more than adequate. And extremely convenient for those of us who live in GF. If we ever need a bigger or more unique store, there are plenty that are only a short drive away on Leesburg Pike or in Reston.)

+1
So bizarre.

I love Safeway so much I have an annual freshpass. However, here are some items I buy elsewhere:
50cfu biokefir-whole foods
pau d'arco tea-vitamin/moms
opo squash,bittermelon, fermented blackbean-Aditi/GreatWall/H-mart
powder laundry-Sierra
1 gr sugar ricotta-Italian Store/Rest. depot
non-Korean pignoli-Sfizi, Italian Store
blood&tongue/zeigenwurst-German Gourmet
flax ricecakes-Giant
juniper-fresh market/moms
bell&evans whole-balduccis/whole foods
adirondack ice cream/low sugar high fat (custard style) -balduccis/german gourmet

Tysons/Vienna/W. McLean/N. Merrifield is close to these plus Harris Teeter(great baby back). Great Falls is doable to these, but slightly more of a hike and on lonely roads. Those living in Great Falls, where do you get low sugar/ethnic foods like these?

I admittedly have never bought most of those items, but the Reston Whole Foods is only 15 mins away and there is a Super H Mart and a Mom’s in Herndon (maybe 20 mins away). We also have a great butcher near the Village.

Is there more driving to get certain things? Of course. But Reston, Tyson’s, etc. aren’t really that far away. And there is very little traffic on the main roads to those places (ie Springvale/Baron Cameron to get to Reston; Old Dominion to Spring Hill to get to Tyson’s). We see it as a very small trade off to live in a great, tight-knit community that in many ways feels like a small town.

PP Low sugar/ethnic foodie here. Thank you for this helpful answer! I haven't been to that super-H. I'll check it out. Thx again.

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Anonymous wrote:Those are two very different communities and your housing budget would place you in very different social places - you’d be rich at Chantilly and poor at Langley. What are your other priorities?

You would not be poor at Langley. You’d be average.

- Langley mom