Leaving Brambleton and NoVa behind

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Anonymous wrote:OP, if I lived in Brambleton (not quite sure where that is) and never came into DC, I'd don't think I'd leave this area with an overall high impression. So...you might be justified in that.

We live in Arlington, work in DC, and poke around museums, go to shows, and try new restaurants on the weekends. We love living in NOVA.

Don't get me started on the food either!

Seriously, to me, it is all bland, no taste and not spicey when needed! With the exception of Cyclone's in FairFax, all the mexican food places taste like crap. Being from Texas, the food here is like nachos at 7-11.

Seafood is a joke here too, went to Fords fish place and Bonefish, their menus were like Long John Silvers. no gumbo, no Soft Shell Crabs, no Etouffee of any type, no crawfish, bacon wrapped jalapeno gulf shrimp, no nothing! Miss Texas cajun seafood, hell, even california has better mexican and seafood then NoVa.

Someone took me to a steak place recently, DC Prime I think and it was actually decent, but again, Texas is the steak capital of the world. Also no BBQ places around here worth talking about.

Lost 17lbs just being here due to nothing good to eat and I didn't need to lose weight. I resigned myself to cooking for us more than eating out, thus robbing the commuity of that money! But at least I avoid the meat tax.

Glad you like it, really, I don't but, but that is just me.

Hmm. Between NoVa and DC we have everything from Viet Namese to Salvadoran to Indian (lots of regional varieties) to Afghan to Yemeni to many regional varieties of Chinese, to Nepali, to Peruvian, to Ethiopian to West African. We have French, balkan, all kinds of Italian. Lots of tapas and small plates.

Sounds like you just miss Texas.

Thats okay. Lots of people miss where they grew up. This is not Texas.

Central and South American food is the not the same as they do not like spicey food, I have spent a lot of time there for work to know that. Not that it isn't good, I do like it. Having lived in Milano, Italy for 18 months, most Italian places in the US are just shadows of the real thing, Texas included.

Thinking back, probably just the Brambleton area and their lack of food choices, its all the same, no new places in the last two years and going to the same places gets old, so I have started to venture out on the weekends beyond the 5 mile radius I live in.

I miss Texas in respect to the no income taxes, no personal property taxes more bang for your buck and minimal layers of government and bureaucracy and high levels of technology. And I lived in Galleria area of Houston, so I did not live in BFE. Schools are just like here, some great, some good and some not so good. LCPS is not impressive to me. Texas is its own state and not a nanny state like VA. Coming from there to here, its easy to see, but if one has lived all their life in a nanny state, they can't see it the other way.

Giveing VA a c-/c is better than giving them a D or F, which I can give to places like Indiana, where I went to do my undergrad, other than the college, Indiana is a dead place on I-80, its a not a place to live, its a place you pass on the way to somewhere better sorta thing.

I am LMAO. "Schools are just like here."

Um, no. Not even close. Texas schools are horrible. As a state, Texas does not value education. Not at all.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2016/01/07/133321/texas-ranked-43rd-in-nation-on-2016-education-quality-report/

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2016/01/27/report-says-texas-school-standards-are-worst-in-nation

And the curriculum, based on made-up facts? No thank you.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/17/texas-textbook-inaccuracies/19175311/

[Anonymous]

Never heard of Brambleton. Sounds like its in the middle of nowhere. No wonder you hate it.

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I've lived in Houston and NOVA. No contest.

I ran from Houston like it was on fire. It's so devoid of everything. No public transportation, ugly, construction with an abundance of strip malls.

But I guess their tex-mex is better, so D-.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, if I lived in Brambleton (not quite sure where that is) and never came into DC, I'd don't think I'd leave this area with an overall high impression. So...you might be justified in that.

We live in Arlington, work in DC, and poke around museums, go to shows, and try new restaurants on the weekends. We love living in NOVA.

Hate to tell you, but OP hasn't said anything, in his dismissal of Brambleton, to suggest he'd be happy if only he were living in Arlington. He probably wants a lake, a good place to go tubing, a yard big enough to park two trucks, low taxes, and neighbors who think Hillary Clinton belongs in jail. None of which you'll find in Arlington.

But nice try to treat his posts as an excuse to talk about Arlington.

Weird response. My only point was that at least Arlington is proximal to something. Not out west with the tumbleweed.

I'm sorry, dear child. If you want to separate yourself from the bridge and tunnel crowd, and you so clearly do, you don't live in VA.

There is not bridge and tunnel crowd in DC - because unlike NYC, where getting into Manhattan can be a pain, crossing the Potomac (which I do routinely by bike) is no big deal. Easier to get to Georgetown from Rosslyn than from parts of upper NW. And its anachronistic in NYC as well, now that North Brooklyn is far hipper than Manhattan.

That is so sweet. Does it make you feel better about living in a bland quadrant of the former Confederacy?

And did you just compare Arlington to Williamsburg or Greenpoint? LOL.

I live in the City of Alexandria. It is anything but bland. A lot less bland than most of Upper NW. (BTW, don't you have some protest to protect historic parking spaces on Connecticut Avenue to go to?)

I feel great about the City moving ahead on race relations. That it was in the confederacy in the 1860s bothers me not at all. Are you bothered that DC had slavery until 1860? That it had de jure segregated schools until 1954?

I don't think Arlington is like Williamsburg or Greenpoint, so no, I did not make that comparison. I merely pointed out that your use of "bridges and tunnels" is from like 1990. Its anachronistic even in NYC, and never applied to the DC area.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: Texas is its own state and not a nanny state like VA. Coming from there to here, its easy to see, but if one has lived all their life in a nanny state, they can't see it the other way.

Given long term political trends in Texas, you may end up very unhappy with it fairly soon.

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Anonymous wrote:OP is a nutjob. Brambleton is a planned community and anyone living there should know what they are buying into. He could have gone any number of other places in Loudoun, avoided an HOA, and had more "freedom."

Adios, amigo.

+1

+2, except I can't imagine anything in Loudoun County not being in a planned community. Except Leesburg?

Leesburg and anything west of it... Middleburg, Upperville, Round Hill, Purcellville, Bluemont, etc. Completely different than the suburban Loudoun County that's more or less east of 15. At one point (about 10 years ago) there was a movement to separate east and west Loudoun into two different counties, with the western Loudoun county seat in Purcellville, but obviously it didn't gain enough traction.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, if I lived in Brambleton (not quite sure where that is) and never came into DC, I'd don't think I'd leave this area with an overall high impression. So...you might be justified in that.

We live in Arlington, work in DC, and poke around museums, go to shows, and try new restaurants on the weekends. We love living in NOVA.

Don't get me started on the food either!

Seriously, to me, it is all bland, no taste and not spicey when needed! With the exception of Cyclone's in FairFax, all the mexican food places taste like crap. Being from Texas, the food here is like nachos at 7-11.

Seafood is a joke here too, went to Fords fish place and Bonefish, their menus were like Long John Silvers. no gumbo, no Soft Shell Crabs, no Etouffee of any type, no crawfish, bacon wrapped jalapeno gulf shrimp, no nothing! Miss Texas cajun seafood, hell, even california has better mexican and seafood then NoVa.

Someone took me to a steak place recently, DC Prime I think and it was actually decent, but again, Texas is the steak capital of the world. Also no BBQ places around here worth talking about.

Lost 17lbs just being here due to nothing good to eat and I didn't need to lose weight. I resigned myself to cooking for us more than eating out, thus robbing the commuity of that money! But at least I avoid the meat tax.

Glad you like it, really, I don't but, but that is just me.

Hmm. Between NoVa and DC we have everything from Viet Namese to Salvadoran to Indian (lots of regional varieties) to Afghan to Yemeni to many regional varieties of Chinese, to Nepali, to Peruvian, to Ethiopian to West African. We have French, balkan, all kinds of Italian. Lots of tapas and small plates.

Sounds like you just miss Texas.

Thats okay. Lots of people miss where they grew up. This is not Texas.

Central and South American food is the not the same as they do not like spicey food, I have spent a lot of time there for work to know that. Not that it isn't good, I do like it. Having lived in Milano, Italy for 18 months, most Italian places in the US are just shadows of the real thing, Texas included.

Thinking back, probably just the Brambleton area and their lack of food choices, its all the same, no new places in the last two years and going to the same places gets old, so I have started to venture out on the weekends beyond the 5 mile radius I live in.

I miss Texas in respect to the no income taxes, no personal property taxes more bang for your buck and minimal layers of government and bureaucracy and high levels of technology. And I lived in Galleria area of Houston, so I did not live in BFE. Schools are just like here, some great, some good and some not so good. LCPS is not impressive to me. Texas is its own state and not a nanny state like VA. Coming from there to here, its easy to see, but if one has lived all their life in a nanny state, they can't see it the other way.

Giveing VA a c-/c is better than giving them a D or F, which I can give to places like Indiana, where I went to do my undergrad, other than the college, Indiana is a dead place on I-80, its a not a place to live, its a place you pass on the way to somewhere better sorta thing.

I am LMAO. "Schools are just like here."

Um, no. Not even close. Texas schools are horrible. As a state, Texas does not value education. Not at all.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2016/01/07/133321/texas-ranked-43rd-in-nation-on-2016-education-quality-report/

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2016/01/27/report-says-texas-school-standards-are-worst-in-nation

And the curriculum, based on made-up facts? No thank you.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/17/texas-textbook-inaccuracies/19175311/

You are probably right about all that as far PUBLIC schools go. I went to high school in Houston at a private college prep school which is ranked in the top 15 high schools in the nation as of 2015 and my oldest was going to a vanguard magnet school ranked nationally in the top 20 as of 2015. My youngest was not school age. So we did not have to follow Texas public Education curriculum. When I look at US News rankings today, I see that there are a lot of high schools in in Houston, Dallas and Austin in the top 100. Sure that the other cities are what brings it down, but VA is no different, there are shit schools here in LCPS and FCPS as well from what I am reading. Texas is bigger than VA, so of course more schools and that works into the equation to drag them down (where the illegals are like San Antonio, San Angelo, Amarillo, etc). If I had to stay in VA, I would pull them from LCPS and put them in a Private school where there is more control and choices to the learning curriculum vs state mandates.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, if I lived in Brambleton (not quite sure where that is) and never came into DC, I'd don't think I'd leave this area with an overall high impression. So...you might be justified in that.

We live in Arlington, work in DC, and poke around museums, go to shows, and try new restaurants on the weekends. We love living in NOVA.

Don't get me started on the food either!

Seriously, to me, it is all bland, no taste and not spicey when needed! With the exception of Cyclone's in FairFax, all the mexican food places taste like crap. Being from Texas, the food here is like nachos at 7-11.

Seafood is a joke here too, went to Fords fish place and Bonefish, their menus were like Long John Silvers. no gumbo, no Soft Shell Crabs, no Etouffee of any type, no crawfish, bacon wrapped jalapeno gulf shrimp, no nothing! Miss Texas cajun seafood, hell, even california has better mexican and seafood then NoVa.

Someone took me to a steak place recently, DC Prime I think and it was actually decent, but again, Texas is the steak capital of the world. Also no BBQ places around here worth talking about.

Lost 17lbs just being here due to nothing good to eat and I didn't need to lose weight. I resigned myself to cooking for us more than eating out, thus robbing the commuity of that money! But at least I avoid the meat tax.

Glad you like it, really, I don't but, but that is just me.

Hmm. Between NoVa and DC we have everything from Viet Namese to Salvadoran to Indian (lots of regional varieties) to Afghan to Yemeni to many regional varieties of Chinese, to Nepali, to Peruvian, to Ethiopian to West African. We have French, balkan, all kinds of Italian. Lots of tapas and small plates.

Sounds like you just miss Texas.

Thats okay. Lots of people miss where they grew up. This is not Texas.

Central and South American food is the not the same as they do not like spicey food, I have spent a lot of time there for work to know that. Not that it isn't good, I do like it. Having lived in Milano, Italy for 18 months, most Italian places in the US are just shadows of the real thing, Texas included.

Thinking back, probably just the Brambleton area and their lack of food choices, its all the same, no new places in the last two years and going to the same places gets old, so I have started to venture out on the weekends beyond the 5 mile radius I live in.

I miss Texas in respect to the no income taxes, no personal property taxes more bang for your buck and minimal layers of government and bureaucracy and high levels of technology. And I lived in Galleria area of Houston, so I did not live in BFE. Schools are just like here, some great, some good and some not so good. LCPS is not impressive to me. Texas is its own state and not a nanny state like VA. Coming from there to here, its easy to see, but if one has lived all their life in a nanny state, they can't see it the other way.

Giveing VA a c-/c is better than giving them a D or F, which I can give to places like Indiana, where I went to do my undergrad, other than the college, Indiana is a dead place on I-80, its a not a place to live, its a place you pass on the way to somewhere better sorta thing.

I am LMAO. "Schools are just like here."

Um, no. Not even close. Texas schools are horrible. As a state, Texas does not value education. Not at all.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2016/01/07/133321/texas-ranked-43rd-in-nation-on-2016-education-quality-report/

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/2016/01/27/report-says-texas-school-standards-are-worst-in-nation

And the curriculum, based on made-up facts? No thank you.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/11/17/texas-textbook-inaccuracies/19175311/

You are probably right about all that as far PUBLIC schools go. I went to high school in Houston at a private college prep school which is ranked in the top 15 high schools in the nation as of 2015 and my oldest was going to a vanguard magnet school ranked nationally in the top 20 as of 2015. My youngest was not school age. So we did not have to follow Texas public Education curriculum. When I look at US News rankings today, I see that there are a lot of high schools in in Houston, Dallas and Austin in the top 100. Sure that the other cities are what brings it down, but VA is no different, there are shit schools here in LCPS and FCPS as well from what I am reading. Texas is bigger than VA, so of course more schools and that works into the equation to drag them down (where the illegals are like San Antonio, San Angelo, Amarillo, etc). If I had to stay in VA, I would pull them from LCPS and put them in a Private school where there is more control and choices to the learning curriculum vs state mandates.

Superb private high school in Houston, Stanford... I'm really surprised you are not more gracious. Though the circumstances that would have landed you in Brambleton of all places coming from such a high station, perhaps that was a rocky road? I hope you find a place where you belong, it sounds like this path has been hard for you.

[Anonymous]

OP is a terrible writer. I doubt his education was that great.

[Anonymous]

OP complains about "illegals". OP breaks the law and is a tax cheat. Hmm.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP is a terrible writer. I doubt his education was that great.

+1. Much of his reasoning seems simplistic, and he doesn't seem to plan ahead well. Also not very open to new experiences, either (he stays within 5 miles of his home, he has been into DC once or twice but didn't find it interesting, etc.). Not surprised NoVA didn't work out for him.

[Anonymous]

I've lived in DC and this is the first time i've heard of brambleton. i had to look it up on a map. wtf, you might as well as live in ohio!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've lived in DC and this is the first time i've heard of brambleton. i had to look it up on a map. wtf, you might as well as live in ohio!

DC Far From Urban Moms and Dads?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've lived in DC and this is the first time i've heard of brambleton. i had to look it up on a map. wtf, you might as well as live in ohio!

Looks like some DC folks are just as big assholes in 2017 as they were in 2016. May you be part of the swamp that is drained.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I've lived in DC and this is the first time i've heard of brambleton. i had to look it up on a map. wtf, you might as well as live in ohio!

Looks like some DC folks are just as big assholes in 2017 as they were in 2016. May you be part of the swamp that is drained.

Looks like some non-DC folks are just as big dumbasses in 2017 as they were in 2016. May you finally realize that Trump and the other Republicans you voted for have absolutely no intention of "draining the swamp."