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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Temporary transplant here - only living here for a year. I guess I expected this area to be a bit nicer being that this is one of the most wealthiest counties/areas in the US. I'm living in Fairfax and I am a bit stunned at how run down so many places in this area look. The traffic is terrible, I am shocked at the sheer amount of overhead power lines that look like they're going to fall down with a 10 mph wind gust (parts of FFX almost look like power lines you'd see in SE asia), neighborhoods that don't look well kept, shady strip malls, I could go on.  Small houses on the market nearing a million dollars, town homes at 1.4million with a postage-stamp size yard. I'm currently living in an apartment my company pays for and it's $3600/month!

I get that the jobs are good out here (or they were before the new admin came in) but you get nothing for your money here. It's so dense. You're not paying for the weather here, that's for sure. Is it just the jobs? [/quote]

I think that the appeal is that there are a lot of jobs here for highly-educated people (or at least until 1/20/25).  Also, I really like how I live around so many highly-educated people.

Where are you from, OP, that is so great?  (I'm originally from the Minnesota, where everything was super tidy in our nice suburb of MSP.  And we had buried power lines, which was great.  I completely agree with you about the ridiculously ugly power lines.  I think that people who are from here (DMV) do not complain about the power lines because they do not know any different, and may not realize that most of the U.S. has underground power lines.)

I met my DH here, and we both have good jobs here.  We settled in a really nice suburb, and now have lots of friends in the area.  We know almost all of our neighbors (whether through the schools that our kids attended, through the neighborhood pool, etc.)

If you're stuck in a random apartment building, you may not have had a chance to see the many beautiful neighborhoods.

I like being on the East Coast, and not in a super hot climate.  We're close to a lot of things.

So it works for us, but there are pros and cons.[/quote]

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