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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People get lax every weekend. What we need is some rainy, cold weekends.

But people need to post where they live exactly - as in what street- bc this isn’t a NOVA thing across the board. I’m in Ballston - tons of high rises with millennials who you’d think wouldn’t care bc they’re so young and have dogs to walk and coffees to get. It is EMPTY. I can see 4 streets from where I am — 2 major ones, 2 residential ones — as well as a small grassy area with benches etc. I have never seen more than 10-12 people out across that 5 block radius and the ones that are out aren’t separated by 6 ft but more like 100 ft.

So yeah I think people are looking for excuses to do what they want under the guise of “if others aren’t following the rules, why should I??” Suit yourself but you know you’re lying to yourself.[/quote]

I live in a leafy UMC manicured subdivision in Nova. Tons of people out yesterday. Tons. Lots of lawn chairs and fire pits, and kids biking together etc.[/quote]

I think this may be a leafy suburb thing.

Like PP I'm on the border of Clarendon and Va. Square and it is silent and has been for 6+ weeks now. When this all first started, I dreaded it because there is so much of a 22-35 year old crowd here who I figured would flaunt the rules because they are young/low risk and with grad school etc being online even if they couldn't go out, they'd just have friends over partying 24-7. It really isn't like that all. If they are out somewhere crowding the sidewalks with their dogs and getting in the faces of families out on walks, IDK where they are but they aren't here. Are they driving someplace to engage in this activity?

Ultimately I think it helps that 1/3 to 1/2 of the population in these buildings at any time is grad students (and some corporate housing) anyway. A good % of those folks went home to mom and dad -- esp if buildings worked with them on canceling leases/rent concessions for next year etc. -- and with internships now being canceled/remote, I think the earliest they return is August and that's IF schools reopen in person. The ones who stayed simply don't have many friends to hang with. And the others in these buildings are usually 25-30 something SINKs/DINKs who seem like they are plenty comfortable working all day, watching Netflix/playing videogames, texting, drinking etc. They don't seem to have this need to be out. Every once in a while in my building you'll see someone stroll in coffee with hand and you'll wonder -- was that necessary to go out for coffee? And then you check your judgment as it's clear they made a grocery run with enough food for weeks and just stopped on the way home for coffee since they were out anyway.

Yet my friends 2 miles over in the SFHs -- totally different stories. Mostly moms who are losing their $hit with their kids, so they've gotten progressively more lax. Oh -- it's fine for the kids to talk to each other from their own driveways (yep -- it is). Oh it's fine neighbor Susan and her kids don't go anywhere anyway, our kids can ride bikes as long as they don't go in the houses. And then a week later -- they've been riding bikes daily and are fine, basketball with one sweaty ball is NBD at least the kids will stop nagging me. And then if they're playing basketball, sure the adults can hang around a fire pit . . . . I also think there's some neighborhood peer pressure. If you are the type who goes to work and comes home and maybe waves to a neighbor from a distance, it's fine you can do what you want. But if you are the type who always has your kids playing with their kids and the adults drinking, now you don't want to look like a stick in the mud who won't participate and lose your "friends."

I mean some of these people have gotten so lax and are so over their kids that they are hiring part time nannies to come in!? Lord knows what an internet stranger is doing in their off time -- maybe they are an instacart shopper who runs to 37 stores daily and shares housing with 8 other family members and only picked up this gig because they need more $. But the mamas are so over it that whatever.[/quote]

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