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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ashburn/South Riding - no character at all[/quote]

If that is truly the most depressing place you've been, I hope you get the chance to travel more. [/quote]

I said the opposite in South Riding.  Most of the people I know who live there are extraordinarily hard-working, and generally very intelligent, families who are first or second generation in the country. I see it as a really nice example of the land of opportunity. I live in DC, in one of the swanky areas. When I go to South riding, though, I see the future.[/quote]

This is PP. I'm not saying the people there aren't amazing and hard working. The depressing part is the cookie cutter suburban McMansion blandness that has taken over good farmland. There is a place labeled that the houses are "farmhouses" but they are all identical and on like 1/4 acre lots. There are ways to plan nice suburbs- like old school Reston- but the Toll Bros aren't doing that job.

And of course- horrible poverty is depressing too. Trust me I've seen some terribly poor places here in the US that others have mentioned- Toledo, Gary, St Louis, NM, most of WV etc. I will throw in south Georgia and the middle of NC too. Ive also seen the poverty in UK and Ireland too. It's just depressing in a different way. [/quote]

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