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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And thanks to taxes we have better services than many other places.

Suits me.[/quote]

Are the services in MoCo actually any better than Fairfax?  The school systems seem pretty similar.  No apparent differences in police or fire or roads.  They actually have a better county park system with lots of youth fields, much better than ours.  What are we getting for all these extra taxes?[/quote]

Fairfax has money because they have actual job growth there.

MoCo thinks it can build wealth by providing services to poor people but unfortunately it doesn't work that way. We have no job growth and poor people living in slums.[/quote]
DP.. there is no job growth, yet, I see a lot of $850K+ townhomes being built left and right around here.  Are poor people renting these expensive TH?[/quote]

they are living here but not working here. [/quote]

Yes, most people who I know live in MoCo but work elsewhere. Namely DC, NoVa or other parts of Maryland like Howard County or Baltimore County and City.[/quote]
A MoCo report came out that showed most residents work in MoCo, however, that could be skewed towards lower paid jobs, and/or now WFH/hybrid means people don't have to commute into Dc/VA.

Even so, even with "no job growth" here, these expensive homes seem to be selling well, and like I said, there are so many of these new build popping up here.[/quote]

I think your hypothesis for that data being the way it is spot on: Lots of low-income jobs in MoCo + WFH/Hybrid reducing commuting pressure into DC/VA. That's certainly been the case for me. [/quote]

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