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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That feeling is because Alexandria is definitely The South.
Also hybla valley and Mount Vernon / route 1 there have always been sketchy from a crime perspective.
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OK, agree re Hybla Valley and Mount Vernon, but complaining that Alexandria is the South is odd. Of course a city on the border of the South isn't going to feel like New England or Westchester, but it has its own charm... If you don't like that, DC (itself, like Baltimore, a southern city) may not be the right fit for you. [/quote]

This description of people who live in the NY metro area, like happy extended families where everyone waves every morning and hangs over their fence with their cup of coffee saying howdy neighbor, is 180 degrees from the place I spent 20 years of my life in.

Sense of community...  more like rat race snobs and social climbers who couldn't find an excuse to say hi if you were locked in a cave with them for a month.[/quote]

Seriously. In my Chappaqua neighborhood in the 90s, the fathers would play poker in their basements while snorting coke. How do I know this? My dad went to one game when we moved there and never went back after seeing them doing lines.

This was where most of the PWC & Bear Stearns assholes lived — Westchester and Greenwich, basically. So I don’t know why anyone thinks these are terrific communities. [/quote]

At least they didn’t drink sweet tea.[/quote]

[b]Well, one of them died because he came home completely drunk and fell down his stairs. Left 2 young kids[/b].[/quote]

I grew up in Mt. Kisco in the 90s. Why do I have no recollection of this? [/quote]

I grew up in chappaqua in the 90s and have no recollection of this, either. It might have happened (in turned 8 in 1990 and with 3 elementary schools was perhaps shielded) but this scenario of coke fueled finance dads playing basement poker does not resonate with my experience growing up whatsoever.[/quote]

I’m glad it wasn’t your experience. I lived in the community off of Hardscrabble Lake Drive. It was a development that we bought into in about 1994, just as it was initially being developed.

The man who died was my next-door neighbor. Not many people know the true cause of death, and I’d rather not expose his family. He died in 1998. [/quote]

I guess there was more going on around me than I was aware of as a kid, not surprisingly.  -PP from above and also lived off Hardscrabble closer to Douglas.

Back to the initial thread, my childhood friends who now live in DC live off of Wisconsin in Chevy Chase DC and think it's comparable in terms of neighborhood feel.  Less rural than Chappaqua, which is a good thing imo.[/quote]

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