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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DC suburbs absolutely suck. This place is basically like Ohio or Indiana but if the residents were 10,000% more pretentious and arrogant and full of themselves. And that 10,000% figure isn't an even an exaggeration. People will live in bland-as-f*ck Virginia and pretend they're the center of the universe.[/quote]
LOL. So spot on. They crap all over “flyover country” when most of that is much nicer than where they live. [/quote]

“Most of that is much nicer than where they live”

Oh, my sweet summer child. As someone who has family in poor and middle class regions of Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, and Missouri…you know not of what you speak. I love Cracker Barrel as much as anyone, but let’s not be silly. Most of it is not much nicer. [/quote]
Go fly a kite. Have you ever seen some of rhe beautiful suburbs and city neighborhoods in the Midwest or the South. They blow their analogues in DC out of the water. It is not all farmland and poor/middle class people, “my sweet summer child.”  :roll: [/quote]

Only a person who has not been to most of flyover country would say that most places there are much nicer than DC. That’s not to say that DC is something amazing, but it’s not reality that most places in what’s known as flyover country are much nicer. To say that is pure silliness. [/quote]
I am from the Midwest and have relatives in nearly every Midwestern state. I spent my first 30 years in the Midwest and then 18 in the DC area before moving back to my hometown. I am sure that I am more qualified to make a comparison as almost anyone. The housing stock, parks, and neighborhoods in the Midwest are far superior to the analogous areas in DC. [b]I was actually shocked at how poor the housing stock was when I first moved to DC. Everyone raves about Arlington, [/b]but it honestly by appearance would only be a middle of the road suburb in my hometown. Call me “silly” if that’s all you’ve got. [/quote]
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Not from the Midwest, but yes.  No one with our income would live in a place that looks like Arlington in our home city.  [/quote]

The NoVa housing stock, in particular, is terrible. So much of it was thrown up quickly post WW2, and it very much has a “thrown together” feel about. There are nice pockets here and there, but let’s stop pretending the area is what we all fantasized about in our “when I grow up” days.[/quote]

NP. This isn't really accurate now, and it's too broad a generalization anyway.

I'm not sure how long ago you drove around much of NoVa, PP or where you live now, because there is huge variation between different suburbs in NoVa, and huge variation even within any one suburb.

Where we live, in Vienna, those old "thrown up quickly post WWII" houses are going, going, gone, increasingly knocked down and replaced, often with far larger houses in a wide variety of styles. Constant building of new homes where old ones were, over here. Yeah, there are still 1950s-60s houses around (I live in one) but on our suburban VA street almost all the houses now are at most 15 years old and several new homes are being built right now. Large houses, big garages, trendy styles. All over this part of NoVa.

We used to live on the Falls Church-McLean border, basically, and when I drive over that way now I see gobs of newly built apartments replacing old complexes and I see SFHs going up constantly in old neighborhoods. And that area was developed right after WWII and still had many tiny 1940s-60s houses. It's no longer correct to give a sweeping characterization of ALL of NoVa as made up of post-WWII, old, small houses with "nice pockets here and there." That has flipped and I'd say it's increasingly the opposite. [/quote]

So, wait, they’re knocking down old charmless houses to put up new charmless houses (people used to call them McMansions, and yes, I’ve seen them popping all over).  You aren’t helping the case for NoVa aesthetics.[/quote]

You're very eager to show off the fact you haven't actually seen any of the houses I'm talking about. Maybe take a drive before you post about "aesthetics," PP.

Not all are "McMansions." I've lived in this area for almost 40 years and I know McMansions all too well.

Most of what's going up in our area are new Craftsman style homes, "modern farmhouse" style homes, and some houses that might not be unique but aren't ugly McMansions either. I'm not saying every house is a gleaming triumph of individuality, PP. But the fact you rushed to blather about charmless McMansions where [i]you're[/i] looking does not mean that's what every other area has. Strange how you want to believe that every inch of the 'burbs must be like whatever it is YOU see where you are.

People moving here from outside the region will do just fine at locating attractive houses they like if they spend a little time looking around, an activity from which you might also benefit. [/quote]

Sweetie, I’m in Arlington. But I do have taste.[/quote]

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