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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]I guess people on this board don't care about health care and life sciences jobs?

https://governor.maryland.gov/news/press/pages/Governor-Moore-and-AstraZeneca-Announce-$2-Billion-Investment-to-Expand-Manufacturing-in-Maryland,-Supporting-2,600-Jobs.aspx

Meanwhile, Amazon is laying off people constantly and hasn't followed through on its promises to Arlington.[/quote]

LOL! I read the press release and this $2 billion investment is just creating 300 permanent jobs. The rest of the work will be done by robots probably. Pathetic.

You can’t lay off jobs that were never created.[/quote]

In contrast, Amazon will probably exit Arlington entirely in 10 years, after it decides it no longer needs to have any workers here. [/quote]

[b]Arlington was a lot nicer than Montgomery County before Amazon. [/b]It had, and still has, the largest percentage of residents with graduate degrees in the entire country. It had so much tax revenue coming in pre Amazon it was building million dollar bus stops on Columbia Pike and renovated its high schools to look like college campuses. Montgomery County is getting sued because there’s black mold in their schools.

You don’t want to get in a tit for tat battle between Arlington and Montgomery County. Stick to pretending that places like Montgomery Village, Germantown, and Gaithersburg don’t exist and attacking Fairfax’s suburban sprawl and data centers as if it’s any more unsightly than driving up Georgia Avenue or Rockville Pike. [/quote]
Which Arlington? Arlington is ugly as hell. The whole NoVa is fugly.

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Posts like this are in bad faith, and so tiring.

Look, I’m a DC guy living in Logan Circle, so I don’t really have skin in the game here in terms of MoCo vs NoVa. The legacy areas of MoCo that are beautiful are exactly that — very beautiful. I’m talking Chevy Chase, Kenwood, Bethesda, the ritzy parts of Potomac, Kensington, and a few others. Many of these are nicer aesthetically  than the nicest that NoVa has to offer. But the key word is “legacy” — these areas are what they are as a product of a different time when MoCo was the king of the area. When I grew up in the 80’s and 90’s, MoCo was the place, and NoVa was its podunk cousin, with a few nice areas to be sure, but MoCo was king.

That being said, this topic isn’t about that. [b]It’s about now, and the structural truth is that NoVa has surged way past MoCo as a whole in terms of jobs, wealth, and development over the past 20 year[/b]s. And no amount of snide posting that NoVa is “ugly” will change that fact. [/quote]
NoVa may have surpassed MoCo in terms of jobs, but it's still ugly. 
Having a bunch of development, structures  and concrete, doesn't make an area aesthetically pleasing, au contraire. [/quote]Only if you still think of the dmv as beltway adjacent. It's not anymore. The center of Nova has moved past Tysons to Fairfax and is stretching out past Chantilly.

You're probably smirking about the "outerburbs" right now. But jokes on you because the dmv is becoming a dual city like Dallas-FtWorth or Raleigh-Durham. Moco is becoming the Tacoma of Seattle-Tacoma and the Oakland of San Francisco-Oakland.

It's so sad because it doesn't have to be that way. Moco has BWI and the route 200 toll road. It could easily encourage a sci/tech corridor if it just extended the metro out to BWI and gave some tax breaks to bring in jobs.[/quote]

There are some parts of NoVa that are ugly but MD folks conveniently only talk about Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Potomac and Garrett Park / Kensington when talking about beauty, forgetting about most of suburban MD. Montgomery Village, Germantown, Rockville, Gaithersburg and most of PG County have no charm at all and don’t have the safety, amenities and overall quality of life that comparable places in VA have.

Del Ray, Old Town, Vienna, Falls Church City, Great Falls, McLean, and North Arlington have charming pockets as well. [/quote]
These places you named in MD have more charms,  characters than almost anything in VA.
Oh, let's not forget dumpy Manassas,  Herndon and hoodbridge.[/quote]

Montgomery Village has more charms and characters than Old Town Alexandria said no one ever.[/quote]

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