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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The real NoVA prestige ranking from real NoVA insiders

T1
- Tysons (convenient, booming development, concentrated wealth, Cap1)
- Del Ray (proximity to DC, local charm, JD Vance + other celebrity residents)

T2
- Great Falls (old money, estates)
- Old Town, Rosemont, Beverly Hills (cultured, pedigreed owners)
- Arlington - Clarendon-Ballston Corridor (Walkable, up and coming, food, proximity to DC)

T3
- McLa(m)e (chopped up, pastiche of 60s-80s homes well past their prime, traffic)
- Arlington - everywhere else (disconnected, patchy, some nice places)
- Fairfax (Vienna, Oakton, etc. - hardcore suburbs) 
- Centreville (good food but too far)

T4
- Loudon county (data centers as neighbors)
- Manassas (peaceful but civil war ghosts)
- Burke (nice lake, too far)

Dumpster
- Route 1 alexandria
- Everywhere else
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This has to be a comedy post. Clarendon-Ballston corridor up and coming? Maybe 25 years ago. Haha. [/quote]

Route 1 from amazon to fort Belvoir is being bulldozed and redone over next 4 yrs. 1 billion invested so far. Many business are now bought/boarded up and being flattened. Will be interesting if they pull it off. [/quote]

I live off route 1 (and DGAF about its tier). It has been interesting how much they are building over here - I was surprised at how many ‘nice’ businesses have opened and are opening nearby (a first watch, a club Pilates, Orangetheory, etc.) I am not a fan of the dumpy garden style apartments and wish they would raise them, but you do have most everything you need close by. [/quote]

22309 here. I am waiting for the board of supervisors to put some pressure on the trailer parks. That's when it will become interesting. That signaled the beginning of the end for Penn Daw, now called King's Crossing.

https://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/planning-development/sites/planning-development/files/Assets/Documents/compplanamend/manufactured-housing/Penn-Daw-one-pager.pdf[/quote]

Penn daw trailer park is gone!?[/quote]

Why are they trying to preserve a trailer park, that is the dumbest idea I have heard of and clearly people supporting this policy know nothing about trailer parks. This sounds like something out of a Portlandia episode rather than a real policy from Fairfax County. Trailer parks are basically financial traps for low income people where they are stuck paying increasing rent for land on a prefabricated house (they own) which is usually unable to be moved. It is a financially worse deal than either renting or buying something where you actually own the land under your home.[/quote]

Cheap, relatively high density housing, close to higher paying employment.  I don’t want to pay my landscaper, housekeeper, trash man, or cafeteria worker to commute 2 hours from some far flung place (that very well could also be a trailer park). Having them closer maximizes their take home pay and keeps costs lower.  [/quote]

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