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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would consider Ashburn an exurb, just like I consider any area an exurb if you're unlikely to be making a commute into DC proper.  
Close-in suburbs: Arlington, parts of Alexandria, Bethesda, Silver Spring, city of Falls Church.
Farther-out suburbs: most of Fairfax County, Rockville, Germantown, Gaithersburg, Reston, maybe Herndon.
Exurbs: Woodbridge/Dumfries, Haymarket, Ashburn, Sterling, Leesburg, Manassas, Boyds/Clarksville.[/quote]

This is Alice in Wonderland stuff.  You can say whatever you want, but it doesn't mean it makes a great deal of sense.  [/quote]

This is exactly true.  Just because you know a handful of extreme commuters that commute from exurbs to city, doesn't change the fact it is an exurb.

Come-on, Wikipedia define's Loudoun County in the exurb page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commuter_town[/quote]

Wikipedia is...just Wikipedia.

I'd defer more to this Brookings study from 2006:  http://www.brookings.edu/~/media/research/files/reports/2006/10/metropolitanpolicy%20berube/20061017_exurbia.pdf

Notably, even then, only a portion of Eastern Loudoun was characterized as exurban, and it didn't include Ashburn.  With the passage of time and employment growth in western Fairfax and eastern Loudoun, even less of Loudoun would be considered exurban today.

And, just to be clear, it would more likely, not less likely, be deemed an "exurb" if there were more "extreme commuters" traveling to jobs in the center city. [/quote]

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