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[quote=Anonymous]Moved to DC in 1994, lived in NW DC or close in MoCo for years, moved to Fairfax City in 2010, then moved farther out in 2021.

In our Fairfax City neighborhood in the early 2010s, there was so little crime that police responded and took a police report when I found a pot pipe near our house (yes, I am and always have been a Karen).  The biggest concern was noise complaints.  Crime started increasing in 2020 with car break-ins, attempted home break-ins, and tons of catalytic converter thefts.  We sold our house in 2021 after someone came into our fully fenced yard at night and looked around.  I'm still in the Facebook group for our old neighborhood, and residents regularly post videos of groups of people coming into the neighborhood at 1-2 a.m. to check car doors and steal catalytic converters.  There also have also been a number of recent stabbings and murders near Fairfax Circle and Fairfax High School.  So that's all new.

I also see a significant decline in the infrastructure.  Drive on any major road in Fairfax County (Braddock, Fairfax County Parkway) and you will see weeds growing in the median through the concrete, plus  trash that no one ever seems to clean up.  It looks like a county in decline.[/quote]

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