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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's five million people in the suburbs. There's &lt;700,000 in DC. Don't you think a whole lot of people in Virginia and Maryland would like a shorter commute? Any new housing built in DC is going to be absorbed by people in the 'burbs. I guess that will open up new places in Gaithersburg and Ashburn and places like that. Yay? [/quote]
There are also significantly more jobs in the suburbs than in DC. Most people that live in the suburbs work in the suburbs and there is actually a lot of commuting from DC to the suburbs. [/quote]

If this were true, we wouldn't have rush hour in one direction each work day.

Yes, there are some jobs in the suburbs, but i don't buy "most." [/quote]

Factually false.  Tysons is, in substance, the center of the DMV business community.   Sorry.[/quote]
This is correct and it’s quite fascinating the levels of ignorance people have and yet they try to speak so authoritatively. It’s also very clear that they have never actually commuted during rush hour in the suburbs enough to adequately understand traffic patterns. I personally know several people who commute by car every day from Bethesda/Potomac to Tysons. This person might also be surprised to know that the same number of people enter and exit the Bethesda metro every morning.

This DC centric view of our region is so crazy. Pre-COVID there were about 600k civilian jobs in MoCo, 500k in DC and 1.5 million in NoVA. 
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