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[quote=Anonymous]I think this is just the reality for a lot of post WWII suburbs. I grew up down south and there are pockets that are nice (like inside a gated neighborhood adjacent to one of those faux urban centers). But the urban planning is otherwise atrocious. There are identical grocery stores across the street from each other in some areas because you can only access them from one direction. Access roads are not connected. You have to get on an interstate or access road to get around town. Everything was built for the car. There is nice infill between dumpy old shopping centers, but a lot of it is ugly.

I also think much of Fairfax is a weird donut hole. The close in suburbs, especially around transit, tend to look nicer because they were built to human scale with sidewalks (drive around Broadmont/EFC/Westover/McLean). No it’s not all pristine and amazing, and some of the new builds are heinous, but as a whole I think it has more charm than somewhere like Chantilly along route 50.

And then if you go out to Loudoun you get the  newer neighborhoods with planned retail centers. It’s sprawl, but at least it is thoughtful sprawl with a cookie cutter aesthetic.

Fairfax is just caught in the middle. It doesn’t really have the nice street grid and mature trees that inside the beltway neighborhoods have. And it’s not shiny with underground power lines like Loudoun. There are cute pockets inside the county, but it’s largely a mishmash of development that never had a cohesive long term plan. 
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