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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, if I lived in Brambleton (not quite sure where that is) and never came into DC, I'd don't think I'd leave this area with an overall high impression.  So...you might be justified in that.

We live in Arlington, work in DC, and poke around museums, go to shows, and try new restaurants on the weekends.  We love living in NOVA.  [/quote]

Don't get me started on the food either!  ;)

Seriously, to me, it is all bland, no taste and not spicey when needed! With the exception of Cyclone's in FairFax, all the mexican food places taste like crap. Being from Texas, the food here is like nachos at 7-11.

Seafood is a joke here too, went to Fords fish place and Bonefish, their menus were like Long John Silvers.  no gumbo, no Soft Shell Crabs, no Etouffee of any type, no crawfish, bacon wrapped jalapeno gulf shrimp, no nothing! Miss Texas cajun seafood, hell, even california has better mexican and seafood then NoVa.

Someone took me to a steak place recently, DC Prime I think and it was actually decent, but again, Texas is the steak capital of the world. Also no BBQ places around here worth talking about.

Lost 17lbs just being here due to nothing good to eat and I didn't need to lose weight.  I resigned myself to cooking for us more than eating out, thus robbing the commuity of that money! But at least I avoid the meat tax.

Glad you like it, really, I don't but, but that is just me.[/quote]

Hmm. Between NoVa and DC we have everything from Viet Namese to Salvadoran to Indian (lots of regional varieties) to Afghan to Yemeni to many regional varieties of Chinese, to Nepali, to Peruvian, to Ethiopian to West African.  We have French, balkan, all kinds of Italian.   Lots of tapas and small plates.

Sounds like you just miss Texas.

Thats okay. Lots of people miss where they grew up. This is not Texas.  [/quote]

Central and South American food is the not the same as they do not like spicey food, I have spent a lot of time there for work to know that.  Not that it isn't good, I do like it.  Having lived in Milano, Italy for 18 months, most Italian places in the US are just shadows of the real thing, Texas included.

Thinking back, probably just the Brambleton area and their lack of food choices, its all the same, no new places in the last two years and going to the same places gets old, so I have started to venture out on the weekends beyond the 5 mile radius I live in.

I miss Texas in respect to the no income taxes, no personal property taxes more bang for your buck and minimal layers of government and bureaucracy and high levels of technology. And I lived in Galleria area of Houston, so I did not live in BFE.  Schools are just like here, some great, some good and some not so good.  LCPS is not impressive to me.  Texas is its own state and not a nanny state like VA.  Coming from there to here, its easy to see, but if one has lived all their life in a nanny state, they can't see it the other way.

Giveing VA a c-/c is better than giving them a D or F, which I can give to places like Indiana, where I went to do my undergrad, other than the college, Indiana is a dead place on I-80, its a not a place to live, its a place you pass on the way to somewhere better sorta thing.[/quote]

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