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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All this hype about the development of Tysons Corner is comical.  I would be glad if it had a chance of being great because I live between Tysons and DC but really it's just a good shopping mall with some spread out offices and car dealerships.  Sorry developers but the major problem you're going to have is that young people have zero interest in living there and that's not changing.[/quote]

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The thing is that the same could be said about DC 25 years ago.  All except for Georgetown and parts of NW.  I DID grow up in DC and was actually born in DC (anyone else?) and we all went to private school and it was the murder capital of the country.  It is fantastic that so much of DC has rebounded and that so many young people and families live there now.  Just don't assume the same won't happen to Tysons (and it is starting from a far better place than murder capital of the country with bad schools).  I agree with many comments that Tysons and the surrounding areas are great, especially for jobs, shopping, family life and schools.  That won't appeal to a 20-something who is living it up in the D.C.  But when he/she has to reverse commute to a job in VA or MD or when he/she gets married and has kids, the suburbs start to look pretty appealing.  Doubt it all you want but that won't change that suburban life is a preference for many people when they reach a certain stage in their lives.  [/quote]

Unless you grew up in the 1.5 square mile area where Rayful Edmonds http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayful_Edmond and his crew had their wars, I seriously doubt you had any interaction with the "murder capital" aspects of DC growing up, ever. Urban centers are not about to be displaced by suburban sprawl, dearie, no matter how much you wish it were so. Manhattan, NY, Mission District, SF, Hyde Park, CHI, Adams Morgan, Shaw, Dupont, in DC and so on are the hot urban places to live. Money continues to flood those areas. Real estate prices have never gone down in those areas. They're not suburbs of anything. That's idiotic. It's really apples and oranges[/quote]I read an article not too long ago saying that some businesses are trying to locate in urban areas because young workers don't want to live in the suburbs.  But it was one article - haven't heard that anywhere else just yet.[/quote]

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