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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was going to say Chantilly until your post about your social status.  Please stay away.  [/quote]

Exactly - on middle class people actually worry about their social status being signaled through their neighborhood choice or public school - actually Chantilly has way strong STEM and a better cohort of physics-oriented students - so why would you go to Langley?

The truly rich people who can afford any house would stay where they feel the most comfortable and among people they enjoy.

There are [b]way more convenient asian grocery stores near Chantilly than there are near Langley[/b] - why would an asian american who was secure enough in their wealth want to stay in Langley?

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There's only one grocery store in the Langley area, a Safeway at Great Falls Village.  You have to drive miles for anything.  [/quote]

:roll:  Please don't bother posting if you can't stick to the truth.  There is that Safeway, a Giant in McLean, a Harris Teeter near Tysons, and a Lidl coming to McLean. [/quote]

Isn't the GFV Safeway is the only grocery store within Langley's boundaries?  Other stores are in areas zoned to other schools.  [/quote]

[b]Does FCPS monitor to make sure that you only go to a grocery store in your boundary?[/b]

(We shop at the Great Falls Safeway.  It is more than adequate.  And extremely convenient for those of us who live in GF.  If we ever need a bigger or more unique store, there are plenty that are only a short drive away on Leesburg Pike or in Reston.) 
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So bizarre.[/quote]I love Safeway so much I have an annual freshpass.  However, here are some items I buy elsewhere:
50cfu biokefir-whole foods
pau d'arco tea-vitamin/moms
opo squash,bittermelon, fermented blackbean-Aditi/GreatWall/H-mart
powder laundry-Sierra
1 gr sugar ricotta-Italian Store/Rest. depot
non-Korean pignoli-Sfizi, Italian Store
blood&tongue/zeigenwurst-German Gourmet
flax ricecakes-Giant
juniper-fresh market/moms
bell&evans whole-balduccis/whole foods
adirondack ice cream/low sugar high fat (custard style) -balduccis/german gourmet

Tysons/Vienna/W. McLean/N. Merrifield is close to these plus Harris Teeter(great baby back).  Great Falls is doable to these, but slightly more of a hike and on lonely roads.  Those living in Great Falls, where do you get low sugar/ethnic foods like these?[/quote]

I admittedly have never bought most of those items, but the Reston Whole Foods is only 15 mins away and there is a Super H Mart and a Mom’s in Herndon (maybe 20 mins away). We also have a great butcher near the Village.

Is there more driving to get certain things? Of course. But Reston, Tyson’s, etc. aren’t really that far away. And there is very little traffic on the main roads to those places (ie Springvale/Baron Cameron to get to Reston; Old Dominion to Spring Hill to get to Tyson’s). We see it as a very small trade off to live in a great, tight-knit community that in many ways feels like a small town. [/quote]

A tight-knit small-town community typically doesn't have huge homes on big lots where people often don't know their neighbors, or send its kids off to a middle school and high school in another part of the county miles away. [/quote]

Well we live here and we know that it is a tight-knit community (and we are good friends with our neighbors and most others on our street).  Added bonus: Lots of families with younger children have moved here in the past year or two, which is great for the kids.  But everyone is entitled to their own opinion.[/quote]

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Totally agree with you.  The PP, as usual, simply wants to argue.  [/quote]

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