Isn’t RTO picking up?

Anonymous wrote:The people I know moving back from Aldie specifically cited lack of anything nearby, traffic, and just "boring" so not the same as Purcellville.

Perhaps although I think some of us believe OP’s insinuation is people have stopped moving farther out, which isn’t supported by any, you know, facts.

And here I thought I was opening a thread about the grocery store chain...

Anonymous wrote:I know so many people moving back from Aldie with less than 1 year of living there.

Well, certainly your sample set is representative.

Anonymous wrote:I know so many people moving back from Aldie with less than 1 year of living there.

Then why are they building building building there? Millions of new homes being built every single day.

The people I know moving back from Aldie specifically cited lack of anything nearby, traffic, and just "boring" so not the same as Purcellville.

I know some people who moved to the exurbs and they love it, even though they have to commute to DC 2x per week. So, no, I don't think Aldie is done at all.

Anonymous wrote:I feel like this was a thread already where an OP claimed that everyone that moved to the exurbs during COVID was now moving back, which is patently false.

There was some fantasy like that posted recently, for sure

I feel like this was a thread already where an OP claimed that everyone that moved to the exurbs during COVID was now moving back, which is patently false.

you can’t compare aldie to purcellville… for one, aldie gets much more noise from dulles. Aldie is largely suburban sprawl/willowsford etc neighborhoods whereas purcellville (and frederick especially) have decent size towns surrounded by farmland and picturesque countryside (well for now at least). the nicer countryside outside of aldie quickly becomes the middleburg area.

Since the work-from-anywhere phenomenon is now fully entrenched in workplace culture we are seeing places like western Loudoun, western Montgomery and even Clark (Berryville) and Frederick counties boom with properties going over list and quickly. House in Purcellville down the steeet from me was under contract same weekend as list, one minute after the open house. Not sure if multiple offers.

Why? Because it was $650k and a nice house. Same house in some place like Arlington would be $1.6 easy — who wants to pay that when we’re all working from home and going to continue working from home?

This trend was happening before COVID and has only become more pronounced in the last three years.

Sure you do.

Dunno about Aldie but further west (Purcellville) is booming

I dunno. Only thing I know is that it’s too close to Dulles which will only get more air traffic, not less.

I know so many people moving back from Aldie with less than 1 year of living there.