Anonymous wrote:Would I rather live in Woodbridge or City of Manassas? Hmmmm I’m not sure which I think is worse.

The downtown part of the City of Manassas is quite attractive. Not sure that Woodbridge has anything comparable.

Would I rather live in Woodbridge or City of Manassas? Hmmmm I’m not sure which I think is worse.

Just a few decades ago, there was a single murder in Woodbridge, and it was a big, big deal. This simply did not happen back then. Woodbridge was a very safe, bucolic, quiet haven of a community.

D.C. gentrification pushed out a lot of the poor folks in D.C. Also, a lot of people left because they didn't want to live in the murder capital of the world.

My next door neighbors were among those folks who left D.C. They were nice, and we got along great. However, a whole bunch of their relatives drifted into their little place, packing it full of people. A significant portion of them had done time in jail and had recently got out of jail. Those people were not nice, and they were horrible neighbors. They started dealing drugs. The troubles began. We moved.

That's what happened to Woodbridge. A lot of rough characters moved out there. I'm sure the law abiding former D.C. denizens felt as much dismay as we did that crime followed some of the new residents.

Anonymous wrote:It’s nicknamed hood bridge for a reason.

This is the comment I was looking for. Say the quiet part out loud!

Someone on my team at a fed agency lives there. Seems fine for her 🤷🏾‍♀️

I invite you to join the army and see how many worse places across the globe you can live in.

To be fair, the northern more rural parts of Woodbridge such as areas closer to the Occaquan River, the state parks, manassas, etc are ok. The parts along Rt1, and the mall etc are what is “hell on earth”.

It’s nicknamed hood bridge for a reason.

Anonymous wrote:Oh yeah, as if the rest of the dmv is so much better. Just a bunch of overpriced, overrated snobby esoteric restaurants that nobody really likes but they haft to pretend to.

Wtf?

Anonymous wrote:Oh yeah, as if the rest of the dmv is so much better. Just a bunch of overpriced, overrated snobby esoteric restaurants that nobody really likes but they haft to pretend to.

“Haft”?

Oh yeah, as if the rest of the dmv is so much better. Just a bunch of overpriced, overrated snobby esoteric restaurants that nobody really likes but they haft to pretend to.

I mean ... I don't know about "hell on earth," but it's pretty bad lol.

We just moved here from Falls Church and it is culture shock. Want to head out for a quick dinner? Ugh -- Longhorn Steakhouse or IHOP. Today I noticed that the glass door at the Safeway is shattered, but has been left there. Probably for a while? A good 1/3 of the stuff at the CVS is under lock and key (the people who work there are super nice though and easy to find and will get stuff out of the locked case for you). And I keep seeing in the news that someone got shot or something ... and it'll be nearby.

On the upside, everything is so much cheaper out here. I remember the first time I went to get my nails done I saw that it was costing me significantly less than it did in FCC and Vienna, and then they brought me a warm neck wrap, and then they brought me iced tea with fruit in it, and then they brought me a snack platter, lol, and I was like "I could get used to this."

We are on a decent sized piece of property on the Occoquan between Woodbridge and Manassas (we have a Woodbridge address, but the shopping center right up the road is a Manassas one) and got a gorgeous house we could never have afforded in our old neighborhood. It has made sense for us. But I don't love it here.

Oh, and the commute truly is hell.

I have family there. It's middle class government or military. One of my kid's teachers lives there.

Be my guest, move to Gaza.

Anonymous wrote:It honestly should be studied. What type of person lives there?

It is cheap like the wine it is named after.

It honestly should be studied. What type of person lives there?