“ In the first 10 months of 2019, Northern Virginia gained an average of 19,500 jobs from a year earlier, compared to 5,700 jobs in the District and just 200 in suburban Maryland, according to preliminary data from the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics.”

Anonymous wrote:Dems took over and this will slow here in NoVA.

I don’t think so. The VA General Assembly is not as blue as some NoVa progressives think.

Anonymous wrote:The MoCo school busing initiative certainly won't help

Fairfax has one too.

Anonymous wrote:Dems took over and this will slow here in NoVA.

Dems have been fully in control of Arlington for decades. Still not progressive control, though. Yet.

Anonymous wrote:This is why Maryland real estate is so comparatively cheap. MoCo and PG just can’t compete with what NoVa and DC have to offer.

Some houses in Bethesda haven’t appreciated much in ten years.

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Anonymous wrote:Well Amazon is about to inject a large number of NOVA jobs and Loudoun is still the fastest growing county.

And Fairfax opted for a moderate Democrat (Jeff McKay) to replace the prior Democratic chair of the Board of Supervisors (Sharon Bulova), rather than one of the far-left candidates.

But opted for a far left prosecutor?

Some nova execs getting twitchy about the Democratic state assembly and senate. Time will tell.

Anonymous wrote:Well Amazon is about to inject a large number of NOVA jobs and Loudoun is still the fastest growing county.

Why would someone want to be in a quickly growing county? I live in Anne Arundel and this pace of growth is more than enough.

Anonymous wrote:Well Amazon is about to inject a large number of NOVA jobs and Loudoun is still the fastest growing county.

And Fairfax opted for a moderate Democrat (Jeff McKay) to replace the prior Democratic chair of the Board of Supervisors (Sharon Bulova), rather than one of the far-left candidates.

This is why Maryland real estate is so comparatively cheap. MoCo and PG just can’t compete with what NoVa and DC have to offer.

The MoCo school busing initiative certainly won't help

DC is fine according to the article. It’s Maryland alone that’s truly hurting.

Well Amazon is about to inject a large number of NOVA jobs and Loudoun is still the fastest growing county.

Dems took over and this will slow here in NoVA.

Despite the never-ending schoolyard barbs thrown back and forth across the Potomac Ocean, the reality that NoVa is growing faster than DC and MD is here, and that MD's slow job growth is going to hurt the state over the long-term.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/maryland-news/northern-virginias-economic-growth-risks-leaving-maryland-suburbs-behind/2020/01/04/9c6e7126-1cf5-11ea-b4c1-fd0d91b60d9e_story.html