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Anonymous wrote:I own a restaurant in Arlington and his weekend my business achieved record sales compared to the past 10 years. Many came from DC and were unvaccinated. The requirement for papers will further hurt the DC scene and help me.

Lol no one crosses the river to do anything in Va and that was before youngkin.

Umm life ling DC resident and you are wrong. Wondering everyday if I should move to Virginia. Less crime, more freedom, and most significantly for me less taxes. Op, congratulations on a profitable weekend, that's great!

There is no restaurant. You’re a sucker.

And yet plenty of people do move from DC to NOVA every day for quality of life and public services.

Not to mention all the DC officials who rent cheap apartments to enroll their kids in NOVA schools.

Really? Which officials?

If anything, they would do this for MoCo schools. Who should want VA schools?

It is mostly Alexandria and Arlington.

It is definitely not happening in Alexandria public schools. They're not any better than DCPS, and Ward 3 schools in DC should be far superior to anything in ACPS. Here in DC, we usually have the impression that Arlington might have some good schools but they're overcrowded. Again, probably not better than Ward 3 DCPS schools. The sole exception would be TJ, which might have been worth it in the past.

Conclusion: OP and this PP (if they are different people) are not DC residents, are not even local, and probably don't own this hypothetical restaurant. Simple local knowledge suggests we have a troll amongst us.

TJ isn’t worth sending kids to anymore? Why not? I’m confused

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Anonymous wrote:I own a restaurant in Arlington and his weekend my business achieved record sales compared to the past 10 years. Many came from DC and were unvaccinated. The requirement for papers will further hurt the DC scene and help me.

Lol no one crosses the river to do anything in Va and that was before youngkin.

Umm life ling DC resident and you are wrong. Wondering everyday if I should move to Virginia. Less crime, more freedom, and most significantly for me less taxes. Op, congratulations on a profitable weekend, that's great!

There is no restaurant. You’re a sucker.

And yet plenty of people do move from DC to NOVA every day for quality of life and public services.

Not to mention all the DC officials who rent cheap apartments to enroll their kids in NOVA schools.

Really? Which officials?

If anything, they would do this for MoCo schools. Who should want VA schools?

It is mostly Alexandria and Arlington.

It is definitely not happening in Alexandria public schools. They're not any better than DCPS, and Ward 3 schools in DC should be far superior to anything in ACPS. Here in DC, we usually have the impression that Arlington might have some good schools but they're overcrowded. Again, probably not better than Ward 3 DCPS schools. The sole exception would be TJ, which might have been worth it in the past.

Conclusion: OP and this PP (if they are different people) are not DC residents, are not even local, and probably don't own this hypothetical restaurant. Simple local knowledge suggests we have a troll amongst us.

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Anonymous wrote:I own a restaurant in Arlington and his weekend my business achieved record sales compared to the past 10 years. Many came from DC and were unvaccinated. The requirement for papers will further hurt the DC scene and help me.

Lol no one crosses the river to do anything in Va and that was before youngkin.

Umm life ling DC resident and you are wrong. Wondering everyday if I should move to Virginia. Less crime, more freedom, and most significantly for me less taxes. Op, congratulations on a profitable weekend, that's great!

There is no restaurant. You’re a sucker.

And yet plenty of people do move from DC to NOVA every day for quality of life and public services.

Not to mention all the DC officials who rent cheap apartments to enroll their kids in NOVA schools.

Really? Which officials?

If anything, they would do this for MoCo schools. Who should want VA schools?

It is mostly Alexandria and Arlington.

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Anonymous wrote:As a DC resident of 20 years, I have never once thought to go into VA for a restaurant - maybe to meet VA friends at a restaurant, but never for the restaurant itself and this was before COVID.

Now, with the lax requirements for safety, that will not need to change!

Once I went to Ambar in Clarendon because I love that restaurant and it was last minute and their were no reservations on Capitol Hill. Once, in 38 years here. Lol JK I've been to Ruan Thai and Peking Gourmet a few times, but this idea that District residents will go to VA to dine is hilarious.

Actually DC restaurants are one reason to fo to DC. And DC really needs the revenue What will they do with tax base from office buildings. More homeless shelters and affordable housing?

Most of us live in DC so that we don't HAVE to live in VA. I don't think about VA very often at all.

Boring at best and an armpit at worst. And I'm not some weirdo who has issues with vaccines or masks or wants guns or other goofy VA sh*t. Yeah, VA is cheaper. There's a reason...

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Anonymous wrote:I own a restaurant in Arlington and his weekend my business achieved record sales compared to the past 10 years. Many came from DC and were unvaccinated. The requirement for papers will further hurt the DC scene and help me.

Lol no one crosses the river to do anything in Va and that was before youngkin.

Umm life ling DC resident and you are wrong. Wondering everyday if I should move to Virginia. Less crime, more freedom, and most significantly for me less taxes. Op, congratulations on a profitable weekend, that's great!

There is no restaurant. You’re a sucker.

And yet plenty of people do move from DC to NOVA every day for quality of life and public services.

Not to mention all the DC officials who rent cheap apartments to enroll their kids in NOVA schools.

Really? Which officials?

If anything, they would do this for MoCo schools. Who should want VA schools?

Anonymous wrote:As a DC resident of 20 years, I have never once thought to go into VA for a restaurant - maybe to meet VA friends at a restaurant, but never for the restaurant itself and this was before COVID.

Now, with the lax requirements for safety, that will not need to change!

Once I went to Ambar in Clarendon because I love that restaurant and it was last minute and their were no reservations on Capitol Hill. Once, in 38 years here. Lol JK I've been to Ruan Thai and Peking Gourmet a few times, but this idea that District residents will go to VA to dine is hilarious.

OP - how come you still haven't named the restaurant you own? Feeling shy?

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Anonymous wrote:I own a restaurant in Arlington and his weekend my business achieved record sales compared to the past 10 years. Many came from DC and were unvaccinated. The requirement for papers will further hurt the DC scene and help me.

Lol no one crosses the river to do anything in Va and that was before youngkin.

Umm life ling DC resident and you are wrong. Wondering everyday if I should move to Virginia. Less crime, more freedom, and most significantly for me less taxes. Op, congratulations on a profitable weekend, that's great!

There is no restaurant. You’re a sucker.

And yet plenty of people do move from DC to NOVA every day for quality of life and public services.

Not to mention all the DC officials who rent cheap apartments to enroll their kids in NOVA schools.

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Anonymous wrote:I own a restaurant in Arlington and his weekend my business achieved record sales compared to the past 10 years. Many came from DC and were unvaccinated. The requirement for papers will further hurt the DC scene and help me.

Lol no one crosses the river to do anything in Va and that was before youngkin.

I live near Clarendon and there are always cars with DC license plates at all the grocery stores and in the shopping areas. It's like when you go to Pentagon City and see all the cars from Maryland. I just thought people in DC and Maryland had no good shopping near their homes.

I live in DC and see tons and tons of Virginia and Maryland plates. I used to go to the Costco and a few other stores at Pentagon City but since Youngkin got elected, I go to the Costco in DC instead. And at least the Costco in DC has gas - cheaper than gas anywhere in Arlington.

I don't know what is sadder -- that you shop at Costco or that you actually drove to Virginia to shop at Costco. Whether before or after Youngkin, it is sad.

There must be lots of sad people in DC based on my annual booze runs to the DC Costco. It's nearly always jammed.

Lots of poor alcoholics in DC. Of course, the DC Costco is jammed.

Poor alcoholics cannot afford the membership fees.

Mayor Bowser gives them free Costco membership cards. Just ask the poster who boasts about free transportation, pre-K daycare, UBI for poor mommies, and all the other freebies.

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Anonymous wrote:I own a restaurant in Arlington and his weekend my business achieved record sales compared to the past 10 years. Many came from DC and were unvaccinated. The requirement for papers will further hurt the DC scene and help me.

Lol no one crosses the river to do anything in Va and that was before youngkin.

I live near Clarendon and there are always cars with DC license plates at all the grocery stores and in the shopping areas. It's like when you go to Pentagon City and see all the cars from Maryland. I just thought people in DC and Maryland had no good shopping near their homes.

I live in DC and see tons and tons of Virginia and Maryland plates. I used to go to the Costco and a few other stores at Pentagon City but since Youngkin got elected, I go to the Costco in DC instead. And at least the Costco in DC has gas - cheaper than gas anywhere in Arlington.

I don't know what is sadder -- that you shop at Costco or that you actually drove to Virginia to shop at Costco. Whether before or after Youngkin, it is sad.

There must be lots of sad people in DC based on my annual booze runs to the DC Costco. It's nearly always jammed.

Lots of poor alcoholics in DC. Of course, the DC Costco is jammed.

Poor alcoholics cannot afford the membership fees.

Lol. First I have ever heard of Costco as a premium product because of the pocket-change membership fee. Costco is the "I accidentally had one more kid than I could afford" store

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Anonymous wrote:I own a restaurant in Arlington and his weekend my business achieved record sales compared to the past 10 years. Many came from DC and were unvaccinated. The requirement for papers will further hurt the DC scene and help me.

Lol no one crosses the river to do anything in Va and that was before youngkin.

I live near Clarendon and there are always cars with DC license plates at all the grocery stores and in the shopping areas. It's like when you go to Pentagon City and see all the cars from Maryland. I just thought people in DC and Maryland had no good shopping near their homes.

I live in DC and see tons and tons of Virginia and Maryland plates. I used to go to the Costco and a few other stores at Pentagon City but since Youngkin got elected, I go to the Costco in DC instead. And at least the Costco in DC has gas - cheaper than gas anywhere in Arlington.

I don't know what is sadder -- that you shop at Costco or that you actually drove to Virginia to shop at Costco. Whether before or after Youngkin, it is sad.

There must be lots of sad people in DC based on my annual booze runs to the DC Costco. It's nearly always jammed.

Lots of poor alcoholics in DC. Of course, the DC Costco is jammed.

Poor alcoholics cannot afford the membership fees.

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Anonymous wrote:Good for you but I feel sorry for your staff

+1 I will wait here til next week when OP says things are a disaster because 60% of his staff is out with COVID.

Especially since most of her business last weekend was likely out of town anti-vax protesters and March for Lifers.

Nah. Most people are asymptomatic even if they are positive. Won’t even end up getting test, so won’t miss a day of work. Odds are they are vax’d anyway, so they’ll be fine. Also, as long as you’re vax’d, you’ll be good too even if you do catch it. I don’t worry bout the unvaxed…they made their decision.

Thanks for worrying about the staff.

Love this. Odds are a march of 20,000 anti-vaxxers publicly and prominently opposed to all vaccines were…vaccinated?

Stupidity thy name is NOVA.

85% of adults have had at least one jab. So…odds are that anyone entering any establishment are vax’d. Even w a protest on town. It’s just math.

Ha. My DH said the same thing about his fully vaccinated status and refusing to get boosted. He received his second vax in May and had a bad case, not severe case of covid. He survived the covid but early January he was hospitalized due to the covid's lingering negative affects on his heart. Yeah, those vaccinations don't last long term.

Anonymous wrote:I heard something on the news about this but I don’t live close enough to DC to make an observation.

It makes sense, however, especially since DC has a lot of African Americans, a group with resistance to government insistence/coercion in favor of new and interesting medical treatments. A vaccine that everyone knows doesn’t stop the contraction or spread of the targeted virus and for which manufacturers enjoy freedom from consequences (should it turn out to kill or injure in the long run) certainly qualifies.

The narrative certainly has changed regarding the vaccine. We were promised covid would be eliminated if only 50% got the vaccine. If we got the vaccine, we would not get covid, remember? Then it was well you can still get it but you won't get as sick, but you have to keep being boosted. We don't know when it will end. If they didn't know the vaccine would lose efficacy long term how can they tell us there are no long term side effects? The goal posts keep changing...when will it end? In the meantime I'll keep heading to VA to enjoy the freedom.

Good for you, OP. I hope your business does wonderfully.