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Anonymous wrote:Alexandria is a far cry from NYC, and you’ve yet to define what you mean by higher-income nor back it up with facts. And the fact that you focus on one segment of Alexandria’s population to the exclusion of others suggests you may not be as thrilled with the others as you’d like the rest of us to think.

I don’t dislike Alexandria, even though it’s a bit twee and stuck in the past, but I also don’t think the overall quality of life there is as good as in Arlington, Bethesda, or McLean.

OP here.

Curious why? What makes the quality of life lower in Alexandria?

Apparently PP likes to spend all his waking hours in a his car.

Exactly! OP, go to FaceBook and NextDoor. Read the posts from citizens and you will begin to understand exactly how unhappy most of the citizenry is in Alexandria. We cannot get from A to B in reasonable time frames because of changes to the streets and traffic lanes, we have city leaders who think it is okay to pump raw sewage into the Potomac River when it rains, we have streets that flood because the same city leaders refuse to take care of the aging sewer infractructure, the list goes on and on. To my knowledge, Arlington, Bethesda and McLean have none of those concerns.

Hey, you forgot your hashtags!

DP. Here, I'll help her out (because I agree with her).

#TakeBackSeminaryRoad
#JustinsTrafficJam

You seem to think there is just one person who is disgruntled because of the traffic problems. There actually are a lot of us as you will see when you go to FB and ND.

Nope. You're one person. No way there are two or more of you too stupid to understand the futility in employing hashtags on non Twitter/IG/FB platforms.

DP. Learn about the hashtag here, search it on Twitter, and pull up posts by dozens of upset Alexandria residents. It seems like a reasonable way to call attention to the existing concerns.

You don't think her canned, repeated responses are calling attention? The point of hashtags - when used properly- is that they are a direct link to related content. No need to leave the patform you're on and search it elsewhere.

Without the hyper link, they are simply references to concepts already mentioned by her screed. If I wanted to reference, say, Abe Lincoln here, it matters not whether there is a hashtag in front of the name.

It reminds me of Dave Letterman in the late 90s talking about "WWW" this and "WWW" that. There was just a fundamental ignorance of how this all works. Perhaps the lady is just old?

Soooooooo....all the hastags on the signs on Seminary Road and Quaker Lane and King Street (and other streets to plentiful to list) are wrong? Hundreds of people with the same signs are wrong?
Wow, the homeowners must be so embarrassed that they are doing hashtagging wrong. I hope you go tell them. You should go marching up to their doors and tell them that their signs are wrong because there is NO WAY that a passerby can touch the sign and find a "direct link to related content." They will, I am sure, beg your forgiveness for being so...wrong.

BTW, you'll be coming to our house, too. How embarrassing for us. My wife will be mortified.

#JustinsTrafficJam and #TakeBackSeminaryRoad

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Anonymous wrote:I know this is a phrase we roll our eyes a lot at at DCUM but I have lived both places and my impression is McLean= new money and that is reflected in the eyesore McMansions and Alexandria City is understated old money crowd. Obviously not talking about the Fairfax county part.

Alexandria has class and character.

Mclean doesn't even know what that is. You couldn't pay me to live there.

McLean seems comfortably affluent. Alexandria seems stuck in the past, and insofar as the past in question is the pre-Civil War South that's not something I find especially appealing.

This is very true. It is a racist and bigoted city.

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Anonymous wrote:Alexandria is a far cry from NYC, and you’ve yet to define what you mean by higher-income nor back it up with facts. And the fact that you focus on one segment of Alexandria’s population to the exclusion of others suggests you may not be as thrilled with the others as you’d like the rest of us to think.

I don’t dislike Alexandria, even though it’s a bit twee and stuck in the past, but I also don’t think the overall quality of life there is as good as in Arlington, Bethesda, or McLean.

OP here.

Curious why? What makes the quality of life lower in Alexandria?

Apparently PP likes to spend all his waking hours in a his car.

Exactly! OP, go to FaceBook and NextDoor. Read the posts from citizens and you will begin to understand exactly how unhappy most of the citizenry is in Alexandria. We cannot get from A to B in reasonable time frames because of changes to the streets and traffic lanes, we have city leaders who think it is okay to pump raw sewage into the Potomac River when it rains, we have streets that flood because the same city leaders refuse to take care of the aging sewer infractructure, the list goes on and on. To my knowledge, Arlington, Bethesda and McLean have none of those concerns.

Hey, you forgot your hashtags!

DP. Here, I'll help her out (because I agree with her).

#TakeBackSeminaryRoad
#JustinsTrafficJam

You seem to think there is just one person who is disgruntled because of the traffic problems. There actually are a lot of us as you will see when you go to FB and ND.

Nope. You're one person. No way there are two or more of you too stupid to understand the futility in employing hashtags on non Twitter/IG/FB platforms.

DP. Learn about the hashtag here, search it on Twitter, and pull up posts by dozens of upset Alexandria residents. It seems like a reasonable way to call attention to the existing concerns.

You don't think her canned, repeated responses are calling attention? The point of hashtags - when used properly- is that they are a direct link to related content. No need to leave the patform you're on and search it elsewhere.

Without the hyper link, they are simply references to concepts already mentioned by her screed. If I wanted to reference, say, Abe Lincoln here, it matters not whether there is a hashtag in front of the name.

It reminds me of Dave Letterman in the late 90s talking about "WWW" this and "WWW" that. There was just a fundamental ignorance of how this all works. Perhaps the lady is just old?

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Anonymous wrote:Alexandria is a far cry from NYC, and you’ve yet to define what you mean by higher-income nor back it up with facts. And the fact that you focus on one segment of Alexandria’s population to the exclusion of others suggests you may not be as thrilled with the others as you’d like the rest of us to think.

I don’t dislike Alexandria, even though it’s a bit twee and stuck in the past, but I also don’t think the overall quality of life there is as good as in Arlington, Bethesda, or McLean.

OP here.

Curious why? What makes the quality of life lower in Alexandria?

Apparently PP likes to spend all his waking hours in a his car.

Exactly! OP, go to FaceBook and NextDoor. Read the posts from citizens and you will begin to understand exactly how unhappy most of the citizenry is in Alexandria. We cannot get from A to B in reasonable time frames because of changes to the streets and traffic lanes, we have city leaders who think it is okay to pump raw sewage into the Potomac River when it rains, we have streets that flood because the same city leaders refuse to take care of the aging sewer infractructure, the list goes on and on. To my knowledge, Arlington, Bethesda and McLean have none of those concerns.

Hey, you forgot your hashtags!

DP. Here, I'll help her out (because I agree with her).

#TakeBackSeminaryRoad
#JustinsTrafficJam

You seem to think there is just one person who is disgruntled because of the traffic problems. There actually are a lot of us as you will see when you go to FB and ND.

Nope. You're one person. No way there are two or more of you too stupid to understand the futility in employing hashtags on non Twitter/IG/FB platforms.

DP. Learn about the hashtag here, search it on Twitter, and pull up posts by dozens of upset Alexandria residents. It seems like a reasonable way to call attention to the existing concerns.

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Anonymous wrote:Alexandria is a far cry from NYC, and you’ve yet to define what you mean by higher-income nor back it up with facts. And the fact that you focus on one segment of Alexandria’s population to the exclusion of others suggests you may not be as thrilled with the others as you’d like the rest of us to think.

I don’t dislike Alexandria, even though it’s a bit twee and stuck in the past, but I also don’t think the overall quality of life there is as good as in Arlington, Bethesda, or McLean.

OP here.

Curious why? What makes the quality of life lower in Alexandria?

Apparently PP likes to spend all his waking hours in a his car.

Exactly! OP, go to FaceBook and NextDoor. Read the posts from citizens and you will begin to understand exactly how unhappy most of the citizenry is in Alexandria. We cannot get from A to B in reasonable time frames because of changes to the streets and traffic lanes, we have city leaders who think it is okay to pump raw sewage into the Potomac River when it rains, we have streets that flood because the same city leaders refuse to take care of the aging sewer infractructure, the list goes on and on. To my knowledge, Arlington, Bethesda and McLean have none of those concerns.

Hey, you forgot your hashtags!

DP. Here, I'll help her out (because I agree with her).

#TakeBackSeminaryRoad
#JustinsTrafficJam

You seem to think there is just one person who is disgruntled because of the traffic problems. There actually are a lot of us as you will see when you go to FB and ND.

Nope. You're one person. No way there are two or more of you too stupid to understand the futility in employing hashtags on non Twitter/IG/FB platforms.

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Anonymous wrote:Alexandria is a far cry from NYC, and you’ve yet to define what you mean by higher-income nor back it up with facts. And the fact that you focus on one segment of Alexandria’s population to the exclusion of others suggests you may not be as thrilled with the others as you’d like the rest of us to think.

I don’t dislike Alexandria, even though it’s a bit twee and stuck in the past, but I also don’t think the overall quality of life there is as good as in Arlington, Bethesda, or McLean.

OP here.

Curious why? What makes the quality of life lower in Alexandria?

Apparently PP likes to spend all his waking hours in a his car.

Exactly! OP, go to FaceBook and NextDoor. Read the posts from citizens and you will begin to understand exactly how unhappy most of the citizenry is in Alexandria. We cannot get from A to B in reasonable time frames because of changes to the streets and traffic lanes, we have city leaders who think it is okay to pump raw sewage into the Potomac River when it rains, we have streets that flood because the same city leaders refuse to take care of the aging sewer infractructure, the list goes on and on. To my knowledge, Arlington, Bethesda and McLean have none of those concerns.

Hey, you forgot your hashtags!

DP. Here, I'll help her out (because I agree with her).

#TakeBackSeminaryRoad
#JustinsTrafficJam

You seem to think there is just one person who is disgruntled because of the traffic problems. There actually are a lot of us as you will see when you go to FB and ND.

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Anonymous wrote:Alexandria is a far cry from NYC, and you’ve yet to define what you mean by higher-income nor back it up with facts. And the fact that you focus on one segment of Alexandria’s population to the exclusion of others suggests you may not be as thrilled with the others as you’d like the rest of us to think.

I don’t dislike Alexandria, even though it’s a bit twee and stuck in the past, but I also don’t think the overall quality of life there is as good as in Arlington, Bethesda, or McLean.

OP here.

Curious why? What makes the quality of life lower in Alexandria?

Apparently PP likes to spend all his waking hours in a his car.

Exactly! OP, go to FaceBook and NextDoor. Read the posts from citizens and you will begin to understand exactly how unhappy most of the citizenry is in Alexandria. We cannot get from A to B in reasonable time frames because of changes to the streets and traffic lanes, we have city leaders who think it is okay to pump raw sewage into the Potomac River when it rains, we have streets that flood because the same city leaders refuse to take care of the aging sewer infractructure, the list goes on and on. To my knowledge, Arlington, Bethesda and McLean have none of those concerns.

Hey, you forgot your hashtags!

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Anonymous wrote:Alexandria is a far cry from NYC, and you’ve yet to define what you mean by higher-income nor back it up with facts. And the fact that you focus on one segment of Alexandria’s population to the exclusion of others suggests you may not be as thrilled with the others as you’d like the rest of us to think.

I don’t dislike Alexandria, even though it’s a bit twee and stuck in the past, but I also don’t think the overall quality of life there is as good as in Arlington, Bethesda, or McLean.

OP here.

Curious why? What makes the quality of life lower in Alexandria?

Apparently PP likes to spend all his waking hours in a his car.

Exactly! OP, go to FaceBook and NextDoor. Read the posts from citizens and you will begin to understand exactly how unhappy most of the citizenry is in Alexandria. We cannot get from A to B in reasonable time frames because of changes to the streets and traffic lanes, we have city leaders who think it is okay to pump raw sewage into the Potomac River when it rains, we have streets that flood because the same city leaders refuse to take care of the aging sewer infractructure, the list goes on and on. To my knowledge, Arlington, Bethesda and McLean have none of those concerns.

Hey, you forgot your hashtags!

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Anonymous wrote:Alexandria is a far cry from NYC, and you’ve yet to define what you mean by higher-income nor back it up with facts. And the fact that you focus on one segment of Alexandria’s population to the exclusion of others suggests you may not be as thrilled with the others as you’d like the rest of us to think.

I don’t dislike Alexandria, even though it’s a bit twee and stuck in the past, but I also don’t think the overall quality of life there is as good as in Arlington, Bethesda, or McLean.

OP here.

Curious why? What makes the quality of life lower in Alexandria?

Apparently PP likes to spend all his waking hours in a his car.

Exactly! OP, go to FaceBook and NextDoor. Read the posts from citizens and you will begin to understand exactly how unhappy most of the citizenry is in Alexandria. We cannot get from A to B in reasonable time frames because of changes to the streets and traffic lanes, we have city leaders who think it is okay to pump raw sewage into the Potomac River when it rains, we have streets that flood because the same city leaders refuse to take care of the aging sewer infractructure, the list goes on and on. To my knowledge, Arlington, Bethesda and McLean have none of those concerns.

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Anonymous wrote:I know this is a phrase we roll our eyes a lot at at DCUM but I have lived both places and my impression is McLean= new money and that is reflected in the eyesore McMansions and Alexandria City is understated old money crowd. Obviously not talking about the Fairfax county part.

Alexandria has class and character.

Mclean doesn't even know what that is. You couldn't pay me to live there.

McLean seems comfortably affluent. Alexandria seems stuck in the past, and insofar as the past in question is the pre-Civil War South that's not something I find especially appealing.

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Anonymous wrote:Alexandria is a far cry from NYC, and you’ve yet to define what you mean by higher-income nor back it up with facts. And the fact that you focus on one segment of Alexandria’s population to the exclusion of others suggests you may not be as thrilled with the others as you’d like the rest of us to think.

I don’t dislike Alexandria, even though it’s a bit twee and stuck in the past, but I also don’t think the overall quality of life there is as good as in Arlington, Bethesda, or McLean.

OP here.

Curious why? What makes the quality of life lower in Alexandria?

Apparently PP likes to spend all his waking hours in a his car.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Alexandria is a far cry from NYC, and you’ve yet to define what you mean by higher-income nor back it up with facts. And the fact that you focus on one segment of Alexandria’s population to the exclusion of others suggests you may not be as thrilled with the others as you’d like the rest of us to think.

I don’t dislike Alexandria, even though it’s a bit twee and stuck in the past, but I also don’t think the overall quality of life there is as good as in Arlington, Bethesda, or McLean.

OP here.

Curious why? What makes the quality of life lower in Alexandria?

Anonymous wrote:Alexandria is a far cry from NYC, and you’ve yet to define what you mean by higher-income nor back it up with facts. And the fact that you focus on one segment of Alexandria’s population to the exclusion of others suggests you may not be as thrilled with the others as you’d like the rest of us to think.

I don’t dislike Alexandria, even though it’s a bit twee and stuck in the past, but I also don’t think the overall quality of life there is as good as in Arlington, Bethesda, or McLean.