This thread got weird. WTF

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Anonymous wrote:Chantilly sounds better with each post.

I feel like there is a lot of hate for Langley. I’m not really sure why.

I don’t go hating Potomac or Chevy chase. I don’t know much about them besides a lot of wealthy people live there that I don’t know.

Langley is below 2% FARMS— their FARMS numbers are even lower than TJ. But. The SB ignores that while blowing TJ up to get more poor kids in. And the GF a parents go to absurd lengths to make certain that no poors are zoned for their kids’ school. Lawsuits, SB recalls, trying to incorporate GFs. Etc. Etc. They are terrified their kids might have to attend a public school that’s is 10% free and reduced lunch. It’s just gross.

Which lawsuit was filed about poor children?

Which recall effort was filed about zoning poor children for Langley?

When did an effort get under way to try to incorporate GF for any reason, including board efforts to rezone poor neighborhoods to Langley?

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Anonymous wrote:I was going to say Chantilly until your post about your social status. Please stay away.

Exactly - on middle class people actually worry about their social status being signaled through their neighborhood choice or public school - actually Chantilly has way strong STEM and a better cohort of physics-oriented students - so why would you go to Langley?

The truly rich people who can afford any house would stay where they feel the most comfortable and among people they enjoy.

There are way more convenient asian grocery stores near Chantilly than there are near Langley - why would an asian american who was secure enough in their wealth want to stay in Langley?

There's only one grocery store in the Langley area, a Safeway at Great Falls Village. You have to drive miles for anything.

Please don't bother posting if you can't stick to the truth. There is that Safeway, a Giant in McLean, a Harris Teeter near Tysons, and a Lidl coming to McLean.

Isn't the GFV Safeway is the only grocery store within Langley's boundaries? Other stores are in areas zoned to other schools.

Does FCPS monitor to make sure that you only go to a grocery store in your boundary?

(We shop at the Great Falls Safeway. It is more than adequate. And extremely convenient for those of us who live in GF. If we ever need a bigger or more unique store, there are plenty that are only a short drive away on Leesburg Pike or in Reston.)

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So bizarre.

I love Safeway so much I have an annual freshpass. However, here are some items I buy elsewhere:
50cfu biokefir-whole foods
pau d'arco tea-vitamin/moms
opo squash,bittermelon, fermented blackbean-Aditi/GreatWall/H-mart
powder laundry-Sierra
1 gr sugar ricotta-Italian Store/Rest. depot
non-Korean pignoli-Sfizi, Italian Store
blood&tongue/zeigenwurst-German Gourmet
flax ricecakes-Giant
juniper-fresh market/moms
bell&evans whole-balduccis/whole foods
adirondack ice cream/low sugar high fat (custard style) -balduccis/german gourmet

Tysons/Vienna/W. McLean/N. Merrifield is close to these plus Harris Teeter(great baby back). Great Falls is doable to these, but slightly more of a hike and on lonely roads. Those living in Great Falls, where do you get low sugar/ethnic foods like these?

I admittedly have never bought most of those items, but the Reston Whole Foods is only 15 mins away and there is a Super H Mart and a Mom’s in Herndon (maybe 20 mins away). We also have a great butcher near the Village.

Is there more driving to get certain things? Of course. But Reston, Tyson’s, etc. aren’t really that far away. And there is very little traffic on the main roads to those places (ie Springvale/Baron Cameron to get to Reston; Old Dominion to Spring Hill to get to Tyson’s). We see it as a very small trade off to live in a great, tight-knit community that in many ways feels like a small town.

A tight-knit small-town community typically doesn't have huge homes on big lots where people often don't know their neighbors, or send its kids off to a middle school and high school in another part of the county miles away.

Well we live here and we know that it is a tight-knit community (and we are good friends with our neighbors and most others on our street). Added bonus: Lots of families with younger children have moved here in the past year or two, which is great for the kids. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

Covid was probably the best thing that happened to Great Falls since the 2008 recession. Of course, as employers return to the office gradually, more people will find out what it's like to have to commute from Great Falls to their jobs.

GF wasn't having any issues in the home sales department prior to Covid - what a weird post. And many - if not most - people in GF have short commutes to their jobs in the Reston/Tysons/Vienna corridor - or from home. Sour grapes are so unbecoming.

Nope. GF was lagging behind other areas for many years.

Well duh. Fewer people can afford a more expensive area or would rather not stretch.
Governments closing playgrounds and recreational spots makes a backyard with a fire pit, personal playground and volleyball net more worth the money. No one is going to slap an orange sign across your pool fence telling you that “you aren’t allowed to swim today—go sit on your apartment and watch reruns of The Love Boat.”

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Anonymous wrote:I was going to say Chantilly until your post about your social status. Please stay away.

Exactly - on middle class people actually worry about their social status being signaled through their neighborhood choice or public school - actually Chantilly has way strong STEM and a better cohort of physics-oriented students - so why would you go to Langley?

The truly rich people who can afford any house would stay where they feel the most comfortable and among people they enjoy.

There are way more convenient asian grocery stores near Chantilly than there are near Langley - why would an asian american who was secure enough in their wealth want to stay in Langley?

There's only one grocery store in the Langley area, a Safeway at Great Falls Village. You have to drive miles for anything.

Please don't bother posting if you can't stick to the truth. There is that Safeway, a Giant in McLean, a Harris Teeter near Tysons, and a Lidl coming to McLean.

Isn't the GFV Safeway is the only grocery store within Langley's boundaries? Other stores are in areas zoned to other schools.

Does FCPS monitor to make sure that you only go to a grocery store in your boundary?

(We shop at the Great Falls Safeway. It is more than adequate. And extremely convenient for those of us who live in GF. If we ever need a bigger or more unique store, there are plenty that are only a short drive away on Leesburg Pike or in Reston.)

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So bizarre.

I love Safeway so much I have an annual freshpass. However, here are some items I buy elsewhere:
50cfu biokefir-whole foods
pau d'arco tea-vitamin/moms
opo squash,bittermelon, fermented blackbean-Aditi/GreatWall/H-mart
powder laundry-Sierra
1 gr sugar ricotta-Italian Store/Rest. depot
non-Korean pignoli-Sfizi, Italian Store
blood&tongue/zeigenwurst-German Gourmet
flax ricecakes-Giant
juniper-fresh market/moms
bell&evans whole-balduccis/whole foods
adirondack ice cream/low sugar high fat (custard style) -balduccis/german gourmet

Tysons/Vienna/W. McLean/N. Merrifield is close to these plus Harris Teeter(great baby back). Great Falls is doable to these, but slightly more of a hike and on lonely roads. Those living in Great Falls, where do you get low sugar/ethnic foods like these?

I admittedly have never bought most of those items, but the Reston Whole Foods is only 15 mins away and there is a Super H Mart and a Mom’s in Herndon (maybe 20 mins away). We also have a great butcher near the Village.

Is there more driving to get certain things? Of course. But Reston, Tyson’s, etc. aren’t really that far away. And there is very little traffic on the main roads to those places (ie Springvale/Baron Cameron to get to Reston; Old Dominion to Spring Hill to get to Tyson’s). We see it as a very small trade off to live in a great, tight-knit community that in many ways feels like a small town.

A tight-knit small-town community typically doesn't have huge homes on big lots where people often don't know their neighbors, or send its kids off to a middle school and high school in another part of the county miles away.

Well we live here and we know that it is a tight-knit community (and we are good friends with our neighbors and most others on our street). Added bonus: Lots of families with younger children have moved here in the past year or two, which is great for the kids. But everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

Covid was probably the best thing that happened to Great Falls since the 2008 recession. Of course, as employers return to the office gradually, more people will find out what it's like to have to commute from Great Falls to their jobs.

GF wasn't having any issues in the home sales department prior to Covid - what a weird post. And many - if not most - people in GF have short commutes to their jobs in the Reston/Tysons/Vienna corridor - or from home. Sour grapes are so unbecoming.

Not to mention the GF residents who own businesses.

Some of them are finding better uses for the money they were planning to spend on larger office space, whether due to not having to move to a larger space as planned or signing a lease for a smaller spot.

For one thing, quality employees need quality salary.

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Anonymous wrote:Chantilly sounds better with each post.

I feel like there is a lot of hate for Langley. I’m not really sure why.

I don’t go hating Potomac or Chevy chase. I don’t know much about them besides a lot of wealthy people live there that I don’t know.

Langley is below 2% FARMS— their FARMS numbers are even lower than TJ. But. The SB ignores that while blowing TJ up to get more poor kids in. And the GF a parents go to absurd lengths to make certain that no poors are zoned for their kids’ school. Lawsuits, SB recalls, trying to incorporate GFs. Etc. Etc. They are terrified their kids might have to attend a public school that’s is 10% free and reduced lunch. It’s just gross.

Have you ever driven to Langley High? The neighborhood surrounded Langley is all single family homes that mostly cost $2m+. I don’t know where these free lunch people would live. Langley is low FARMs because the high school is located on some prime expensive real estate.

DP here. The school’s boundaries are huge so your observation is stupid. They absolutely could pull from some neighborhoods less wealthy than the area immediately adjacent to the school but they’ve manipulated the process and the politicians for years to make sure that never happens.

And then they come on here and pretend to be middle-class because the last thing they want is scrutiny of the special treatment.

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Anonymous wrote:I was going to say Chantilly until your post about your social status. Please stay away.

Exactly - on middle class people actually worry about their social status being signaled through their neighborhood choice or public school - actually Chantilly has way strong STEM and a better cohort of physics-oriented students - so why would you go to Langley?

The truly rich people who can afford any house would stay where they feel the most comfortable and among people they enjoy.

There are way more convenient asian grocery stores near Chantilly than there are near Langley - why would an asian american who was secure enough in their wealth want to stay in Langley?

There's only one grocery store in the Langley area, a Safeway at Great Falls Village. You have to drive miles for anything.

Please don't bother posting if you can't stick to the truth. There is that Safeway, a Giant in McLean, a Harris Teeter near Tysons, and a Lidl coming to McLean.

Isn't the GFV Safeway is the only grocery store within Langley's boundaries? Other stores are in areas zoned to other schools.

Does FCPS monitor to make sure that you only go to a grocery store in your boundary?

(We shop at the Great Falls Safeway. It is more than adequate. And extremely convenient for those of us who live in GF. If we ever need a bigger or more unique store, there are plenty that are only a short drive away on Leesburg Pike or in Reston.)

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So bizarre.

I love Safeway so much I have an annual freshpass. However, here are some items I buy elsewhere:
50cfu biokefir-whole foods
pau d'arco tea-vitamin/moms
opo squash,bittermelon, fermented blackbean-Aditi/GreatWall/H-mart
powder laundry-Sierra
1 gr sugar ricotta-Italian Store/Rest. depot
non-Korean pignoli-Sfizi, Italian Store
blood&tongue/zeigenwurst-German Gourmet
flax ricecakes-Giant
juniper-fresh market/moms
bell&evans whole-balduccis/whole foods
adirondack ice cream/low sugar high fat (custard style) -balduccis/german gourmet

Tysons/Vienna/W. McLean/N. Merrifield is close to these plus Harris Teeter(great baby back). Great Falls is doable to these, but slightly more of a hike and on lonely roads. Those living in Great Falls, where do you get low sugar/ethnic foods like these?

I admittedly have never bought most of those items, but the Reston Whole Foods is only 15 mins away and there is a Super H Mart and a Mom’s in Herndon (maybe 20 mins away). We also have a great butcher near the Village.

Is there more driving to get certain things? Of course. But Reston, Tyson’s, etc. aren’t really that far away. And there is very little traffic on the main roads to those places (ie Springvale/Baron Cameron to get to Reston; Old Dominion to Spring Hill to get to Tyson’s). We see it as a very small trade off to live in a great, tight-knit community that in many ways feels like a small town.

A tight-knit small-town community typically doesn't have huge homes on big lots where people often don't know their neighbors, or send its kids off to a middle school and high school in another part of the county miles away.

We know we’re special.

No need to keep pointing it out.

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Anonymous wrote:I was going to say Chantilly until your post about your social status. Please stay away.

Exactly - on middle class people actually worry about their social status being signaled through their neighborhood choice or public school - actually Chantilly has way strong STEM and a better cohort of physics-oriented students - so why would you go to Langley?

The truly rich people who can afford any house would stay where they feel the most comfortable and among people they enjoy.

There are way more convenient asian grocery stores near Chantilly than there are near Langley - why would an asian american who was secure enough in their wealth want to stay in Langley?

There's only one grocery store in the Langley area, a Safeway at Great Falls Village. You have to drive miles for anything.

Please don't bother posting if you can't stick to the truth. There is that Safeway, a Giant in McLean, a Harris Teeter near Tysons, and a Lidl coming to McLean.

Isn't the GFV Safeway is the only grocery store within Langley's boundaries? Other stores are in areas zoned to other schools.

Does FCPS monitor to make sure that you only go to a grocery store in your boundary?

(We shop at the Great Falls Safeway. It is more than adequate. And extremely convenient for those of us who live in GF. If we ever need a bigger or more unique store, there are plenty that are only a short drive away on Leesburg Pike or in Reston.)

+1
So bizarre.

I love Safeway so much I have an annual freshpass. However, here are some items I buy elsewhere:
50cfu biokefir-whole foods
pau d'arco tea-vitamin/moms
opo squash,bittermelon, fermented blackbean-Aditi/GreatWall/H-mart
powder laundry-Sierra
1 gr sugar ricotta-Italian Store/Rest. depot
non-Korean pignoli-Sfizi, Italian Store
blood&tongue/zeigenwurst-German Gourmet
flax ricecakes-Giant
juniper-fresh market/moms
bell&evans whole-balduccis/whole foods
adirondack ice cream/low sugar high fat (custard style) -balduccis/german gourmet

Tysons/Vienna/W. McLean/N. Merrifield is close to these plus Harris Teeter(great baby back). Great Falls is doable to these, but slightly more of a hike and on lonely roads. Those living in Great Falls, where do you get low sugar/ethnic foods like these?

Don’t you known that we are all crazy rich and send our personal assistants to do the shopping so that we can play tennis at the club and get our highlights done at Toka?

Anonymous wrote:All you people who assume the asian immigrants in chantilly are somehow lower class than langley have absolutely no clue about the social status of the immigrant families in their countries in Asia. They are very often of way higher social class than the local american langley families. To the OP you are really deluded and making a mistaken assumption about class and income and are ignoring the role of immigration from asian countries.

It’s hilarious when people get all huffy about some anonymous people on a message board NOT perceiving their social status on a manner befits their ego lol.

I’m not sure what kind of Asian you are. Langley has more East Asians, specifically Korean and Chinese. We moved to Langley pyramid for schools and I was surprised how many Asians there were.

My friends in Chantilly tell me there are a lot of Indians there.

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Anonymous wrote:Chantilly sounds better with each post.

I feel like there is a lot of hate for Langley. I’m not really sure why.

I don’t go hating Potomac or Chevy chase. I don’t know much about them besides a lot of wealthy people live there that I don’t know.

Langley is below 2% FARMS— their FARMS numbers are even lower than TJ. But. The SB ignores that while blowing TJ up to get more poor kids in. And the GF a parents go to absurd lengths to make certain that no poors are zoned for their kids’ school. Lawsuits, SB recalls, trying to incorporate GFs. Etc. Etc. They are terrified their kids might have to attend a public school that’s is 10% free and reduced lunch. It’s just gross.

Have you ever driven to Langley High? The neighborhood surrounded Langley is all single family homes that mostly cost $2m+. I don’t know where these free lunch people would live. Langley is low FARMs because the high school is located on some prime expensive real estate.

Anonymous wrote:The asian immigrants in western fairfax are way better educated but less capitalized than the upper middle class or upper class residents of the great falls/near mclean area. You can't judge class in Fairfax county without an understanding of immigration patterns.

Look at test scores and academic performance to judge schools. Trying to do a class analysis and then reverse-engineer schooling is way less accurate than looking at scholactic performance variables directly.

Asian American living in McLean. I have to disagree. There are so many well educated Asian parents in McLean. I don’t know why you would think the ones in a cheaper area would be better educated. McLean has well educated Asian Americans, well educated Asians who will return back to home country and well educated Asian immigrants. They are all represented.

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Anonymous wrote:Chantilly sounds better with each post.

I feel like there is a lot of hate for Langley. I’m not really sure why.

I don’t go hating Potomac or Chevy chase. I don’t know much about them besides a lot of wealthy people live there that I don’t know.

Langley is below 2% FARMS— their FARMS numbers are even lower than TJ. But. The SB ignores that while blowing TJ up to get more poor kids in. And the GF a parents go to absurd lengths to make certain that no poors are zoned for their kids’ school. Lawsuits, SB recalls, trying to incorporate GFs. Etc. Etc. They are terrified their kids might have to attend a public school that’s is 10% free and reduced lunch. It’s just gross.

Anonymous wrote:Chantilly sounds better with each post.

I feel like there is a lot of hate for Langley. I’m not really sure why.

I don’t go hating Potomac or Chevy chase. I don’t know much about them besides a lot of wealthy people live there that I don’t know.

Chantilly sounds better with each post.

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Anonymous wrote:Those are two very different communities and your housing budget would place you in very different social places - you’d be rich at Chantilly and poor at Langley. What are your other priorities?

You would not be poor at Langley. You’d be average.

- Langley mom

In 2022, a $1.1-1.2M housing budget means you're below-average economically in the Langley HS district.

But someone has to be, as there's always a distribution. The Langley district is spread out and I don't think people are spending much time keeping tabs on who lives in the more affordable areas, which in Langley's case means (1) western Great Falls near Loudoun, (2) the Vienna neighborhoods off Route 7, and (3) the Kings Manor townhouses in McLean. Teaching your kids they can't always have everything some other kid has is a valuable lesson.

DP. You are correct that no one who actually goes to Langley thinks about or talks about the wealth of their peers. Curiously, that seems to be the sole purview of people whose kids go to school elsewhere.

This is so true! I was afraid of affluenza and drugs because of DCUM. I didn’t actually know anyone in the Langley area as we are DMV transplants.

My kids have a ton of friends who live by Kings Manor. We live in a big house on a large lot and I’m pretty sure my kids would prefer to live closer to Kings Manor where there are a ton of kids.

I think most of my kids’ friends are well off but not everyone is. We moved from a high FARMs area where most people didn’t travel for winter or spring break. In McLean, most everyone goes away. We always bump into classmates at the airport during both spring and winter break. My kids do have a few friends who live in modest homes and more modest lifestyles. They are well liked and no one cares. You never know who chooses no camp because of cost or because they prefer just going to the local pool all summer.