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Anonymous wrote:Can the Maryland boosters explain situations like this where a house in Potomac only appreciated $100 in 20 years? Stuff like this is not happening in comparable VA hoods like McLean, North Arlington, Vienna and Great Falls.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1314941.page

Really? Here's one I found quickly:

https://www.redfin.com/VA/Arlington/4109-N-Randolph-Ct-22207/home/22018528

Sold for less in 2025 than 2013. So it was negative appreciation in 12 years.

Oh, and in 2007, it sold for $2,474,292. So, 1% appreciation in 20 years.

Some random house in a weird location does not represent all homes in Arlington.

Read above for the PP who tried to make exactly this point about Potomac. PP specifically asked why it hadn't happened in North Arlington. Turns out it did.

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Anonymous wrote:VA is best for instate college. However, all three of my kids refused to go to an instate college as wanted to "go away" to college not a place close by with a lot of kids from their HS.

It also depends where you work in DC. some parts DC easy to get to from VA some parts easy MD some parts same either way.

and people on DCOM miss if poor or lower income you want to live in high tax places. Why they have lots of services for lower income folks and you dont pay taxes anyhow.

Who cares what people with funds to pay for private colleges and private schools think, obviously in-state schools aren't as relevant for you if you have fat college savings you have to spend anyway. It's like people who have $$$ for private schools chiming in on which school district is better when it's hardly relevant to them beyond marginal difference in home values if that.

For people who have no option but to use state colleges due to costs (regardless where their kids "want" to go to college) VA wins. Is there a debate?

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Anonymous wrote:Can the Maryland boosters explain situations like this where a house in Potomac only appreciated $100 in 20 years? Stuff like this is not happening in comparable VA hoods like McLean, North Arlington, Vienna and Great Falls.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1314941.page

Really? Here's one I found quickly:

https://www.redfin.com/VA/Arlington/4109-N-Randolph-Ct-22207/home/22018528

Sold for less in 2025 than 2013. So it was negative appreciation in 12 years.

Oh, and in 2007, it sold for $2,474,292. So, 1% appreciation in 20 years.

Some random house in a weird location does not represent all homes in Arlington.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can the Maryland boosters explain situations like this where a house in Potomac only appreciated $100 in 20 years? Stuff like this is not happening in comparable VA hoods like McLean, North Arlington, Vienna and Great Falls.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1314941.page

Really? Here's one I found quickly:

https://www.redfin.com/VA/Arlington/4109-N-Randolph-Ct-22207/home/22018528

Sold for less in 2025 than 2013. So it was negative appreciation in 12 years.

Oh, and in 2007, it sold for $2,474,292. So, 1% appreciation in 20 years.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can the Maryland boosters explain situations like this where a house in Potomac only appreciated $100 in 20 years? Stuff like this is not happening in comparable VA hoods like McLean, North Arlington, Vienna and Great Falls.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1314941.page

Really? Here's one I found quickly:

https://www.redfin.com/VA/Arlington/4109-N-Randolph-Ct-22207/home/22018528

Sold for less in 2025 than 2013. So it was negative appreciation in 12 years.

Anonymous wrote:Can the Maryland boosters explain situations like this where a house in Potomac only appreciated $100 in 20 years? Stuff like this is not happening in comparable VA hoods like McLean, North Arlington, Vienna and Great Falls.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1314941.page

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Anonymous wrote:A big factor is what industries you and your spouse work in.

Overall there are more job opportunities in NoVA than Maryland. In some industries, dramatically more.

I like living in Arlington and now Alexandria city because it’s easy for me to access job markets in Rosslyn, Tysons, DC and everywhere in between.

People live in relatively far out VA or MD and commute into DC all the time.

Not sure why a person can’t live in Bethesda (or better Glen Echo area) and work in Tysons or live in McLean and work at Marriott in Bethesda.

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Anonymous wrote:A big factor is what industries you and your spouse work in.

Overall there are more job opportunities in NoVA than Maryland. In some industries, dramatically more.

I like living in Arlington and now Alexandria city because it’s easy for me to access job markets in Rosslyn, Tysons, DC and everywhere in between.

People live in relatively far out VA or MD and commute into DC all the time.

Not sure why a person can’t live in Bethesda (or better Glen Echo area) and work in Tysons or live in McLean and work at Marriott in Bethesda.

You absolutely can. It's merely a question of how lengthy and tedious a commute you personally can tolerate. Priorities....

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Anonymous wrote:A big factor is what industries you and your spouse work in.

Overall there are more job opportunities in NoVA than Maryland. In some industries, dramatically more.

I like living in Arlington and now Alexandria city because it’s easy for me to access job markets in Rosslyn, Tysons, DC and everywhere in between.

People live in relatively far out VA or MD and commute into DC all the time.

Not sure why a person can’t live in Bethesda (or better Glen Echo area) and work in Tysons or live in McLean and work at Marriott in Bethesda.

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve done a lot of digging into the new income and investment tax proposals. They are likely to pass because they are being sponsored by leadership and/or heads of committees.

OP, if you don’t make $500K+, the new investment and income tax proposals won’t impact you. It’s 8% on $600K+ and 10% on 1M+, and 3.2% on investment income IF your HHI is over $500K.

So the top bracket is 13.2% and would apply to say someone making $1.5M with $300K of that being investment income (rental property, etc). This would be the highest rate in the country if passed.

If you’re below $1M, VA still has less taxes than MD or DC. At the $1M mark, it gets closer and if taxes were your only deciding factor, it’s basically the same across VA, MD, and DC.

Also remember MD has the county tax which adds up once you hit $500K+ too, and DC has a brutal tax on $1M+ income as well.

VA also has much higher job growth and a healthier economy than MD due to the # of corporations here but DCUM gets rabid over that fact (apparently people aren’t aware Google and BLS data exists?). OP you can easily Google the data and see for yourself.

Virginia resident here who is thrilled about these new taxes. If we can't eat the rich, let's tax them. If they don't like it, they should move. Don't let the door hit you in the way out.