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Anonymous wrote:The folks who can’t afford a good location are moving to aldie, leesburg, etc. No one actually wants to live out there.

There are plenty of us who just do not enjoy city life or life in the close in suburbs. I live in an exurb and cannot image a circumstance in which I would move back to the close in suburbs.

It’s all the same “life” regardless of your distance from dc. What changes are schools, commute, demographics, cost of living, and amenities. They all improve close in and that comes with a cost that’s unaffordable or not worth it for some.

I don’t think anyone is comparing Aldie to living in DC.

No, it’s not the same “life”, my day to day life is drastically different in my exurb 40 miles out than it was when I lived 5 miles from the DC line. All those things you mentioned make up a life. The schools my kids are at now are better than where they were in MCPS, the cost of living out here is much better, and I have access to all the amenities that are important to me. It’s fine that others don’t have the same priorities that I do when it comes to quality of life, but for me and my family our quality of life was much worse closer in than it is now.

🤷🏻‍♂️ You upgraded from a bad part of MD to less bad part of VA. Google the school rankings for Aldie, they’re nothing to write home about.

I am not actually in Aldie but am in the VA exurbs. I don’t begrudge people their love of DC and the wealthy close-in suburbs, but it just wasn’t for me. The issues that cropped up in my kids’ MCPS ES (you can check out the MoCo schools thread for a sampling of the issues there) have not been present in our exurban ES. I don’t worry about crime ever. I am in a large comfortable home with easy access to Shenandoah, wineries and breweries. There is a sense of community and neighborliness that I didn’t experience in MoCo. YMMV, but the pros of being close-in were easily outweighed by the cons for me.

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Anonymous wrote:The folks who can’t afford a good location are moving to aldie, leesburg, etc. No one actually wants to live out there.

There are plenty of us who just do not enjoy city life or life in the close in suburbs. I live in an exurb and cannot image a circumstance in which I would move back to the close in suburbs.

It’s all the same “life” regardless of your distance from dc. What changes are schools, commute, demographics, cost of living, and amenities. They all improve close in and that comes with a cost that’s unaffordable or not worth it for some.

I don’t think anyone is comparing Aldie to living in DC.

No, it’s not the same “life”, my day to day life is drastically different in my exurb 40 miles out than it was when I lived 5 miles from the DC line. All those things you mentioned make up a life. The schools my kids are at now are better than where they were in MCPS, the cost of living out here is much better, and I have access to all the amenities that are important to me. It’s fine that others don’t have the same priorities that I do when it comes to quality of life, but for me and my family our quality of life was much worse closer in than it is now.

🤷🏻‍♂️ You upgraded from a bad part of MD to less bad part of VA. Google the school rankings for Aldie, they’re nothing to write home about.

none of the schools in loudoun are to write home about. but that’s what you sacrifice; cheaper cost of living for worse schools and living 1.5 hrs from DC.

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Anonymous wrote:The folks who can’t afford a good location are moving to aldie, leesburg, etc. No one actually wants to live out there.

There are plenty of us who just do not enjoy city life or life in the close in suburbs. I live in an exurb and cannot image a circumstance in which I would move back to the close in suburbs.

It’s all the same “life” regardless of your distance from dc. What changes are schools, commute, demographics, cost of living, and amenities. They all improve close in and that comes with a cost that’s unaffordable or not worth it for some.

I don’t think anyone is comparing Aldie to living in DC.

No, it’s not the same “life”, my day to day life is drastically different in my exurb 40 miles out than it was when I lived 5 miles from the DC line. All those things you mentioned make up a life. The schools my kids are at now are better than where they were in MCPS, the cost of living out here is much better, and I have access to all the amenities that are important to me. It’s fine that others don’t have the same priorities that I do when it comes to quality of life, but for me and my family our quality of life was much worse closer in than it is now.

🤷🏻‍♂️ You upgraded from a bad part of MD to less bad part of VA. Google the school rankings for Aldie, they’re nothing to write home about.

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Anonymous wrote:The folks who can’t afford a good location are moving to aldie, leesburg, etc. No one actually wants to live out there.

There are plenty of us who just do not enjoy city life or life in the close in suburbs. I live in an exurb and cannot image a circumstance in which I would move back to the close in suburbs.

It’s all the same “life” regardless of your distance from dc. What changes are schools, commute, demographics, cost of living, and amenities. They all improve close in and that comes with a cost that’s unaffordable or not worth it for some.

I don’t think anyone is comparing Aldie to living in DC.

No, it’s not the same “life”, my day to day life is drastically different in my exurb 40 miles out than it was when I lived 5 miles from the DC line. All those things you mentioned make up a life. The schools my kids are at now are better than where they were in MCPS, the cost of living out here is much better, and I have access to all the amenities that are important to me. It’s fine that others don’t have the same priorities that I do when it comes to quality of life, but for me and my family our quality of life was much worse closer in than it is now.

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Anonymous wrote:The folks who can’t afford a good location are moving to aldie, leesburg, etc. No one actually wants to live out there.

There are plenty of us who just do not enjoy city life or life in the close in suburbs. I live in an exurb and cannot image a circumstance in which I would move back to the close in suburbs.

It’s all the same “life” regardless of your distance from dc. What changes are schools, commute, demographics, cost of living, and amenities. They all improve close in and that comes with a cost that’s unaffordable or not worth it for some.

I don’t think anyone is comparing Aldie to living in DC.

After watching what happens at Loudoun County school board meetings, I will never move there.

Anonymous wrote:The folks who can’t afford a good location are moving to aldie, leesburg, etc. No one actually wants to live out there.

There are plenty of us who just do not enjoy city life or life in the close in suburbs. I live in an exurb and cannot image a circumstance in which I would move back to the close in suburbs.

Anonymous wrote:The folks who can’t afford a good location are moving to aldie, leesburg, etc. No one actually wants to live out there.

The 2 people that I know moved there were both doctors so able to afford a lot. Both moved back.

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Why? Because it was $650k and a nice house. Same house in some place like Arlington would be $1.6 easy — who wants to pay that when we’re all working from home and going to continue working from home?

Who? Someone that appreciates living in an urban environment with a gazillion amenities. There is nothing in Aldie. Nada.

Sounds nice & peaceful.

Anonymous wrote:The folks who can’t afford a good location are moving to aldie, leesburg, etc. No one actually wants to live out there.

+1. That’s out in the boonies. Folks who live in eastern loudoun couldn’t afford mclean or great falls, so they chose an average neighborhood with a +30 minute commute. If you really wanted to live in loudoun are republicans in the west.

The folks who can’t afford a good location are moving to aldie, leesburg, etc. No one actually wants to live out there.

We own a 500 acre farm in loudoun. i love the exurbs.

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Anonymous wrote:The people I know moving back from Aldie specifically cited lack of anything nearby, traffic, and just "boring" so not the same as Purcellville.

Perhaps although I think some of us believe OP’s insinuation is people have stopped moving farther out, which isn’t supported by any, you know, facts.

I'm the OP saying that, no, I'm specifically speaking about Aldie.

Anonymous wrote:And here I thought I was opening a thread about the grocery store chain...

Me too!

Anonymous wrote:Isn’t RTO picking up?

Not really