Anonymous wrote:I live in Virginia, but I'm not from here. I like it a pretty good deal, so I can never understand why it is that Marylanders come on here and trash Virginia. Don't flame me! I'm not trying to start a war. I just want to understand why Marylanders hate Virginia so much because they seem pretty similar to me.

I grew up in NoVa; we trashed NoVa all the time. I now live in MoCo. There's not a lot of difference between the two to be honest; it's just each side being parochial.

They both suck but Maryland is a richer and more educated state .

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Anonymous wrote:Why are there soooo many Marylanders always hanging out at Tysons and potomac mills malls? Isn't montgomery mall and arundel mills enough for them? All the tags in the mall parking lots always say "maryland" and outnumber virginia

Landover mall closed.

People still go to a mall?

Losers.

Anonymous wrote:Why are there soooo many Marylanders always hanging out at Tysons and potomac mills malls? Isn't montgomery mall and arundel mills enough for them? All the tags in the mall parking lots always say "maryland" and outnumber virginia

Landover mall closed.

Verily, exponentially more Marylanders moved to NOVA than vice versa, like myself. Montgomery County natives at least. It has gone downhill as far as crime and schools. There were not 40-person fights and murders in schools there back in the day. The county was not tossing around a curfew to curb robberies and other crime. Girls were not bringing home scalp pieces from fights. These are the reasons I never looked back. We used to leave our front door unlocked there.

When I moved to VA, I was stunned how people leave their cars on, keys in the ignition, and run into stores. Compare.

Sure, VA has negatives. Traffic. Lots of skilled immigrants and transplants as opposed to more static neighborhoods where everybody has known everybody for years. Nobody speaks in public. Very mousy. Just overall cold feeling here. I do not even know any neighbors on my street except my immediate neighbors, left right and behind, and i have lived in my home for 4 years. All 3 neighbors are senior citizens.

Anonymous wrote:I lived in DC for a while and now MD. I generally have a very good sense of direction but I find VA very difficult to navigate, particularly 395 and going south - like the airport and beyond. The signage is terrible. I always end up driving around the Pentagon and can NEVER find the Costco in Pentagon City.

Havent had the same issues going west (Falls Church and Seven Corners were always good to me).

395 south , take exit 8c going to crystal city/ dca , then exist 15 st south on the right, one light later you're at Costco pentagon city

The same reason why Virginians think Maryland sucks--we are xenophobes.

Anonymous wrote:Born and raised in DC. Now live in MD. Always found Virginia to be racist and way too conservative.

Yet NOVA is is blue as blue gets. Nice try!

Anonymous wrote:As a Virginia, born and bred, we do not care what Marylanders think of us. Nor, I imagine, do Marylanders give a rat's derierre what Virginians think of them.

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- Virginian native happily living across the bridge with my fellow Marylanders

As a Virginia, born and bred, we do not care what Marylanders think of us. Nor, I imagine, do Marylanders give a rat's derierre what Virginians think of them.

Why are there soooo many Marylanders always hanging out at Tysons and potomac mills malls? Isn't montgomery mall and arundel mills enough for them? All the tags in the mall parking lots always say "maryland" and outnumber virginia

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Anonymous wrote:I grew up in Virginia (not NoVA) and went to school in Virginia too. I now work in DC but live in NoVA. I will not raise children in Virginia.

Keep those low test scores out of va

Huh? Md is the richest , highest educated and highest scores state in the United States.

Really? wiki source doesn't say that


Rank County State Median Household Income
1 Loudoun County Virginia
$117,876
2 Fairfax County Virginia
$109,383
3 Howard County Maryland
$108,844
4 Hunterdon County New Jersey
$105,186

You don't know the difference between a state and a county? That proves the education stat.

http://blogs.voanews.com/all-about-america/2015/09/21/these-are-americas-richest-poorest-states

http://news.yahoo.com/the-most-educated-states-in-america-203333989.html

MD is the richest state and 3rd most educated behind Mass. And Colorado.

In the context of a DC area discussion, I think only NoVa is particularly relevant. Sure, Maryland may be more wealthy when you consider all of Virginia including the small towns out in the country. But I don't know why being more affluent than Danville or wherever is worth bragging about.

If you want an apples to apples comparison, you need to look at NoVa vs the Maryland burbs of DC.

Exactly! I don't know why this liberal Marylander is comparing rural VA counties when it is obvious the comparison is with the MD and VA suburbs!

Anonymous wrote:We live in MD now, but when we were house hunting, we definitely considered NOVA. DH and I are from MN so we really had no context of VA vs. MD. We found VA to have lots of very nice parts. Cheaper taxes. Way more development than MD. We actually found NOVA in generally to have a better stock of newer homes and better options for schools and house space for better prices then MD.

Can't put my finger on it, but we really just did not feel comfortable in VA and did not want our kids, who are biracial, to go to school there. While house hunting and talking with people who lived in the neighborhoods we searched (Vienna, Mclean, North Arlington, Falls Church, Loudon, Alexandria), we really got an underlying sense that we were not really wanted there. It was perplexing b/c we know plenty of minorities who live throughout NOVA and they never expressed this sentiment. At least not explicitly.

I'm a minority and i never felt out of place in North Arlington but gentrification really screwed up the areas you mentioned.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't read the above but these are my reasons. I hate the spaghetti bowl concrete maze of highways in VA. That whole area between DC and IAD seems soulless. VA has and always has had very conservative, punitive policies, rooted in the history of settlement of VA way back when. They handcuffed an autistic child having a tantrum at school and charged him with assault. I think he was 12. Some perverts in the legal system in VA (I wanna say a magistrate judge and a prosecutor?) threatened to force a teenage boy to have an erection and photograph it so they could compare with the sexted photographs he was being accused of sending to his girlfriend. Need I say more? Those people are crazy and I would avoid living there at all costs. Would not want to raise a child there. Some pretty countryside though.

I guess you'd rather see if Larry Hogan can change the decades old culture of corruption in Maryland?

I'd rather not see Hogan at all, but honestly I'd prefer a little political corruption to institutionalized pedophilia and extreme punitiveness in the judicial system and culture.

You're just a wacko to characterize an entire state that way.

Well, it was a dumb question. But things like this don't happen unless there is a mentality, laws, politicians, and a way of thinking that supports it. You can't make this shit up.

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As far as I'm concerned, once you leave NOVA, the rest of VA might as well be Mississippi or Georgia. I say the same thing for the central MD as well. Couldn't count how many confederate flags we passed heading to western PA through MD.

As an Asian American, if I *had* to choose, I would probably pick rural MD over rural VA. I've driven through both, and IMO, rural MD seems less red necky. Just my opinion. Plus, state politics in MD lean a bit more liberal than VA, though it doesn't really impact day to day life.

The many Asian communities in NoVA would disagree with you. Love the Vietnamese community in Falls Church, to name just one in NoVA.

And how many of them go to rural VA? I wasn't talking about NoVa. I was referring to rural areas of both MD and VA. BTW, MoCo has a sizeable Asian population, too.