Anonymous wrote:Inteligent people are fleeing Youngkin. It really isn’t any more complicated than that.

Progressives are smart. Smart people won’t stay around when someone like Youngkin is governor. Ergo smart people and their HHI are fleeing Virginia.

Maryland’s gain!

Oh my, such delusion going on here.

Anonymous wrote:We are planning to move out because the school board is ruining the once-excellent schools here, and there’s no sign that downward trend will change anytime soon.

Ironically, we originally moved here in 2009 because of the great schools.

Same here! Our youngest graduates next year and we are out of here.

Simple reasons, Democratic school boards are out of control, and people care about education. Add the quest to build a lot of multifamily housing in traditional single family home neighborhoods putting more traffic on already clogged roads and the fact that many people are retiring and what to move to safer, lower tax locations and you get the start of what will be a growing exodus in the decade ahead.

Anonymous wrote:Inteligent people are fleeing Youngkin. It really isn’t any more complicated than that.

Progressives are smart. Smart people won’t stay around when someone like Youngkin is governor. Ergo smart people and their HHI are fleeing Virginia.

Maryland’s gain!

Ironically, this is a dumb and stupid post. Youngkin will be gone by 2025 thanks to term limits.

Equally laughable is the notion that HHI earners are leaving NoVa for…Maryland.

NoVa families are leaving for places with lower COLs. They’re certainly not flocking to the likes of MoCo or PG County…

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Anonymous wrote:Just remember, everyone is fleeing Fairfax because housing is so expensive because of demand. It makes total logical sense when you think about it as long as you don't think too hard

Why is the new immigrant population so high in nova though? Minimum wage workers can afford to live in nova?

It's incredible the new immigrant population in the City of Alexandria, Falls Church, Rt 7 Annandale. Take a drive around here.

Salvador II. The book Th Clash of civilizations from 25 years ago was very prescient take.

Anonymous wrote:Inteligent people are fleeing Youngkin. It really isn’t any more complicated than that.

Progressives are smart. Smart people won’t stay around when someone like Youngkin is governor. Ergo smart people and their HHI are fleeing Virginia.

Maryland’s gain!

Out of frying pan into the fire!

Our wannabe Obama governor is too busy with Presidential press conferences because Biden likely needs to be in bed by 9.

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Anonymous wrote:Inteligent people are fleeing Youngkin. It really isn’t any more complicated than that.

Progressives are smart. Smart people won’t stay around when someone like Youngkin is governor. Ergo smart people and their HHI are fleeing Virginia.

Maryland’s gain!

Maryland is worse. Bad schools and crazy people and way too many homeless

Huh? MCPS is the best local public district in the area.

-VA resident

Hardly. Lower test scores, fewer top scholars, and more violent, out-of-control kids in MCPS making teachers’ lives miserable.

I want MCPS marketing department. My Va buddies also repeat this fallacy. Just barely anyone in the county repeats it anymore. (28 year former Moco resident who came and then departed for quality of schools - or lack there of)

Anonymous wrote:We are planning to move out because the school board is ruining the once-excellent schools here, and there’s no sign that downward trend will change anytime soon.

Ironically, we originally moved here in 2009 because of the great schools.

You know we switched schools last year and the new school is so much better than the old one. If we had started in this school at K, I would never have had any complaints of about FCPS. It is just so dependent on the school.

I'll be honest that in our case we switched from a mixed SES school with a large ESOL population to a high SES school with like a 0.5% ESOL population, so the focus is 100% on all the children in the class instead of a small subset and it has made a world of difference. This is was people got in 2009, it's still here in most schools.

Really interesting study:

https://www.unitedvanlines.com/newsroom/movers-study-2022

Anonymous wrote:The state’s median household income has fallen. One reason is because high-income workers in Northern Virginia are moving out of state. Virginia is growing poorer and its most affluent region is to blame.

Interesting article with data showing a lot of people with money are moving out of the area. There is a huge shift in population in NOVA happening right now.

"Let me say that again, louder and more specifically, for the people in the back: Fairfax County is now losing population. That hasn’t happened since the 1820s. That’s how profound a demographic shift this is."

https://cardinalnews.org/2023/09/25/northern-virginia-exodus-pulls-down-virginias-income-martinsville-shows-states-fastest-wage-growth/

What do you make of this, from the same author?

https://cardinalnews.org/2023/03/15/moving-companies-say-virginia-net-out-migration-has-stopped-but-other-data-says-its-accelerating/

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Anonymous wrote:Inteligent people are fleeing Youngkin. It really isn’t any more complicated than that.

Progressives are smart. Smart people won’t stay around when someone like Youngkin is governor. Ergo smart people and their HHI are fleeing Virginia.

Maryland’s gain!

Maryland is worse. Bad schools and crazy people and way too many homeless

Huh? MCPS is the best local public district in the area.

-VA resident

Hardly. Lower test scores, fewer top scholars, and more violent, out-of-control kids in MCPS making teachers’ lives miserable.

Honestly, test scores don't mean much anymore. They're eliminating the standards, letting test takers retake after a fail, making tests open book, making tests pass/fail, making testing optional (heck, making some homework optional), and grading on a super curve because the numbers are so bad. They're even making the LSAT and SAT optional for many universities. It's not about merit anymore. It's about avoiding hurt feelings and not damaging self-esteem. Everyone is getting a prize and a third to half the class is graduating with honors.

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Anonymous wrote:Inteligent people are fleeing Youngkin. It really isn’t any more complicated than that.

Progressives are smart. Smart people won’t stay around when someone like Youngkin is governor. Ergo smart people and their HHI are fleeing Virginia.

Maryland’s gain!

Maryland is worse. Bad schools and crazy people and way too many homeless

Huh? MCPS is the best local public district in the area.

-VA resident

Hardly. Lower test scores, fewer top scholars, and more violent, out-of-control kids in MCPS making teachers’ lives miserable.

Roads here are clogged and housing is unaffordable with interest rates.

Some of the school systems have become very administratively heavy and parents aren't liking what they're hearing in Fairfax, especially those who value academics over indoctrination.

Plus, people come here to NOVA to boost their pay (you can't swing a dead cat without hitting an GS-14+ or an IT worker selling wares to .gov and making great coin). But the pace here is fast and very career oriented, so at some point, people want to chill.

I think you actually see some people moving overseas to make the most of their gains.

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Anonymous wrote:Just remember, everyone is fleeing Fairfax because housing is so expensive because of demand. It makes total logical sense when you think about it as long as you don't think too hard

Why is the new immigrant population so high in nova though? Minimum wage workers can afford to live in nova?

They aren’t that kind of immigrant or at least not out in our area of Loudoun County. The influx out here has a lot of money.

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Anonymous wrote:It couldn't be that every housewife in the state was using CTC on the declaration forms as income could it? $2,000+ a year is just about the amount a money a parent would get for 1.5 kids.

In any case, Virginia was not among those lucky 14 (2021 to 2022). In Virginia, the median household income fell from $87,861 to $85,873, a decline of 2.3%.

The state and federal government should give raises to Virginia state and federal employees. Problem solved.

Just Virginians huh?