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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Taxes. VA has a Republican governor, and MD has a Democratic one. MoCo is a sanctuary county and as a result attracts low skilled immigrants who hold menial jobs and don't pay taxes.
I grew up in MD, but live in VA now. The state taxes are about 50% lower in VA than they are in MD and for what? Your schools are mediocre at best and you don't have a strong in state university system.
Virginia has been able to attract many, many more jobs than Maryland has. Naturally, people want to live near where they work. Companies don't want to go to MD, they want to go to VA.

Taxes. Virginia is almost a purple state. Maryland is solidly red.

MD is what now? Since when?

Anonymous wrote:Fairfax and now Loudoun are very well regarded schools. Montgomery County no longer has that reputation.
Fairfax may lose luster in the future with its poor reading curriculum and weakening of math but not yet.

Is that supposed to be a joke?

Anonymous wrote:Fairfax and now Loudoun are very well regarded schools. Montgomery County no longer has that reputation.
Fairfax may lose luster in the future with its poor reading curriculum and weakening of math but not yet.

That's not really supported at all...in fact if you remove TJ from the calculation, Montgomery County schools are very well regarded compared to Fairfax...and Loudon is a joke.

US News National HS Rankings:

Montgomery County
Whitman: 139
Poolesville: 172
Wooton: 196
Churchill: 295

Fairfax
TJ: 14 (but of course that is 100% a magnet HS)
Langley: 148
Oakton: 199
McLean: 218
Marshall: 238

Loudon
Briar Woods: 683
Freedom: 735
Riverside: 964
Rock Ridge: 1191

Fairfax and now Loudoun are very well regarded schools. Montgomery County no longer has that reputation.
Fairfax may lose luster in the future with its poor reading curriculum and weakening of math but not yet.

Anonymous wrote:Yes. Taxes. VA has a Republican governor, and MD has a Democratic one. MoCo is a sanctuary county and as a result attracts low skilled immigrants who hold menial jobs and don't pay taxes.
I grew up in MD, but live in VA now. The state taxes are about 50% lower in VA than they are in MD and for what? Your schools are mediocre at best and you don't have a strong in state university system.
Virginia has been able to attract many, many more jobs than Maryland has. Naturally, people want to live near where they work. Companies don't want to go to MD, they want to go to VA.

Taxes. Virginia is almost a purple state. Maryland is solidly red.

Anonymous wrote:Keep on trollin' OP. This fight has gotten old.

You hate MD, for some reason. So, don't come here.

Yep.
Wait until they find out that average housing price is higher in MD than VA, their heads will explode.
https://www.bankrate.com/real-estate/median-home-price/

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-median-home-sale-price-by-u-s-state/

So low taxes, safe neighborhoods, and good schools attract people and cause property values to increase? Got it!

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Anonymous wrote:Keep on trollin' OP. This fight has gotten old.

You hate MD, for some reason. So, don't come here.

+1. The appreciation in close-in Moco has been insane. Teardowns are now $1 million in outer parts of Bethesda, much more in close-in Bethesda.

Wait til Trump shuts down NIH

You're so desperate to show that Nova is better that now you're just inventing things. He never said he wants to shut down NIH. But if cutting spending is a goal, the bloated defense budget that powers Nova will certainly be a top priority.

MD and DC is too blue at the leadership level. Too much DEI in govt, policy decision bakers. This is what we get. Focus is on socialism vs economic progress. Get used to it. Only going to trend lower for DC, MD

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Anonymous wrote:People’s Republic of Moco

How's the Amazon Helix building coming along?

And why do Arlington public and private schools suck so much?

The Amazon Helix and one other Amazon building have been put on hold because Jeff can't get anyone to return to the office and he is hiring from a thin talent pool and has to let them do as they want. Arlington was sold a real bill of goods by Amazon but Katie Cristol got a good job out of it.

Arlington public schools suck because the schools in South Arlington are overwhelmed with ESOL children or those with handicaps or behavioral problems. Arlington continues to build affordable housing and has to bring in people from outside Arlington to fill the spaces. In North Arlington too much emphasis placed on using the iPad for instruction rather than teachers. This may be good as the younger teachers are not the most intelligent and the older teachers are just waiting to retire while their pensions are still good.

Public schools also have to follow government mandates around IEPs and educating disable children. This cause a great drain of resources from "normal" students and also causes disruptions in classrooms when teachers have to focus on children "acting out" rather than teaching the many others.

Private schools are just starting in Arlington as Rivendell was the only one pre-pandemic other than private nursery, pre-K and Montessori schools. People who wanted private sent their kids to Little Langley, Congressional, Basis, Potomac School, St. Stephen St Agnes for the most part. New private schools are cropping up throughout Arlington to meet the demand from parents who have had it with APS.

St. Agnes is a Catholic school and is Blue Ribbon School of Excellence. Many of its teachers are there as a way to partially SAHM and drop out while the kids are young. While not trained teachers, many of them are smarter and better educated than the typical Arlington public school teacher. Both St. Ann and St. Thomas More do a good job and certainly do not have to deal with the disruptive students

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Anonymous wrote:Keep on trollin' OP. This fight has gotten old.

You hate MD, for some reason. So, don't come here.

+1. The appreciation in close-in Moco has been insane. Teardowns are now $1 million in outer parts of Bethesda, much more in close-in Bethesda.

Wait til Trump shuts down NIH

Anonymous wrote:People’s Republic of Moco

How's the Amazon Helix building coming along?

And why do Arlington public and private schools suck so much?

People’s Republic of Moco

Anonymous wrote:https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/redfin/viz/shared/2KMCG2C5K

Look how much we are lagging other metro areas. All were in the same range in 2013.

slow and steady always wins the race

Anonymous wrote:https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/redfin/viz/shared/2KMCG2C5K

Look how much we are lagging other metro areas. All were in the same range in 2013.

The DMV metro area has more room for sprawl and new development LA development is sigficantly constrained by geography. You can't build in the ocean and much of very mountainous areas surrounding are not economically viable for development. There is also a substantial amount of federal/state land surrounding LA that is protected and not available for development. Seattle was a major beneficiary of the tech boom and there is also an ocean that limits outward growth of the metro area on one side. Boston is the most comparable and their growth in property prices has been fairly similar.