Businesses want business-friendly govt services and don't want to deal with corrupt council members. Large employers need be assured of safe neighborhoods and good schools for employees in order to relocate there. There are not enough of them in the District. I did a reverse commute when I was younger. When I had kids we moved to NOVA. DC is perfect for smaller, younger businesses. Unfortunately as they get bigger, they leave. There is enough space for both so no need to bicker folks. I enjoy both suburban and urban amenities, and refuse to be painted into one corner or another.

Office Market Size in Square Feet:

Tysons Corner - 25.5 million
Fairfax Co - 106.4 million
No VA (inc. Loudoun & PW) - 179.6 million

Washington, DC - 124.1 million

Overall, No. VA is larger than DC, but DC is currently holding its own against the Tysons submarket. Fairfax County is obviously a major powerhouse in our region and in the Commonwealth of VA, so no wonder it is gaining power in discussions on our region's future. And with Suburban Maryland's poor performance over the past few years, it is losing ground to VA and downtown. Hopefully it will improve in the next few years, which will benefit our region overall.

Anonymous wrote:No one goes to Tysons anymore, it's too crowded.

So where is the new Tysons?

Anonymous wrote:Tysons blows! We are being relocated by our company to effing TYSONS because there is a ton of office space there.

And we currently live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, so you can imagine the shock. Obv we aren't going to live there. MAYBE I can swing Clarendon, but not mclean, not fucking "crystal city", and def not TYSONS CORNER.

Go to Paris or Berlin, then go to tysons. You will think americans are the biggest idiots on the planet. Then you will want to shoot yourself in the face!

That is going to be a huge hit. I am so sorry. Definitely rent and get a sense of neighborhoods. Here's hoping you'll be relocated back to bklyn. Clarnedon is your best bet if you have to stay in NOVA. I would suggest the city, but your commute would be ass.

Anonymous wrote:Why do I see so many cars with DC plates here.

No Metro. DC folks are forced to drive in the suburbs.

Anonymous wrote:All this hype about the development of Tysons Corner is comical. I would be glad if it had a chance of being great because I live between Tysons and DC but really it's just a good shopping mall with some spread out offices and car dealerships. Sorry developers but the major problem you're going to have is that young people have zero interest in living there and that's not changing.

+1

Why do I see so many cars with DC plates here.

No one goes to Tysons anymore, it's too crowded.

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Anonymous wrote:

WOW - posting something like this, I know you are SO not from around here. In my whole life I have never known anyone in this area that racially stupid and insensitive. Joning on Koreans is not cool.

But hey, I'll tell you what - we will chose to live in a 20%+ Korean, low/no crime neighborhood with a 9/10 school (although our DD will probably end up at the AP school and be in a group that's more like 30%+ asian). Meanwhile, you stay in DC. Thank you so much for staying there. We don't want racist transplants like you.

Yeah, way to miss the point. Please.

We got the point. Tysons is full of crass, materialistic immigrants, while DC is full of upper-crust Brahmins. From Terre Haute and Peoria.

Not cool.

This is hardly a new idea:

http://geography.about.com/od/urbaneconomicgeography/a/edgecity.htm

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Tyson's has more jobs. Tysons has taller buildings. Tysons has more affluent households than does the District of Columbia. Tysons is about to get a real, live subway line!

And yet ... Tysons is still stupid and manufactured. It's our own little Gangnam Style thing going on, complete with flashy Koreans buying status bags and driving them home in their E-Class sedans.

WOW - posting something like this, I know you are SO not from around here. In my whole life I have never known anyone in this area that racially stupid and insensitive. Joning on Koreans is not cool.

But hey, I'll tell you what - we will chose to live in a 20%+ Korean, low/no crime neighborhood with a 9/10 school (although our DD will probably end up at the AP school and be in a group that's more like 30%+ asian). Meanwhile, you stay in DC. Thank you so much for staying there. We don't want racist transplants like you.

Yeah, way to miss the point. Please.

Their metro's look way better than dcs

Hm. No. You are a no-generation Washingtonian, as I suspected. Still, it's weird that living in the 'burbs as you have for so long, you're not clear on where The District is.


You are such a clueless transplant. You obviously know nothing about DC prior to what, maybe 2000-something? I wish I could have taken you for a stroll circa Chinatown or Southeast 20+ years ago,

Honestly, seriously, I've lived in the District since 1991. DH has lived here since 1968, when he was born. He's 43, and he's older than you are -- right?

I think we appreciate the dramatic changes in the city core. But what is your point? And, what is it about what I said that caused you to reflexively label me "clueless" ? If you, or the other PP (can't tell who posted what) lived their entire life in Takoma, Silver Spring and Tysons, you've lived in the suburbs.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tyson's has more jobs. Tysons has taller buildings. Tysons has more affluent households than does the District of Columbia. Tysons is about to get a real, live subway line!

And yet ... Tysons is still stupid and manufactured. It's our own little Gangnam Style thing going on, complete with flashy Koreans buying status bags and driving them home in their E-Class sedans.

WOW - posting something like this, I know you are SO not from around here. In my whole life I have never known anyone in this area that racially stupid and insensitive. Joning on Koreans is not cool.

But hey, I'll tell you what - we will chose to live in a 20%+ Korean, low/no crime neighborhood with a 9/10 school (although our DD will probably end up at the AP school and be in a group that's more like 30%+ asian). Meanwhile, you stay in DC. Thank you so much for staying there. We don't want racist transplants like you.

Yeah, way to miss the point. Please.

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Anonymous wrote:"The best shopping outside of lower manhattan"

LOLOLOLOL

oh my, that is win.

yes JUST LIKE LOWER MANHATTAN

a sprawling, car-choked exurb wasteland

It's a fact according to the papers - tysons has more retail than anyplace in the country outside of lower manhattan. And I LOVE being able to drive there in 5 minutes and park right in front. Free. Ah. And I love how weird "walkability" loons like you live in DC. Please, have it. Stay there. I just feel bad for the locals downtown having to deal with you.

You are SO 2002.

If shopping and parking your ass "right in front" makes you cream, have at it.

Ew.

Anonymous wrote:Tysons blows! We are being relocated by our company to effing TYSONS because there is a ton of office space there.

And we currently live in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, so you can imagine the shock. Obv we aren't going to live there. MAYBE I can swing Clarendon, but not mclean, not fucking "crystal city", and def not TYSONS CORNER.

Go to Paris or Berlin, then go to tysons. You will think americans are the biggest idiots on the planet. Then you will want to shoot yourself in the face!

If Tysons is so bad, why come here? Just don't. Oh wait, there's no work in Williamsburg, or wherever you are originally from, right? Hence, again, Tysons IS better. Better to have a job then live on the streets of Williamsburg/Paris/Berlin, right? And as another poster pointed out, if you live in Williamsburg, you are probably not even a New Yorker. You are just a total poser.