Anonymous wrote:We moved to MoCo because it's cheaper and there is more public transportation. Both are important if you are a fed.

MoCo has less public transportation than NoVA. MoCo has only the Red Line and limited MARC service. NoVA has Blue, Yellow, Silver, and Orange Lines. And extensive VRE service.

It’s not comparable. Even if it was just a Fairfax vs MoCo comparison, transit infrastructure in VA still wins. Also better roads.

Anonymous wrote:I’d rather work for NIH than a defense contractor.
I’d rather have Hogan for a governor than Youngkin.
I’d rather live in a state where my neighbors would recognize just how repugnant someone like Youngkin is — and vote accordingly.

+1

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is such a dumb post. Yes, MoCo is a bedroom community. Ok? It's not like their housing got cheaper. Please still choose to live there. This is the DMV, people live and work all over. Who cares if there are more jobs in NoVA. I could see if housing prices were suppressed b/c of it, but they aren't. I hate NoVA. Would never live there. Who cares? I should live there b/c there are more jobs? I'm a lawyer. BTW, I live in DC.

Because MD and MoCo don't diversify their tax base, duh. If everyone in MoCo has to drive to VA for jobs, it means the only real revenue for the county overwhelmingly comes from income taxes. When the county needs more money what can they do? All they can do is raise property and income taxes. The fact that MoCo cannot grow organically and create jobs other than ones that suck off the govt teat means it misses out on tons of corporate taxes that help reduce the taxation burden on residents. Residents will flee if all the county can ever do is raise taxes and struggles to create quality jobs.

LOL. Is that the reason why more people moved to MoCo in the last 10 years than to Fairfax county? People reluctantly move to NoVa because of their jobs and not because of quality of life. Even with plenty of jobs, NoVa is not a pleasant place to live.
Btw, 66% of MoCo residents work in MoCo.

LMAO.

MoCo has tons of illegal immigrants moving in and poorer people. Not a great base to build taxes on.

You could see it as MoCo is nicer to people with no means. VA is no lover of poor people, it seems.

Housing is much more expensive in Virginia, that's why there are more poor people in MoCo. There are more jobs for poor people in MoCo too.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MoCo is cheaper than NoVa, so I’m wondering if those of us who work for government move here because it’s more affordable. That doesn’t exactly reflect the jobs available in MoCo, though. All of my neighbors commute to DC.

Nope that's not it. There are more federal workers living in NoVa. MoCo is just a better place to live

DP. Ugh, you couldn't pay me to live in MoCo - or anywhere in MD, for that matter. Horrible place.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is such a dumb post. Yes, MoCo is a bedroom community. Ok? It's not like their housing got cheaper. Please still choose to live there. This is the DMV, people live and work all over. Who cares if there are more jobs in NoVA. I could see if housing prices were suppressed b/c of it, but they aren't. I hate NoVA. Would never live there. Who cares? I should live there b/c there are more jobs? I'm a lawyer. BTW, I live in DC.

Because MD and MoCo don't diversify their tax base, duh. If everyone in MoCo has to drive to VA for jobs, it means the only real revenue for the county overwhelmingly comes from income taxes. When the county needs more money what can they do? All they can do is raise property and income taxes. The fact that MoCo cannot grow organically and create jobs other than ones that suck off the govt teat means it misses out on tons of corporate taxes that help reduce the taxation burden on residents. Residents will flee if all the county can ever do is raise taxes and struggles to create quality jobs.

LOL. Is that the reason why more people moved to MoCo in the last 10 years than to Fairfax county? People reluctantly move to NoVa because of their jobs and not because of quality of life. Even with plenty of jobs, NoVa is not a pleasant place to live.
Btw, 66% of MoCo residents work in MoCo.

I doubt suppose that you want to include Loudon in your analysis (you know, the county where most of the growth us actually occurring)

Nobody moves to Loudoun county because of their quality of life.

Yes, because everyone knows that Leesburg is god awful and so is living near wineries.

Looking at houses out there right now! Beautiful area.
DP

Anonymous wrote:Getting its lunch eaten? How old are you?

Many people would never live in a state as backwards as VA. Youngkin? Absolutely not.

And yet, MD drivers clog up VA roadways because they come here every day for their JOBS. Imagine that! And learn to drive, btw.
DP

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While I agree that NoVA has more attractive employers on the whole, it doesn't seem like you're reading the list correctly, and that you misunderstand a lot about it, namely, that places like NIH and other governmental orgs pay salaries that are comparable to COF and Amazon for many of their workers, and that Marriott and Giant are HQs and not service jobs.

Go have a lunchtime glass of Chardonnay or something.

Government offers similar salaries to Amazon? You HAVE to be a trust fund baby and not currently employed at either.

Sure they do. GS-14s and 15s are definitely comparable to the tons of $120-$150k jobs these places have. More at Treasury pay scale. Not everyone is an executive. Stock options ans bonuses are another story though. But a lot of people don’t stay long enough for a lot of those to vest at FAANGs.

You realize GS 14-15 salaries are senior level positions in the govt and are positions that less than 5-8% of all USG workers hold? A $120-150k job is a salary that's pretty entry level at a company like Amazon. Amazon and Microsoft are paying their engineers way, WAY more than $120k, lol.

Montgomery is becoming the old Prince George’s with the incompetent leadership as Prince George’s becomes the old Montgomery with business development.

I work for one of the companies on the MoCo list and office space was recently sold off so knock one off the list.

[twitter]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is such a dumb post. Yes, MoCo is a bedroom community. Ok? It's not like their housing got cheaper. Please still choose to live there. This is the DMV, people live and work all over. Who cares if there are more jobs in NoVA. I could see if housing prices were suppressed b/c of it, but they aren't. I hate NoVA. Would never live there. Who cares? I should live there b/c there are more jobs? I'm a lawyer. BTW, I live in DC.

Because MD and MoCo don't diversify their tax base, duh. If everyone in MoCo has to drive to VA for jobs, it means the only real revenue for the county overwhelmingly comes from income taxes. When the county needs more money what can they do? All they can do is raise property and income taxes. The fact that MoCo cannot grow organically and create jobs other than ones that suck off the govt teat means it misses out on tons of corporate taxes that help reduce the taxation burden on residents. Residents will flee if all the county can ever do is raise taxes and struggles to create quality jobs.

LOL. Is that the reason why more people moved to MoCo in the last 10 years than to Fairfax county? People reluctantly move to NoVa because of their jobs and not because of quality of life. Even with plenty of jobs, NoVa is not a pleasant place to live.
Btw, 66% of MoCo residents work in MoCo.

LMAO.

MoCo has tons of illegal immigrants moving in and poorer people. Not a great base to build taxes on.

no idea on who is legal or not but the census would show that most new residents are lower income, less educated in MoCo

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Top employers in MoCo:

https://commerce.maryland.gov/Documents/ResearchDocument/MajorEmployersInMontgomeryCounty.pdf

Top employers in Fairfax:

https://www.fairfaxcountyeda.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Major-Employers.pdf

So basically, MoCo relies entirely on govt jobs and some crappy low paying service sector jobs at places like Giant, Safeway, and Target. Meanwhile in NoVa, the top employers are major banks, super high end tech and software companies, top consulting firms, and other major professional services firms. I never knew MoCo was getting its lunch eaten this bad. NoVa has way, way better jobs and a far better diversity of jobs/firms. MoCo relies entirely on govt, clearly has a severe lack of innovative firms that pay high salaries when compared to NoVa, and a large portion of their residents working in very low quality service sector jobs that probably pay just over minimum wage. How is MoCo not doomed with this flimsy of a tax and employer base?

This is one of the reasons GMU students in certain techy and computer science fields are snapped right up before graduation.

lol.. ok, I guess the UMD CS grads just languish. LOL

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MoCo has a huge biotech sector

Lol. No it doesn't..

Yes, it does. My husband has spent his entire career working for private sector biotech companies in MoCo.

MoCo also has way too much suburban office park space which is dying off like malls. VA has many more urban areas, better access to metro, more urban spots for young educated professionals like Clarendon, Ballston etc.

When those young people get married, have kids, they will look for more space.

Ask me how I know.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is such a dumb post. Yes, MoCo is a bedroom community. Ok? It's not like their housing got cheaper. Please still choose to live there. This is the DMV, people live and work all over. Who cares if there are more jobs in NoVA. I could see if housing prices were suppressed b/c of it, but they aren't. I hate NoVA. Would never live there. Who cares? I should live there b/c there are more jobs? I'm a lawyer. BTW, I live in DC.

Because MD and MoCo don't diversify their tax base, duh. If everyone in MoCo has to drive to VA for jobs, it means the only real revenue for the county overwhelmingly comes from income taxes. When the county needs more money what can they do? All they can do is raise property and income taxes. The fact that MoCo cannot grow organically and create jobs other than ones that suck off the govt teat means it misses out on tons of corporate taxes that help reduce the taxation burden on residents. Residents will flee if all the county can ever do is raise taxes and struggles to create quality jobs.

LOL. Is that the reason why more people moved to MoCo in the last 10 years than to Fairfax county? People reluctantly move to NoVa because of their jobs and not because of quality of life. Even with plenty of jobs, NoVa is not a pleasant place to live.
Btw, 66% of MoCo residents work in MoCo.

I doubt suppose that you want to include Loudon in your analysis (you know, the county where most of the growth us actually occurring)

Why do people consistently compare MoCo -- one county -- to several counties in VA -- ALL of NoVa. It's bizarre. Almost like one county in NoVa can't compete with MoCo, so they have to throw in a bunch of other counties to complete. I"m from out of the area (out west), and when I moved here, and kept seeing all the comparison between one county in MD to ALL of NoVa, I found it baffling.

If you want to include Loudon county in your competition, then you have to include HoCo in MD because Loudon is just as far to DC as HoCo is to DC.

You guys really come across as insecure when you do this, btw.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is such a dumb post. Yes, MoCo is a bedroom community. Ok? It's not like their housing got cheaper. Please still choose to live there. This is the DMV, people live and work all over. Who cares if there are more jobs in NoVA. I could see if housing prices were suppressed b/c of it, but they aren't. I hate NoVA. Would never live there. Who cares? I should live there b/c there are more jobs? I'm a lawyer. BTW, I live in DC.

Because MD and MoCo don't diversify their tax base, duh. If everyone in MoCo has to drive to VA for jobs, it means the only real revenue for the county overwhelmingly comes from income taxes. When the county needs more money what can they do? All they can do is raise property and income taxes. The fact that MoCo cannot grow organically and create jobs other than ones that suck off the govt teat means it misses out on tons of corporate taxes that help reduce the taxation burden on residents. Residents will flee if all the county can ever do is raise taxes and struggles to create quality jobs.

LOL. Is that the reason why more people moved to MoCo in the last 10 years than to Fairfax county? People reluctantly move to NoVa because of their jobs and not because of quality of life. Even with plenty of jobs, NoVa is not a pleasant place to live.
Btw, 66% of MoCo residents work in MoCo.

LMAO.

MoCo has tons of illegal immigrants moving in and poorer people. Not a great base to build taxes on.

You could see it as MoCo is nicer to people with no means. VA is no lover of poor people, it seems.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:MoCo has a huge biotech sector

Lol. No it doesn't..

Yes, it does. My husband has spent his entire career working for private sector biotech companies in MoCo.

MoCo also has way too much suburban office park space which is dying off like malls. VA has many more urban areas, better access to metro, more urban spots for young educated professionals like Clarendon, Ballston etc.