Anonymous
Post 04/22/2023 07:30     Subject: Who lives in exurbs?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I’ve lived in DC for 15 years and very accustomed to the lifestyle of walking places, unique restaurants etc.
With rising crime and now with two young kids the suburban life may be more ideal.

However, I’m trying to figure out if we would fit in and actually like it. Who is living the the burbs? Ideally the areas out 66 in VA.
Are these federal employees…lobbyists? Something completely not DC specific?

Secondly would love ideas on which places to look at? We want charm and not a cookie cutter style home, but don’t want to be totally remote. We definitely want neighbors.


Walking places? So you schlep your bi weekly groceries home for a family of 4 in a granny cart? Or pay for some gig worker to deliver it? Or just eat out all the time in “unique restaurants”.

The exurbs and suburbs are full of people who prioritize quality schools, safety, and amenities appropriate for their families over some good takeout places and pretending that walking to the library saves the planet (when I’m certain your travel by plane wipes out most exurban commutes).

Your question is a bit inane, and zero cities in the US are built to accommodate families, with homeless overrunning libraries and parks, failing schools, and very little retail related to kids and their activities


This is an idiotic response. You sound like someone who’s never spent any time in a city—especially not DC, which is a pretty livable city with a family.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2023 21:44     Subject: Who lives in exurbs?
Anonymous wrote:I know but who are these people who don’t need to go in frequently?


My DH and I have had a job that requires us to be in the office since 2010 and have switched jobs a few time since. We work in technology. We are in loudoun and most all our neighbors work in IT and many are remote as well. My immediate neighbors: orthopedist, teacher, capital one, Verizon, insurance, ITx2, retired government x2, restaurant owner, Raytheon, pharma sales rep, multi gas station owner.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2023 18:30     Subject: Re:Who lives in exurbs?
Anonymous wrote:I live in the exurb. I was tired of the wokeness in DC. I sold my home in Arlington and moved in the exurb 2h away from DC.
It feels good to be surrounded by like-minded people who don't apologize for having religious conservative views and schools that don't force your kids to be gay or transgender.


I grew up 2 hrs away from one of the biggest cities in the world and from another major city, & would not describe myself as having lived in an “exburb” of it or having any association with it. Where I lived was entirely distinct from those cities.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2023 18:19     Subject: Re:Who lives in exurbs?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:People who walk in woods not streets.

People who make their own coffee,

People who grow food instead of going to “farmers markets “.

People who cook instead of “go to hip restaurants “.

People who live ethic good.

People who go to neighbors homes to visit over the corner bar.

People who ride bikes for fun not transportation.

People who don’t breath in exhaust when they walk with their kids.



Haha what is this? Fanfic written by an urbanite trying to justify their flight to the boonies?

First of all, you're confusing the exurbs with rural areas. Exurbs look a lot more like this: https://goo.gl/maps/HrsYQY7GzLaMBf6n7 than whatever Green Acres nonsense you're imagining.

They're not walking in the wood, the woods got cut down to build their tract houses.

Barely anybody in the exurbs grows their own food other than maybe a raised bed or two so they can post "yay we're farmers" to their Instagram.

People cook instead of going to hip restaurants because the hip restaurants are an hour away.

People who live the "ethic good" wouldn't be caught dead in a 3,000sf McFarmhouse with a giant monoculture lawn and a car-dependent lifestyle.

Maybe you truly believe that's what your life will be like in east cupcake, but I assure you, the vast majority of people out there are driving to Wal-Mart and Home Depot on their weekends and binging Netflix while drinking 1.5L wine on weeknights.



Sorry to break it to you but my home is surrounded by woods, creeks and lakes even the McMansions are..

I literally walk .2 mikes to the woods and take a 2-4 mile walk 4x a week. NATURE I love it!

I said I grow food instead of going to a farmers market, I didn’t say I get all my food is from my garden. Also I go to a farm for food not a farmers market where farmers have to take a whole day to sell a few things to people who think farmers markets are cool and trendy.

That was ethnic food btw. Better in the burbs.

Hip restaurant come and go here because we cook. Except Inferno I guess 2 Amy’s fire has its upsides.

I’m not sure why you think I care that my neighbors drink jug wine (judgmental much) and go to Walmart. They do… when they are not driving to DC to run your farmers market and cook at your hip restaurants. And when they are not cooking at your hipster restaurant I’m at their house for a cookout.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2023 17:24     Subject: Re:Who lives in exurbs?
I live in the exurb. I was tired of the wokeness in DC. I sold my home in Arlington and moved in the exurb 2h away from DC.
It feels good to be surrounded by like-minded people who don't apologize for having religious conservative views and schools that don't force your kids to be gay or transgender.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2023 16:45     Subject: Who lives in exurbs?
Anonymous wrote:Ashburn is the definition of exurb.

Vienna is the definition of suburb.


10 years ago, maybe. Now, not so much.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2023 16:14     Subject: Who lives in exurbs?
What a strange thing to ask
Just take a drive to the exurbs and look at the people who live there
Those are the ones who live in exurbs