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Anonymous wrote:Did someone turn you in for having out of state plates, OP? You sound particularly crazy about that.

The Watch Dog program at schools is free and volunteer-oriented...I'm sure the PTA paid for food/drinks for the meeting.

Let me guess...you're new place is going to be much deeper into Reno than towards Tahoe.

No one turned me in, but I admit, I waited a good year and change to change lic plates on my cars.

two places I am looking at, one is at the base of Mt. Rose in Galena park and the other is in Incline Village. Galena park is a new build and IV is about 10 years old, with a remodel in the last 2 years, top to bottom.

That is just stupid and irresponsible.

OP, you are so right about #10. I expected most of the other issues, but I was shocked at how technologically backward this area is compared to NC.

VIRGINIA is a NANNY state???????

OP would spontaneously combust if he ever stepped foot in Maryland. He has lived in danger all these years since Point of Rocks is so close.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, if I lived in Brambleton (not quite sure where that is) and never came into DC, I'd don't think I'd leave this area with an overall high impression. So...you might be justified in that.

We live in Arlington, work in DC, and poke around museums, go to shows, and try new restaurants on the weekends. We love living in NOVA.

Don't get me started on the food either!

Seriously, to me, it is all bland, no taste and not spicey when needed! With the exception of Cyclone's in FairFax, all the mexican food places taste like crap. Being from Texas, the food here is like nachos at 7-11.

Seafood is a joke here too, went to Fords fish place and Bonefish, their menus were like Long John Silvers. no gumbo, no Soft Shell Crabs, no Etouffee of any type, no crawfish, bacon wrapped jalapeno gulf shrimp, no nothing! Miss Texas cajun seafood, hell, even california has better mexican and seafood then NoVa.

Someone took me to a steak place recently, DC Prime I think and it was actually decent, but again, Texas is the steak capital of the world. Also no BBQ places around here worth talking about.

Lost 17lbs just being here due to nothing good to eat and I didn't need to lose weight. I resigned myself to cooking for us more than eating out, thus robbing the commuity of that money! But at least I avoid the meat tax.

Glad you like it, really, I don't but, but that is just me.

Hmm. Between NoVa and DC we have everything from Viet Namese to Salvadoran to Indian (lots of regional varieties) to Afghan to Yemeni to many regional varieties of Chinese, to Nepali, to Peruvian, to Ethiopian to West African. We have French, balkan, all kinds of Italian. Lots of tapas and small plates.

Sounds like you just miss Texas.

Thats okay. Lots of people miss where they grew up. This is not Texas.

Central and South American food is the not the same as they do not like spicey food, I have spent a lot of time there for work to know that. Not that it isn't good, I do like it. Having lived in Milano, Italy for 18 months, most Italian places in the US are just shadows of the real thing, Texas included.

Thinking back, probably just the Brambleton area and their lack of food choices, its all the same, no new places in the last two years and going to the same places gets old, so I have started to venture out on the weekends beyond the 5 mile radius I live in.

I miss Texas in respect to the no income taxes, no personal property taxes more bang for your buck and minimal layers of government and bureaucracy and high levels of technology. And I lived in Galleria area of Houston, so I did not live in BFE. Schools are just like here, some great, some good and some not so good. LCPS is not impressive to me. Texas is its own state and not a nanny state like VA. Coming from there to here, its easy to see, but if one has lived all their life in a nanny state, they can't see it the other way.

Giveing VA a c-/c is better than giving them a D or F, which I can give to places like Indiana, where I went to do my undergrad, other than the college, Indiana is a dead place on I-80, its a not a place to live, its a place you pass on the way to somewhere better sorta thing.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, if I lived in Brambleton (not quite sure where that is) and never came into DC, I'd don't think I'd leave this area with an overall high impression. So...you might be justified in that.

We live in Arlington, work in DC, and poke around museums, go to shows, and try new restaurants on the weekends. We love living in NOVA.

Hate to tell you, but OP hasn't said anything, in his dismissal of Brambleton, to suggest he'd be happy if only he were living in Arlington. He probably wants a lake, a good place to go tubing, a yard big enough to park two trucks, low taxes, and neighbors who think Hillary Clinton belongs in jail. None of which you'll find in Arlington.

But nice try to treat his posts as an excuse to talk about Arlington.

Weird response. My only point was that at least Arlington is proximal to something. Not out west with the tumbleweed.

I'm sorry, dear child. If you want to separate yourself from the bridge and tunnel crowd, and you so clearly do, you don't live in VA.

There is not bridge and tunnel crowd in DC - because unlike NYC, where getting into Manhattan can be a pain, crossing the Potomac (which I do routinely by bike) is no big deal. Easier to get to Georgetown from Rosslyn than from parts of upper NW. And its anachronistic in NYC as well, now that North Brooklyn is far hipper than Manhattan.

That is so sweet. Does it make you feel better about living in a bland quadrant of the former Confederacy?

And did you just compare Arlington to Williamsburg or Greenpoint? LOL.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, if I lived in Brambleton (not quite sure where that is) and never came into DC, I'd don't think I'd leave this area with an overall high impression. So...you might be justified in that.

We live in Arlington, work in DC, and poke around museums, go to shows, and try new restaurants on the weekends. We love living in NOVA.

Don't get me started on the food either!

Seriously, to me, it is all bland, no taste and not spicey when needed! With the exception of Cyclone's in FairFax, all the mexican food places taste like crap. Being from Texas, the food here is like nachos at 7-11.

Seafood is a joke here too, went to Fords fish place and Bonefish, their menus were like Long John Silvers. no gumbo, no Soft Shell Crabs, no Etouffee of any type, no crawfish, bacon wrapped jalapeno gulf shrimp, no nothing! Miss Texas cajun seafood, hell, even california has better mexican and seafood then NoVa.

Someone took me to a steak place recently, DC Prime I think and it was actually decent, but again, Texas is the steak capital of the world. Also no BBQ places around here worth talking about.

Lost 17lbs just being here due to nothing good to eat and I didn't need to lose weight. I resigned myself to cooking for us more than eating out, thus robbing the commuity of that money! But at least I avoid the meat tax.

Glad you like it, really, I don't but, but that is just me.

Hmm. Between NoVa and DC we have everything from Viet Namese to Salvadoran to Indian (lots of regional varieties) to Afghan to Yemeni to many regional varieties of Chinese, to Nepali, to Peruvian, to Ethiopian to West African. We have French, balkan, all kinds of Italian. Lots of tapas and small plates.

Sounds like you just miss Texas.

Thats okay. Lots of people miss where they grew up. This is not Texas.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh, and calling people in who are cheating on the car tax by not registering their cars in Va sounds logical to me. Otherwise the cost falls on the rest of us. Sounds like OP preferred that. OP does not sound terribly community minded or socially conscious?

You sound really pleasant. That's behavior I'd expect in Bethesda but not in NOVA.

VA has a yearly personal property tax on registered vehicles. It's expensive if you have a nice car. It is irritating to see the same out of state license plates in the car line every year at the public-school-supported-with-taxes.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, if I lived in Brambleton (not quite sure where that is) and never came into DC, I'd don't think I'd leave this area with an overall high impression. So...you might be justified in that.

We live in Arlington, work in DC, and poke around museums, go to shows, and try new restaurants on the weekends. We love living in NOVA.

Hate to tell you, but OP hasn't said anything, in his dismissal of Brambleton, to suggest he'd be happy if only he were living in Arlington. He probably wants a lake, a good place to go tubing, a yard big enough to park two trucks, low taxes, and neighbors who think Hillary Clinton belongs in jail. None of which you'll find in Arlington.

But nice try to treat his posts as an excuse to talk about Arlington.

Weird response. My only point was that at least Arlington is proximal to something. Not out west with the tumbleweed.

I'm sorry, dear child. If you want to separate yourself from the bridge and tunnel crowd, and you so clearly do, you don't live in VA.

There is not bridge and tunnel crowd in DC - because unlike NYC, where getting into Manhattan can be a pain, crossing the Potomac (which I do routinely by bike) is no big deal. Easier to get to Georgetown from Rosslyn than from parts of upper NW. And its anachronistic in NYC as well, now that North Brooklyn is far hipper than Manhattan.

We live in Centreville and I like our HOA. We have a nice pool that's never crowded and lots of free community activitues.

Did you try to scofflaw on getting VA plates?

You sound like the kind of person with a victim mentality, and a complainer. Good riddance.

The best way to see Nova is in your rear view mirror.

Well, bye.

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Anonymous wrote:OP is a nutjob. Brambleton is a planned community and anyone living there should know what they are buying into. He could have gone any number of other places in Loudoun, avoided an HOA, and had more "freedom."

Adios, amigo.

+1

+2, except I can't imagine anything in Loudoun County not being in a planned community. Except Leesburg?

Anonymous wrote:OP is a nutjob. Brambleton is a planned community and anyone living there should know what they are buying into. He could have gone any number of other places in Loudoun, avoided an HOA, and had more "freedom."

Adios, amigo.

+1

Anonymous wrote:I have lived in NOVA waaayy too long because my first reactions were -

Brambleton is not a place, it's just the name the developer slapped on the a group of homes to sell them

Loudon Co. is not part of NOVA

But you haven't lived there long enough to know it's Loudoun? Or that people there recognize Brambleton as a distinct part of Ashburn? You aren't really bright enough to have an opinion on the topic worth sharing.

I have lived in NOVA waaayy too long because my first reactions were -

Brambleton is not a place, it's just the name the developer slapped on the a group of homes to sell them

Loudon Co. is not part of NOVA