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Anonymous wrote:There is nothing inspiring about Maryland. To me, Maryland means traffic, especially around the Rockville, Bethesda, 270 495/270 junction. Of course no company wants to setup in White Flint. There is zero appeal to anywhere near there. That traffic is just killer. Where in VA, you at least have a few different jobs to get around.

Crystal City is appealing for its proximity to DC, its awesome views, and when you are there you are humbled by being next to the Pentagon and within sight of the monuments and Capitol.

Tysons is appealing because it's becoming a bustling, super dense metropolis on its own that represents the future. And it's a central location to a lot of things in any direction.

Maryland. Come on. There are no locations like this in Maryland except for possibly National Harbor, but that only has so much land.

Maryland needs to face facts that it's only future will be medical stuff associated with NIH and NSA stuff. It's hard to explain, but there is something just off about Maryland. The way it was planned out was not thought out well. Too much residential and not enough business districts. Not enough roads to get around.

This is actually why I chose to live in MD and not VA. I hate the VA suburbs, it seems to be one annoying road after another populated by ugly step malls.

I think MoCo dodged a bullet by not getting Amazon.

Anonymous wrote:Amazon is just evidence of Moco’s wider problem with attracting and retaining businesses. There are hundreds or thousands of businesses that elected to go elsewhere that we never head about. I think this ties in with the problems in Moco’s schools. More takers and fewer makers is a recipe for disaster, and the county doesn’t seem to care — it is living in the past.

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Anonymous wrote:The biggest issue is the American Legion Bridge. There needs to be a large new bridge connecting Moco to the jobs in Nova, and Moco will continue to lose if it's too difficult to get to where all the jobs are.

-There are already companies in MoCo, lots of them, but yes we need to do a much better job attracting big name companies.
-Yes, the bridge is a pain but no, not everyone commutes to VA for jobs.
-People commute to DC too. People also take the red line or the Marc train.
-People also travel to Bethesda, Silver Spring, Rockville, Gaithersburg, Frederick, Germantown, College Park, Greenbelt, Baltimore, and many more MD cities for work.

Anonymous wrote:I think the poster is getting it backwards. The estimate I saw showed a majority in VA

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing inspiring about Maryland. To me, Maryland means traffic, especially around the Rockville, Bethesda, 270 495/270 junction. Of course no company wants to setup in White Flint. There is zero appeal to anywhere near there. That traffic is just killer. Where in VA, you at least have a few different jobs to get around.

Crystal City is appealing for its proximity to DC, its awesome views, and when you are there you are humbled by being next to the Pentagon and within sight of the monuments and Capitol.

Tysons is appealing because it's becoming a bustling, super dense metropolis on its own that represents the future. And it's a central location to a lot of things in any direction.

Maryland. Come on. There are no locations like this in Maryland except for possibly National Harbor, but that only has so much land.

Maryland needs to face facts that it's only future will be medical stuff associated with NIH and NSA stuff. It's hard to explain, but there is something just off about Maryland. The way it was planned out was not thought out well. Too much residential and not enough business districts. Not enough roads to get around.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing inspiring about Maryland. To me, Maryland means traffic, especially around the Rockville, Bethesda, 270 495/270 junction. Of course no company wants to setup in White Flint. There is zero appeal to anywhere near there. That traffic is just killer. Where in VA, you at least have a few different jobs to get around.

Crystal City is appealing for its proximity to DC, its awesome views, and when you are there you are humbled by being next to the Pentagon and within sight of the monuments and Capitol.

Tysons is appealing because it's becoming a bustling, super dense metropolis on its own that represents the future. And it's a central location to a lot of things in any direction.

Maryland. Come on. There are no locations like this in Maryland except for possibly National Harbor, but that only has so much land.

Maryland needs to face facts that it's only future will be medical stuff associated with NIH and NSA stuff. It's hard to explain, but there is something just off about Maryland. The way it was planned out was not thought out well. Too much residential and not enough business districts. Not enough roads to get around.

Have you ever driven in Tyson's between 2.30pm- 6.30pm during the week?? nothing can compete with that ridiculous traffic on 496 in Tysons.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing inspiring about Maryland. To me, Maryland means traffic, especially around the Rockville, Bethesda, 270 495/270 junction. Of course no company wants to setup in White Flint. There is zero appeal to anywhere near there. That traffic is just killer. Where in VA, you at least have a few different jobs to get around.

Crystal City is appealing for its proximity to DC, its awesome views, and when you are there you are humbled by being next to the Pentagon and within sight of the monuments and Capitol.

Tysons is appealing because it's becoming a bustling, super dense metropolis on its own that represents the future. And it's a central location to a lot of things in any direction.

Maryland. Come on. There are no locations like this in Maryland except for possibly National Harbor, but that only has so much land.

Maryland needs to face facts that it's only future will be medical stuff associated with NIH and NSA stuff. It's hard to explain, but there is something just off about Maryland. The way it was planned out was not thought out well. Too much residential and not enough business districts. Not enough roads to get around.

They have silver line metro now

Have you ever driven in Tyson's between 2.30pm- 6.30pm during the week?? nothing can compete with that ridiculous traffic on 496 in Tysons.

Anonymous wrote:There is nothing inspiring about Maryland. To me, Maryland means traffic, especially around the Rockville, Bethesda, 270 495/270 junction. Of course no company wants to setup in White Flint. There is zero appeal to anywhere near there. That traffic is just killer. Where in VA, you at least have a few different jobs to get around.

Crystal City is appealing for its proximity to DC, its awesome views, and when you are there you are humbled by being next to the Pentagon and within sight of the monuments and Capitol.

Tysons is appealing because it's becoming a bustling, super dense metropolis on its own that represents the future. And it's a central location to a lot of things in any direction.

Maryland. Come on. There are no locations like this in Maryland except for possibly National Harbor, but that only has so much land.

Maryland needs to face facts that it's only future will be medical stuff associated with NIH and NSA stuff. It's hard to explain, but there is something just off about Maryland. The way it was planned out was not thought out well. Too much residential and not enough business districts. Not enough roads to get around.

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Anonymous wrote:Glad MOCO didn’t sell their souls to Amazon. All those tax breaks and incentives are a form of government assistance, aka welfare to the employees.

ditto. it's distasteful

Anonymous wrote:Glad MOCO didn’t sell their souls to Amazon. All those tax breaks and incentives are a form of government assistance, aka welfare to the employees.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
The 25,000 Amazon employees will not all live and pay taxes in VA. Many will live in MD and DC.
It is estimated that at least 2/3 will live outside VA.

Where are they getting this estimate from? I would think it's the other way around -- 2/3 in VA.

LOL, no kidding! We don’t just make things up and claim them to be facts around here.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
The 25,000 Amazon employees will not all live and pay taxes in VA. Many will live in MD and DC.
It is estimated that at least 2/3 will live outside VA.

Where are they getting this estimate from? I would think it's the other way around -- 2/3 in VA.