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Virginia - where to move? (1 Viewer)

STEADYMOBBIN 22 said:
johnnycakes said:
Just stay in Silver Spring if you can afford it. Thank me later.
Why?
Because you won't have the stigma of living in effing Virginia.
Living in Virginia and Nothern VA is completely different.
I lived in Georgetown for five years, so I know the area. There's Georgetown, then Chevy Chase, Bethesda, and Silver Spring... and after that you've got effing Virginia, excluding McLean, which is still respectable. Traffic jams coming into the city were the absolute worst, though, and that's going back a while. I can't imagine what it's like now.

 
STEADYMOBBIN 22 said:
johnnycakes said:
Just stay in Silver Spring if you can afford it. Thank me later.
Why?
Because you won't have the stigma of living in effing Virginia.
Living in Virginia and Nothern VA is completely different.
I lived in Georgetown for five years, so I know the area. There's Georgetown, then Chevy Chase, Bethesda, and Silver Spring... and after that you've got effing Virginia, excluding McLean, which is still respectable. Traffic jams coming into the city were the absolute worst, though, and that's going back a while. I can't imagine what it's like now.
The above is all you need to know.

 
We currently live in Silver Spring, MD. Due to the increasing taxes in Maryland and the declining school system in our area we are strong considering a move to VA.

The woman I am related to by marriage works in DC and can't/doesn't want to change jobs.

My work is flexible. I can even change careers making less if somebody needs to be home early n late to handle the kid/school comings and goings.

We are weighing the options of living in the sticks and commuting. Keep in mind we think anyplace with cornfields is country to us. I'm at the point now where I wouldn't mind an extra hour a day as long as my kids are in good schools and housing is cheap-er ( compared to Montgomery county MD).

Any recommendations or knowledge of done good areas to start looking? We aren't in a rush so we have time to check out the landscape.....


Whatever happened with this.  Did you move?

 
On 11/4/2013 at 1:22 PM, STEADYMOBBIN 22 said:
The woman I am related to by marriage works in DC and can't/doesn't want to change jobs.
Missed this the first time I read your post, are you a Little? Mr. Tony's show is the only place I hear that term.

 
Whatever happened with this.  Did you move?
Still house hunting. In a perfect world we'll sell/move this summer but quickly running out of time. 

Really cant find something that the wife and I agree on/like. She won't budge on public transportation and I'm not moving into someplace that I can't walk out my back door and piss. 

Virginia seems to all look alike to me. Overdeveloped and old. Traffic on the highways and traffic and endless lights everywhere else.

Right now we're looking at places in MD  north of Olney. Sorta Glen Elg or Woodbine. 

 
Still house hunting. In a perfect world we'll sell/move this summer but quickly running out of time. 

Really cant find something that the wife and I agree on/like. She won't budge on public transportation and I'm not moving into someplace that I can't walk out my back door and piss

Virginia seems to all look alike to me. Overdeveloped and old. Traffic on the highways and traffic and endless lights everywhere else.

Right now we're looking at places in MD  north of Olney. Sorta Glen Elg or Woodbine. 
Leesburg?

 
Still house hunting. In a perfect world we'll sell/move this summer but quickly running out of time. 

Really cant find something that the wife and I agree on/like. She won't budge on public transportation and I'm not moving into someplace that I can't walk out my back door and piss. 

Virginia seems to all look alike to me. Overdeveloped and old. Traffic on the highways and traffic and endless lights everywhere else.

Right now we're looking at places in MD  north of Olney. Sorta Glen Elg or Woodbine. 
If you head out this way, west of Tyson's, especially west of Dulles, the areas are on the 'new' side. Lots of subdivisions are in the process of being developed, or have only been built in the last 10 years or so. If you do the drive on the Greenway towards Leesburg from Dulles, the first third is developed, the middle third looks like farmland, and the last third is more developed.

 
Really cant find something that the wife and I agree on/like. She won't budge on public transportation and I'm not moving into someplace that I can't walk out my back door and piss


First: public transportation where an "average" person can walk outside and piss don't really go together.  Well, they kind of do, but you don't want to live at the LAST stop on the train.  It will take effing forever to get to work.

Second:  That being said, I piss in my backyard ALL the time, and I live in the Del Ray section of Alexandria.  I'll give one more plug for it:

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Del Ray Alexandria

 
So if coming from NJ to Sterling VA on a Wednesday - I have to avoid DC traffic?

 
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So if coming from NJ to Sterling VA on a Wednesday - I have to avoid DC traffic?
Depends on when you're going and where you're coming from in NJ.

I live in West-Central NJ now (Flemington, right off I-78), and I grew up in Clarke County, (one county to the west from Sterling, which is in Loudoun), and when we come home to VA to visit , we avoid I-95 completely and take I-78 down to I-81.  If you're traveling during rush hour, and NOT right off the I-95 Corridor in NJ, I'd consider going that way and then cutting down I-70 / Rt. 15 or something rather than going by Philly, Baltimore, and DC. 

I-95 should only take you ~4 hours, but in the wrong traffic, it could take you 6 easily.  Cutting down off I-78/I-81 would likely take a pretty consistent 4:30-5:00 depending on where in NJ you are.

 

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