Posted: 8/30/2006 2:51:18 AM EDT
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didn't know this... phillyburbs.com 
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I didn't know that. I knoew Camden was a hellhole, but didn't know that about fairfax. fairfax must include tysons/mclean right? man I'm bringing that stat down. 
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yeah tysons, great falls, clifton, mclean, chantilly, fair oaks/lakes, mount vernon. i think mean income is around $90k. look at a map and you will just see all the big money areas. |
a large amount of people who have lived in the area since the 80s couldn't afford to move into the area now. kinda sad. |
Yeah, the booze does help! I notice that I have become a big fan of Scotch during the past several months . . . 
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I think I saw my liver on the back of a carton of milk last week. He escaped a few weeks ago and haven't heard from him since. I switched from quality booze imbibed sparingly to booze I can afford ingested excessively, and I guess he had enough. |
I hear ya, but to be fair, Loudoun wasn't bad up until the past few years. That section of Sterling was turning into North Tijuana, with it's own MS-13 branch over in the Margate Court section. The kicker for me was the property tax hike, where they decided that my condo jumped $125K in one year, when the selling price didn't. ("Welcome to Loudoun, where you'll pay because we figure you must be able to since you want to live here!") Ashburn was nice, and still mainly is, but then they decided that they had to have 'affordable housing' near Broad Run HS, so I know that didn't help neighborhood quality in that area. I'm glad I bailed - I ride the train and don't have to deal with the Beltway. The mountains are quiet, and I only have to deal with the idealistic college kids for part of the year, and then the town population drops by 75% for the rest of the time.
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I guess that it all depends on your perspective. It wasn't a bad place to live, as long as you weren't living next to the gang-bangers (MS-13) in the older sections of Sterling (sections over around the biketrail side) or in Sugarland Run (Boogerland). But the taxes were what torqued me - my condo in Ashburn jumped $125K in value, according to their assessments. (I wish I could get $300K+ for it, but it's not happening in the market right now.) (God willing, it'll be sold next weekend, though for a lot lower than what the tax office swears it's worth.)  Plus the politicians just keep bending over for the developers, and it's turning into Fairfax County (Western Division) with the McMansions on a dime-sized lot, etc, while preaching about wanting to tone down the growth to those who want to keep a little of the county unpaved. Ah well.... it was nice, but I'd give the whole Route 7 corridor another 10 years or so, and you won't notice a change in scenery between the Beltway and Leesburg. The "Tysons Corner sprawl" will have taken it over. |