it is expensive as ... well, really expensive here.
We moved to Loudoun County 24 years ago. All there was, cow farms, cute horse farms, two high schools, two elementary schools, One grocery store, the whole county! It was nowhere'sville.
I loved it. Then, over the past 25 years, this place has exploded. Now to keep our local taxes low, we have about 50 huge server buildings/data centers. They are nutty. The only good thing is our house value has increased easily over double what we paid. The sad thing is we love all of the great medical care around here, and will probably sell the house soon (after my 98 year old daddy goes to Heaven) and move .... quite possibly the the exact place he is living now, Ashby Ponds. The median age there is about 75, but whooo there are a lot of really old and decrepit people there too. My parents have lived there since I moved them to Virginia in 2013 (that story is a novel in itself) The move to AP was my parents choice. So, I live at Ashby Ponds, I just do not sleep there or have an apartment haha
I grew up in Alexandria, moved to Florida, out in the boondocks, (which I loved, btw,) and when I was back working in Arlington would always drive out to Loudoun County when the city became too oppressive for me; it's gorgeous.
Love the horse country! But many of the people were a bit strange even then, in the 1980s, imo.
; ))
I didn't stay long in Arlington, had my own life back in North Central Florida, but eventually the growth there drove me out, lol.
No where I've found is as simple and as sane as the world I used to live in. We need to return to our American roots, in my perspective.
I remember a world without many huge multinational corporations, without the "woke" trying to indoctrinate my daughter into thinking she needs to have sex with anything that moves, or that she needs to suppress puberty because she is unsure about "becoming a woman," (heck, weren't we all??) when there were liability laws for pharmaceutical corporations, and your neighbors were reasonably sane, even if you didn't want to move in with them!
Low crime. No locked doors. Farms on every corner.
Education that actually taught you facts AND critical thinking skills.
Sigh. I remember my father complaining about what had changed in HIS lifetime. Now I'm there!
You are living in a blessed location!
it is expensive as ... well, really expensive here.
We moved to Loudoun County 24 years ago. All there was, cow farms, cute horse farms, two high schools, two elementary schools, One grocery store, the whole county! It was nowhere'sville.
I loved it. Then, over the past 25 years, this place has exploded. Now to keep our local taxes low, we have about 50 huge server buildings/data centers. They are nutty. The only good thing is our house value has increased easily over double what we paid. The sad thing is we love all of the great medical care around here, and will probably sell the house soon (after my 98 year old daddy goes to Heaven) and move .... quite possibly the the exact place he is living now, Ashby Ponds. The median age there is about 75, but whooo there are a lot of really old and decrepit people there too. My parents have lived there since I moved them to Virginia in 2013 (that story is a novel in itself) The move to AP was my parents choice. So, I live at Ashby Ponds, I just do not sleep there or have an apartment haha
I have made a lot of very interesting friends.
I grew up in Alexandria, moved to Florida, out in the boondocks, (which I loved, btw,) and when I was back working in Arlington would always drive out to Loudoun County when the city became too oppressive for me; it's gorgeous.
Love the horse country! But many of the people were a bit strange even then, in the 1980s, imo.
; ))
I didn't stay long in Arlington, had my own life back in North Central Florida, but eventually the growth there drove me out, lol.
No where I've found is as simple and as sane as the world I used to live in. We need to return to our American roots, in my perspective.
I remember a world without many huge multinational corporations, without the "woke" trying to indoctrinate my daughter into thinking she needs to have sex with anything that moves, or that she needs to suppress puberty because she is unsure about "becoming a woman," (heck, weren't we all??) when there were liability laws for pharmaceutical corporations, and your neighbors were reasonably sane, even if you didn't want to move in with them!
Low crime. No locked doors. Farms on every corner.
Education that actually taught you facts AND critical thinking skills.
Sigh. I remember my father complaining about what had changed in HIS lifetime. Now I'm there!
Best part of the nightmare: finding your tribe in dreamland!