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Old 11-20-2010, 05:14 PM
 
Location: South Florida
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Cool Billy! Do you ever think of going back?
I would never ever live in Fairfax County again. I hate that place with a passion. However, Arlington is a different story. I loved Arlington!
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Old 11-20-2010, 05:47 PM
 
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I agree. I would love to go back to Arlington! It is our plan to get back there someday but for now, we need to be near family.
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Old 11-21-2010, 12:39 PM
 
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I agree. I would love to go back to Arlington! It is our plan to get back there someday but for now, we need to be near family.
Arlington is the one saving grace of NOVA. Arlington & DC are the only places I'd like to spend time in that area.
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Old 11-22-2010, 08:20 AM
 
Location: Tampa, FL
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Arlington is the one saving grace of NOVA. Arlington & DC are the only places I'd like to spend time in that area.
old town alexandria is great, too.
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Old 11-22-2010, 10:24 AM
 
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Yes, Old Town is great too!
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Old 11-23-2010, 10:05 AM
 
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I would never ever live in Fairfax County again. I hate that place with a passion.
I know! I still have Beltway nightmares. How is it possible that it can take 30 minutes to go a few miles? And how is it traffic sits still, on a highway, for a few minutes at a time???
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Old 11-23-2010, 06:00 PM
 
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I would never ever live in Fairfax County again. I hate that place with a passion. However, Arlington is a different story. I loved Arlington!
I'm glad you enjoyed Arlington - why did you like it so much better than Fairfax?

I have lived in both (Fairfax and Arlngton) and hated both equally. Really, I was so thrilled to see it all disappearing in the rearview mirror as we headed back to FL. I just didn't like the short days, overall gloominess, appalling weather, pollution, traffic, Beltway, exhorbitant housing, phoniness and I could go on and on.

Once we left, we never looked back. Moving back to FL was one of the best things we ever did.


Re: Weather - I did find out that the 2 winters we spent up there - '77 & '78 - were about the worst on record for the DC Metro area.
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Old 11-24-2010, 05:14 AM
 
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I'm glad you enjoyed Arlington - why did you like it so much better than Fairfax?

I have lived in both (Fairfax and Arlngton) and hated both equally. Really, I was so thrilled to see it all disappearing in the rearview mirror as we headed back to FL. I just didn't like the short days, overall gloominess, appalling weather, pollution, traffic, Beltway, exhorbitant housing, phoniness and I could go on and on.

Once we left, we never looked back. Moving back to FL was one of the best things we ever did.


Re: Weather - I did find out that the 2 winters we spent up there - '77 & '78 - were about the worst on record for the DC Metro area.
I agree with the pollution, traffic, beltway, housing prices. However, I don't understand the phoniness at all. I never experienced that there. Sure, incomes run higher in Arlington but all nice places are like that. The nicest places usually cost the most.

I'm shocked to hear you found the weather appalling? You probably were there during rare winters. The area usually doesn't get much snow and it's pretty mild, as far as real winters go. I was able to bike to work (from Arlington into Farragut in DC) just about every day all year. I've lived in Seattle and now NE Canada. Those places have truly appalling weather (Seattle's is terrible 10 months of the year!).

The pollution was a real bummer. Arlington is very green-minded and, unlike Fairfax, has a huge network of parks and many people walk/bus/Metro to work. However, because of the fact that it's sandwiched between ****ty Fairfax and DC, it gets a lot of pollution. My wife and I had to buy an air purifier in our apartment. And, when I'd bike to work (along the Custis Trail paralleling 66), my throat would burn from the exhaust.

I loved how walkable all of Arlington is and open-minded everyone is. You just don't seem able to find something comparable in Florida. It doesn't seem to exist.
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Old 11-24-2010, 11:47 AM
 
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I agree with the pollution, traffic, beltway, housing prices. However, I don't understand the phoniness at all. I never experienced that there. Sure, incomes run higher in Arlington but all nice places are like that. The nicest places usually cost the most.

I'm shocked to hear you found the weather appalling? You probably were there during rare winters. The area usually doesn't get much snow and it's pretty mild, as far as real winters go. I was able to bike to work (from Arlington into Farragut in DC) just about every day all year. I've lived in Seattle and now NE Canada. Those places have truly appalling weather (Seattle's is terrible 10 months of the year!).

The pollution was a real bummer. Arlington is very green-minded and, unlike Fairfax, has a huge network of parks and many people walk/bus/Metro to work. However, because of the fact that it's sandwiched between ****ty Fairfax and DC, it gets a lot of pollution. My wife and I had to buy an air purifier in our apartment. And, when I'd bike to work (along the Custis Trail paralleling 66), my throat would burn from the exhaust.

I loved how walkable all of Arlington is and open-minded everyone is. You just don't seem able to find something comparable in Florida. It doesn't seem to exist.
i agree with you on most of what you said re: arlington. it is very green, open-minded (lots of liberals in arlington/alexandria... i will miss that), but one thing this area does NOT have would be mild winters. unless you're from minnesota or upstate ny. do you consider "mild winters" to be ones that don't get a lot of snow? sure, then it's mild. but it's miserably cold around here during winter. that coupled with the lack of tons of snow, to me, equates to crap winters.
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Old 11-24-2010, 03:06 PM
 
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i agree with you on most of what you said re: arlington. it is very green, open-minded (lots of liberals in arlington/alexandria... i will miss that), but one thing this area does NOT have would be mild winters. unless you're from minnesota or upstate ny. do you consider "mild winters" to be ones that don't get a lot of snow? sure, then it's mild. but it's miserably cold around here during winter. that coupled with the lack of tons of snow, to me, equates to crap winters.
I was never bothered by the winters when I lived there. The fact that we didn't get much snow was a plus in my opinion. However, now that I've lived in Canada, I'm ruined. I can't stand the snow or the cold. Haha.
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