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Originally Posted by HurricaneDC
I think spreading jobs around would be good too. Obviously that's not as easy (hell, none of these ideas are) but having a ton of employment centers in NoVA and MoCo and relatively fewer elsewhere (cough cough, PG) definitely doesn't do us any favors for congestion.
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There are employment centers in PG county just not enough to sustain the 900K working adults and their children that live there. Also who work in the DC suburbs have a tendency to live far from their jobs. No one at my job in Herndon actually lives in Herndon or even Chantilly. I've had coworkers that lived in Glen Burnie (he obviously works home), Frederick (yes used to drive in everyday obscenely early), Winchester, Manassas, Springfield (me), Lorton, and Fredericksburg to name a few.
At my old job in Fairfax it was the same story. Even a gal coming in everyday from Bowie (she didn't last). The gal in Bowie could've gotten a house for the same price in Manassas I'm sure but actually chose Bowie AFTER getting transferred out to Fairfax. Bless her heart. Having lots of black middle class neighbors must be nice I'm sure but at the cost of one's commute (and sanity)?
So yes we have to take some responsibility for choices made. Bowie to Fairfax??? Craziness. Then you've got the Winchester and Frederick commuters. Oh brother crazy people out there. As George Clinton once told us "God bless Chocolate City and her vanilla suburbs".
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