How I Feel About Northern Virginia

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- thank you.

Don't let the door hit ya in the ass on the way out :D

I guess this means once less person at our housewarming party…

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
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- thank you.

I hope you feel better now you have that off your chest…if you'd like to talk about it we're here for you.

Don't HATE IT, but I don't like it….I do HATE the inbred, redneck, arrogant, good-old-boy "not in my state y'all" state poopers though.

Ok, I'll talk about it. I am going to Arlington last night. I get to DC fine, through the 395 tunnel, no prob. Then i think i am looking for Rt 1 North, and all there is, is Rt 1 South. So i drive all the freakin way to Seminary Rd. and then turn around.
I get on rt. 1 south, and then it kind of disappears and no more signs til BAMMMO , I'm at the airport!!!!
Its ok, cause i can just backtrack on 1 South and be on 1 North right? NOPE. But i manage my way to Washington Blvd, we're all good. So I am looking for Clarendon Blvd. NOPE! Dont see it, so i get to Lee Hwy and then stop at a gas station where the people who dont speak english try to give me directions. to where? its just down the road. why the fuck does everyone say that??? Of course its down the road. Did i think i had to get out and SWIM the rest of the way?
So i finally get myself there, park, only to find that the way i CAME is NOT the way to go home. fuck me. all this time i am driving I am following slow ass SUV motherfuckers slowing down to turn into thier driveways, never once thinking of using an indicator. people crossing the street slowly, ON THE PHONE and not at crosswalks. All the while passing NO landmarks whatsoever to aide my way. its just coffee shop, diner, bar, repeat, with the same group of well dressed white kids chuckling loudly outside of each establishment, one of them always on the phone.

am i decribing this well enough? its like a bad movie. how do people live there. everything looks the same, everyONE looks the same and everyones car is shiny. its not the real world, i tell you that.

ok, i feel better.

i live on seminary road.

but i think you got some bum directions. personally, i don't think of arlington as NoVa, but whatever. it is confusing sometimes.

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Ok, I'll talk about it. I am going to Arlington last night. I get to DC fine, through the 395 tunnel, no prob. Then i think i am looking for Rt 1 North, and all there is, is Rt 1 South. So i drive all the freakin way to Seminary Rd. and then turn around.
I get on rt. 1 south, and then it kind of disappears and no more signs til BAMMMO , I'm at the airport!!!!
Its ok, cause i can just backtrack on 1 South and be on 1 North right? NOPE. But i manage my way to Washington Blvd, we're all good. So I am looking for Clarendon Blvd. NOPE! Dont see it, so i get to Lee Hwy and then stop at a gas station where the people who dont speak english try to give me directions. to where? its just down the road. why the fuck does everyone say that??? Of course its down the road. Did i think i had to get out and SWIM the rest of the way?
So i finally get myself there, park, only to find that the way i CAME is NOT the way to go home. fuck me. all this time i am driving I am following slow ass SUV motherfuckers slowing down to turn into thier driveways, never once thinking of using an indicator. people crossing the street slowly, ON THE PHONE and not at crosswalks. All the while passing NO landmarks whatsoever to aide my way. its just coffee shop, diner, bar, repeat, with the same group of well dressed white kids chuckling loudly outside of each establishment, one of them always on the phone.

am i decribing this well enough? its like a bad movie. how do people live there. everything looks the same, everyONE looks the same and everyones car is shiny. its not the real world, i tell you that.

ok, i feel better.

Ah, yes…..I feel your pain. Luckily I know my way round better than most in MD and DC…but VA!!! Forget it. The roadsigns in VA are absolutely the worst I've ever seen anywhere in the world….I've driven in countries that I don't read the language and their signs have made more sense.

Just think about it…..if you're a tourist, or just a stranger..does it really fucking matter is it's Turd Ave. N,S,E or W?? Does it bollocks, you need to know where the fuck it takes you, not what direction it's going in….on that note one of the classic signs that I see every day is just as you get off the toll road towards the beltway and it says the same exit is RICHMOND AND BALTIMORE. The sign that lets you know the road splits is after you've taken that exit.To us locals it makes perfect sense, but the road is the one from DULLES AIRPORT so there tends to be a lot of tourists on that road. DUH! Almost daily I see some poor chump in a rental car come to a stop obviously trying to figure out how the fuck you get to Richmond and Baltimore via the same exit.

As for N. Virginians…you described them perfectly. I try to curb my anger towards VA drivers by trying to figure out two things. 1.) Why don't they put turn signals on cars that are sold in VA. 2.) What the hell does the vanity tag on their SUV mean.

Yeah Arlington's not the easiest place to navigate if you don't know your way around at least a little. I'm with god's shoeshine…I don't really think of Arl. as NoVa either. But that's probably because I live there and resent the fact that technically we are NoVa which includes some serious hell-holes like Burke, Centerville and other way-out burbs.

why do you consider these places hell-holes? I know a guy who is president of an IT company who lives in Burke and I've seen some nice cribs in Cetreville…

What is hell holish about Burke or Centreville?

The only hell holes I'm aware of are the parts of DC that are east of 14th street.

Originally posted by chaz:
Yeah Arlington's not the easiest place to navigate if you don't know your way around at least a little. I'm with god's shoeshine…I don't really think of Arl. as NoVa either. But that's probably because I live there and resent the fact that technically we are NoVa which includes some serious hell-holes like Burke, Centerville and other way-out burbs.

Originally posted by chaz:
I'm with god's shoeshine…I don't really think of Arl. as NoVa either.

what would you consider Arlington then?

Originally posted by mankie:
2.) What the hell does the vanity tag on their SUV mean.

Possibly the dumbest thing i have ever seen. Can anyone please explain to me why people have vanity license plates? and why EVERYONE in VA has one?

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
Possibly the dumbest thing i have ever seen. Can anyone please explain to me why people have vanity license plates? and why EVERYONE in VA has one?

maybe they are vain?

You must either be rich, or content to live the rest of your life in an apartment.

Originally posted by chaz:
Yeah Arlington's not the easiest place to navigate if you don't know your way around at least a little. I'm with god's shoeshine…I don't really think of Arl. as NoVa either. But that's probably because I live there and resent the fact that technically we are NoVa which includes some serious hell-holes like Burke, Centerville and other way-out burbs.

Originally posted by sonickteam2:
everyONE looks the same and everyones car is shiny.

Just a different coat of paint, my friend… ;)
Once you left and saw the bright lights of the city, the familiar haze hanging over the sky, and smelled the potent Potomac, I assume you breathed a sweet sigh of relief?

OK, I don't want to offend anyone here that lives in one of these places. They are just not for me. Just too far away for my tastes and not the kind of environment for me.

My brother in law lives out there and they've got a nice, huge house and they just love it out there. They think we (who live in Arlington) live in 'the city' and are constantly asking us how we can stand it where we live…so just different strokes for different folks.

Arlington was just a good balance for me and the missus.

Originally posted by Harriet Balls:
why do you consider these places hell-holes? I know a guy who is president of an IT company who lives in Burke and I've seen some nice cribs in Cetreville…

How were you able to afford your small 600K house in Arlington?

Originally posted by chaz:
OK, I don't want to offend anyone here that lives in one of these places. They are just not for me. Just too far away for my tastes and not the kind of environment for me.

My brother in law lives out there and they've got a nice, huge house and they just love it out there. They think we (who live in Arlington) live in 'the city' and are constantly asking us how we can stand it where we live…so just different strokes for different folks.

Arlington was just a good balance for me and the missus.

Originally posted by Harriet Balls:
why do you consider these places hell-holes? I know a guy who is president of an IT company who lives in Burke and I've seen some nice cribs in Cetreville…

Yes, I inherited a large sum of $$$ from my Granny who was married to an oil baron….not.

Not rich at all. We've got a small townhouse in one of the cheaper (and that's a relative term) areas of arlington that we were able to buy after years of toiling away. We got into it just in time. If we were buying now we could not afford our own place.

We could have moved somewhere outside the beltway and gotten a much bigger place but the tradeoffs just didn't make it worth it to us.

Originally posted by Rutherford J. Balls:
You must either be rich, or content to live the rest of your life in an apartment.

Originally posted by chaz:
Yeah Arlington's not the easiest place to navigate if you don't know your way around at least a little. I'm with god's shoeshine…I don't really think of Arl. as NoVa either. But that's probably because I live there and resent the fact that technically we are NoVa which includes some serious hell-holes like Burke, Centerville and other way-out burbs.

Errrrrmmm, Arlington seems like an alright place to live. Plenty of bars and restaurants and the two live music venues.

If you want to see depressing you should check out the strip mall about two miles away from College Park.

So what's your problem anyway? My house cost much less than 600k, in fact, signifigantly less than half that…but why should I even have to tell you this.

Originally posted by Rutherford J. Balls:
How were you able to afford your small 600K house in Arlington?

Originally posted by chaz:
OK, I don't want to offend anyone here that lives in one of these places. They are just not for me. Just too far away for my tastes and not the kind of environment for me.

My brother in law lives out there and they've got a nice, huge house and they just love it out there. They think we (who live in Arlington) live in 'the city' and are constantly asking us how we can stand it where we live…so just different strokes for different folks.

Arlington was just a good balance for me and the missus.

Originally posted by Harriet Balls:
why do you consider these places hell-holes? I know a guy who is president of an IT company who lives in Burke and I've seen some nice cribs in Cetreville…