shan1 Wrote:
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> Yes I'm talking to you. The a-hole-ish driving is
> bad enough but I cannot believe how uncivilized
> people are on this site. I mean just mean and
> nasty and hateful for no reason. Anyone from
> another county or state would NEVER move here
> after reading some of this stuff. If I hadn't
> already lived in Fairfax County for 8 years I sure
> wouldn't.
>
> And then there's this pretentiousness like Fairfax
> County is the alpha and the omega. While you're
> busy getting ripped off paying personal property
> taxes to the county AND your city on top of the
> outrageous income tax, and getting a million
> parking and traffic tickets. One night there were
> some power outages due to lightning and I
> literally saw TEN full sized fire trucks go flying
> by in one area. Overkill?
>
> You go in the Target in Falls Church on a Saturday
> afternoon and an Asian woman may reach over in
> front of your face to grab something off of the
> rack that you are standing in front of. While
> white yuppies and stay-at-home-moms will have
> extremely loud conversations about absolutely
> nothing (either with each other or on their cell
> phones) with their carts blocking the entire path.
>
>
> Try going to the same place or a grocery store
> late at night and you run into the sketchiest
> people of all colors you have ever seen. I had
> some guys almost run into my car in one of the
> biggest combined parking lots around that was
> completely 100% empty. And go look at police
> reports for Falls Church. A whole lot more petty
> crime than you would ever think. Is is because
> there are so many cops and so much reporting or
> what?
>
> In a Safeway parking lot I saw some hot-shot "mom"
> push her shopping cart in the vicinity of the cart
> stall, walk away, and get in her Mercedes SUV
> without ever looking back. Meanwhile, her cart was
> on its way to banging up a parked car or causing
> an accident in the nearby street.
>
> One time on Route 1 in Alexandria, there was a
> woman who had been hit by a car in the middle of
> the crosswalk in front of the Wal-Mart (not the
> newer one). Guess what Fairfax Country drivers
> were doing at this very busy high traffic
> intersection? They were driving around her body so
> that they could get shopping!
>
> I was sitting at a traffic light with a visiting
> relative from Ohio, and some guy in a business
> suit decides to jump out of his car and start
> cursing at the driver in front of him who was
> making a left turn instead of a right on red thus
> blocking everyone else in line. Embarrassing!
>
> But yeah, Fairfax County is SO GREAT and better
> than the rest. Just admit that your county is just
> as crappy as everywhere else, just in its own
> unique Fairfax County way.
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