Buyer's remorse Wrote:
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> > City of Falls Church > Oakton
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> It's surprising that anyone could still believe
> that.
More surprising are the idiots that deny it.
> In fact, day is done for Falls Church City.
The median price of a house or a condo that sold in Falls Church in September was $810,000, up 9.3 percent from a year ago and more than double the median price across the region.
> Arlington stole the best part of the Town back in
> the 1930s.
Your definitions of "stole" and "best" might need some fine tuning.
First, it was the residents of East Falls Church that petitioned to be placed within the original boundary of what was formerly Alexandria County (now Arlington County).
In 1801, the new District of Columbia was established and divided into Washington County and Alexandria County. The City of Falls Church grew over time to straddle the line between what was then Fairfax County, Virginia and Alexandria County, DC. The area of the City of Falls Church within Alexandria County, DC became known as East Falls Church. As a result, today’s East Falls Church was in both the City of Falls Church, but also in Alexandria County. DC.
In 1932, citizens of East Falls Church presented a petition to Virginia courts to allow them to become part of Arlington County. A 1935 circuit court decision in favor of the split was upheld by the Virginia Supreme Court in 1936, and the legal separation occurred on April 30, 1936.
As for best, much of that land is now I66, the metro station and metro tracks. As for the rest of it, they are simply some of the neighborhoods that are indistinguishable to the casual observer from the neighborhoods of Falls Church. In fact, many of those neighborhoods bleed into one another and the result is that neighbors on the same street live in two different jurisdictions.
The Washington post did a nice piece on one of the nicer neighborhoods in Falls Church and the region.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/realestate/the-broadmont-neighborhood-in-no-virginia-is-at-the-head-of-the-class/2015/11/19/ef5250e2-83d4-11e5-a7ca-6ab6ec20f839_story.html
The Broadmont neighborhood in Northern Virginia is at the head of the class.
> What's left now is a decrepit, dusty,
> decaying step-child -- a cramped relic of an
> earlier time that wasn't all that good to begin
> with.
Sounds like sour grapes as all evidence points to the exact opposite.
> The time to dump FCC properties was
> years ago. It's a cut-your-losses world for those
> who missed the boat back then.
The median price of a house or a condo that sold in Falls Church in September was $810,000, up 9.3 percent from a year ago and more than double the median price across the region.