Re: This area used to be so nice. When did this area turn into a crowded overpriced shithole and traffic nightmare?
Posted by:
Pack a Lunch
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Date: October 28, 2017 02:12PM
HoDu Wrote:
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> The tipping point was about 1983.
>
> Of course, up into the 1940s things were a lot
> more rural.
> For a couple of generations after that, the area
> grew up into
> a very nice suburban region. After about 1983,
> growth went
> visibly non-linear and the area was clearly
> overbuilding.
> Today, we're near the terminal phase of turning
> into a
> more urban area -- it's hard to see where "the
> city" ends,
> all the way out into the county. It's that
> uncomfortable
> place where it's gone from nice suburbs to
> overcrowded
> near-urban. It will never get better, as this
> growth was
> never planned for, and it is simply impossible to
> improve
> the infrastructure and services to accomodate it
> all.
> You can't tear down enough houses to ever
> accomplish it.
>
> The transition to "shit hole" is one-way, I'm
> afraid.
This is true, while living in Annandale @84, we had friends who were looking to buy in Centerville, going out there was "WTF" who wants to live out here? Also, leaving Tysons on 7 was a nice drive through horse country, Leesburg, etc...now, UGH!