I lived in NOVA years ago, and alas my company has decided to move on back to this "lovely location." It has changed a lot, as I see that its a mix of yuppies and third world types.

Burke is one area I'm considering for commuting reasons, along with there being some fairly affordable townhouses/condos, etc. Any areas to avoid, because while Burke back in the day was quiet, insight on to what its like now would be greatly appreciated.

Now to somehow get grumpy enough to live here and fit in

Near the safeway, local fixtures steven harris live there and sell dope to your kids

I would stay away from the townhouses anywhere off of Lake Braddock Drive between Burke Lake Road and Burke Road. I'm not sure how things got so shitty there...I guess the fact that those townhouses are now 30+ years old but man, you make the loop of Hollins, Westport, and Kendrick and it's just a shithole there frankly.

ALL of the townhouse neighborhoods in Burke have "local fixtures" who sell dope to your kids. The third-worlders are starting to out-number the yuppies. I could lose my mind from it.

I would say to look elsewhere, but it's not much better in the surrounding areas. Worse, maybe.

Townhouses are the new American trailer parks. Stay away from the ones by the Burke Town Safeway, by the railroad tracks by the KFC, anything near Lake Braddock, and most definitely the townhouses off Shiplett by Rolling Valley Mall.

On a real note. No.

Burke does not have any ghetto areas.

Burke is infested with collectivist vermin everywhere you look. But in their defense, most of them do bathe once or twice a week. What makes them vermin is their steadfast belief that the government knows better how to spend your honestly earned money than you do. You better agree with their mindset. If you don't, it proves to them that they are intellectually and morally your superior.

Burke is infested with collectivist vermin everywhere you look. But in their defense, most of them do bathe once or twice a week. What makes them vermin is their steadfast belief that the government knows better how to spend your honestly earned money than you do. You better agree with their mindset. If you don't, it proves to them that they are intellectually and morally your superior.

Burke is infested with collectivist vermin everywhere you look. But in their defense, most of them do bathe once or twice a week. What makes them vermin is their steadfast belief that the government knows better how to spend your honestly earned money than you do. You better agree with their mindset. If you don't, it proves to them that they are intellectually and morally your superior.

one more time........

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> Burke is one area I'm considering for commuting
> reasons, along with there being some fairly
> affordable townhouses/condos, etc. Any areas to
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The affordable townhouses/condos are what attracts the illegals and third worlders to Burke. Any of the areas mentioned above by other posters are Ghetto. Take a drive after 9:00pm and look at how many taxi cabs and work vans are parked in or on streets next to these communities and that will tell you where you don't want to live. There is an upscale town home community in Lake Braddock off of Tripolis Ct, between Olley Lane and Wallingford Drive on Lake Braddock Drive (by the pool) that hasn't seen the influx of undesirables, but the townhomes are priced in the low to mid $400s which kind of gets rid of the affordability factor.

Check out Kingstowne.

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> Check out Kingstowne.


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Kingstown is more modern and better laid out than Burke with far superior shopping and road layout plus Wegmans is being built.

Burke is aging and was hardly a desireable location even 15 years ago.

subsidized housing at crevenna oak (across from safeway in burke center) and subsidized housing at the end of oak leather (safeway side).

I grew up near there and was smoking cigs and weed with the little wanksters at 12 years old.

not ghetto or dangerous but juvenile delinquents who know they won't be charged as an adult...

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All of Burke is ghetto. Trust me. This is coming from my mom's basement.

yeah i grew up in crevenna oaks that place is so ghetto and i remember people trying to make me smoke cigarettes when i was five that place is so ghetto but some people are nice but you have to watch out for a lot of them in the projects ya know

Just that one section off the parkway. You'll see it.

I lived on Ulysses Ct, off Tripolis Ct and Lake Braddock Drive. Used to be a real nice place except for the park across the street. Became a parking nightmare on the weekends. But generally not bad.

You just have to be mature enough to accept the fact.
The area finally grew up and out.

crevena oak boys Wrote:
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> subsidized housing at crevenna oak (across from
> safeway in burke center) and subsidized housing at
> the end of oak leather (safeway side).
>
> I grew up near there and was smoking cigs and weed
> with the little wanksters at 12 years old.
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> not ghetto or dangerous but juvenile delinquents
> who know they won't be charged as an adult...


Doesn't Burke have alot of low income public housing besides Crevenna Oaks?

As I know they have another subsidised development near the VRE scattered in and around Burke.