Was all that shit they built around there really necessary?

Why must they build luxury condos/chain retail right outside every damn metrorail station now?

Is that the latest trend or something?

#1. You're pretty stupid aren't you? As in, your friends bust your balls all the time about what a big dumbass you are, right?

#2. You have obviously lived here for about 15 minutes if you don't think that the Metro and all the shit around it isn't an upgrade from what was there.

Angry that you cannot afford one of the new condo's?

Xn3py Wrote:
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> Is that the latest trend or something?

It's called "transit-oriented development". It's an old and global thing. Look it up if you somehow missed it.

XpwnH Wrote:
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> #1. You're pretty stupid aren't you? As in, your
> friends bust your balls all the time about what a
> big dumbass you are, right?
>
> #2. You have obviously lived here for about 15
> minutes if you don't think that the Metro and all
> the shit around it isn't an upgrade from what was
> there.
>
> Angry that you cannot afford one of the new
> condo's?


Personally I thought that the auto repair shop telling the county to go screw themselves for over 25 years was pretty cool!



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XpwnH Wrote:
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> #1. You're pretty stupid aren't you? As in, your
> friends bust your balls all the time about what a
> big dumbass you are, right?
>
> #2. You have obviously lived here for about 15
> minutes if you don't think that the Metro and all
> the shit around it isn't an upgrade from what was
> there.
>
> Angry that you cannot afford one of the new
> condo's?

All that was there was a parking lot.

XpwnH Wrote:
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> #1. You're pretty stupid aren't you? As in, your
> friends bust your balls all the time about what a
> big dumbass you are, right?
>
> #2. You have obviously lived here for about 15
> minutes if you don't think that the Metro and all
> the shit around it isn't an upgrade from what was
> there.
>
> Angry that you cannot afford one of the new
> condo's?

Condos? I live in a house.

Xn3py Wrote:
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> Why must they build luxury condos/chain retail
> right outside every damn metrorail station now?

It's a gimme to the developers and real estate investors. Developers build shitty condos near Metro station and sell them to real estate investors, who then rent them to young professionals who foolishly think the laughably piss poor public transit system will allow them to commute to their jobs and such, but discover in a year that it's impossible to get anywhere they actually want to be without driving or paying a taxi or an Uber 25 bucks a trip.

the developer/rei complex Wrote:
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> Xn3py Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Why must they build luxury condos/chain retail
> > right outside every damn metrorail station now?
>
> It's a gimme to the developers and real estate
> investors. Developers build shitty condos near
> Metro station and sell them to real estate
> investors, who then rent them to young
> professionals who foolishly think the laughably
> piss poor public transit system will allow them to
> commute to their jobs and such, but discover in a
> year that it's impossible to get anywhere they
> actually want to be without driving or paying a
> taxi or an Uber 25 bucks a trip.

Very true

the developer/rei complex Wrote:
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> Xn3py Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Why must they build luxury condos/chain retail
> > right outside every damn metrorail station now?
>
> It's a gimme to the developers and real estate
> investors. Developers build shitty condos near
> Metro station and sell them to real estate
> investors, who then rent them to young
> professionals who foolishly think the laughably
> piss poor public transit system will allow them to
> commute to their jobs and such, but discover in a
> year that it's impossible to get anywhere they
> actually want to be without driving or paying a
> taxi or an Uber 25 bucks a trip.

and the Nogs are waiting for you as you get off of the Metro because the know you have money, and are too much of a pussy to put up a fight.

They take your money, phone and watch, then Buckwheat jumps back onto the Metro so he can get back to MLK Avenue.

It's also convenient to the ISIS training academy.

tpHdb

Expand the perimeters of your thinking just a bit. INOVA has acquired the old Exxon-Mobil corporate headquarters property. I think we can expect a new medical campus to develop there that will make the current INOVA hospital on Gallows Rd. look like a failed first attempt. Merrifield has a planned business district anchored by a Target, plenty of parking, a hotel, a multi-screen cinema, several excellent restaurants, and a contiguous housing area with a variety of types of housing. Peripheral to Merrifield is a Home Depot, and two shopping centers dating from the 60s that are ripe for demolition and redevelopment. Development around Dunn Loring metro continues. A little further up Gallows we come to Tysons, Rt 7, and all that entails. The Dunn Loring phenomenon is just urban infill, between the already built-up areas of Falls Church, Tysons, Fairfax and Vienna. If you're looking for someplace to put a little money where the value is close to guaranteed to grow, you could do a lot, lot worse than investing in Dunn Loring real estate.