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Can any of the older posters on this site tell us of a time when this county was good? Disappointed in the way things are run,after moving here. Had to move because of work.
Fairfax County was great before the Democrats took over. Like nearly every other place in the country where the Liberal Infestation takes hold and Democrats run things.
Some what new to the area Wrote:
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> Can any of the older posters on this site tell us
> of a time when this county was good? Disappointed
> in the way things are run,after moving here. Had
> to move because of work.
Back in the 1970's it was really like some kind of cross between the Andy Griffith Show, Dukes Of Hazzard, and the movie "Best Friends"
In the Sixties the complaint was that taxes were too high due to the need to provide infrastructure for the anything goes development going on in the County and that the County provided few government services. People also were complaining about how new arrivals were coming in and altering the culture. Then there were complaints about the traffic. All true.
In the seventies people were complaining about how the high cost of housing was driving younger people and people with lower income out of the county, about how taxes were escalating, and about how few government services were provided by the County. Then there were the complaints about the traffic. All true.
In the later seventies started people complaining about how immigrants, at that time from southeast Asia, were moving in and taking over neighborhoods.
In the eighties people were complaining about the pro-business county administration which was allowing old neighborhoods to be taken over and converted wholesale into business areas or into more intensively developed areas, and that the county was keeping taxes high to provide infrastructure for these businesses and developers. Then there was traffic. True, which was why Herrity was voted out of office.
In the mid eighties I walked into a McDonalds and tried to place an order. None of the counter staff spoke English beyond a basic understanding of numbers. They had to get the manager to take my order.
In the nineties people were complaining about how newcomers to the area were unwilling to help out with community activities. There was a rise in "dead zones" areas such as shopping centers which had been active in prior years but which were largely abandoned. County development practices and business development practices were cementing parts of the County as "good" or "not so good". Then there was traffic.
In the early 2000s the area was hit with a large wave of immigrants hitting the area. They were taking over camping areas in the County, inexpensive motels and the County's few mobile home parks. Then they were converting single family homes into rooming houses. Rapidly rising home prices caused many longer term residents to sell out and leave, which also undermined community activities. Rising income inequality was causing the County to divert more resources to subsidizing the standard of living of low income employed residents while continuing to defer maintenance of facilities. Then there was traffic.
^^^ Typical whiny-ass garbage. The biggest changes since I arrived here in the 60's have been first, driving the bulk of the hayseeds and redneck nincompoops out of the area, and second, allowing actual progress such as the economic boon of Metro to occur. What we have today of course is one of the wealthiest and most desirable areas to live in the entire country. If you can't make it here, you've got issues.
Divine Providence Wrote:
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> ^^^ Typical whiny-ass garbage. The biggest
> changes since I arrived here in the 60's have been
> first, driving the bulk of the hayseeds and
> redneck nincompoops out of the area, and second,
> allowing actual progress such as the economic boon
> of Metro to occur. What we have today of course
> is one of the wealthiest and most desirable areas
> to live in the entire country. If you can't make
> it here, you've got issues.
By redneck and hayseed- you mean the hard working non-ethnics? Oh I see . Yes, that's true. Because being a third worlder who wipes your butt with your own hand after you poop, is so much better than Earl and Jethro who are trying to farm the area.
Seems like things started to go bad around 1988 to 1992. I moved to Manassas in 88 and found it to be much better there. Ten years later Manassas just turned into a extension of suck-ass Fairfax county and I had to move further out. Growing up in Fairfax in the 70s and early 80s was a great experience.
Bill.N. Wrote:
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> You tell me:
>
> In the Sixties the complaint was that taxes were
> too high due to the need to provide infrastructure
> for the anything goes development going on in the
> County and that the County provided few government
> services. People also were complaining about how
> new arrivals were coming in and altering the
> culture. Then there were complaints about the
> traffic. All true.
>
> In the seventies people were complaining about how
> the high cost of housing was driving younger
> people and people with lower income out of the
> county, about how taxes were escalating, and about
> how few government services were provided by the
> County. Then there were the complaints about the
> traffic. All true.
>
> In the later seventies started people complaining
> about how immigrants, at that time from southeast
> Asia, were moving in and taking over
> neighborhoods.
>
> In the eighties people were complaining about the
> pro-business county administration which was
> allowing old neighborhoods to be taken over and
> converted wholesale into business areas or into
> more intensively developed areas, and that the
> county was keeping taxes high to provide
> infrastructure for these businesses and
> developers. Then there was traffic. True, which
> was why Herrity was voted out of office.
>
> In the mid eighties I walked into a McDonalds and
> tried to place an order. None of the counter
> staff spoke English beyond a basic understanding
> of numbers. They had to get the manager to take
> my order.
>
> In the nineties people were complaining about how
> newcomers to the area were unwilling to help out
> with community activities. There was a rise in
> "dead zones" areas such as shopping centers which
> had been active in prior years but which were
> largely abandoned. County development practices
> and business development practices were cementing
> parts of the County as "good" or "not so good".
> Then there was traffic.
>
> In the early 2000s the area was hit with a large
> wave of immigrants hitting the area. They were
> taking over camping areas in the County,
> inexpensive motels and the County's few mobile
> home parks. Then they were converting single
> family homes into rooming houses. Rapidly rising
> home prices caused many longer term residents to
> sell out and leave, which also undermined
> community activities. Rising income inequality
> was causing the County to divert more resources to
> subsidizing the standard of living of low income
> employed residents while continuing to defer
> maintenance of facilities. Then there was
> traffic.
In the 2010s, the Liberals started fleeing the cesspool of Maryland because of high violent crime and over taxation. No sooner do they arrive in the better run state of Virginia then they try to turn it into the very cesspool they fled.
That is why Liberals are like a terminal disease. They are like a cancer that rots healthy organs from the inside out. After destroying a healthy area, they move on to the next.
Divine Providence Wrote:
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> If you can't make it here, you've got issues.
If by make it you mean earn enough to support the monthly payments on the debt needed to live a middle class life, maybe half the people living here are making it. If you mean accumulate real wealth independent of home equity and retirement accounts, the percentage is much lower. Meanwhile the percentage of working poor has been growing since the 1980s.
i lived in fairfax county two different eras of my life. the first was 1989-1992.
at that time, it was beautiful - very new, modern, with traffic, yes, but it wasn't nearly as bad as it had gotten a decade later. the problem is that the entire area is mostly designed for low density development. car ownership is essential.
it was costly, but still affordable for a young person who desired no roommates. i did it - in annandale, at what used to be known as Patriot Village.
that 3 year period was an amazing time for me personally. there were large throngs of people in their early 20s who would congregate at wakefield park to play volleyball every friday.
i moved back a little more than a decade later. it seemed to have reached a top capacity for vehicle volume, population, etc - at least the areas i was most familiar with and where i wanted to live - Fairfax City, Merrifield, Annandale, etc - that particular triangle of communities. They had just gotten overwhelmed with bad, bad drivers, and traffic congestion.
Areas i thought once beautiful for suburbs were then run down, drab, littered, etc. It just became trash suburbia, unless of course you had money to afford a better apartment community/living arrangement. Every place NOT posh and luxurious was cockroach infested, or had crime concerns.
Love Liberal Tears Wrote:
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> Fuck off, dope Wrote:
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> > Eat me, fag-boy.
>
>
> Obviously a fragile snowflake. Just stick another
> dildo in your ass, that should calm you down to
> accept the facts of your failed ideology.
They’re all laughing at you, clown-boy. Getting ready for eighth grade, are you?
Regardless of when it was good, the indisputable fact is that it is now a shithole. And the prognosis is that it will continue to be a shithole (see LA or Detroit for examples).
Fairfax went downhill when everyone started getting COPD. Do you know it takes 30 years to die from that? A certain reverend gave my grandfather COPD when he was only 55, and it took him 40 years to die. He was taken at the young age of 95 and obviously couldn’t do anything during those 40 years because he was dying. Because of this I don’t have a job, and complain endlessly about made-up injustices.
It has been so long that most people, including myself, do not remember the dates. It was probably during the time that Jack Herrity and Audrey Moore led the Board of Supervisors.
I think it was around 1995 when country music was eradicated from the airwaves.
Young men had to listen to whiny alternative music and pretend that it was good, and pop country didn’t do the job. No more songs about working hard and getting drunk.
Why did the church call that guy a ‘domestic terrorist’? That’s not really fair. It doesn’t matter if you’re foreign or domestic. He’s a terrorist, plain and simple.
The last time Fairfax was good was June 1st 1861 the day the yankee invaders killed John Quincy Marr in the battle of Fairfax courthouse. Since then Fairfax has gone to the niggers