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Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: Black CauIk ()
Date: August 07, 2020 06:45PM

I don't see it. I just don't see the rationale behind this
rah-rah bullshit.

It's just marketing.

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: Dan Snyder is Short ()
Date: August 07, 2020 07:17PM

NOVA was nice.

The DMV is a shit hole.

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: vcdk7 ()
Date: August 07, 2020 07:20PM

The only thing that is "better" about this place is the access to overinflated salaries for government/contractor jobs. Otherwise it is a shithole. Work here for 15 years, make your money, get the fuck out and raise your kids somewhere else. Definetly do NOT retire here.

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: NOVAisBETTER ()
Date: August 07, 2020 07:30PM

the rest of va obvi

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: The Tradeoffs Are A Bitch ()
Date: August 07, 2020 08:38PM

>bout this place is the access to overinflated salaries for government/contractor jobs.

Slummy townhouses 400 k , single family dumps 500k that in Henrico would go for 125K

Heavy traffic long hours of commutes even in the county , smug idiotic Democrats scalping your wallet for schools that are only mediocre while they lie and say their golden treasures filled with far too many unamericans.

Then why bother to vote as too many lazy liberal Democrat assholes think this is the greatest place they have found, only because they cant make the money they get from the government jobs anywhere else

Lifeless chains here few small quality businesses or resturauants at decent prices , your ripped off for everything in NOVA due to the high cost of living which shrinks all paychecks but the service people have to charge the prices they do as their overhead here is far higher as well because its just NOVA today

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: If I Have To Choose ()
Date: August 07, 2020 09:59PM

Ill take NOVA as it is over radiation burns from a communist ICBM when a weak Democrat president caves but only for NOW ! Democrats are getting crazier by the day !

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: Pc retardzzzzzzzz ()
Date: August 07, 2020 10:11PM

It used to be. Now its filled with third world human trash.

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: Phil M ()
Date: August 07, 2020 10:23PM

The 66 rest stop glory hole is closed. People are shut in and gerry's income has gone to whatever Trump will give him. The shitposting will reach new highs again soon.

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: N0VAisBETTER ()
Date: August 07, 2020 11:28PM

You can fuck animals here with no problemo

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: Been around ()
Date: August 08, 2020 12:03AM

Most of the people that dislike NOVA dislike it because they have been in the area for so long. This area really isn't all that bad, despite all the talk of bean people and muslims as well as liberals taking over. We are actually in a "Goldie locks" zone of sorts when it comes to economic opportunity/quality of life. There are tons of well paying jobs in our area, decent housing, public services, entertainment, low crime and the weather is very hospitable.

Will you find places that are "better" in some of these categories? Of course. Some will say New York, LA, Chicago, Houston, and many other places are preferable, but most have significant draw backs. Crime, earth quakes, tornados, homeless people shitting in the street, inept local government, etc. I have lived in many cities stateside and abroad and while I actually think the Dallas-Fort Worth is my favorite area iv'e lived in Northern VA is second.

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: insomnia sucks ()
Date: August 08, 2020 06:10AM

vcdk7 Wrote:
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> The only thing that is "better" about this place
> is the access to overinflated salaries for
> government/contractor jobs. Otherwise it is a
> shithole. Work here for 15 years, make your money,
> get the fuck out and raise your kids somewhere
> else. Definetly do NOT retire here.


As someone looking to retire soon, where exactly do you think is better? NoVa is overpriced, it is crowded and it is expensive. However there is a hell of a lot that this area has to offer typical retirees that you won't find elsewhere. Most of the people I know who retired, left this area and are happy are people who for the most part moved to communities that they already had ties in. The rest have piles of money and/or are the type of person who could probably be happy anywhere.

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: Insomnia DOES suck ()
Date: August 08, 2020 06:30AM

Same boat bro. I agree. No ties in Paducah, Mountpelier, Kankakee or Manassas. Baltimore kin got the hell out of Dodge. There IS a lot here: to love & to hate. I'll stay until the money runs out or my wife kills me. No bets on which will come first.

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: wing tip ()
Date: August 08, 2020 06:48AM

NOVA is getting better as the white cowards are dying off and moving away more and more every day.

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: Besides poor white trash ()
Date: August 08, 2020 08:19AM

The Tradeoffs Are A Bitch Wrote:
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> Slummy townhouses 400 k , single family dumps 500k
> that in Henrico would go for 125K

Who the hell would want to live in slummy Henrico?!

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: Sxvyw ()
Date: August 08, 2020 10:47AM

NOVA was paradise on earth up until the early 80's. Quality of life in NOVA remained *good* through out the mid to late 90's. By 2000 the the rot had fully set in. Massive gridlock, overdevelopment and the huge influx of the unwashed masses. Not to mention it is an expensive place to live. If you are not currently working at a job that pays a huge salary there is no reason to continue to live in NOVA. There are a million other places that are cheaper and offer a far better quality of life.

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: k7gk9 ()
Date: August 08, 2020 11:19AM

Been around Wrote:
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> Most of the people that dislike NOVA dislike it
> because they have been in the area for so long.
> This area really isn't all that bad, despite all
> the talk of bean people and muslims as well as
> liberals taking over. We are actually in a "Goldie
> locks" zone of sorts when it comes to economic
> opportunity/quality of life. There are tons of
> well paying jobs in our area, decent housing,
> public services, entertainment, low crime and the
> weather is very hospitable.

The low crime will slowly go away. FCPD is already starting to accommodate the Democrat hierarchy and will be tacitly allowing more and more criminal activity. And at the same time they will make it illegal to defend yourself.

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: Mike hunttt ()
Date: August 09, 2020 07:11AM

Stupid white people and niggers have the Midas touch... Everything they touch turns to mufflers

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: kn6dp ()
Date: August 09, 2020 07:19AM

"FCPD is already starting to accommodate..."

What universe are you living in. Fairfax police have long since been following those practices.

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: good for them, not for you ()
Date: August 09, 2020 07:38AM

FCPS is going to shit. You stupid libfags have elected commies to the board of supervisors and the school board. Their goal is to bring the entire school system down to meet the needs of the lowest 10%. Almost every high-performing school in FC is now being "integrated" with beaner kids and blacks. If you want to send your kids to a good school in this county, move to a neighborhood that also has a supervisor living in it. They protect their neighborhood schools like mother bears protecting their cubs. The rest of us go go fuck ourselves.

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: NOVAisBETTER ()
Date: August 09, 2020 08:58AM

good for them, not for you Wrote:
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> FCPS is going to shit. You stupid libfags have
> elected commies to the board of supervisors and
> the school board. Their goal is to bring the
> entire school system down to meet the needs of the
> lowest 10%. Almost every high-performing school
> in FC is now being "integrated" with beaner kids
> and blacks. If you want to send your kids to a
> good school in this county, move to a neighborhood
> that also has a supervisor living in it. They
> protect their neighborhood schools like mother
> bears protecting their cubs. The rest of us go go
> fuck ourselves.

so misinformed. republicans have been defunding public education for ages. Want good schooling? Send your kids to private school, if they get below a C they get kicked out.

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: N0VAisBETTER ()
Date: August 09, 2020 09:41AM

How do you think I know this?

I can barely make sentences. For me, reading is a chore.

capitalization occurs only when I'm careless about being non-binary

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: EXFK7 ()
Date: August 09, 2020 09:50AM

Been around Wrote:
> the
> weather is very hospitable.

Sure, if you love humidity. It's awesome. Great cotton growing weather.

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: NOVAisBETTER ()
Date: August 09, 2020 11:09AM

N0VAisBETTER Wrote:
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> How do you think I know this?
>
> I can barely make sentences. For me, reading is a
> chore.
>
> capitalization occurs only when I'm careless about
> being non-binary


i cud talk lyk dis if i wanted 2 u can succ my dicc you gay lil pussy

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: yes, you are so misinformed ()
Date: August 09, 2020 11:52AM

NOVAisBETTER Wrote:
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> good for them, not for you Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > FCPS is going to shit. You stupid libfags have
> > elected commies to the board of supervisors and
> > the school board. Their goal is to bring the
> > entire school system down to meet the needs of
> the
> > lowest 10%. Almost every high-performing
> school
> > in FC is now being "integrated" with beaner
> kids
> > and blacks. If you want to send your kids to a
> > good school in this county, move to a
> neighborhood
> > that also has a supervisor living in it. They
> > protect their neighborhood schools like mother
> > bears protecting their cubs. The rest of us go
> go
> > fuck ourselves.
>
> so misinformed. republicans have been defunding
> public education for ages. Want good schooling?
> Send your kids to private school, if they get
> below a C they get kicked out.


Republicans haven't had any power in Fairfax since 2007. Can't blame them for who fucked up FCPS is.

A private school in Nova costs over $16K/year. You get a $4K discount for each additional kid. Only the rich can afford to send 2 or more kids to private schools.

What's so fucking sad is that fairfax used to have one of the best school systems in the country. Now it sucks, just like Montgomery County. All that has happened in the past 10 years. Can't blame republicans for that.

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: NOVAisBETTER ()
Date: August 09, 2020 12:03PM

yes, you are so misinformed Wrote:
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> NOVAisBETTER Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > good for them, not for you Wrote:
> >
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> > -----
> > > FCPS is going to shit. You stupid libfags
> have
> > > elected commies to the board of supervisors
> and
> > > the school board. Their goal is to bring the
> > > entire school system down to meet the needs
> of
> > the
> > > lowest 10%. Almost every high-performing
> > school
> > > in FC is now being "integrated" with beaner
> > kids
> > > and blacks. If you want to send your kids to
> a
> > > good school in this county, move to a
> > neighborhood
> > > that also has a supervisor living in it.
> They
> > > protect their neighborhood schools like
> mother
> > > bears protecting their cubs. The rest of us
> go
> > go
> > > fuck ourselves.
> >
> > so misinformed. republicans have been defunding
> > public education for ages. Want good schooling?
> > Send your kids to private school, if they get
> > below a C they get kicked out.
>
>
> Republicans haven't had any power in Fairfax since
> 2007. Can't blame them for who fucked up FCPS
> is.
>
> A private school in Nova costs over $16K/year.
> You get a $4K discount for each additional kid.
> Only the rich can afford to send 2 or more kids to
> private schools.
>
> What's so fucking sad is that fairfax used to have
> one of the best school systems in the country.
> Now it sucks, just like Montgomery County. All
> that has happened in the past 10 years. Can't
> blame republicans for that.


wild you don't know how any of this works. A foreigner knowing more than a national is unheard of in my country.

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: Black CauIk ()
Date: August 09, 2020 12:08PM

NOVAisBETTER Wrote:
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>NOVAisBETTER Wrote:
>-------------------------------------------------------
>> How do you think I know this?
>>
>> I can barely make sentences. For me, reading is a
>> chore.
>>
>> capitalization occurs only when I'm careless about
>> being non-binary
>
>
>i cud talk lyk dis if i wanted 2 u can succ my dicc you gay lil pussy


There is nothing more gay than posting and answering your own post.

You are a head-fucked, misguided, gay little pussy.

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: NOVAisBETTER ()
Date: August 09, 2020 12:17PM

Black CauIk Wrote:
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> NOVAisBETTER Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> >NOVAisBETTER Wrote:
> >-------------------------------------------------
> ------
> >> How do you think I know this?
> >>
> >> I can barely make sentences. For me, reading is
> a
> >> chore.
> >>
> >> capitalization occurs only when I'm careless
> about
> >> being non-binary
> >
> >
> >i cud talk lyk dis if i wanted 2 u can succ my
> dicc you gay lil pussy
>
>
> There is nothing more gay than posting and
> answering your own post.
>
> You are a head-fucked, misguided, gay little
> pussy.
>
> .


I'm just going to sit back and laugh

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: Bill.N. ()
Date: August 09, 2020 01:35PM

yes, you are so misinformed Wrote:
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>
> Republicans haven't had any power in Fairfax since
> 2007. Can't blame them for who fucked up FCPS
> is.

Yet the root of most of what is fucked up in FCPS can be traced back to well before 2007. The funding collapse in the wake of the real estate bubble together with the surge of students, many of them from elsewhere, in the past 10+ years did not create FCPS's problems. It simply made them obvious to the casual observer.

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: Well I Guess Its Better ()
Date: August 09, 2020 01:52PM

Then being an unarmed libtard who gets broken into at 3am and beaten to within an inch of their life by their pet thugs with iron pipes who need a quick 20 bucks for some drugs

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: But Your The Libtarded Ass ()
Date: August 09, 2020 01:57PM

>Who the hell would want to live in slummy Henrico?!

Whos paying 500k up for that 125 K Henrico dump here with as many criminal pets living around you as there , hey there's stupid Democrats in Henrico too , plenty of them. You would be able to sing to your communist choir

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: Bill N.'s teacher wife is stupid ()
Date: August 09, 2020 02:49PM

Bill.N. Wrote:
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> yes, you are so misinformed Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> >
> > Republicans haven't had any power in Fairfax
> since
> > 2007. Can't blame them for who fucked up FCPS
> > is.
>
> Yet the root of most of what is fucked up in FCPS
> can be traced back to well before 2007. The
> funding collapse in the wake of the real estate
> bubble together with the surge of students, many
> of them from elsewhere, in the past 10+ years did
> not create FCPS's problems. It simply made them
> obvious to the casual observer.


Talking smack again Bill. What are these roots that you refer to? The influx of poor brown people have decimated FC public schools. The budget of FCPS is now 53% of the total county budget, coming in at $2.4 billion. That comes to $14,500 per student. Anything that has gone wrong with FCPS in the past 15 years is the fault of democrats who run this place. Plain and simple.

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: Bill N The Democrat Shill ()
Date: August 09, 2020 03:22PM

Is As Wrong as Chis Core's failed Democrats core values

So giving illegals amnesty and free health care is a Democrat core value HUH

How about a set of plastic zip ties and a fast ride back to a El Salvadoran hut

For illegally breaking the immigration line the rest of the people of this Earth have to legally wait in to get into the USA

Why ! That's DOWN RIGHT RACIST OF DEMOCRATS!

FCPS IS A MERE SHADOW OF ITS FORMER SELF BECAUSE OF THE PRESENCE OF SO MANY ILLEGALS AND PUBLIC CHARGE IMMIGRANTS WHO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE AMERICAN SYSTEM OF WELFARE

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: 7JNMK ()
Date: August 10, 2020 01:11PM

Bill.N. Wrote:

> Yet the root of most of what is fucked up in FCPS
> can be traced back to well before 2007.

You can trace it back to the War of Northern Aggression.

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: Bill.N. ()
Date: August 10, 2020 06:58PM

Fairfax County in the year 2000. 25% of the population is already foreign born with over 60% of them non-citizens. 40% of the non-native population had moved to the U.S. within the past ten years. 30% of households speak a language other than English at home, and only half of those living in those non-English speaking households say they can speak English well. In 2000 roughly 40% of the students enrolled in Northern Virginia public schools were non-whites, with the City of Alexandria school system at over 75% non-white. Ten percent of Fairfax County students were classified as limited English proficient. One in five Northern Virginia students was on F&RL.

If you don't remember it that way, Bill N.'s teacher wife is stupid/Bill N The Democrat Shill it is because you are living in an echo chamber where the only facts that filter in are those that support your claim. 1986-First time I walked into a McDonalds where the counter staff did not speak English. 1989 my office's landlord hired an all Spanish speaking clean up crew. 1998-I walk into a Fairfax County school which celebrates in its cafeteria that they have students born in over 50 different countries. 1990s I was talking to tradesmen who were saying that they needed to hire illegals if they wanted to stay competitive. I could go through a long list of those from the 1990-2005 time frame, and that is just on the demographics issue.

The idea that there was no problem prior to 2007 is a load of crap.

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: Bill.N. ()
Date: August 10, 2020 07:38PM

7JNMK Wrote:
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> Bill.N. Wrote:
>
> > Yet the root of most of what is fucked up in
> FCPS
> > can be traced back to well before 2007.
>
> You can trace it back to the War of Northern
> Aggression.


I know people who would say 1776 or 1607 :)

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: 7JNMK ()
Date: August 10, 2020 10:54PM

Bill.N. Wrote:
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> 7JNMK Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Bill.N. Wrote:
> >
> > > Yet the root of most of what is fucked up in
> > FCPS
> > > can be traced back to well before 2007.
> >
> > You can trace it back to the War of Northern
> > Aggression.
>
>
> I know people who would say 1776 or 1607 :)


You can trace it back to the Franco-Prussian fisticuffs.

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: Still wrong Bill. Horribly wrong ()
Date: August 11, 2020 07:28AM

Bill.N. Wrote:
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> Fairfax County in the year 2000. 25% of the
> population is already foreign born with over 60%
> of them non-citizens. 40% of the non-native
> population had moved to the U.S. within the past
> ten years. 30% of households speak a language
> other than English at home, and only half of those
> living in those non-English speaking households
> say they can speak English well. In 2000 roughly
> 40% of the students enrolled in Northern Virginia
> public schools were non-whites, with the City of
> Alexandria school system at over 75% non-white.
> Ten percent of Fairfax County students were
> classified as limited English proficient. One in
> five Northern Virginia students was on F&RL.
>
> If you don't remember it that way, Bill N.'s
> teacher wife is stupid/Bill N The Democrat Shill
> it is because you are living in an echo chamber
> where the only facts that filter in are those that
> support your claim. 1986-First time I walked into
> a McDonalds where the counter staff did not speak
> English. 1989 my office's landlord hired an all
> Spanish speaking clean up crew. 1998-I walk into
> a Fairfax County school which celebrates in its
> cafeteria that they have students born in over 50
> different countries. 1990s I was talking to
> tradesmen who were saying that they needed to hire
> illegals if they wanted to stay competitive. I
> could go through a long list of those from the
> 1990-2005 time frame, and that is just on the
> demographics issue.
>
> The idea that there was no problem prior to 2007
> is a load of crap.


I grew up here. I went to high school in the late 70's. I've seen the decline first hand. This area may have started it's deterioration into 3rd world shithole in the 80's, but it fell off the cliff in the mid-2000's. When the dems seized control of the county about 15 years ago, they embraced the "diversity". Instead of forcing the spics to learn english in order to move ahead in school, they changed the school system to allow them to move forward in spic-talk. I've put my handful of kids through FCPS. It SUCKS. No sane person can deny it.

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: And yet still correct ()
Date: August 11, 2020 09:25AM

As I said it may be what you experienced. That does not make your experience an accurate depiction of what was actually happening. I am not relying just on my personal experience. I have posted the data derived from contemporaneous reports. You do the same.

As to Democrats seizing control about 15 years ago, that happened even earlier, specifically 1995 when Tom Davis entered Congress and was replaced by Kate Hanley and Democrats then won Mason District in the general election. County results in the national elections lagged behind Democratic control on the local level.

It wasn't that demographic trends changed 15 years ago. It wasn't that political control changed 15 years ago. You know what did happen about 15 years ago-the real estate bubble. First you have a county awash in cash and spending money like a drunken sailor and then you have a county with severely reduced resources but is unwilling to accept the new financial realities mean it must change its budgetary priorities.

Bill.N.

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Re: Is NOVA Better? Really? I mean, like, better than what?!?
Posted by: Yupp!! ()
Date: August 11, 2020 11:27PM

Yupp!
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Posted by: Yupp!! ()
Date: August 12, 2020 11:51PM

Yupp!!

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