This question for those who have lived elsewhere in the country- are the people in here friendlier, ruder or generally the same than the people you met in other places? This area is so transient and so many are only here temporarily and I was wondering if there was a difference in other areas.

Used to be a nice place till all the carpet bagging Yankees moved here. It is rare to even see the PD hire born and raised Fairfax County residents much less Virginians.

People here seem to be a lot more rude than I'm used to. I think it's because the amount of foreigners from over-populated countries where there is no consideration, no politeness, no "please and thank yous". I go to Tyson's Corner mall and it seems like these Indians and Middle Easterners try to walk into me or run into me, or just walk in the way and stop. Nobody looks out for other people and tend to pay attention to where they're going or if they're in the way of others. It's those aspects, as well as just the amount of people give some the feeling on anonimity so they don't feel like they need to be nice or polite.

Very few genuinely friendly people here. And if you are a military family, well, just count on FCPS sticking it to your kids and you as parents.

Worst school ever for this: Waynewood Elementary.

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That's exactly what they look like too!

If you don't like Fairfax, Prince William sounds more up your alley.

I've lived in a lot of cities, and visited a lot of other places in the US and in Europe, and I can safely say, as a whole, this place has the largest majority of pig headed self serving pompus asses I've ever seen... Too many egos trying to out do the next overly educated and lack of common sense moron..

Full of Bigots, which cities did you live in that you would say are friendly?

Having been in all major cities in the lower 48, except for the Northwest, I can say that the friendliest people have to be in Minneapolis/St. Paul, or just Minnesota in general. The rudest: New England, namely Boston. Fairfax is somewhere in between when it comes to friendly people.

Since drivers in FFX come from all over, with a myriad of traffic laws (or even none), traffic and bad drivers are hellish in this county.

Worse than New England even, or Mumbai.

LOL at comparing driving her to in Mumbai. Matt 0681, I actually have heard this about MN. Not trying to be funny, but do you think the sub-zero weather has any effect on this?

I think that people are friendlier in quite a few different areas. Even in NY/NJ, the people are more real, and if you make friends with someone up there you'll generally stay great friends with them. This area is simply too transient (Which is a major problem with Florida as well, where I've seen some straight psychoness).

My cousin insists that the friendliest people are Texans, and her family tried living in Georgia for a while, but they hated it.

I am really raised here, but I spent a lot of time as a kid inbetween the NYC area, and Southern VA. I have also been all over the country, as well as overseas, and I have family living everywhere. My friends are from all over the globe too, so I've been fortunate enough to have a massive amount of insight into varying cultures.

Basically, I learned that the NYC/NJ people are extremely real with it, whereas in the South you can run into rather flaky, cliquish folks. However, it can all depend upon which community you live in, and who you hang around. I also learned that there are some very, very odd people who make Colorado their home, although this obviously only accounts for a minority of the overall citizenry.

If FFX Co. wasn't increasing its population at such an insane rate, especially regarding the wetbacks, then it would be a friendlier area in my opinion.

One story to relate as well, I know a lady who recently moved here. Her husband is MIL, and he was just stationed at the Pentagon. She said he hates it there, and people all around here are rude as hell. He'll be walking the corridors for instance, and anytime he says: "Hi", people just stare at him or keep on walking. She said that they really can't wait to get back on base elsewhere, where the people are more genuine, and there is an actual community.

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"And if any women or children get their legs torn off, or faces caved in, well, it's tough shit for them." -2LT. Bert Stiles, 505th, 339th (On Berlin Bombardier Mission, 1944).

This is not a friendly area. Too many people from too many cultures and nobody knows quite what the customs are for a myriad of social encounters. It's weird. It's not easy to live here---very complicated in terms of human to human contact. I have to decide if I should shake hands, hug, kiss the person's cheek, say hello, wave to someone, etc. etc. And that's just the beginning.

There are easier places, but those places are probably getting more complicated as well.

> I have to decide if I should shake hands, hug, kiss the person's cheek, say hello, wave to someone, etc. etc.

It's not that hard, now, come on. Stick with "no touching" when in doubt.

This place is neither sickly nice nor Jersey mean. It's pretty much the average American suburb. Bland and average. Most people are polite and even nice, except when driving; on the roads everyone is everyone else's enemy.

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> One story to relate as well, I know a lady who
> recently moved here. Her husband is MIL, and he
> was just stationed at the Pentagon. She said he
> hates it there, and people all around here are
> rude as hell. He'll be walking the corridors for
> instance, and anytime he says: "Hi", people just
> stare at him or keep on walking. She said that
> they really can't wait to get back on base
> elsewhere, where the people are more genuine, and
> there is an actual community.

There are 25,000 people working at the Pentagon, does he really expect everyone to stop and say hello?

i moved out of this shithole for a while and lived in san diego. People there were much nicer than here for sure.

I was surprised, considering the stereotype cali people get, but to be honest i find them here in the DC/nova area the most.

i cant wait to leave this area and go back west.

Having lived here for most of last 45 years I can say this area has turned into the land of the swinging dicks male and female
and i don't just mean all them ferigners neither

In agreement with ThePackLeader's post. Completely.