http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/810846.html

Yes. This thread is in part related to the thread above.

Back in the day, several members of my family in the DC area were able to purchase their own unattached homes, townhouses and apartments and pay all of their monthly bills and expenses with the following respectable occupations.

Hotel maid
School Teacher
Restaurant Manager
Metrobus Driver
Peoples Drug Manager

Try doing that now by working the kind of jobs listed above . Not going to happen.

When did the entire DC metro area turn into an overpriced shithole?

Translation: I should have studied harder in school, instead of smoking weed all day.

When you decided to live here.

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move Wrote:
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> Translation: I should have studied harder in
> school, instead of smoking weed all day.

Actually I dont do drugs and my grades in school are above average. I want to work in restauarants when I graduate. I just think my wages would go much further elsewhere.

This is a serious question so go shit in another thread.

WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> When you decided to live here.

Born and raised here.

Hey OP! Yeah you, fuckstick. You probably think you could escape my detection and prosecution by posting the link to your own previous thread, right? Because you're crafty like that eh, shitstain?

I'm sorry you didn't get what you felt was enough play from your first thread but, there's no excuse for starting a different thread. Don't do it, mang...

All of us are responsible for making the area's housing expensive.. Simple supply and demand my friend.

 



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Overpriced Shithole Wrote:
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> http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/810
> 846.html
>
> Yes. This thread is in part related to the thread
> above.
>
> Back in the day, several members of my family in
> the DC area were able to purchase their own
> unattached homes, townhouses and apartments and
> pay all of their monthly bills and expenses with
> the following respectable occupations.
>
> Hotel maid
> School Teacher
> Restaurant Manager
> Metrobus Driver
> Peoples Drug Manager
>
> Try doing that now by working the kind of jobs
> listed above . Not going to happen.
>
> When did the entire DC metro area turn into an
> overpriced shithole?

You're fucking idiot. Any of those jobs + another income could afford a house.

Overpriced Shithole Wrote:
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I want to work in restauarants
> when I graduate.
>

Hotel maids can afford a house?

Mortgage market norm went to 2-incomes in the 70s and early 80s. That priced a lot of homes out of the reach of single incomes.

Mike who hates NOVA Wrote:
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> I want to work in restauarants
> > when I graduate.
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>


And now, the rest of the story....

http://articles.latimes.com/1991-12-20/news/mn-366_1_mike-sewell

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WashingTone-Locian Wrote:
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> And now, the rest of the story....
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> http://articles.latimes.com/1991-12-20/news/mn-366
> _1_mike-sewell
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betterthanyoubitch Wrote:
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> Hotel maids can afford a house?

If you worked at a nice hotel back in the day then yes.

Overpriced Shithole Wrote:
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> http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/810
> 846.html
>
> Yes. This thread is in part related to the thread
> above.
>
> Back in the day, several members of my family in
> the DC area were able to purchase their own
> unattached homes, townhouses and apartments and
> pay all of their monthly bills and expenses with
> the following respectable occupations.
>
> Hotel maid
> School Teacher
> Restaurant Manager
> Metrobus Driver
> Peoples Drug Manager
>
> Try doing that now by working the kind of jobs
> listed above . Not going to happen.
>
You looked at the pay scales for FCPS??? They are not doing too badly.

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"...your suffering will be legendary even in Hell!"

Ask Gerry Conolly. He was right in the middle of the "raise the property values so they'll raise the price of their house so we can raise the property taxes so they can raise the price of their house so we can raise the property value" scam run by this county in the last 20 years.

Where is dear Gerry anyway?

Didn't the overpaid, transient, educated public hire him for something recently?

That's right.........he's fucking us over at a the federal level these days.

Everytime there's a national recession, the government (and government contractors) are at the front of the line getting the stimulus. Federal discretionary spending rose dramatically during the three recessions under Reagan (1982-1984), Bush2 (2002-2004), and Bush2-Obama (2008-2010).

It wasn't me. It was like this when I got here.

Overpriced Shithole Wrote:
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> Hotel maid NO WAY IN HELL IN FAIRFAX COUNTY
> School Teacher MAYBE. BUT REALLY HARD TO DO IN 2012 FAIRFAX COUNTY
> Restaurant Manager MAYBE BUT ONLY IF IT IS A REALLY UPSCALE RESTAURANT
> Metrobus Driver MAYBE BUT PROBABLY NOT
> Peoples Drug Manager NO WAY IN HELL IN FAIRFAX COUNTY

oh yes, the reason why we are in this hellhole situation, just read this forum.


thanks.. and these dingbats have the right to vote.. for who? people who have no clue what it is to 'live in the real world' and they keep putting them in office.


please, do all of us a favor, cut that crap out!

gentrification is to blame.

I moved here 15 years ago from Colorado Springs. Believe me, this place has been a shit hole for a long time.

To those who will tell me to fuck off and move if I don't like it here - try living someplace else for comparison. The DC area sucks donkey balls!

Les Wrote:
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> Everytime there's a national recession, the
> government (and government contractors) are at the
> front of the line getting the stimulus. Federal
> discretionary spending rose dramatically during
> the three recessions under Reagan (1982-1984),
> Bush2 (2002-2004), and Bush2-Obama (2008-2010).

Not just that, but this area has also been wooing high-value white collar workers for a while now. Check out this list of companies whose headquarters are in Northern Virginia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_headquartered_in_Northern_Virginia

Now combine that with other high-tech companies with substantial installations in NoVA, along with more of the same going on in Metro MD (more focused on biotech firms though) and the large military, contractor, and government footprint in the area and the result is a lot of highly paid professionals taking the area over. Demand for housing and services skyrocketed, and the professionals could pay the ever increasing prices. The rising cost-of-living forced companies to increase salaries in order to draw in new employees or convince existing employees to transfer. The higher wages, in turn, drove up demand which, in turn, drove up the cost of living. Contine the cycle for thirty years and you end up with an expensive workforce living in an expensive area - service professionals end up being priced out of the market.

So, to answer OP's question, it's been a transitioning process for years. I can't point to a specific date when the switchover occurred, but it's definitely happened.