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Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: FUNdamental ()
Date: August 18, 2009 02:33PM


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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: Hunky ()
Date: August 18, 2009 02:37PM

Herndon got #8. WTF?

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: ITRADE ()
Date: August 18, 2009 02:43PM

Gotta admit, there is a lot of eye candy in Clarendon these days...

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Date: August 18, 2009 02:44PM

Are they mistaking Herndon for Reston? Accenture isn't in Herndon, is it?

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: § ()
Date: August 18, 2009 02:46PM

Herndon proper is on the west side of Fairfax Co. Prkway. There are some office parks and strip malls if I recall correctly.

+1 about Clarendon. I love that place for the same reason.

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: ITRADE ()
Date: August 18, 2009 03:09PM

Too bad too. I lived in Ballston around 2000-2002 and they were just starting work on the Clarendon area. There was a huge parking lot down from Whitlows that you could stagger to after a night of beer binge drinking. The Clarendon Grill was the home of the beautiful people; the Clarendon Ballroom was new; there were 1,000 auto repair shops and used car lots next to the Red Top Cab HQ....

Ahh the good old days.

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: § ()
Date: August 18, 2009 03:31PM

And hard as hell to find parking. Whitlows and Clarendon Grill were always packed full of hotties. I believe Mr. Days is still around too. Clarendon BR was great for large parties or functions, but I think they turned it into a hip-hop thug-life venue the last time I was there.

It was strange that everyone had on oversized white tees, baggy jeans and sideways hats but me.

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: Radiophile ()
Date: August 18, 2009 03:45PM

I guess they do mean Herndon. They say the population of Arlington is 204,000 and Herndon is 21,000. Reston is not 21,000 people strong.

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: § ()
Date: August 18, 2009 04:00PM

Well, besides the new VW headquarters, what else is there? A couple of satellite offices for DynCorp, Lockheed, GD and Northrop? Perhaps Airbus and United? I don't get how Herndon can be ranked higher than McLean or even Reston.

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: FUNdamental ()
Date: August 18, 2009 04:05PM

§ Wrote:
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> Well, besides the new VW headquarters, what else
> is there? A couple of satellite offices for
> DynCorp, Lockheed, GD and Northrop? Perhaps
> Airbus and United? I don't get how Herndon can be
> ranked higher than McLean or even Reston.


The survey is for where well paid singles live. Perhaps McLean or Reston are more family cities.

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: § ()
Date: August 18, 2009 04:11PM

Hmm, interesting. I haven't hung out in Herndon in quite some time.

What bars are there? The only thing I can think of is Ned's and some pool hall in the Clocktower.

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: ITRADE ()
Date: August 18, 2009 04:16PM

Carpool? And....well, you could get drunk in front of the 7-11 with the Vinces of the world.

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: asdkfj ()
Date: August 18, 2009 04:19PM

breakers in the clocktower
neds
carpool
ice house
jimmy's tavern
Hooghlihans (sp)

what am i missing? sersiosly..how the hell did herndon make this list.

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: § ()
Date: August 18, 2009 04:20PM

That's right. It's where beers are served in brown paper bags. Very retro.

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: ThePackLeader ()
Date: August 18, 2009 05:27PM

Hunky Wrote:
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> Herndon got #8. WTF?


When Herndon and Arlington are on a list such as this, you know that the entire thing is a joke. I can think of plenty of locations which fit the set criteria far better.

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: curious ()
Date: August 18, 2009 06:37PM

+1

"When Herndon and Arlington are on a list such as this, you know that the entire thing is a joke. I can think of plenty of locations which fit the set criteria far better."

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: TheMeeper ()
Date: August 18, 2009 06:46PM

Yeah, and the number one spot is Hermosa Beach. I can think of alot of better places around Los Angeles to live.

And what the hell is Dobbs Ferry, NY doing on a list like this??

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: Warhawk ()
Date: August 18, 2009 08:17PM

Herndon is a shithole. My office is in Herndon proper and there are NO hotties to be seen. Actually it's a bunch of fat illegals walking their 4 kids. Now, if you go over to the Clocktower shopping center, there's more "attractive singles" due to all of the nicer apartment buildings and more upscale businesses, but it's not really Herndon.

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That's not a ladybug, that's a cannapiller.

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: Thurston Moore ()
Date: August 18, 2009 11:15PM

§ Wrote:
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> Well, besides the new VW headquarters, what else
> is there? A couple of satellite offices for
> DynCorp, Lockheed, GD and Northrop? Perhaps
> Airbus and United? I don't get how Herndon can be
> ranked higher than McLean or even Reston.


Rich singles in McLean? Only if you're scoping out the divorcee or widow scene.

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: Thurston Moore ()
Date: August 18, 2009 11:26PM

Wouldn't Miami, or South Beach, or somepleace else be higher on the list than Arlington?

Manhattan?

Chicago?

San Francisco or Silicon Valley?

Seattle?

Sounds to me like the metrics they used were falsely assumed to be related. A high median income and a high proportion of 21-35 year olds doesn't mean the two are related.

Okay, I looked, "Single: 41.6%" and "Median Family Income: $108,815" -- Because you know that the other 48.4% couldn't be the ones keeping the median income so high.

That's a lazy methodology for ranking. Most of the single people in Arlington are making well under $100,000. Probably most single people in Arlington (and all the other places in this "ranking" article) are making under $50,000, but live in a community with a higher than average cost of living.

I'm going to do a ranking article on the best places to buy a house and use two metrics -- number of homes for sale and average square footage of homes. The number one spot would probably go to Las Vegas.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 08/18/2009 11:30PM by Thurston Moore.

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: Melissa ()
Date: August 19, 2009 01:15AM

Whachoo talkin' about? I'm single and in Herndon!

All the hotness anyone could need.

*snicker*

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: ITRADE ()
Date: August 19, 2009 08:42AM

So do you listen to El Tiempo Latino too?

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: gotcha bob ()
Date: August 19, 2009 08:55AM

thurston is Bob

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: Melissa ()
Date: August 19, 2009 12:28PM

ITRADE Wrote:
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> So do you listen to El Tiempo Latino too?

I'm actually an Oak Hill snob.

Hmmph!

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: MrMephisto ()
Date: August 19, 2009 12:48PM

gotcha bob Wrote:
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> thurston is Bob

No, Bob is me. Thurston is Elliot.

Try and keep up, please.

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: Registered Voter ()
Date: August 19, 2009 06:15PM

Wait, I thought I was Bob...

.. it is so confusing

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: Thurston Moore ()
Date: August 19, 2009 09:53PM

I accidentally deleted this week's memo assigning names.

Who am I supposed to be again?

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: Harry Tuttle ()
Date: August 19, 2009 09:54PM

Thurston Tuttle?

Thurston Moore Wrote:
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> I accidentally deleted this week's memo assigning
> names.
>
> Who am I supposed to be again?

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: Hootz de la Inka ()
Date: August 19, 2009 09:59PM

Thurston Moore = Bob = Fairfaxdude = Mr. Cobblesworth = Bart = MY NEMESIS.

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Re: Arlington, VA, #2 best place in the country for rich singles!
Posted by: Thurston Moore ()
Date: August 19, 2009 10:41PM

Harry Tuttle Wrote:
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> Thurston Tuttle?
>
> Thurston Moore Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > I accidentally deleted this week's memo
> assigning
> > names.
> >
> > Who am I supposed to be again?

No. That's not it.

spunky?

No, that's the person we're gaslighting.

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